Dec. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2855

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.

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SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—BULLER COUNTY.—OPARARA BLOCK.

Second class Unsurveyed Heavy-bush Land.

Shown on plan marked S.G. 52836 attached.

Locality and Description of Land.

This land is situated on the Kohaihai, Oparara, and Karamea Rivers, being bounded on the north by the Kohaihai River, on the east by Crown land, on the south by the Otumahana Block, recently opened for settlement, and on the west by freehold and leasehold lands and the sea-coast.

The land is well watered, and more or less covered with forest, consisting of totara, rimu, yellow-pine, silver-pine, cedar, brown-birch, black-birch, silver-birch, kamahi, and rata; birch predominates. The underscrub may be classed as cattle-feed.

The altitude of the land varies from sea-level to 1,600 ft. The formation generally is granite, but limestone crops out in places.

The quality of the land towards the coast is from fair to good soil, but gets poor inland. The spurs over a great portion of the area are fairly undulating, and the hill-tops more or less flat. Grass should take fairly well when the land has been cleared.

All the subdivisions are accessible by unformed roads, but it is proposed to make horse-roads to further open up the land. Generally speaking this country has facilities for road-making, as gravel can be obtained almost anywhere on the block.

A block of land has been reserved for sawmilling purposes. There are also auriferous lands reserved for mining purposes.

The Township of Karamea is situated at the south-west portion of the block, at the mouth of the Karamea River, and good gravel roads lead from the township to the surrounding country.

Steamers from Nelson call fortnightly at Karamea, and there is also steamer communication between the latter place and Westport, which is distant about forty miles to the south.

There are old-established settlements on both banks of the Karamea River extending through the block.

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

C. H. MILLS,
For Minister of Lands.

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Rural Lands in Hawke’s Bay Land District open for Sale or Selection.

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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 sale or selection on and after the first day of February, one thousand nine hundred and five; and also that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase or on lease in perpetuity, or, in respect of any lands containing or supposed to contain any metal, mineral, or valuable stone, be selected on lease in perpetuity only; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

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SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

This section comprises fair pastoral land with good faces, and some flats along the creek. The timber is principally tawa and rimu, with a little white-pine. The road is bad in winter. Situated about forty miles from Gisborne.

| Cook .. | Waingaromia | { 2 | IV. } | 352 0 0 | 7 6 | 132 0 0 | 0 4·5 | 3 6 0 | 0 3·6 | 2 12 10 |
| | | { 2 | VIII. } | | | | | | | |

Hilly and undulating forest country, part of the Paraheka Block; fair soil, well watered. Accessible by the inland Waiapu Road from Gisborne, or from Tolago Bay; distant about twenty miles.

| Cook .. | Hangaroa .. | 21 | VIII. | 275 1 15 | 25 0 | 344 3 7 | 1 3 | 8 12 1 | 1 0 | 6 17 8 |

Medium grazing-land; hilly, with a few patches of grass; soil good, fairly well watered. There is a good deal of manuka on the section, the balance fern and scrub, with about eight acres of bush. Accessible by road, and distant from Gisborne about thirty-one miles.

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

C. H. MILLS,
For Minister of Lands.