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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 17

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 enumerated in the Schedule hereto are hereby set apart for disposal by way of sale or selection on and after the twenty-fifth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and six, 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 “scrub land.”
4. No general rate shall be levied or collected by any local authority from the said lands for a 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.

Altitude, from 200 ft. to 300 ft. above sea-level. Undulating lands of good quality, covered with tea-tree and fern; chocolate soil, resting on clay formation. Permanent water can be obtained by sinking. Situated from eight to ten miles from Wairangi Railway-station and about one mile from Waerenga Post-office.
NOTE.—The areas and boundaries of the above sections are subject to alteration by survey.

• Parish.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand nine hundred and six.

JAS. McGOWAN,
For Minister of Lands.

Rural Lands in Hawke’s Bay 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 eighteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and six; 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.”

SCHEDULE.
HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.

First-class Land.

Undulating and flat land, all ploughable when stumped and logged up. The soil is of a shingly loam on the road frontage, back portion clay, resting on papa formation. The section is situated on an elevated plateau, and ranges from about 550 ft. to 570 ft. above sea-level, fronting the Otawhao Road, two miles and one-third from Kumeroa Village. It is not permanently watered, but the Manawatu River is only a short distance away.

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Undulating and flat land, nearly all ploughable. The soil is of a shingly loam on the road frontage, back portion clay, resting on papa formation. The section is not permanently watered, but is within a short distance of the Manawatu River. It is situated on an elevated plateau, and ranges from 550 ft. to 600 ft. above sea-level, fronting the Otawhao Road, two miles and a half from Kumeroa Village.