Dec. 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3113

Rural Lands in Southland 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 enumerated in the Schedules hereto are hereby set apart for disposal by way of sale or selection on and after the thirtieth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and seven, at the respective prices specified in the said Schedules.
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 First Schedule hereto shall be deemed to be “light-bush land,” and the lands in the Second Schedule 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 three years in the case of light-bush land, and two years in the case of scrub land, 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 three years in the case of light-bush land, and two years in the case of scrub land, 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.

SCHEDULES.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Second-class Light-bush Land.

Southland | New River Hundred | 20 | XIX | 90 3 0 | 15 0 | 68 1 3 | 0 9 | 1 14 0 | 0 7·2 | 1 7 3
" | Ditto | 21 | " | 78 0 30 | 15 0 | 58 12 10 | 0 9 | 1 9 4 | 0 7·2 | 1 3 5

Sections Nos. 20 and 21 are both weighted with £4, valuation for a hut on each section.

Land covered with light bush of no commercial value, light undergrowth. Soil fair to good, gravel formation; low-lying and swampy. Distant about four miles and a half from Wright’s Bush Railway-station. There is a formed road to within a mile and a half of Section 21.

Southland | Oteramika Hundred | 10 | XII | 314 1 27 | 5 0 | 78 12 6 | 0 3 | 1 19 4 | 0 2·4 | 1 11 5

Land level, partly covered with light bush and scrub, part peat bog; soil inferior, gravel formation. Distant about six miles from Kapuka Railway-station by partly formed and gravelled road, and about two miles from Gorge Road Station by unformed road.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Second-class Scrub Land.

Southland | Campbelltown Hundred | 10 | III | 85 0 0 | 5 0 | 21 5 0 | 0 3 | 0 10 8 | 0 2·4 | 0 8 6
" | Ditto | 11 | " | 85 0 0 | 5 0 | 21 5 0 | 0 3 | 0 10 8 | 0 2·4 | 0 8 6
" | " | 12 | " | 85 0 0 | 5 0 | 21 5 0 | 0 3 | 0 10 8 | 0 2·4 | 0 8 6
" | " | 17 | " | 110 0 0 | 5 0 | 27 10 0 | 0 3 | 0 13 9 | 0 2·4 | 0 11 0
" | " | 18 | " | 110 0 0 | 5 0 | 27 10 0 | 0 3 | 0 13 9 | 0 2·4 | 0 11 0
" | " | 19 | " | 110 0 0 | 5 0 | 27 10 0 | 0 3 | 0 13 9 | 0 2·4 | 0 11 0

Flat land, mostly covered with manuka scrub, and wet and peaty. Soil inferior, gravel formation. Distant about four miles from Woodend Railway-station. There is a good gravelled road to within a mile of Section 12; balance is unformed.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this third day of December, one thousand nine hundred and six.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands.

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 thirtieth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and seven; 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.”

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