2270
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 84

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 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 described in the Schedule hereto are hereby set apart for disposal by way of sale or selection on and after the twenty-second day of November, one thousand nine hundred and five, at the respective prices specified in the said Schedule.

2. The said lands 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, they 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 lands described in the said Schedule hereto shall be deemed to be “heavy-bush land.”

4. No general rate shall be levied or collected by any local authority from the said lands for a period of four 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 four 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 Heavy-bush Land.

Hokianga | Tutamoe .. | 16 | V. | 362 0 0 | 0 10 0 | 181 0 0 | 0 6 | 4 10 6 | 0 4·8 | 3 12 6
Altitude, about 1,300 ft. above sea-level. Undulating and broken land, covered with mixed forest, comprising tawa, towai, rimu, and rata, with a few totara; clay soil; some alluvial soil on banks of streams; well watered. Situated about thirteen miles and a half from Opunake Railway-station, nine miles of which by formed road, balance not constructed.

Hokianga | Mangamuka.. | 13 | V. | 1293 2 0 | 0 10 0 | 647 0 0 | 0 6 | 16 3 6 | 0 4·8 | 12 18 10
Mostly broken land, a small area along main streams being flat; soil fair; covered with mixed forest, containing some puriri, totara, and rimu; well watered. Situated about nine miles from Kohukohu, eight miles of which is by formed main road, Hokianga to Mangonui.

Hokianga | Mangamuka.. | 20 | IX. | 50 0 0 | 0 12 6 | 31 5 0 | 0 7·5 | 0 15 8 | 0 6 | 0 12 6
Chiefly broken, but some flat land along Mangakino Stream; soil of fair quality; covered with mixed forest, containing some puriri and totara; well watered. Situated a mile and a half by road from the head of Tapuwae Inlet, which is four miles by water from Rawene.

Hokianga | Whangape .. | 25, 26, 27 | III. | 191 2 0 | 0 7 6 | 72 0 0 | 0 4·5 | 1 16 0 | 0 3·6 | 1 8 10
Undulating to broken land of good quality, covered with mixed forest, consisting of taraire, tawa, rata, hinau, miro, and some scattered totara, rimu, and matai; well watered. Situated four miles and a half from Broadwood Post-office—two miles by formed road, balance by track.

Kawhia .. | Marakopa .. | 1 | II. | 429 0 0 | 1 2 6 | 482 12 6 | 1 1·5 | 12 1 4 | 0 10·8 | 9 13 1
Altitude, from 150 ft. to 800 ft. above sea-level. Broken pastoral land, covered with mixed forest, comprising rimu, rata, tawa, mangeao, rewarewa, and hinau, with undergrowth of supplejack, raurekau, mahoe, keikei; fair soil; well watered. Situated about six miles from Kawhia Harbour by unformed road.

Mangonui | Maungataniwha| 7 | VI. | 470 0 0 | 0 14 0 | 329 0 0 | 0 8·4 | 8 4 6 | 0 6·72 | 6 11 7
Altitude, from 500 ft. to 1,300 ft. above sea-level. Broken land, covered with mixed forest, consisting of rata, towai, and taraire, with a few kauri, totara, and puriri trees of no commercial value; there is a moderate undergrowth of punga, supplejack, fern, and scrub; soil of medium quality, resting on clay subsoil; well watered by Rapapukatea Stream. Accessible by formed road, about seventeen miles from Mangonui.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

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-second day of November, 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 “scrub land.”

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