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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 101

Sixty-seven Sections and One Small Grazing-run, situate in
Ohotu Block, Blocks XI., XII., XIV., XV., and XVI.,
Makotuku Survey District; Blocks IX. and XIII., Karioi
Survey District; Blocks VII., VIII., XI., and XII., Taua-
kira Survey District; and Blocks I., II., V., and IX., Nga-
matea Survey District, for Lease by Public Tender under
“ The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900,” and its
Amendments.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders, enclosed
in sealed envelopes addressed to the President, Aotea
Maori Land Council, Whanganui, and indorsed “ Tender
for Section
or small grazing-run Block
District,” will be received up till 4 p.m. on Mon-
day, the 16th January, 1905, for the leases of the under-
mentioned sections and small grazing-run, for a term
of twenty-one years, with right of renewal for a further term
of twenty-one years, and payment to the lessee of the value of
improvements on his going out of possession at the expira-
tion of either term. In the event of ballots being necessary,
they will be held at the office of the Aotea Maori Land
Council, Whanganui, on the 18th January, 1905, at 11.30 a.m.
If the sections or small grazing-run be not leased on the 16th
January, 1905, they will remain open for lease until further
notice at the upset annual ground-rentals noted below.

H. DUNBAR JOHNSON,
President, Aotea Maori Land Council,
Whanganui.

SCHEDULE.
WAIMARINO COUNTY.

Makotuku Survey District.

• Weighted with £30 for improvements.
  † Weighted with £119 15s. for improvements.

Karioi Survey District.

Tauakira Survey District.

WAIMARINO COUNTY—continued.

Tauakira Survey District—continued.

Ngamatea Survey District.

† Weighted with £80 for improvements.

Tauakira Survey District.
Small Grazing-run.

NOTE.—All the above sections and small grazing-run are
offered subject to amendment of areas and rentals on final
survey.

Locality and General Description of the Ohotu Block.

This block, which comprises an aggregate area of 55,121
acres, subdivided into sixty-seven sections and one small
grazing-run, ranging from 129¾ acres to 3,530 acres, is
situated on the left bank of the Whanganui River, about
forty-five miles from Whanganui, the centre of northern
boundary being about six miles south of the Raetihi Town-
ship, and the centre of eastern boundary about seven miles
south-west of Karioi.

The access to the western portion of the block is by river
steamer up the Whanganui River for a distance of about
forty-five miles, thence along Matahiwi-Ohotu Road, which
is formed and made passable for horses for the distances
marked blue on lithographs. The bush-work is completed
on portion coloured green.

The northern portion of the block can be reached from
Raetihi via the Raetihi-Parapara Track, about two miles of
which are formed as a dray-road, the remainder is pack-
track.

This pack-track, which was constructed some years ago,
enters the block about six miles from Raetihi, and continues
through it down the Mangawhero Valley, and joins Field’s
Track at Parapara Native Village, about five miles south of
the block.

From the Parapara-Raetihi Road felling and clearing
have been done on the Oruakukuru Road in an easterly
direction for distances shown in blue and green on litho-
graph, and a total distance of about 180 chains will have
been completed at the end of November, out of which about
a quarter of a mile has been formed as a bridle-road.

From the township reserve the Ohotu-Karioi Road has
been felled and cleared in an easterly direction. About
90 chains will have been completed in December.

From near the Parapara-Raetihi Road, in the Manga-
whero Valley, the bush-work and formation of the Mata-
hiwi-Ohotu Road have been completed, as shown in blue
and green on lithograph.

The access to the eastern portion of the block is via Field’s
Track, which has been constructed for some years as a
pack-track, and enters the block about seven miles, leaves
it at about eleven miles from Karioi, and continues on to
Parapara Native Village.

From near the junction of the Mangaehuehu and Toki-
ahuru Streams the Oruakukuru Road is through open and
nearly level country, and easily passable for horses, as
shown on lithograph in blue, and portion shown in green
will shortly be formed.

There is an old Native horse-track running from Raetihi-
Parapara Road, in Section 1, Block XV., Makotuku, through
the block in an easterly direction to the Mangaehuehu
Stream at Sections 6 and 7, Block IX., Karioi, thence to
Karioi Township. The Natives occasionally take horses