Num. 94.

2805

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1904.

Appointing Commissioners to classify Pastoral Runs in Otago Land District.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the one-hundred-and-eighty-ninth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

DAVID BARRON,
WILLIAM DALLAS, and
GEORGE LIVINGSTONE

Commissioners to classify and report to me upon the rural lands in the Otago Land District known as Runs Numbers 170, 170A, 170B, 170C, 170D, 170E, 353B, 9A, 9, 346A, 121L, 254, 254A, 260, and 185A. and Sections Numbers 19, 20, and 21, Block VI., Budle Survey District. as provided by section one hundred and eighty-nine of “The Land Act, 1892.”

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Rural Land in Westland Land District open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

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 land enumerated in the Schedule hereto is hereby set apart for disposal by way of selection on and after the eleventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred and five, at the rental specified in the said Schedule.

2. The said land may be selected on lease in perpetuity only, as provided by section one hundred and twenty-one of “The Land Act, 1892,” as it contains, or is supposed to contain, metal, mineral, or valuable stone, and shall not be purchased for cash.

3. For the purposes of “The Bush and Swamp Crown Lands Settlement Act, 1903,” the land 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 land for the period of four years from the date from which 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 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.

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WESTLAND COUNTY.—TURIWHATE SURVEY DISTRICT.

Second-class Heavy-bush Land.

Poor pastoral land, from 400 ft. to 500 ft. above sea-level; chiefly covered with dense birch scrub, with scattered belts of fair mixed timber, and with a belt of ribbonwood along river frontage. About 40 acres of flat at river-level, the remainder consisting of flat terraces on slaty soil; well watered. Access by pack-track and Taipo River bed, five miles and a half to Taipo Post-office, and thence by main road seventeen miles and a half to Kumara or seven miles to Jackson Railway-station.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

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