New Zealand Gazette – 1906 – No. 43

Page 1441

✨ Land Sale Schedule and Terms



JUNE 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1441

  1. 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.

  2. 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 "heavy-bush land."

  3. No general rate shall be levied or collected by any local authority from the said lands for a period of four 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.

  4. 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.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

Second-class Heavy-bush Land.

County. District. Section. Block. Area. Cash Price. Occupation with Right of Purchase: Rent, 5 per Cent. Lease in Perpetuity: Rent, 4 per Cent.
Per Acre. Total Price. Rent per Acre per Annum.
A. R. P. s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. s. d. £ s. d.
Patea Kapara 3 I 1,350 0 0 7 6 506
Situated on the Rawhitiroa Road; access from Eltham or Waitotara, distant from the latter about thirty-six miles; access by formed dray-road to within a mile of section. Hilly and broken country, wholly covered with forest, consisting of tawa, rimu, rata, and black-birch on highest ridges; formation, papa with sandstone and shell-rock; well watered. Elevation, 400 ft. to 1,580 ft.
Patea Kapara 1 V 550 1 19 7 6 206
Situated on the Waitotara Valley Road, about thirty-five miles from Waitotara by a dray-road. Rough section, broken pastoral land; forest of tawa, rata, rimu, and black-birch, and dense undergrowth; soil fair, on papa formation; well watered.
Patea Kapara 2 V 952 0 0 7 6 357
Situated on Ridge Road, but access from Waverley, twenty-six miles by the Mataimoana Road, which joins Ridge Road at section: of the twenty-six miles, twenty miles is formed dray-road, three miles is horse-road, and the remainder a surveyed road only. Rough, broken grazing-country, covered with a forest of tawa, rata, rimu, and black-birch, with dense undergrowth; soil good, on a papa formation; well watered.
Patea Kapara 8 V 748 0 0 7 6 280
Situated on Mataimoana Road; access from Waverley, distant twenty-five miles—twenty miles formed dray-road, three miles horse-road, and remainder a surveyed road only. Rough, broken grazing-country; soil good, papa formation; well watered; forest of tawa, rata, rimu, and black-birch, with dense undergrowth. Elevation, 600 ft. to 1,480 ft.
Patea Kapara 9 V 1,203 0 0 7 6 451
Situated on Ridge Road; access from Waverley, distant about eighteen miles, twelve miles being formed dray-road, thence by a bridle-road to within about four miles. Hilly and broken country, wholly covered with forest, consisting of tawa, rimu, and black-birch on highest ridges; formation papa; well watered. Elevation, 500 ft. to 1,500 ft.
Patea Kapara 5 IX 335 0 0 7 6 125
11 414 0 0 7 6 155
12 547 0 0 7 6 205
13 307 0 0 7 6 115
14 330 0 0 7 6 123
4 X 922 0 0 7 6 345
1 XIII 447 0 0 7 6 167
2 570 0 0 7 6 213
Opaku 5 XVI 450 0 0 7 6 168
This land adjoins the settled districts contiguous to Waverley and Patea. The section in Opaku Survey District is accessible from Waverley via Motoroa and Okotuku Roads, also via Okahutiria Road. The Kapara sections are from sixteen to twenty-two miles distant from Momobaki Railway-station via Weraweraonga Road, eleven miles of which is dray-road, and the remainder bridle-track; also via Ridge and Mangawhio Roads, eighteen miles being a dray-road. Section 1, Block XIII, Kapara Survey District, has also a frontage to Omahire Road, distant about thirteen miles from Waverley, ten miles being dray-road. The block, generally speaking, is rough, but of fair quality of soil, and owing to the difficulty of getting homestead-sites it is only suitable for settlement in large areas. The valleys near the south end of the block are about 1,000 ft. below the ridges. Throughout the block the slopes are steep and the gullies generally gorgy; the formation is papa; the timber consists mostly of rata, tawa, hinau, with birch on the ridges, and the usual undergrowth.
Patea Kapara 1 X 1,180 0 0 7 6 442
Situated on Ridge Road about twenty miles from Waitotara, by dray-road for ten miles, remainder bridle-track. All forest, broken pastoral land, papa formation; the higher ridges are capped by a soft tufa-micaceous sandstone. The hills range from 700 ft. to 1,000 ft. above the Waitotara River.
Patea Opaku 7 XII 870 0 0 10 0 435
Situated on the Mataimoana Road; access from Waverley by dray-road to within half a mile of section, remainder a good bridle-track. All rough pastoral land, covered with a mixed forest of tawa, rata, hinau, and a little birch on spurs; soil fair, on papa formation; well watered.
Patea Opaku 9, 12 XII 569 0 0 7 6 213
Situated on the Oma Road; access from Waverley, about fifteen miles distant, by the Weraweraonga Road, eleven miles dray-road, and the remainder bridle-track. Rough pastoral country, rather broken, wholly covered with a forest of tawa, rata, hinau, with some birch on ridges, and the usual undergrowth. Soil is fair to good, resting on a papa 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.



Next Page →



Online Sources for this page:

VUW Te Waharoa — PDF NZ Gazette 1906, No 43




✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🗺️ Additional Rural Lands in Taranaki Land District Open for Sale or Selection (continued from previous page)

🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
1 June 1906
Land sale, Land selection, Rural lands, Taranaki Land District, Schedule, Bush and Swamp Crown Lands Settlement Act 1903, Land Act 1892
  • T. Y. Duncan, Minister of Lands