Dec. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2903

MAORI LAND ADMINISTRATION NOTICES.

Sixty-seven Sections and One Small Grazing-run, situate in Ohotu Block, Blocks XI., XII., XIV., XV., and XVI., Makotuku Survey District; Blocks IX. and XIII., Karioi Survey District; Blocks VII., VIII., XI., and XII., Tauakira Survey District; and Blocks I., II., V., and IX., Ngamatea Survey District, for Lease by Public Tender under “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900,” and its Amendments.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders, enclosed in sealed envelopes addressed to the President, Aotea Maori Land Council, Whanganui, and indorsed “Tender for Section or small grazing-run Block , District,” will be received up till 4 p.m. on Monday, the 16th January, 1905, for the leases of the under-mentioned sections and small grazing-run, for a term of twenty-one years, with right of renewal for a further term of twenty-one years, and payment to the lessee of the value of improvements on his going out of possession at the expiration of either term. In the event of ballots being necessary, they will be held at the office of the Aotea Maori Land Council, Whanganui, on the 18th January, 1905, at 11.30 a.m. If the sections or small grazing-run be not leased on the 16th January, 1905, they will remain open for lease until further notice at the upset annual ground-rentals noted below.

H. DUNBAR JOHNSON,
President, Aotea Maori Land Council,
Whanganui.

SCHEDULE.

WAIMARINO COUNTY.

Makotuku Survey District.

• Weighted with £30 for improvements.
  † Weighted with £119 15s. for improvements.

Karioi Survey District.

Tauakira Survey District.

| 1 | VII. | 1,710 0 0 | 0 6 | 42 15 0 |
| 2 | " | 1,400 0 0 | 0 7·5 | 43 15 0 |
| 4 | " | 1,120 0 0 | 0 6 | 28 0 0 |

WAIMARINO COUNTY—continued.

Tauakira Survey District—continued.

| 1 | VIII. | 870 0 0 | 0 9 | 32 12 6 |
| 2 | " | 1,340 0 0 | 0 9 | 50 5 0 |
| 3 | " | 1,712 0 0 | 0 6 | 42 16 0 |
| 1 | XI. | 1,275 0 0 | 1 0 | 63 15 0 |
| 2 | " | 1,384 0 0 | 0 6 | 34 12 0 |

Ngamatea Survey District.

† Weighted with £80 for improvements.

Tauakira Survey District.

Small Grazing-run.

| 4 | VIII. | 3,530 0 0 | 0 6 | 88 5 0 |
| 1 | XII. | | | |

NOTE.—All the above sections and small grazing-run are offered subject to amendment of areas and rentals on final survey.

Locality and General Description of the Ohotu Block.

This block, which comprises an aggregate area of 55,121 acres, subdivided into sixty-seven sections and one small grazing-run, ranging from 129¾ acres to 3,530 acres, is situated on the left bank of the Whanganui River, about forty-five miles from Whanganui, the centre of northern boundary being about six miles south of the Raetihi Township, and the centre of eastern boundary about seven miles south-west of Karioi.

The access to the western portion of the block is by river steamer up the Whanganui River for a distance of about forty-five miles, thence along Matahiwi-Ohotu Road, which is formed and made passable for horses for the distances marked blue on lithographs. The bush-work is completed on portion coloured green.

The northern portion of the block can be reached from Raetihi via the Raetihi-Parapara Track, about two miles of which are formed as a dray-road, the remainder is pack-track.

This pack-track, which was constructed some years ago, enters the block about six miles from Raetihi, and continues through it down the Mangawhero Valley, and joins Field’s Track at Parapara Native Village, about five miles south of the block.

From the Parapara-Raetihi Road felling and clearing have been done on the Oruakukuru Road in an easterly direction for distances shown in blue and green on lithograph, and a total distance of about 180 chains will have been completed at the end of November, out of which about a quarter of a mile has been formed as a bridle-road.

From the township reserve the Ohotu-Karioi Road has been felled and cleared in an easterly direction. About 90 chains will have been completed in December.

From near the Parapara-Raetihi Road, in the Mangawhero Valley, the bush-work and formation of the Matahiwi-Ohotu Road have been completed, as shown in blue and green on lithograph.

The access to the eastern portion of the block is via Field’s Track, which has been constructed for some years as a pack-track, and enters the block about seven miles, leaves it at about eleven miles from Karioi, and continues on to Parapara Native Village.

From near the junction of the Mangaehuehu and Tokiahuru Streams the Oruakukuru Road is through open and nearly level country, and easily passable for horses, as shown on lithograph in blue, and portion shown in green will shortly be formed.

There is an old Native horse-track running from Raetihi-Parapara Road, in Section 1, Block XV., Makotuku, through the block in an easterly direction to the Mangaehuehu Stream at Sections 6 and 7, Block IX., Karioi, thence to Karioi Township. The Natives occasionally take horses