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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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watered by small creeks. Altitude, 400 ft. above sea-level. Access from Kumara by dray-road, eight miles and three-quarters.

A. R. P. £ s. d. £ s. d.
2484 | X | 266 0 0 | 100 0 0 | 2 0 0
Open kamahi bush land, with scattered rimu, miro, and kahikatea of fair size, and small totara and hinau. Land is fairly flat, but slightly broken, especially in south-east corner, with inferior, wet, shallow soil, on thin cement subsoil; well watered by small creeks. Altitude, 400 ft. above sea-level. Access from Kumara by dray-road, nine miles.

Westland County.—Bruce Bay Survey District.

877 | XI | 128 2 0 | 40 0 0 | 0 16 0
878 | " | 135 0 0 | 40 0 0 | 0 16 0
Flat country of wet surface, covered with light bush and scrub, fronting Main South Road, and adjacent to Bruce Bay Post and Telephone Office and school.

Westland County.—Gillespie’s Survey District.

2437 | XIV | 190 0 0 | 50 0 0 | 1 0 0
Altitude, from 150 ft. to 400 ft. Contains about 80 acres of sideling and 30 acres of swamp, remainder being a flat, covered with fair soil. The hill-side is covered with mixed bush. Well watered by small creeks. The section is a mile down the Clearwater River from where the bridle-track from Gillespie’s Beach Township crosses it.

2496 | XIV | 182 0 0 | 50 0 0 | 1 0 0
Altitude, 120 ft. to 350 ft. Section comprises 60 acres steep sideling, about 40 acres swamp, and remainder is flat land, covered with a foot or two of sandy soil on a clay formation. The slopes are covered with mixed bush and scrub. Area is well watered by creeks. It is situated two miles and a half down the Clearwater River from where the bridle-track of Gillespie’s-Cook Road crosses that river, seven miles and a half from Gillespie’s Beach Township.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eighteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Opening Lands in Auckland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

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,” and its amendments, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, having received the report of the Under-Secretary 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 selection on Wednesday, the twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eight; and also that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may be selected on renewable lease only, in accordance with the provisions of section one hundred and twenty-one of the said Act, as they contain, or are supposed to contain, metals, minerals, or valuable stone; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said lands shall be leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” and its amendments.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—COROMANDEL COUNTY.—HAHEI PARISH.

Second-class Lands.

A. R. P. £ s. d. £ s. d.
28 | .. | 98 0 0 | 65 0 0 | 1 6 0
Weighted with £35, valuation for fencing and grassing. Altitude, 100 ft. to 400 ft. above sea-level. 20 acres flat to undulating, remainder broken; 8 acres light forest, only fit for shelter, and light undergrowth; 20 acres felled and grassed; balance tea-tree scrub. Soil of medium quality, on slate formation; well watered. Distant twelve miles rom Whitianga.

29 | .. | 100 0 0 | 65 0 0 | 1 6 0
Weighted with £30, valuation for felling and grassing.

Altitude, 200 ft. to 400 ft. above sea-level. 10 acres level to undulating, remainder broken; 15 acres light forest, only fit for shelter, and light undergrowth; 15 acres felled and grassed; balance tea-tree scrub. Soil of medium quality, on slate formation; well-watered. Situated about twelve miles from Whitianga—seven miles by poor road, balance by track.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eighteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Opening Lands in Auckland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

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,” and its amendments, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, having received the report of the Under-Secretary 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 selection on Wednesday, the twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eight; and also that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may be selected on renewable lease only, in accordance with the provisions of section one hundred and twenty-one of the said Act, as they contain, or are supposed to contain, metals, minerals, or valuable stone; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said lands shall be leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” and its amendments.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Tauranga County.—Te Puna Parish.

A. R. P. £ s. d. £ s. d.
45 | .. | 41 1 0 | 35 0 0 | 0 14 0
117, 118, and 119 | .. | 150 2 0 | 85 0 0 | 1 14 0

Section 45, altitude from 50 ft. to 200 ft. above sea-level; undulating fern country; soil of fairly good quality, on sandstone formation; well watered by Te Puna Stream. Sections 117, 118, and 119, altitude from 100 ft. to 500 ft. above sea-level; about 20 acres flat land, balance undulating to broken fern country; soil of inferior quality; well watered by small swamps and springs. Situated nine to ten miles from Tauranga, eight miles of which is by main Tauranga-Katikati coach-road.

Tauranga County.—Maketu Survey District.

27 | I | 129 0 0 | 65 0 0 | 1 6 0
Altitude, about 900 ft. above sea-level. All broken land, with a steep gully running through the middle of the section; covered with short fern, except about two acres light mixed forest on north boundary; soil light and somewhat inferior in quality; fairly well watered by Otawera Stream. Situated in the Papamoa No. 2 Special Settlement Block, and accessible by cart-road. Distant about ten miles from Tauranga, and seven miles from Te Puke.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Great Barrier Island.—Harataonga Parish.

10 | .. | 52 1 0 | 20 0 0 | 0 8 0
Very broken land, covered with manuka and mixed forest. Fronts east coast of Great Barrier Island, near Whangapoua Bay.

Tauranga County.—Apata Parish.

162 | .. | 25 0 0 | 10 0 0 | 0 4 0
Open land of inferior quality, consisting of broken fern ridges, with swampy gullies. Distant from fifteen to seventeen miles from Tauranga.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eighteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands.