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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 29

Village-homestead Allotments in Wellington Land District
open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 22nd February, 1905.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned village-homestead allotments will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, at this office, on Wednesday, the 5th day of April, 1905, under the provisions of Part IV. of “The Land Act, 1892.”

If more than one application is received for the same allotment on the same day the order of selection shall be decided by ballot.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

Village-homestead Allotments.

Weighted with £58, valuation for improvements.

This section is situated in Hastwell Village Settlement, and adjoins a public school and creamery. The access is from Mangamahoe Railway-station, which is about three miles distant by main coach-road. The section comprises low-lying flat land; the bush is felled, burned, and the land grassed; rushes and other weeds appear in places. The soil is of fair quality, resting on shingle formation. The improvements, which have deteriorated, comprise 4¾ acres felled and grassed, about 20 chains of fencing, orchard, &c. House, four rooms, 26 ft. by 24 ft. by 10 ft., iron roof, brick chimney.

MATAROA VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

| 33 | .. | 7 0 5 | 4 0 | 0 14 1 |

Weighted with £62, valuation for improvements.

This section is situated close to the rising Township of Mataroa, on the Main Trunk Railway-line. There are a school, post-office, telephone-office, stores, and sawmill within less than a mile of the section. The access is from Mataroa Township, which almost adjoins the section. There is no formed road to it, but as the country is all open the access is easy. The section comprises flat and easy-sloping hills. The soil is of good quality, resting on papa formation. There is a small clump of native bush in the north-west corner, the rest of the section is open land in native grass. It is watered by a small stream. The improvements comprise a house valued at £50, and a whare valued at £12.

MARSHALL VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

| 16, 17, 28, } | .. | 4 3 11 | 2 4·8 | 0 5 10 |
| 29, 30 | | | | |

These sections are situated in the Marshall Village Settlement, adjoining the Kiwitea Stream, on the main Ohingaiti-Rangiwahia Road. The access is from Ohingaiti Township and railway-station, which are about eight miles distant by Ohingaiti-Rangiwahia Road, which is formed for dray traffic and partly metalled. The Township of Rangiwahia is also within three miles of the allotment, which comprises very easy-undulating and level land, all of which is an old natural clearing roughly grassed with English grasses. The soil is of fair quality, resting on clay and papa formation.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Village-homestead Allotment in Hawke’s Bay Land District
open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 20th February, 1905.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned village-homestead allotment will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, at this office, on Tuesday, the 11th day of April, 1905, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

If more than one application is received for the allotment on the same day, the order of selection shall be decided by ballot.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—COOK COUNTY.—TINIROTO VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

Tiniroto Village is situated close to the Gisborne-Wairoa Main Road, about forty-two miles south-west of the former place. Generally undulating open fern land and fair soil.

ERIC C. GOLD SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Southland Land District open for Selection on Perpetual Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 20th March, 1905.

THE undermentioned Crown land, having been surrendered in terms of section 156 of “The Land Act, 1885,” will be open for selection on perpetual lease on and after Wednesday, the 31st day of May, 1905.

If more than one application be received for the section on the same day, the order of selection shall be decided by ballot on the following day at 11 a.m. at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SOUTHLAND COUNTY.—TOETOE'S SURVEY DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

Situation fair. Distance from Fortrose, about five miles and a half. Clay formation. Light bush of no commercial value, and fit only for fencing and firewood; heavy undergrowth. Well watered.

JOHN HAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

MAORI LAND ADMINISTRATION NOTICE.

Notice of Sitting of the Tokerau District Maori Land Council at Whangarei.

Tokerau District Maori Lands Administration Office,
Auckland, 22nd March, 1905.

NOTICE is hereby given that a sitting of the Tokerau District Maori Lands Council will be held at Whangarei on the 11th May, 1905, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, to hear and determine the several matters mentioned in the Schedule hereunder written, in respect of which applications have been received by me, and all such other matters as may be lawfully brought before it.

JAS. W. BROWNE,
President.

SCHEDULE.

CONSIDERATION OF BLOCK COMMITTEE’S REPORTS.