APRIL 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. (979

Rural Land in the Auckland Land District open for Sale or Selection.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN 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 enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on and after the fourteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and five; and also that the land mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase, or 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 land shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.
Second-class Land.

Weighted with £10, valuation for fencing and grassing.
Tea-tree land, clay soil. Situated about two miles from Frankton Junction Railway station.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this seventeenth 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 Schedule hereto are hereby set apart for disposal by way of selection on and after the seventh day of June, one thousand nine hundred and five, at the rentals specified in the said Schedule.

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 described in the said Schedule hereto shall be deemed to be “light-bush land.”

4. No general rate shall be levied or collected by any local authority from the said lands for the period of three years 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 three years 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.

SCHEDULE.
WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WESTLAND COUNTY.

FIRST-CLASS LIGHT-BUSH LAND.
Poerua Survey District.

A. R. P. s. d. £ s. d.
159 | II. | 166 0 0 | 0 9·6 | 3 6 5
Cabbage-tree, scrub, and fern, with strips of small totara; fire has been through and partly cleared it; water is scarce. Access by Robertson Road, which is cleared and roughly levelled.

SECOND-CLASS LIGHT-BUSH LAND.
Wanganui Survey District.

A. R. P. s. d. £ s. d.
163 | II. | 173 0 0 | 0 9·6 | 3 9 3
Cabbage-tree, scrub, and fern; fired throughout; signs of blackberries; water scarce in dry weather. Access by Robertson Road, cleared and rough-levelled.

147 | XIV. | 1 303 0 0 | 0 8·64 | 5 9 1
Half very good land, totara and fern, light sandy soil with gravel subsoil; half partly open, old river-bed; stony in places; well watered, with permanent creeks. Access by Wanganui Flat Road and up river-bed, or down river-bed from Hende’s Ferry.

Poerua Survey District.

149 | II. | 239 0 0 | 0 8·64 | 4 6 1
Mostly cabbage-tree, scrub, and fern, with belts of totara and high ferns; there are also strips of stony pakihis; water scarce in dry weather; there are some water-holes, and water is obtainable anywhere by shallow sinking. No open access until road reserve on north boundary is cleared. Area is liable to be affected by silty overflow.

153 | II. | 294 0 0 | 0 8·64 | 5 5 10
Cabbage-tree, scrub, and fern, with belts of totara and fern; water scarce in dry weather; has strips of stony pakihis; liable to be affected by river-overflow. Access by Robertson Road, roughly formed.

154 | II. | 270 0 0 | 0 8·64 | 4 17 3
Mostly totara, bush and fern, with cabbage-trees and scrub; affected by overflow. Access by Robertson Road and river-bed. Water scarce in dry weather, but can be obtained by shallow sinking.

164 | II. | 270 0 0 | 0 8·64 | 4 17 3
Patches of totara and fern, with patches of cabbage-tree and scrub; affected by silty overflow. Access by Robertson Road, cleared and roughly levelled. Water scarce in dry weather, but can be obtained by shallow sinking.

165 | II. | 278 0 0 | 0 7·2 | 4 3 5
Totara scrub and ferns; water scarce in dry weather, but can be obtained by shallow sinking; affected considerably by silty overflow, which threatens to become dangerous. Access by Wanganui River bed.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.