MAY 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1193

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 described in the Schedule hereto is hereby set apart for disposal by way of sale or selection on and after the twenty-seventh day of June, one thousand nine hundred and six, 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 described 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 a 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.
Second-class Heavy-bush Land.

Weighted with £100, valuation for kauri timber.

Altitude, from 300 ft. to 700 ft. above sea-level. Broken country, covered with mixed forest, comprising taraire, kohe-kohe, rimu, towai, rata, and scattered kauri (about 200,000 superficial feet), with dense undergrowth of nikau, tree-ferns, supplejack; soil of fair quality, resting on clay formation; well watered. Situated about twelve miles from Opanake Railway-station, eleven miles being by good road.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Rural Land 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 land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on and after the eighteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and six; and also that the land 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 land shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.
OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.
First-class Land.

Weighted with £13 17s., valuation for fencing.

Open undulating land, nearly all cultivable; covered with a close tussock; well watered. Situated about eight miles from Clinton Railway-station.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.