2872
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 109

on lease in perpetuity, or, in respect of any land 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.”

SCHEDULE.
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.
Second-class Land.

Hilly land; altitude, 300 ft. to 680 ft.; well watered; soil mostly fair; sandstone formation. Old sawmill workings; no timber of any commercial value left. Accessible by fair road, partly metalled, distant about five miles from Centre Bush Railway-station. Sections 2, Block XLI., and 1 and 2, Block XXXVII., weighted with valuation for improvements, as follows: Section 2, Block XLI., 42 acres burned, partly logged and sown in grass, and half-share in 7 chains of fencing; total value, £38 6s. 6d. Section 1, Block XXXVII., 95 acres burned, logged and sown in grass, and half-share in 55 chains of fencing; total value, £42 2s. 6d. Section 2, Block XXXVII., half-share in 55 chains of fencing; value, £12 7s. 6d.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fifth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and five.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Lands.

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

PLUNKET, Governor.

I N 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 land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on and after the seventh day of February, one thousand nine hundred and six; and also that the land 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 it contains, or is supposed to contain, metals, minerals, or valuable stone; and I do hereby also fix the price at which the said land shall be leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said land shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.
WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WESTLAND COUNTY.—OKURU SURVEY DISTRICT.
Second-class Land.

Weighted with £24, valuation for improvements—12 acres bush felled, 12 acres grassed.

Heavy mixed bush—rimu, white-pine, and kamahi; level, well-watered, pastoral land; about 30 acres fairly good dry land; balance inferior, peaty, wet soil. Access by formed road from Okuru Post-office and port, two miles and three-quarters.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fifth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and five.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Lands.

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

PLUNKET, Governor.

I N 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 land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on and after the sixth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and six; and also that the land 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 it contains, or is supposed to contain, metals, minerals, or valuable stone; and I do hereby also fix the price at which the said land shall be leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said land shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SOUTHLAND COUNTY.—WENDON SURVEY DISTRICT.
Second-class Land.

Weighted with £70, valuation for fencing.

About twenty miles from Gore Railway-station. Open land intersected by deep gullies; soil inferior.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor this fifth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and five.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.