1670
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 47

The block comprises for the most part hilly and undulating country, many of the sections containing small flats. The soil is a sandy loam, intermixed with pumice sands, on a sandstone formation, with papa in places.
The forest is mixed, and varies from light to heavy, comprising tawa, tawhero, mahoe, rewarewa, hinau, rimu, miro, and some totara, with usual undergrowth. All of the sections are well watered.
The elevation ranges generally from about 700 ft. to 2,000 ft. above sea-level.

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

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Rural Lands in Wellington 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 twelfth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and seven; 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.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

Retaruke, Kirikau, and Part North Waimarino Blocks.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Situated on the left bank of the Wanganui River, to the north of the Retaruke River, and to the west of that portion of the Kaitieke Block which has been already offered. Consists for the most part of hilly undulating and broken country, many of the sections containing small flats and clearings. The North Island Main Trunk Railway traverses the country about sixteen miles to the east.
The access to those sections lying between the watershed and the Wanganui River is from Taumarunui by the Wanganui River to the Kokakoriki Road, a distance of about twenty-five miles, and then about two miles to the edge of the block, thence by unformed roads.
Access to the sections on the eastern side of the watershed is by the Retaruke-Kaitieke Road, a distance of about fifteen miles from Raurimu, which is situated about twenty-five miles from Taumarunui by rail and about thirty miles from Raetibi by road. The Retaruke-Kaitieke Road is formed as a dray-road for a distance of about twelve miles, the remaining distance is formed as a bridle-track.
The soil is a light clay and humus, on papa-and-sandstone formation.
The forest varies from light to heavy, and comprises tawa, rata, rimu, hinau, miro, rewarewa, and some totara, with the usual undergrowth.
The following sections are more or less open, with fern and manuka—viz., 2, 3, 4, Block V, and 1, Block IX, Kaitieke Survey District.
All the sections are well watered.
The elevation ranges from about 500 ft. to 2,050 ft. above sea-level.

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

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands.