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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
1889

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

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 land enumerated in the Schedule hereto is hereby set apart for disposal by way of sale or selection on and after the twenty-seventh day of September, one thousand nine hundred and five, at the respective prices specified in the said Schedule.

2. The said land may be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase, or on lease in perpetuity: provided that in the case of land containing or supposed to contain any metal, mineral, or valuable stone, it shall be selected on lease in perpetuity only and shall not be purchased for cash.

3. For the purposes of “The Bush and Swamp Crown Lands Settlement Act, 1903,” the land enumerated 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 land for the period of three years from the date from which such land is disposed of, and no local authority shall have power to levy or collect any such rate from such land 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.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Second-class Light-bush Land.

Rough country; about 350 acres of forest, containing some totara, about six kauri-trees, and scattered puriri, rimu, and kahikatea of no commercial value; balance covered with short tea-tree and fern; the soil on about 300 acres at the back of the section is of medium quality, balance poor; land well watered, and fronts sea-coast. About four miles from Whanakai, where there is a post-office, school, and store.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Rural Lands in 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 lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on and after the twenty-seventh day of September, 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.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

Weighted with £59, valuation for house, fencing, grassing, and 1 acre orchard.

Altitude, from 400 ft. to 500 ft. above sea-level. Undulating land of poor quality, principally clay; about 10 acres mixed forest, comprising kahikatea, rimu, and a few small puriri-trees; dense undergrowth of ferns and supplejacks; balance fern and tea-tree; badly watered. Access by cart-road between Waitakerei and Swanson Railway-stations; about one mile from Waitakerei and one mile and a half from Swanson.

Mangonui | Karakara .. | 1 | III.} | A. R. P. 228 0 0 | £ s. d. 0 12 6 | £ s. d. 142 10 0 | s. d. 0 7·5 | £ s. d. 3 11 3 | s. d. 0 6 | £ s. d. 2 17 0 |

“ | “ | 1 | IV.} | Weighted with £39, for valuation, fencing, and grassing.

Altitude, about 600 ft. above sea-level. Chiefly open fern and manuka land, with about 30 acres rough grass (rat-tail and danthonia); about 50 acres swamp, of which 3 acres is good quality; sloping to steep country; soil fair to inferior; rocky in parts. Fronts sea-beach between Rangaunu and Doubtless Bays. Nineteen miles from Mangonui, and twenty miles from Awanui.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

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