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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 35

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.

SCHEDULES.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

SECOND-CLASS HEAVY-BUSH LAND.

Buller County.—Kawatiri Survey District.

A. R. P. s. d. £ s. d.
111 | VII. | 34 0 22 | 0 7·2 | 0 10 2
Level, low-lying agricultural land, fairly good soil, but rather wet; part flax swamp, remainder covered with mixed bush of little value, subject to occasional floods from overflow of the River Buller. Accessible by Nine-mile Road and Organ’s Road, and distant about two miles and a half from Westport.

116 | VII. | 79 3 6 | 0 7·2 | 1 4 0
Level agricultural land, good soil, covered with mixed bush, principally pine; part subject to be flooded by the overflow of the River Buller. Accessible by Nine-mile Road and Organ’s Road, and distant about two miles and a half from Westport.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

SECOND-CLASS LIGHT-BUSH LAND.

Buller County.—Kawatiri Survey District.

11 | VII. | 60 3 6 | 0 3·36 | 0 8 6
12 | " | 35 0 31 | 0 3·36 | 0 4 10
Nearly all hilly, poor soil; covered with birch and pine bush, from which most of the milling-timber has been removed. Access is gained by Caledonian and Wilson’s Roads and by road reserve along the Orowaiti River; distant about four miles and a half from Westport.

114 | VII. | 61 1 22 | 0 9·6 | 1 4 4
115 | " | 68 3 18 | 0 9·6 | 1 7 7
Level agricultural land; good soil; light mixed bush, from which the milling-timber has been removed; subject to occasional floods from the overflow of the River Buller. Access by road reserve from Westport–Mokihinui Railway-line; distant about two miles and a half from Westport.

131 | VII. | 9 3 38 | 0 9·6 | 0 4 0
132 | " | 45 3 7 | 0 9·6 | 0 18 4
133 | " | 89 0 5 | 0 9·6 | 1 15 7
Level agricultural land; good soil; light mixed bush, from which the milling-timber has been removed. Access by road reserve from the Caledonian Road; situated about four miles and a half from Westport.

204 | VII. | 16 2 21 | 0 3·84 | 0 2 8
Level land, partly open pakihi and partly light bush and manuka. Frontage to Addison’s Road; distant about two miles from Westport.

5 | VIII. | 31 0 0 | 0 3·36 | 0 4 4
Pastoral land, covered with light bush of birch and pine of no commercial value. Access by Wilson’s Road; distant about three miles from Westport.

16 | VIII. | 96 1 1 | 0 3·36 | 0 13 5
Nearly all hilly land; poor soil; covered with birch and pine bush, from which most of the milling-timber has been removed. Access by Caledonian and Wilson’s Roads and by road reserve along the Orowaiti River; distant about four miles and a half from Westport.

47 | VIII. | 43 2 21 | 0 3·36 | 0 6 1
48 | " | 40 2 32 | 0 3·36 | 0 5 8
Section 47 is weighted with £200 valuation for improvements, consisting of dwellinghouse, dairy, &c.

About half of each of these sections is open pakihi land, remainder undulating; covered with manuka and black-birch timber of no value; poor soil, having frontages to Caledonian and Deadman’s Roads, and distant about three miles and a half from Westport.

51 | VIII. | 39 1 8 | 0 3·36 | 0 5 5
Weighted with £10 valuation for improvements, consisting of about 3 acres cleared.

This section is mostly poor land, covered with birch and pine bush of no value; a few acres of fair soil along the bank of Giles Creek. Frontage to Caledonian Road; distant about four miles from Westport.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

SECOND-CLASS SCRUB LAND.

Buller County.—Kawatiri Survey District.

14 | IV. | A. R. P. s. d. £ s. d.
| 24 1 0 | 0 3·36 | 0 3 4
37 | " | 47 3 23 | 0 3·36 | 0 6 8
38 | " | 51 2 36 | 0 3·36 | 0 7 3
Level pakihi land, slightly swampy, with patches of stunted manuka. Sections have a frontage to Caledonian Terrace Road to the south and to the Westport–Mokihinui Railway to the north, and are distant about three miles from Westport by a good metalled road.

50 | IV. | 100 1 7 | 0 6 | 1 5 0
About one-half of this section is level agricultural land, rather swampy in places; remainder open pakihis with scattered clumps of manuka. Access by road reserve from Caledonian Road; distant about two miles and a half from Westport.

FOURTH SCHEDULE.

SECOND-CLASS SWAMP LAND.

Buller County.—Kawatiri Survey District.

23 | VII. | 67 1 31 | 0 4·8 | 0 13 4
Level, open swampy land; frontage to Addison’s Road, and distant about two miles from Westport.

24 | VII. | 84 3 5 | 0 4·8 | 0 17 0
Level, open swampy land; intersected by a metalled county road, and distant about a mile and a half from Westport.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

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

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 selection on and after the thirty-first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and five, at the rentals specified in the said Schedules.

2. The said lands may be selected on lease in perpetuity only, as provided by section one hundred and twenty-one of “The Land Act, 1892,” as they contain, or are supposed to contain, metal, mineral, or valuable stone, 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 “heavy-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 four years in the case of heavy-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 four years in the case of heavy-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