Dec. 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3095
| Section. | Block. | Area. | Cash Purchase: Total Price. | Occupation with Right of Purchase: Half-yearly Rent. | Renewable Lease: Half-yearly Rent. |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 55 | XIV | A. R. P. 9 1 10 | £ s. d. 125 0 0 | £ s. d. 3 2 6 | £ s. d. 2 10 0 |
| 56 | " | 8 3 25 | 120 0 0 | 3 0 0 | 2 8 0 |
| 57 | " | 16 0 10 | 195 0 0 | 4 17 6 | 3 18 0 |
| 59 | " | 4 0 17 | 70 0 0 | 1 15 0 | 1 8 0 |
| 60 | " | 3 3 24 | 70 0 0 | 1 15 0 | 1 8 0 |
| 62 | " | 6 1 10 | 85 0 0 | 2 2 6 | 1 14 0 |
| 63 | " | 9 1 27 | 125 0 0 | 3 2 6 | 2 10 0 |
| 64 | " | 5 0 0 | 85 0 0 | 2 2 6 | 1 14 0 |
| †65 | " | 74 2 20 | 860 0 0 | 21 10 0 | 17 4 0 |
| §66 | " | 74 2 0 | 820 0 0 | 20 10 0 | 16 8 0 |
| 2 | IX | 187 2 0 | 1,315 0 0 | 32 17 6 | 26 6 0 |
| 3 | " | 104 0 0 | 885 0 0 | 22 2 6 | 17 14 0 |
| 4 | " | 209 1 0 | 1,260 0 0 | 31 10 0 | 25 4 0 |
| 5 | " | 163 2 0 | 1,390 0 0 | 34 15 0 | 27 16 0 |
| 9 | " | 188 2 0 | 1,135 0 0 | 28 7 6 | 22 14 0 |
| 10 | " | 176 1 0 | 1,410 0 0 | 35 5 0 | 28 4 0 |
| 11 | " | 177 0 0 | 1,685 0 0 | 42 2 6 | 33 14 0 |
| 12 | " | 141 0 0 | 1,270 0 0 | 31 15 0 | 25 8 0 |
| 13 | " | 184 0 0 | 1,475 0 0 | 36 17 6 | 29 10 0 |
| 14 | " | 199 1 0 | 1,595 0 0 | 39 17 6 | 31 18 0 |
| 15 | " | 109 1 0 | 930 0 0 | 23 5 0 | 18 12 0 |
| 17 | " | 113 0 0 | 1,130 0 0 | 28 5 0 | 22 12 0 |
| 19 | " | 209 2 0 | 1,890 0 0 | 47 5 0 | 37 16 0 |
| 20 | " | 127 0 0 | 1,210 0 0 | 30 5 0 | 24 4 0 |
| 22 | " | 111 2 0 | 1,005 0 0 | 25 2 6 | 20 2 0 |
| 23 | " | 114 0 0 | 1,140 0 0 | 28 10 0 | 22 16 0 |
| 25 | " | 184 0 0 | 1,750 0 0 | 43 15 0 | 35 0 0 |
| 27 | " | 199 0 0 | 1,895 0 0 | 47 7 6 | 37 18 0 |
| 28 | " | 202 0 0 | 1,820 0 0 | 45 10 0 | 36 8 0 |
| 33 | " | 80 2 0 | 970 0 0 | 24 5 0 | 19 8 0 |
| *34 | " | 78 0 0 | 940 0 0 | 23 10 0 | 18 16 0 |
† Weighted with £12 6s., valuation for fencing.
§ Weighted with £12 18s., valuation for fencing.

• Weighted with £4 5s., valuation for fencing.

LOCALITY AND DESCRIPTION

Piripiri Block adjoins the Piripiri and Matamau Railway stations, on the Wellington-Napier Railway line, two miles from Dannevirk and seventy-seven miles from Napier. It was formerly covered with heavy mixed forest, but nearly all the marketable timber has now been milled. During last summer the greater part of the block was swept by fire, and on the burnt portions a mixture of English grasses was sown, with very good results. When thoroughly cleared and stumped the greater part of the low country, which is level and undulating, with good soil, will be ploughable. The high country is broken, with soil varying from fair to inferior.
The range of altitude varies from 750 ft. to 1,350 ft. above sea-level. All the sections, with the exception of some of the small areas, are well watered, most of them by several streams. On the surrounding country dairying has been successfully carried on for a number of years, and all the small sections now offered are suitable for that class of farming. School and creamery sites have been reserved.
The right to use the trolley-lines on Sections 2, 3, 5, 11, 12, 17, 23, 27, and 28, Block IX, and Section 33, Block XIV, Norsewood Survey District, is reserved until the expiry of existing timber-cutting rights.
Areas may be subject to slight alteration.
Successful applicants will have no claim to fences other than those on the Main Road frontage. The right to allow the removal within three months of all other fences on the block is retained.
The owners of buildings will be allowed two months in which to remove or otherwise dispose of them.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this third day of December, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

JAMES McGOWAN,
For Minister of Lands.

Opening Lands in Hawke's Bay Land District for Sale or Selection

PLUNKET, Governor.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by “The Land Act, 1908,” 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 provided in section one hundred and fifty-four of the said Act, do hereby declare that the lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on Wednesday, the seventeenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and nine; and also that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase, or on renewable lease; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1908.”

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE'S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—WAIRUA COUNTY.-TUARU SURVEY DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.
| Section. | Block. | Area. | Cash Purchase: Total Price. | Occupation with Right of Purchase: Half-yearly Rent. | Renewable Lease: Half-yearly Rent. |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | X | 781 0 0 | 1,270 0 0 | 31 15 0 | 25 8 0 |
Altitude, from 1,200 ft. to 1,500 ft. above sea-level. Comprising mostly easy sunny faces and spurs, intersected by numerous streams. Forest consists of tawa and mixed bush, rimu, rata, kahikatea, &c., with thick underscrub. Good soil, sandstone-and-papa formation; well watered. Situated forty-four miles and a half from Wairoa-twenty-six miles coach-road, remainder formed pack-track, the last two miles being under construction.

2 | X | 787 0 0 | 1,280 0 0 | 32 0 0 | 25 12 0
Altitude, from 900 ft. to 1,500 ft. above sea-level. Mostly sunny slopes and spurs, intersected by numerous streams. Forest consists of tawa and mixed bush, rimu, rata, and kahikatea, with thick underscrub. Good soil, papa-and-sandstone formation; well watered. About forty-three miles from Wairoa-twenty-six miles coach-road, remainder formed pack-track.

3 | XI | 725 0 0 | 1,270 0 0 | 31 15 0 | 25 8 0
Altitude, from 520 ft. to 2,000 ft. above sea-level. Pastoral land, comprising steep sunny faces and hills, intersected by deep gullies, with small flats along the Mangarewarewa Stream. Forest mostly tawa and mixed bush, rimu, kahikatea, rata, &c., with patches of light scrub and manuka, and birch on the ridges. Soil varies from inferior to good; well watered. Situated thirty-eight miles from Wairoa-twenty-six miles coach-road, remainder formed pack-track.

4 | XI | 1,107 0 0 | 1,800 0 0 | 45 0 0 | 36 0 0
Altitude, from 650 ft. to 2,550 ft. above sea-level. Pastoral hilly country, intersected by deep precipitous gullies. Forest mostly tawa and mixed bush, rimu, rata, kahikatea, and a few scattered totara, with patches of mixed scrub and manuka, and birch on the ridges. Fair soil, sandstone-and-papa formation; well watered. About forty miles from Wairoa-twenty-six miles coach-road, remainder formed pack-track.

5 | XI | 725 0 0 | 1,180 0 0 | 29 10 0 | 23 12 0
Altitude, from 650 ft. to 2,000 ft. above sea-level. Pastoral land, comprising steep sunny faces on the south side of the Mangarewarewa Stream, with easy slopes on the north. Forest mostly tawa and mixed bush, rimu, rata, kahikatea, and thick underscrub, with patches of koromiko and manuka scrub. Soil fair to good, sandstone-and-papa formation; well watered. About forty miles from Wairoa-twenty-six miles coach-road, remainder formed pack-track.

6 | XI | 1,240 0 0 | 1,550 0 0 | 38 15 0 | 31 0 0
Altitude, from 1,250 ft. to 2,900 ft. above sea-level. Pastoral land, comprising fairly easy slopes from the range, intersected by deep rough gullies. About 760 acres tawa and mixed bush, with thick underscrub; 380 acres birch; and 100 acres of cliff-face of no practical use. Soil inferior to fair, sandstone formation; well watered. About forty-two miles from Wairoa-twenty-six miles coach-road, remainder formed pack-track.

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

JAMES McGOWAN,
For Minister of Lands.