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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 84

SCHEDULE.
TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

First class Land.

Patea .. | Kapara .. | 13 | VI. | 23 2 27 | 2 10 0 | 59 3 6 | 2 6 | 1 9 7 | 2 0 | 1 3 8

Weighted with £44 15s., valuation for improvements—clearing, grassing, and fencing.

Situated on the Waitotara Valley Road. Accessible from Waitotara, twenty-eight miles and a half distant, by a formed dray-road. Partly flat land, rising with an easy slope towards the back. The soil is of good quality, resting on a papa formation; well watered. The whole area is in grass. The elevation varies from 600 ft. to 700 ft. above sea-level. The general quality of the section is good.

Second-class Land.

Patea .. | Kapara .. | 2 and 3 | X. | 741 0 0 | 0 7 6 | 277 17 6 | 0 4·5 | 6 19 0 | 0 3·6 | 5 11 2

Weighted with £127 10s., valuation for improvements—60 acres felled and grassed, and 10 chains barbed-wire and wire-netting fence.

Situated on the Ridge Road. Access from Waitotara, twenty-two miles distant, by the Waitotara Valley, Mangawhio, and Ridge Roads, nineteen miles being formed dray-road. The sections comprise rough pastoral country, covered with heavy forest of rata, rimu, tawa, with birch on ridges, with usual undergrowth. The soil is fair, resting on a sandstone-and-papa formation; well watered. The elevation varies from 1,000 ft. to 1,400 ft. above sea-level.

Clifton .. | Mimi .. | 14 | XIII. | 319 0 0 | 0 15 0 | 239 5 0 | 0 9 | 5 19 8 | 0 7·2 | 4 15 9

Weighted with £95, valuation for improvements—40 acres felled and grassed, and 20 acres felled only.

Situated on the Mangatuna Road. Accessible from Tongaporutu, fifteen miles distant, eight miles of which is dray-road, six miles bridle-road, and the remaining mile surveyed road only. The section comprises broken pastoral land, covered with forest of rimu and kahikatea in gullies, and rata, tawa, and hinau on the hills, with a dense undergrowth of supplejack and light scrub. The soil is fair, resting on a papa-and-sandstone formation; well watered. The elevation varies from 600 ft. to 1,000 ft. above sea-level.

Clifton .. | Mimi .. | 4 | XIII. | 97 0 0 | 1 8 0 | 135 16 0 | 1 4·8 | 3 7 11 | 1 1·4 | 2 14 4

Situated on the Makaraka Road. Accessible from Tongaporutu, fourteen miles distant, by a formed road for seven miles and formed horse-track for remaining seven miles. The land comprises low hills, with a few acres of level land on the Makaraka Road. Thirty-six acres was felled several years ago by the Government; the remainder is covered with a fairly light forest of rimu, rata, white-pine, tawa, &c., with a thick undergrowth of supplejack. The soil is of fair quality, resting on a papa formation; well watered. The elevation varies from 500 ft. to 1,000 ft. above sea-level.

Clifton .. | Mimi .. | 5 | I. | 99 0 0 | 0 12 6 | 61 17 6 | 0 7·5 | 1 11 0 | 0 6 | 1 4 9

Situated on the Hutiwai Road. Accessible from Tongaporutu, two miles distant, by a formed bridle-road. A few acres was felled by the Government several years ago; the remainder of the section, which comprises rough pastoral land, is covered with forest of rata, tawa, rimu, with a thick undergrowth of supplejack. The soil is fair, resting on a papa formation; well watered. The elevation varies from 50 ft. to 500 ft. above sea-level.

Patea .. | Opaku .. | 6 | XVI. | 602 0 0 | 0 10 0 | 301 0 0 | 0 6 | 7 10 6 | 0 4·8 | 6 0 5

Weighted with £56 5s., valuation for improvements—30 acres felled and grassed.

Situated on the Motoroa Road. Accessible from Waverley, twelve miles distant, by a dray-road for ten miles and a half, the remainder being surveyed road only. The section comprises rough hilly land, with one main valley running through it. Covered with heavy forest of rata, rimu, kahikatea, &c., and a thick undergrowth of supplejack. The soil is fair, on a papa formation; well watered. The elevation ranges from 1,000 ft. to 1,400 ft. above sea-level.

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 Lands in Nelson 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 fifteenth 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 lands 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 enumerated 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.