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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 90

Locality and Description.

Hawtrey Settlement is situated about 12 chains from the Railway-station at Johnsonville, and adjoins the northern boundary of the town. It is subdivided into areas containing good building-sites, and is suitable for persons employed in the city who wish to build homes for themselves.

The Government has now acquired the Manawatu Railway, and there is every probability of an improved train service between Wellington and Johnsonville.

The land is in grass, having been cleared and sown many years ago. The soil is of fair quality, on rock formation.

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

ROBERT McNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Opening Settlement Land in Auckland Land District for Selection.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by “The Land Act, 1908,” and “The Land for Settlements Act, 1908,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the settlement land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Monday, the twenty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and eight, at the rental mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said land shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—PIAKO COUNTY.—TAPAPA SURVEY DISTRICT.—OKAUIA SETTLEMENT.

Second-class Land.

Altitude, from 500 ft. to 1,000 ft. above sea-level. About 250 acres undulating, with good site for house and yards;

balance partly broken; 150 acres old grass; 100 acres formerly grassed, but back in fern; 75 acres mixed forest, comprising tawa, rimu, rata, with undergrowth of supplejack and pukatea. Soil of fair quality, on sandstone formation; well watered by permanent streams. Situated about six miles from Matamata Township and railway-station by formed dray-road.

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

ROBERT McNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Opening Settlement Lands in Hawke’s Bay Land District for Selection.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by “The Land Act, 1908,” and “The Land for Settlements Act, 1908,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the settlement lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Tuesday, the eighth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and eight, at the rentals mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—DANNEVIRKE COUNTY.—NORSEWOOD SURVEY DISTRICT.—RAUMATI SETTLEMENT.

First-class Land.

*Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £270, payable in cash or in twenty-one years by half-yearly instalments of £10 10s. 8d. Total half-yearly payment, £84 4s. 5d.

Raumati Settlement is situated two miles and a half from Dannevirke, which is the centre of a flourishing dairying and grazing district. It is intersected by the Wellington-Napier Railway, and is within half a mile of the Mangatera, Piripiri, and Matamau Sidings. The whole area was formerly under heavy forest, from which the valuable timber has been removed, and the remainder partly cleared. A large portion of each section is in English grass. The soil is of even quality throughout; the subsoil is clay, on papa formation. Although intersected by many gullies, the range of altitude only varies from 750 ft. to 1,200 ft. above sea-level. When cleared of stumps a large area will be ploughable. The country is well sheltered and warm, and grass comes on early in spring. Nearly all the sections contain sufficient totara for fencing; building-timber can be obtained from several mills within a mile of the settlement. All the sections are watered, most of them by several streams. Two school-sites and a creamery-site have been reserved.

The right to use the trolly-lines on Sections 50 and 55, Block X, is reserved until the expiry of existing timber-cutting rights.

The improvements which go with the land comprise fencing, valued as follows: Section 47, Block X, £46 5s.; Section 54, Block X, £14; Section 55, Block X, £21 15s.; Sections 27, Block XIV, and 1, Block XVI, £41 5s.; Section 20, Block XVI, £14 12s. 6d.

The improvements on Section 47, Block X, which are not included in the capital value of the land, and which must be paid for separately by the tenant, comprise a dwellinghouse, 27 ft. by 27 ft., containing four rooms, exclusive of scullery and dairy, with iron roof, double brick chimney, and “Shacklock” No. 1 range, and a galvanised-iron tank of a capacity of about 600 gallons, all valued at £270.

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

ROBERT McNAB,
Minister of Lands.