DEC. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2857

Altitude, 100 ft. to 150 ft. above sea-level. Open land; 15 acres raupo swamp, balance level land, covered with fern and manuka, and well watered; fair sandy soil. Situated on Taoha or Stevens Creek, six miles from Waihopo Post-office, and accessible by dray-road.

Raglan .. Maramarua .. 4 XIII. 354 0 0 0 10 0 177 0 0 0 6 4 8 6 0 4·8 3 10 10
" .. " .. 5 " 418 0 0 0 10 0 209 0 0 0 6 5 4 6 0 4·8 4 3 8
Section 4, altitude 250 ft. above sea-level; broken and undulating land; about 75 acres swamp, 40 acres mixed forest, balance covered with fern and manuka; fairly well watered. Section 5, altitude 150 ft. above sea-level; 120 acres swamp, balance broken and undulating land, mostly fern and manuka, with a few small clumps of mixed forest; land well watered. The sections are situated about seven miles from Churchill.

Raglan .. Maramarua .. 3 IX. 397 0 0 0 10 0 198 10 0 0 6 4 19 3 0 4·8 3 19 5
Altitude, 300 ft. above sea-level. Comprises broken and undulating land, covered with fern and manuka, except a small clump of mixed forest; well watered. Situated about nine miles from Churchill and eleven miles from Mercer.

Waitemata Okura* .. 42 .. 157 3 19 0 15 0 118 10 0 0 9 2 19 3 0 7·2 2 7 5
" " 43 .. 104 3 15 0 15 0 78 15 0 0 9 1 19 5 0 7·2 1 11 6
Section 42, broken land, chiefly fern and small tea-tree, with high tea-tree in gullies; situated about two miles from Main North Road and fourteen miles from Devonport. Section 43, chiefly open; fern and small tea-tree, with a little light mixed bush and high tea-tree in gullies; 50 acres flat, balance broken; frontage to Main North Road at Okura Bridge, about fourteen miles from Devonport.

Raglan .. Pirongia* .. 174,175, .. 200 1 2 0 12 6 125 0 0 0 7·5 3 2 6 0 6 2 10 0
176,177 Undulating land of fair quality; about 40 acres light mixed forest, balance fern and tea-tree; well watered. Situated half a mile from Harapepe Post-office and about two miles from dairy factory.

Tauranga Te Papa* .. 1 & 55 .. 85 2 14 1 0 0 86 0 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 9·6 1 14 5
" " 253 .. 186 0 0 1 0 0 186 0 0 0 1 4 13 0 0 9·6 3 14 5
Sections 1 and 55, about 7 acres swamp, balance open fern land. Section 253, about one-third swamp, balance open fern land, rather broken. Situated four miles and a half from Tauranga on a good cart-road.

Waitemata Pukeatua* .. 68 .. 55 3 0 0 7 6 21 0 0 0 4·5 0 10 6 0 3·6 0 8 5
Undulating country; well watered; poor soil, and covered with small tea-tree. Access by formed road, about two miles and a half from Dairy Flat Post-office.

Tauranga Te Papa* .. 572 .. 199 2 0 0 10 0 100 0 0 0 6 2 10 0 0 4·8 2 0 0
Broken land, covered with fern and rewarewa scrub; soil light and of medium quality; well watered. Situated about one mile from Oropi.

Raglan.. Onewhero .. 6 XII. 202 0 0 0 10 0 101 0 0 0 6 2 10 6 0 4·8 2 0 5
Altitude, about 300 ft. above sea-level. Comprises open land, covered with fern and manuka scrub; soil medium, and well watered. Situated ten miles from Mercer and nine miles from Churchill.

Whangarei Waipu* .. 319 .. 61 0 0 0 10 0 30 10 0 0 6 0 15 3 0 4·8 0 12 3
Undulating fern and tea-tree land of medium quality. Situated two miles from Waipu.

Mangonui Maungatani- 68, 69 .. 147 0 0 0 7 6 55 2 6 0 4·5 1 7 7 0 3·6 1 2 1
wha* Open fern and tea-tree land of medium quality; well watered. Situated one mile from Peria Post-office.

• Parish.

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.

Rural Lands in Taranaki 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 January, one thousand nine hundred and five, 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 “light-bush land,” and the lands in the Second 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 the period of 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 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 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.