Dec. 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2615

Rural Lands in the Southland Land District open for Sale or Selection.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-thirty-sixth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on and after the twenty-fourth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and four; and also that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase or on lease in perpetuity, or, in respect of any land containing or supposed to contain any metal, mineral, or valuable stone, be selected on lease in perpetuity only; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

Section No. 49 is weighted with £76, valuation for grassing, fencing, and sheep-yards.

Section No. 50 is weighted with £130, valuation for house and outbuildings, garden, grassing, and fencing.

Situated about a mile and a half from Eastern Bush Township by fair summer road. Open land; well watered; inferior clay soil.

Southland | Invercargill Hundred | 52 | XXIII. | 24 1 24 | 1 0 0 | 24 10 0 | 1 0 | 0 12 3 | 0 9·6 | 0 9 10

Ditto .. | 53 | " | 24 1 24 | 1 0 0 | 24 10 0 | 1 0 | 0 12 3 | 0 9·6 | 0 9 10

" .. | 111 | " | 24 2 31 | 1 0 0 | 24 15 0 | 1 0 | 0 12 5 | 0 9·6 | 0 9 11

Section No. 53 is weighted with £9, valuation for fencing and clearing.

Situated near Waimatua Siding, on the Seaward Bush Railway. No road access to Sections Nos. 52 and 53, but there is a fair summer road to Section No. 111. Timber on sections all kamahi, fit only for firewood.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eleventh day of December, one thousand nine hundred and three.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Rural Lands in the Southland Land District open for Sale or Selection.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-thirty-sixth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on and after the twenty-fourth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and four; and also that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase or on lease in perpetuity, or, in respect of any land containing or supposed to contain any metal, mineral, or valuable stone, be selected on lease in perpetuity only; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

Weighted with £194 5s., valuation for fencing, ploughing, ditching, and draining.

Situated about nine miles from Mossburn Railway-station; road partly formed for about three miles, rest clay road. Open land; soil inferior; stiff clay; well watered.

Southland | Campbelltown Hundred | 34 | IV. | 100 0 34 | 1 0 0 | 100 0 0 | 1 0 | 2 10 0 | 0 9·6 | 2 0 0

Weighted with £4 10s., valuation for fencing.

Situated about two miles from Greenhills Railway-station; formed road to within a quarter of a mile of section. Soil clay and peaty; rock formation; well watered. Bush land; a few large red- and white-pine trees scattered over section, also kamahi; bush only fit for firewood; scrub heavy.

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