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of mokumoku and some English grass. The forest has been milled. Good soil; well watered. Distant five miles and a half from Dannevirke—five miles by metalled road, remainder unformed road.

Waipawa | Norsewood .. | 16 | XV | 100 0 0 | 10 15 0 | 1,075 0 0 | 10 9 | 26 17 6 | 8 7·2 | 21 10 0

Flat agricultural land, with terraces. Altitude, about 830 ft. above sea-level. Covered with mixed bush, mostly tawa, rimu, and totara, with secondary growth of mokumoku, and some English grass. The forest has been milled. Good soil, on clay overlying gravel; stony in places; well watered. Distant six miles from Dannevirke—five miles by metalled road, remainder unformed road.

Waipawa | Norsewood .. | 17 | XV | 107 0 0 | 11 5 0 | 1,203 15 0 | 11 3 | 30 2 0 | 9 0 | 24 2 0

Flat, with terraces. Altitude, about 800 ft. above sea-level. Covered with mixed bush, mostly tawa, rimu, rata, and totara. A good portion has been cleared and sown in English grass, but choked by secondary growth of mokumoku. The forest has been milled. Good soil, on clay overlying gravel; stony in places; well watered. Distant five miles and a half from Dannevirke—five miles by metalled road, remainder unformed road.

Waipawa | Norsewood .. | 1 | XII | 440 0 0 | 5 0 0 | 2,200 0 0 | 5 0 | 55 0 0 | 4 0 | 44 0 0

Steep hilly pastoral country, with flat along the Rokaiwhana Stream. Altitude, from 1,150 ft. to 1,770 ft. above sea-level. Covered with mixed bush, mostly tawa, rimu, and rata, with thick undergrowth of supplejack, &c. Good soil; well watered. Distant eight miles and a half from Dannevirke—five miles by metalled road, remainder unformed road.

Waipawa | Norsewood .. | 2 | XII | 308 0 0 | 5 0 0 | 1,540 0 0 | 5 0 | 38 10 0 | 4 0 | 30 16 0

Pastoral land: comprises steep sunny faces, with flat along the Rokaiwhana Stream. Altitude, from 1,100 ft. to 1,700 ft. above sea-level. Covered with mixed bush, mostly tawa, rimu, and rata, with thick undergrowth of supplejack, &c. Good soil; well watered. Distant eight miles and a half from Dannevirke—five miles by metalled road, remainder unformed road.

Waipawa | Norsewood .. | 3 | XII | 333 2 17 | 6 10 0 | 2,168 10 0 | 6 6 | 54 5 0 | 5 2·4 | 43 7 6

Hilly and undulating pastoral land. Altitude, from 1,020 ft. to 1,440 ft. above sea-level. Covered with mixed bush, mostly tawa, rimu, and rata, with thick undergrowth of supplejack, &c. The forest has been milled. Good soil; well watered. Distant eight miles from Dannevirke—five miles by metalled road, remainder unformed road.

Waipawa | Norsewood .. | 4 | XII | 150 0 0 | 7 10 0 | 1,125 0 0 | 7 6 | 28 2 6 | 6 0 | 22 10 0

Flat and undulating agricultural and pastoral land; about 7 acres of creek-bed. Altitude, about 1,050 ft. above sea-level. Covered with mixed bush, mostly tawa, rimu, and rata, with thick undergrowth. The forest has been milled. Good soil; well watered. Distant eight miles from Dannevirke—five miles by metalled road; remainder unformed road.

NOTE.—A trolley-line is reserved through Sections 7, 9, 11, 13, and 15, Block XV, Norsewood Survey District, until 31st December, 1908.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this sixth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Rural Land in Nelson Land District open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

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 enumerated in the Schedule hereto is hereby set apart for disposal by way of selection on and after the twelfth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and seven, at the rental specified in the said Schedule.

2. The said land may be selected on lease in perpetuity only, as provided by section one hundred and twenty-one of “The Land Act, 1892,” as it contains, or is supposed to contain, metal, mineral, or valuable stone, and shall not be purchased for cash.

3. For the purposes of “The Bush and Swamp Crown Lands Settlement Act, 1903,” the land enumerated 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 the period of four years from the date from which in each case respectively 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.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—INANGAHUA COUNTY.

Second-class Unsurveyed Heavy-bush Land.

Weighted with £42, valuation for felling and grassing. Situated about three-quarters of a mile from Longford Post-office and telegraph-station, and about 10 chains off the main coach-road, Nelson to Westport. Portion of the block known as the Matiri Valley Block. Open, forest-clad land, the timber being brown-birch and silver-birch not suitable for milling. Formation, sandstone and conglomerate. Soil is very fair, and well watered. Northern and western portions of the area lie well to the sun, and when cleared will carry good grass.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fourth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands