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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 109

165 acres open wet swamp; balance mixed bush—rimu, white-pine, kamahi, and some silver-pine. All inferior, peaty, pastoral land, difficult to drain, fall being slight. Access by formed road four miles, and unformed road one mile and a quarter. Distant from Okuru Post-office and port five miles and a quarter. Altitude, 100 ft. above sea-level.

223 | XIV. | 245 0 0 | 0 2·4 | 1 4 6

All light bush—rimu, kamahi, white-pine, fern, and scrub. Wet peaty soil. Level, well-watered, inferior, pastoral land, difficult to drain. Access by four miles of formed road, three-quarters of a mile unformed road, and half-mile river bed. Distant from Okuru Post-office and port five miles and a quarter. Altitude, 100 ft. above sea-level.

487 | XIV. | 248 0 0 | 0 2·4 | 1 4 10

50 acres heavy bush land, principally rimu and kamahi; 40 acres manuka swamp; balance light mixed bush—rimu, white-pine, kamahi, and some silver-pine. 50 acres fair to good; balance inferior, wet, peaty soil. Level, well-watered, pastoral land, difficult to drain. Access by formed road four miles, by river-bed three-quarters of a mile, and by unformed road half-mile. Distant six miles and a quarter from Okuru Post-office and port. Altitude, 120 ft. above sea-level.

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.

Notifying Land in Auckland Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-thirteenth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Wednesday, the seventh day of February, one thousand nine hundred and six, as the time at which the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction; and I do hereby fix the price at which the said land shall be sold as that mentioned in the said Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT. — WAITOMO COUNTY. — OTANAKE SURVEY DISTRICT. — TE KUITI VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

Undulating land, containing fern and tea-tree; good soil. Situated one mile by road from Te Kuiti Railway-station, on the Main Trunk Railway.

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.

Notifying Lands in Wellington Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-thirteenth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Wednesday, the seventh day of February, one thousand nine hundred and six, as the time at which the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction; and I do hereby fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto opposite the description of such lands respectively.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT. — RANGITIKEI COUNTY. — PUKEROA VILLAGE.
Village Lands.

Section 10 is weighted with £15 for old buildings.

Pukeroa Village is situated about thirteen miles to the north-west of the Township of Hunter ville, and about two miles below the Pukeroa Dairy Factory, which is connected with Hunter ville by coach service. The land is mostly flat and easy sloping, except to the north-west corner, where it runs up to a broken spur. The timber on the sections is scrubby bush on spurs, and on the easier slopes mixed bush, consisting of matai, rimu, kahikatea, tawa, and titoke, with a thick undergrowth of rangiora, patipou, mahoe, and supplejack. A strip of about 3 chains wide has been felled and grassed along Turakina Valley Road by the Government. Section 10 is subject to floods, and is weighted with £15 for old buildings, which have been damaged by flood-water, silt, &c. There is a hut on Section 1, the owner of which will be given one month from date of sale in which to remove it, if he does not become the purchaser of the section.

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.

Notice of a Public Reserve being available for Mining at a Depth of 50 ft. from the Surface.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section twenty-seven of “The Mining Act, 1905,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby declare that, from and after the date of the publication hereof in the Gazette, the public reserve described in the Schedule hereto shall be available for mining at a depth below fifty feet from the surface.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 133 acres 3 roods, more or less, being Section No. 15 of Block XVI., Ohinemuri Survey District. Bounded towards the north generally by a road, 1529·7, 1109·4, and 1504 links; towards the east generally by a road along the Ohinemuri River, 449, 854·7, 444·9, 465·4, 738·1, 368·2, 663, and 377 links; towards the south generally by continuation of same road, 686·8, 776·7, and 268·5 links; and towards the west generally by continuation of road, 551·5, 274·4, 783·7, 1520·7, and 1008·4 links, to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. [Permanently reserved as a recreation-ground on the 11th day of February, 1902.]

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

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Mines.

Old-age Pension Forms amended.

PLUNKET, Governor.

PURSUANT to and in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon him by “The Old-age Pensions Act, 1898,” and its amendments, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand doth hereby revoke the forms numbered six and twenty-two appearing in the Schedule of the regulations under the Old-age Pensions Acts made on the thirteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and three, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the nineteenth day of February then instant, and in lieu thereof doth hereby substitute the following :—