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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 76

that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may be selected on lease in perpetuity only, in accordance with the provisions of section one hundred and twenty-one of the said Act, as they contain, or are supposed to contain, metals, minerals, or valuable stone; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said lands shall be leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.
WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WESTLAND COUNTY.—WATAROA SURVEY DISTRICT.

First-class Land.

| 2366 | XI. | 145 0 0 | 1 0 | 3 12 6 |
Weighted with £175, valuation for improvements.
Good soil; flat dry ground; lot of second growth. Access by Main South Road. Fences in good order. Improvements consist of about 85 acres cleared and grassed and 123 chains of post-and-wire fencing.

| 2371 | XI. | 121 0 0 | 0 9·6 | 2 8 4 |
Weighted with £50, valuation for improvements.
Good deep soil, but spoilt by Vine Creek and probability of river-frontage washing away. Access by Main South Road. Improvements consist of 50 acres cleared and grassed and 13 chains of fencing, post and wire.

Second-class Land.

| 2363 | XI. | 270 0 0 | 0 6 | 3 7 6 |
Weighted with £30, valuation for improvements.

Very fair soil, mostly open and dried swamp; partly grassed. Banks of Dry Creek and Wataroa River liable to be washed away. Twenty acres of old clearing grown up with rushes. Access by Rotokino Road and bed of Dry Creek. Drainable. Improvements consist of 20 acres of grassed clearing and an old stockyard.

| 2364 | XI. | 201 0 0 | 0 7·2 | 3 0 3 |
Weighted with £50, valuation for improvements.
Fringe of fair dry land (about 50 acres) covered with light bush, along road, running off into swampy country; there are also patches of heavy bush. About one-third of area is swampy, and there are patches of irregular clearing, say 20 acres. There is a boundary-fence to Section 818, also boundary-fence on Rotokino Road and an interior fence. Improvements consist of clearing and grassing, 20 acres, and 48 chains of fencing.

| 2372 | XV. | 372 0 0 | 0 7·2 | 5 11 7 |
Weighted with £30, valuation for improvements.
Half very fair soil, especially towards river; area runs back into stony rough country; about one-third is hill-slopes with birch and rata. Land along Wataroa River is liable to be washed away. Access by Main South Road. Improvements consist of 35 acres cleared and grassed and a short length of fencing.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eighth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and four.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Rural Lands in Nelson 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 Schedule hereto are hereby set apart for disposal by way of sale or selection on and after the second day of November, one thousand nine hundred and four, at the prices specified in the said Schedule.

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 lands containing or supposed to contain any metal, mineral, or valuable stone, they 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 said Schedule hereto shall be deemed to be “heavy-bush land.”

4. No general rate shall be levied or collected by any local authority from the said lands for a period of four years from the date from which in each case respectively such lands are disposed of, and no local authority shall have power to levy or collect any such rate from such lands 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 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.

SCHEDULE.
NELSON LAND DISTRICT.
Second-class Unsurveyed Heavy-bush Land.

This block is situated on the Rainy River, a tributary of the River Motupiko, the northern end being distant about fourteen miles from the Motupiko Railway-station. A dray-road is constructed to within one mile of the block, and this will be carried on almost immediately in order to give access to the land.

The country generally consists of long spurs and gullies with fairly easy slopes, and considerable flats along the Rainy River and tributary creeks; the whole being covered with forest, chiefly birch, with a little rimu and kahikatea; undergrowth horopito, papauma, and birch scrub. The soil is poor and stony, on spurs and ridges, but fair in gullies and on slopes and flats, on a formation of sandstone and clay gravels.

The block has an altitude ranging from 1,000 ft. to 2,000 ft. above sea-level, and is well watered.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eighth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and four.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.