3268
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 109

nine hundred and seven, at the rental specified in the said Schedule.

2. The said land may be selected on lease in perpetuity only, as provided by section one hundred and twenty-one of “The Land Act, 1892,” as it contains, or is supposed to contain, metal, mineral, or valuable stone, 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 “heavy-bush land.”

4. No general rate shall be levied or collected by any local authority from the said land for the period of four 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 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.—TAURANGA COUNTY.—OTANE-WAINUKU SURVEY DISTRICT.
Second-class Heavy-bush Land.

Altitude, from 900 ft. to 1,000 ft. above sea-level. Undulating country, covered with heavy mixed forest, comprising rimu, tawa, rata, with thick undergrowth of scrub; soil of good quality, resting on volcanic formation; not well watered. Situated nineteen miles from Tauranga—eighteen miles by main Tauranga-Rotorua Road, and one mile by bridle-track.

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

ROBERT MCNAB,
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-seventh day of February, one thousand nine hundred and seven, 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 a 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.

Weighted with £23, valuation for 70 chains of fencing.

Altitude, from 300 ft. to 400 ft. above sea-level. Undulating to broken land, nearly all covered with mixed forest, comprising tawa, rata, towai, birch, manuka, and a few kauri and rimu trees, with undergrowth of shrubs and ferns; soil, loam and clay, inferior to medium quality, resting on clay subsoil; well watered by streams. Situated about three miles from Kawakawa by dray-road.

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

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands.