forest, comprising tawa, rata, rimu, and miro; badly watered; about eleven miles from Rotorua and fronting main coach-road. Section 7, mostly undulating, flat in parts; about one-half open country, growing fern, manuka, and grass, balance heavy forest, comprising tawa, rimu, and miro; badly watered; about ten miles from Rotorua, with long frontage to main coach-road. Ngongotaha Railway-station is distant from five to seven miles by coach-road.

Weighted with £150 for milling timber (chiefly rimu).

Altitude, from 1,100ft. to 1,300ft. above sea-level. Undulating hills; all forest, comprising tawa, rimu, rata, and miro; soil of light volcanic nature, resting on igneous formation; well watered; general quality of section fairly good. Fronts main coach-road about twelve miles from Rotorua.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Second-class Scrub Land.

Altitude, from 1,050ft. to 1,300ft. above sea-level. Section 9, mostly open fern hills, low and undulating, with a strip of forest on north side, mostly tawa; fairly well watered; situated ten miles from Rotorua, and five miles from Ngongotaha Railway-station, by main coach-road. Section 10, open fern land, undulating and low hills, a little broken on north-east corner; well watered; eleven miles from Rotorua, and six miles from Ngongotaha Railway-station, by formed road. The soil on these sections is of moderate quality, being of light volcanic nature, resting on igneous formation.

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

JAMES McGOWAN,

For Minister of Lands.

Rural Lands in Taranaki 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 eighth day of August, 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.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

Weighted with £90, valuation for felling and grassing 50 acres.

Situated on the Mataimoana Road. Access from Waverley, about twenty-three miles distant, twenty miles of which is formed dray-road, remainder horse-road. Rough, broken, grazing-country; forest consists of tawa, rimu, rata, and black-birch, with dense undergrowth. Good soil, on papa formation; well watered. Elevation, 300ft. to 1,600ft. above sea-level.

Patea | Kapara | 9 | VI | 1,700 0 0 | 7 6 | 637 10 0 | 0 4 5 | 15 18 9 | 0 3 6 | 12 15 0

Weighted with £438, for felling and grassing 219 acres at back of section.

Situated on Weraweraonga and Ridge Roads, about twenty miles from Waverley or Waitotara. Access by formed dray-road for about fifteen miles, remainder a bridle-road. The land generally is rough and hilly, in parts steep and broken; covered with a heavy forest of rata, rimu, kahikatea, and birch on tops of ridges; undergrowth of karewa, mahoe, &c. The soil is of good quality, resting on a papa-and-sandstone formation; well watered.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,

Minister of Lands.

Rural Lands in Taranaki 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 eighth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and six, at the respective prices specified in the said Schedule.