1736
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 60

SCHEDULE.
Kopikopiko Road.

All that road in the Pahiatua County, Wellington Land District, commencing at its junction with the Naenae Road, at the northern boundary of Sections 3 and 7 (a road reserve), Block XIII., Mangahao Survey District, and proceeding thence generally in a southerly and south-westerly direction to the southernmost corner of Section 11, Block XIII., Mangahao Survey District, and proceeding from thence in a north-westerly direction until it reaches a point opposite the boundary-line of Sections 8 and 13, Mangahao Survey District, a distance of four miles or thereabouts: as the above-named road is delineated on the plan marked R. 1960, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Land District of Wellington, and coloured red and marked A.B.C. thereon.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Land taken for a Native School at Te Kopua.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of June, 1904.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required for a certain public work, to wit, a Native school:

And whereas the Native owners have agreed to make a free gift of the said land to His Majesty the King, and it has been made to appear that such agreement is sufficient for the purposes intended to be effected thereby:

And whereas by an order of the Native Land Court, on investigation of title, bearing date the twenty-second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, certain aboriginal natives, as in the said order mentioned, were declared to be the owners of the Te Kopua Block, within which the said land is situated:

And whereas, as required by “The Public Works Act, 1894,” a map has been prepared showing accurately the position and extent of the said land, and such map is hereto attached:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred by “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and “The Public Works Acts Amendment Act, 1900,” and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order and declare that the land shown upon the said map and described in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for the purposes of the said Native school, and shall vest in His Majesty the King, as from the first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and four.

SCHEDULE.
TE KOPUA NATIVE-SCHOOL SITE.

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan as described above, deposited in the Education Department, at Wellington, and thereon bordered pink.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Rural Lands in Wellington Land District open for Sale or Selection.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section one hundred and thirty-six of “The Land Act, 1892,” and section two of “The Bush and Swamp Crown Lands Settlement Act, 1903,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby declare and provide as follows, that is to say:—

1. The rural lands enumerated in the Schedules hereto are hereby set apart for disposal by way of sale or selection on and after the thirty-first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and four, at the respective prices specified in the said Schedules.

2. The said lands may be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase, or on lease in perpetuity; provided that in the case of land containing or supposed to contain any metal, mineral, or valuable stone, it shall be selected on lease in perpetuity only and shall not be purchased for cash.

3. For the purposes of “The Bush and Swamp Crown Lands Settlement Act, 1903,” the lands enumerated in the First Schedule hereto shall be deemed to be “heavy-bush land,” the land in the Second Schedule shall be deemed to be “light-bush land,” and the land in the Third Schedule shall be deemed to be “scrub land.”

4. No general rate shall be levied or collected by any local authority from the said lands for a period of four years in the case of heavy-bush land, three years in the case of light-bush land, and two years in the case of scrub land, from the date from which in each case respectively such land is disposed of, and no local authority shall have power to levy or collect any such rate from such land during such period.

5. After the first half-year’s rent has been paid by the selector the further instalments of rent payable by him for a period of four years in the case of heavy-bush land, three years in the case of light-bush land, and two years in the case of scrub land shall not be demanded; provided that if at any time during the first five years of his occupancy the selector disposes of his interest in the land the rent so conceded shall be paid by him in full, and thereupon the Land Board may remit such instalments of rent payable by the incoming tenant, not exceeding in the aggregate the amount of rent previously conceded to the selector, as the Board shall think fit.

SCHEDULES.
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
Second-class Heavy-bush Land.

A. R. P. s. d. £ s. d. s. d. £ s. d. s. d. £ s. d.
Wanganui | Waipakura .. | 1 | VII. | 715 2 0 | 20 0 | 715 10 0 | 1 0 | 17 17 9 | 0 9 6 | 14 6 2

This section is situated in the Tauakira Block, on the Pitangi Stream, which runs into the Wanganui River. The access is from Wanganui, which is about thirty miles distant—by river steamer to the mouth of the Pitangi Stream about twenty-eight miles, thence by unformed road for about two miles. The section comprises rough hilly land, with sharp