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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 5

Section No. 3708 (in red), Block IV., Patiti Survey District. Bounded towards the north by the right bank of the Pareora River to a point in line with the north-western boundary-line of Rural Section No. 6632 (New Zealand and Australian Land Company's freehold), Block IV., Patiti Survey District; towards the east by a right line to and by the said north-western boundary-line of said Rural Section No. 6632 to the Pareora Main South Road; towards the south by the said road; and towards the west generally by Section No. 3510 (in red) of Block IV. aforesaid: as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 52658, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon bordered red.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.

Changing the Purpose of a Portion of a Reserve in the Wellington Land District.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fourteenth day of January, 1905.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE T. Y. DUNCAN PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto forms part of a reserve heretofore duly set apart for the growth and preservation of timber, being a reserve within Class I. of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881”:
And whereas it is expedient that such land shall be appropriated for water-supply purposes, being a reserve within the said Class I.:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony,

and in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the fourth section of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” doth hereby declare that the said land shall, from and after the date hereof, be appropriated for water-supply purposes for the Borough of Palmerston North under Class I. of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881.”

SCHEDULE.
All that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 7,985 acres, more or less, being parts of Blocks IV., VII., and VIII., Arawaru Survey District, and parts of Blocks V., VI., IX., and XIII., Mangahao Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Sections Nos. 8, 9, 10, 11, 6, and part 1 of 12, Block XIX., Mangahao Survey District; towards the south-east by Range Road South and Reserves Nos. 17 and 18; towards the north-east by Section No. 13, Block XIX., Mangahao Survey District; towards the south-east by Sections Nos. 1, 2, and 3, Block VI., and Section No. 4, Block V., Mangahao Survey District, and by abutment of Marima Road; thence by a right line from the north-western corner of Section No. 9, Block IX., Mangahao Survey District, to Marima Trig. Station, and thence by a right line from that trig. station to Arawaru Trig. Station; towards the south-west by part of the north-eastern boundary of a State forest reserve to a point on the south-eastern boundary of Section No. 315, Block VIII., Arawaru Survey District; and towards the north-west by Sections Nos. 315, 314, 313, Block VIII., Sections Nos. 312, 311, 310, 309, 308, 307, and 306, Block VII., and Sections Nos. 275, 274, 273, 272, and 271, Block IV., Arawaru Survey District, and by Sections Nos. 270 and 304, Block XVI., Kairanga Survey District, to the south-western corner of Section No. 8, Block XIX., Mangahao Survey District, the place of commencement: as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 52288, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.

Rural Lands in Otago 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 lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on and after the fourteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and five; and also that the lands 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 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.
OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

A. R. P. s. d. £ s. d. s. d. £ s. d. s. d. £ s. d.
Bruce .. | Clarendon .. | 58 | VI. | 46 2 25 | 12 6 | 29 7 6 | 0 7·5 | 0 14 8 | 0 6 | 0 11 9
Weighted with £45, valuation for improvements.
A rough bush section of inferior quality; good aspect; well watered. Situated about eight miles from Waihola Railway-station.

Bruce .. | Clarendon .. | 65,68 | VI. | 91 2 18 | 12 6 | 57 10 0 | 0 7·5 | 1 8 9 | 0 6 | 1 3 0
Weighted with £14 5s., valuation for improvements.
Rough, broken bush land. About eight miles from Waihola Railway-station, and about three miles from the Town of Hull at the mouth of the Taieri River, where there is a school and a post-office. Aspect, southerly and south-easterly; well watered; soil light.

Clutha .. | Glenomaru .. | 39 | X. | 180 1 16 | 10 0 | 90 0 0 | 0 6 | 2 5 0 | 0 4·8 | 1 16 0
Weighted with £36 4s., valuation for improvements.
This section has a good aspect, and the soil is of fair quality. The bush contains some good red- and black-pine and broadleaf, but it also contains a large percentage of kamai, some of which is very heavy. Situated about four miles from Glenomaru Railway-station.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and five.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.