APRIL 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1077

Lands in Taranaki Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands, Wellington, 30th March, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that, the undermentioned leases and licenses having been forfeited by resolution of the Taranaki Land Board, the said lands have thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of "The Land Act, 1892."

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

ROBERT McNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Lands in Braeburn Settlement, Nelson Land District, open for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands Office,
Nelson, 1st April, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands will be open for selection on renewable lease, at this office, on Wednesday, the 20th day of May, 1908, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” and their amendments.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—INANGAHUA COUNTY.—BRAEBURN SETTLEMENT.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

Braeburn Settlement is situated in the valleys of the Mangles, Tutaki, and Tiraumea Rivers, and comprises second-class and third-class land. The nearest point of the settlement is eight miles from Murchison by dray-road. Murchison, which is eighty-three miles from Nelson—thirty miles by railway to Kohatu, and fifty-three miles by good coach-road, over which there is a bi-weekly coach service—has a population of about three hundred, and contains a post and telegraph office, hotels, stores, public schools, &c., and has a resident medical practitioner, and is the principal stopping-place for coaches between Nelson, Westport, and Reefton.

The settlement consists of the estate known as Braeburn, of which the greater part is open flat grassed lands, ranging in quality from medium to richest agricultural; the balance of the settlement is chiefly forest-clad land, generally of fair quality for pastoral purposes.

A fair proportion of the rich open land has been included in each section.

The altitude above sea-level is from 770ft. on the lowest flats to 2,800 ft. on the hills at the back of the sections.

The open lands are all well grassed with English grasses, the sections are all well watered, and each contains a suitable homestead-site. The formation is chiefly calcareous shales and sandstone, resting on blue marl.

Sections 12, Block IV, and 1, Block VIII, Tutaki Survey District, each contain about 50 acres of fair milling-timber—red-birch, brown-birch, and a little matai and kahikatea. There is also a small quantity of milling-timber on several of the other sections.

The soil and climate are well adapted for growing all classes of fruit. In the orchard at the homestead raspberries, gooseberries, strawberries, plums, peaches, and apples grow to perfection.

The climate is excellent, with a very fair average rainfall. There is good timber for fencing on every section.

Arrangements have been made for accommodating intending selectors at the Braeburn Homestead at a moderate charge.

A guide will be stationed at the homestead to show intending applicants over the settlement.

IMPROVEMENTS INCLUDED IN CAPITAL VALUE.

Tutaki Survey District.—Block IV : Section 9, fencing, £13 10s.; Section 11, fencing, £45; Section 12, fencing, £63. Block VII : Section 2, fencing, £13 10s. Block VIII : Section 1, fencing, £36.

IMPROVEMENTS NOT INCLUDED IN CAPITAL VALUE.

Tutaki Survey District.—Block IV, Section 12 : Seven-roomed house, sawmill, shearing-shed, barn, harness-room, workshop, men's hut, store-room, dairy, two old store-rooms, and fowl-house, £350. Block VIII, Section 1 : Four-roomed cottage, lean-to, washhouse, slab-stable, cart-shed, and stable and cowshed, £280.

F. W. FLANAGAN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

*Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £350, repayable in cash or in twenty-one years by half-yearly instalments of £13 13s. Total half-yearly payment, £43 9s. 3d.
+Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £280, repayable in cash or in twenty-one years by half-yearly instalments of £10 18s. 5d. Total half-yearly payment, £44 17s. 11d.