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fair pastoral land. Well watered. Access by dray-road and river from Okuru Boat-landing, four miles distant. Altitude, 100 ft. above sea-level.

A. R. P. £ s. d. £ s. d.
515 | XIV | 291 0 0 | 80 0 0 | 1 12 0
All open wet swamp, except about 60 acres of mixed bush, principally rimu, white-pine, and kamahi. Wet inferior soil, but easily drained into Okuru River. Level pastoral land, accessible by bridle-track and partly formed road. Distant from Okuru Post-office and port six miles and a half. Altitude, 100 ft. above sea-level.

486 | XIV | 159 0 0 | 40 0 0 | 0 16 0
All mixed bush—rimu, kamahi, white-pine, fern, and scrub—except 10 acres open swamp. Inferior, wet, peaty soil, easily drained into Okuru River. Well-watered, level, pastoral land. Access by formed road and river-bed. Distant from Okuru Post-office and port seven miles. Altitude, 120 ft. above sea-level.

488 | XIV | 268 0 0 | 70 0 0 | 1 8 0
All mixed bush—rimu, kamahi, and white-pine—except 15 acres of wet manuka swamp. Sixty acres fair to good soil; balance inferior, wet, peaty soil, easily drained into Okuru River. Well-watered, level, pastoral land. Access by formed road and river-bed. Distant from Okuru Post-office and port seven miles. Altitude, 120 ft. above sea-level.

511 | X | 195 0 0 | 50 0 0 | 1 0 0
Ninety acres open wet swamp, easily drained into Collyer’s Creek; balance mixed bush, with some small silver-pine. Level, peaty, inferior, pastoral land. Access by formed and partly formed road six miles, and one mile of unformed road. Distant from Okuru Post-office and port seven miles. Altitude, 100 ft. above sea-level.

466 | X | 237 0 0 | 60 0 0 | 1 4 0
One hundred and sixty acres open wet swamp; balance heavy mixed bush—rimu, kamahi, white-pine, and some silver-pine. Level, inferior, wet, peaty soil, easily drained into Collyer’s Creek. Access by formed road three miles, and unformed road one mile. Distant from Okuru Post-office and port four miles. Altitude, 100 ft. above sea-level.

2410 | X | 246 0 0 | 70 0 0 | 1 8 0
All heavy mixed bush, except about 45 acres open wet swamp. The timber is rimu, white-pine, and kamahi, with some small silver-pine. Level and well watered; inferior peaty soil. Access by unformed road. Distance, three miles from Okuru Post-office and port. The section can be drained into Collyer’s Creek. Altitude, 100 ft. above sea-level.

512 | X | 176 0 0 | 50 0 0 | 1 0 0
One hundred acres heavy mixed bush, principally rimu, kamahi, and white-pine; balance open wet swamp, easily drained. Level, pastoral, inferior, wet soil. Access by bridle-track and partly formed road. Six miles distant from Okuru Post-office and port. Altitude, 100 ft. above sea-level.

518 | XIII| 58 0 0 | 20 0 0 | 0 8 0
Fifty acres level land, covered with mixed bush, with some red-pine and white-pine; 8 acres open swamp; about 20 acres good soil, fairly dry, the balance inferior, wet soil; well watered. Altitude, 150 ft. above sea-level. Access by road and river-bed from Okuru Township and boat-landing; distance, four miles and a half.

223 | XIV | 245 0 0 | 70 0 0 | 1 8 0
All light bush—rimu, kamahi, white-pine, fern, and scrub. Wet peaty soil; well watered. Level, inferior, pastoral land, difficult to drain. Access by four miles of formed road, three-quarters of a mile unformed road, and half-mile river-bed. Distant from Okuru Post-office and port five miles and a quarter. Altitude, 100 ft. above sea-level.

487 | XIV | 248 0 0 | 70 0 0 | 1 8 0
Fifty acres heavy-bush land, principally rimu and kamahi; 40 acres manuka swamp; balance light mixed bush—rimu, white-pine, kamahi, and some silver-pine. Fifty acres fair to good; balance inferior, wet, peaty soil. Level, well-watered, pastoral land, difficult to drain. Access by formed road four miles, by river-bed three-quarters of a mile, and by unformed road half-mile. Distant, six miles and a quarter from Okuru Post-office and port. Altitude, 120 ft. above sea-level.

2387 | X | 330 0 0 | 90 0 0 | 1 16 0
Three-fourths of this section is open wet swamp, which can be drained into the Okuru River; balance covered with mixed bush—rimu, white-pine, kamahi, and stunted silver-pine. Soil poor, and of a peaty nature. Access by two miles of formed road, and sixteen chains of unformed road. Distant, two miles and a quarter from Okuru Post-office and port. Altitude, 100 ft. above sea-level.

A. R. P. £ s. d. £ s. d.
2261 | X | 255 0 0 | 70 0 0 | 1 8 0
Half of section is mixed bush, with some silver-pine, kamahi, and white-pine; balance open wet swamp, difficult to drain. Inferior peaty soil. Access by unformed road from Okuru Post-office and port, three miles and a half. Altitude, 100 ft. above sea-level.

513 | XIV | 192 0 0 | 50 0 0 | 1 0 0
One hundred and sixty-five acres open wet swamp; balance mixed bush—rimu, white-pine, kamahi, and some silver-pine. Inferior, peaty, pastoral land, difficult to drain, fall being slight. Access by formed road four miles, and unformed road one mile and a quarter. Distant from Okuru Post-office and port five miles and a quarter. Altitude, 100 ft. above sea-level.

Westland County.—Waiho Survey District.

2419 | X | 177 3 0 | 70 0 0 | 1 8 0
Partly level river-bottom lands, the rest gently sloping hillsides. Light mixed bush and scrub along river, heavy forest on sidings; soil consists of sandy loam on gravel on flats, and thin sour soil on hillside; well and permanently watered. Situated on the Main South Road, twenty-five miles from Port of Okarito, seventeen miles of this being a metalled dray-road to Waiho Diggings, and a metalled bridle-road for remaining eight miles. Altitude, 700 ft. above sea-level.

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 Westland 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,” 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.

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WESTLAND COUNTY.

SECOND-CLASS UNSURVEYED LANDS.

A. R. P. s. d.
Abbey Rocks .. | I, II, V | 1,540 0 0 | 0 4·8
Situated at Pawareka Harbour, Abbey Rocks. Hilly limestone country; pine forest. Access by sea. Lithographic-stone deposits in vicinity.

Abbey Rocks .. | II | 535 0 0 | 0 4·8
Situated on west bank of Paringa River, near mouth. Limestone hilly country; clay soil; light forest. Access by Paringa Harbour.

Abbey Rocks .. | III, VII, VIII | 500 0 0 | 0 4·8
Situated on east side of Hall River and Paringa Lake. Flat land; clay and loam soil; light timber (totara) and scrub. Access by Main South Road.

Abbey Rocks .. | III, IV | 1,130 0 0 | 0 4·8
Situated on east bank of Paringa River, near its mouth. Flat land; light loamy soil, covered with light forest. Access by Paringa seaport.