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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 90

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 thirteenth day of December, 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 described 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 lands for the period of two 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 two 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 Scrub Land.

Undulating land; fair soil; mostly covered with fern and tea-tree. A small quantity of mixed forest in each section, comprising puriri, taraire, rimu, mataki, rata, and kahikatea. Fronts main road from Rawene to Hokianga Heads, about six miles from Rawene.

Whangarei | Waikiekie* .. | N.E. 65 | .. | 41 1 8 | 0 10 0 | 20 10 0 | 0 6 | 0 10 3 | 0 4·8 | 0 8 3

Altitude, about 900 ft. above sea-level. Undulating land, covered with fern and tea-tree; soil medium; fairly well watered. Access by good road, about twenty-two miles from Whangarei Township and eleven miles from Mangapai.

Waitemata | Paremoremo* | 227 | .. | 61 0 0 | 0 10 0 | 30 10 0 | 0 6 | 0 15 3 | 0 4·8 | 0 12 3

Rather broken country; a few small patches of bush, balance covered with short fern and tea-tree; heavy clay soil of inferior quality; well watered. Situated four miles and a half from Riverhead and three miles and a half from Albany Post-office.

Raglan .. | Whangape*.. | 148 | .. | 602 2 0 | 0 12 0 | 361 10 0 | 0 7·2 | 9 0 9 | 0 5·76 | 7 4 8

Undulating land, nearly all ploughable; about 11 acres mixed forest, 50 acres swamp, balance covered with fern; soil light and of somewhat inferior quality, resting on sandstone formation; well watered. Situated about nineteen miles from Churchill and twelve miles from Glen Murray Post-office.

Ohinemuri | Hapuakohe.. | 1 | VIII. | 266 0 0 | 0 15 0 | 199 10 0 | 0 9 | 4 19 9 | 0 7·2 | 3 19 10

Undulating fern and tea-tree land, with two small patches of mixed forest; soil fair. Situated about sixteen miles from Morrinsville and twenty miles from Ohinewai Railway-station.

Hobson .. | Whakahara* | 27 | .. | 80 0 0 | 0 12 0 | 48 0 0 | 0 7·2 | 1 4 0 | 0 5·76 | 0 19 3

Altitude, from 70 ft. to 170 ft. above sea-level. Comprises level and gently undulating land, covered with tea-tree, fern, and rushes; clay soil of fair quality; watered by small watercourses. Situated about four miles from Tokatoka Township, and about three miles from Whakahara Landing.

• Parish.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Rural Land in Otago Land District open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

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 described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on and after the seventeenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and six; and also that the land mentioned in the said Schedule may be selected on lease in perpetuity only, in accordance with the provisions of section one hundred and twenty-one of the said Act, as it contains, or is supposed to contain, metals, minerals, or valuable stone; and I do hereby also fix the price at which the said land shall be leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said land shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.
OTAGO LAND DISTRICT. — WAIHEMO COUNTY. — ROCK AND PILLAR SURVEY DISTRICT.
Second-class Land.

Weighted with £29 1s. 6d., valuation for fencing. Open land, somewhat broken, and partly covered with rocks. A small portion is suitable for cultivation, and the balance is pastoral land; well watered. These sections are easy of access, being on the main road from Hyde to Palmerston, and are within three miles of the Hyde Railway-station.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.