2266
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 78.

Rural Lands in Otago Land District open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

PLUNKET, 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, William Lee, Baron Plunket, 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 selection on and after the twentieth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and four; and also 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.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

Level open land, with a fair soil and shingly subsoil; water may be obtained by sinking. Situated about a mile from Rough Ridge Railway-station and Post-office, and about half a mile from a school.

VINCENT COUNTY.—TARRAS SURVEY DISTRICT.

| 13 | XII. } | 228 0 39 | 0 2·4 | 1 2 10 |
| 6 | XIV. } | | | |

Weighted with £96 15s., valuation for improvements.
These sections are situated on top of a low range, and are dry and poor. Distant about four miles from Tarras Post-office.

VINCENT COUNTY.—TIGER HILL SURVEY DISTRICT.

| 5 | V. | 46 0 19 | 0 4·8 | 0 9 2 |
| 10 | " | 46 0 19 | 0 4·8 | 0 9 2 |
| 9 | " | 34 2 34 | 0 4·8 | 0 7 0 |
| 15 | " | 96 2 1 | 0 4·8 | 0 19 5 |

Level open sections; soil poor on a shingly subsoil; water would probably be obtained by sinking. Situated within half a mile of a school, and about eight miles from Ophir.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Land temporarily reserved in the Auckland Land District.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by the two-hundred-and-thirty-fifth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the land in the Auckland Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, for the purpose in the said Schedule specified at the end of the description of the land so intended to be temporarily reserved.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 2 roods, more or less, being Section No. 20 of the Village of Taneatua. Bounded towards the north-east by Section No. 32 of the Village of Taneatua; towards the south-east by Section No. 21 of the same village; towards the south-west by a public road; and towards the north-west by Section No. 19 of the village aforesaid, to the point of commencement: as the same is delineated on plan marked S.G. 52661, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red. For a site for a post-office.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Land temporarily reserved in the Canterbury Land District.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by the two-hundred-and-thirty-fifth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the land in the Canterbury Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, for the purpose in the said Schedule specified at the end of the description of the land so intended to be temporarily reserved.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 12 acres 2 roods, more or less, being Section No. 3708 (in red), Block IV., Patiti Survey District. Bounded towards the north by the right bank of the Pareora River to a point in line with the north-western boundary-line of Rural Section No. 6632 (New Zealand and Australian Land Company’s freehold), Block IV., Patiti Survey District; towards the east by a right line to and by the said north-western boundary-line of said Rural Section No. 6632 to the Pareora Main South Road; towards the south by the said road; and towards the west generally by Section No. 3510 (in red) of Block IV. aforesaid: as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 52658, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon bordered red. For a road and gravel reserve.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Land temporarily reserved in the Auckland Land District.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by the two-hundred-and-thirty-fifth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the land in the Auckland Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, for the purpose in the said Schedule specified at the end of the description of the land so intended to be temporarily reserved.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 23 acres and 20 perches, more or less, being the north-eastern portion of Section No. 18 of the Parish of Matakoe. Bounded towards the north by Section No. 17 of the Parish of Matakoe; towards the east by a public road; towards the south by the eastern portion of Section No. 18 of the said parish; and towards the west by the east middle portion of Section No. 18 aforesaid: as the same is