560 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 15

GREY COUNTY.—WAIWHERO SURVEY DISTRICT.

2597 | II | 552 0 0 | 280 0 0 | 5 12 0
Altitude, from 30 ft. to 1,800 ft. above sea-level. About 40 acres flat near river, remainder rough limestone hills; heavily timbered. Access by Punakaiki River-bed Road, which is a horse-track. Twenty-nine miles from Greymouth, and twelve miles from Barrytown. Sale plan 98.

GREY COUNTY.—PUNAKAIKI SURVEY DISTRICT.

2598 } | I | 528 2 0 | 270 0 0 | 5 8 0
2599 }
Altitude, from 10 ft. to 500 ft. above sea-level. Broken forest-covered country, of gravel formation, with limestone escarpments and some good flats on Punakaiki River; all bush-clad. Access by Barrytown-Brighton Road, which is formed for horse traffic. Twenty-five miles from Greymouth, and seven miles from Barrytown. Sale plan 98.

2600 | I | 287 0 0 | 150 0 0 | 3 0 0
Grouped with Section 2602, Block I, Waiwhero Survey District. Altitude, up to 550 ft. above sea-level. Broken limestone country, covered with birch bush. Fronts Punakaiki River-bed Road, which is a horse-track. Twenty-seven miles from Greymouth, and ten miles from Barrytown. Sale plan 98.

GREY COUNTY.—WAIWHERO SURVEY DISTRICT.

2602 | I | 394 0 0 | 200 0 0 | 4 0 0
Grouped with Section 2600, Block I, Punakaiki Survey District. Altitude, from 30 ft. to 500 ft. above sea-level. Comprises low hills of marl-and-limestone formation, with some small flats of good land on Punakaiki River; all bush-clad. Access by Punakaiki River-bed Road, which is a horse-track. Twenty-nine miles from Greymouth, and twelve miles from Barrytown. Sale plan 98.

WESTLAND COUNTY.—TURIWHATE SURVEY DISTRICT.

2396 | VIII | 325 0 0 | 170 0 0 | 3 8 0
Exempt from rent for four years.
Inferior pastoral land, from 400 ft. to 500 ft. above sea-level; chiefly covered with dense birch scrub, with scattered belts of fair mixed timber, and with a belt of ribbonwood along river-frontage. About 40 acres of flat at river-level, the remainder consisting of flat terraces on slaty soil; well watered. Access by pack-track and Taipo River bed, five miles and a half to Taipo Post-office, and thence by main road seventeen miles and a half to Kumara or seven miles to Jackson Railway-station. Sale plan 92.

WESTLAND COUNTY.—GILLESPIE’S SURVEY DISTRICT.

2437 | XIV | 190 0 0 | 100 0 0 | 2 0 0
Exempt from rent for three years.
Altitude, from 150 ft. to 400 ft. Contains about 80 acres of sidelings and 30 acres of swamp; remainder being a flat, covered with fair soil. The hillside 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. Sale plan 92.

2496 | XIV | 182 0 0 | 100 0 0 | 2 0 0
Exempt from rent for three years.
Altitude, 120 ft. to 350 ft. Section comprises 60 acres steep sideling, about 40 acres swamp, and the 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. Sale plan 92.

WESTLAND COUNTY.—BRUCE BAY SURVEY DISTRICT.

877 | XI | 128 2 0 | 70 0 0 | 1 8 0
878 | " | 135 0 0 | 70 0 0 | 1 8 0
Exempt from rent for three years.
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. Sale plan 92.

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

J. CARROLL,
For Minister of Lands.

Opening Settlement Lands in Otago 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 Monday, the eighth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and nine, 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.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—WAITAKI COUNTY.—KAUROO HILL SETTLEMENT.

Kauroo Survey District.

Kauroo and Oamaru Survey Districts.

24a | I, X | 110 2 26 | 1,410 0 0 | 31 14 6
25a | II, X | 135 3 20 | 2,040 0 0 | 45 18 0

Oamaru Survey District.

26a | X | 130 3 7 | 1,960 0 0 | 44 2 0

Kauroo and Oamaru Survey Districts.

27a | II, X | 355 1 35 | 3,200 0 0 | 72 0 0

Kauroo Survey District.

30a | V | 498 1 32 | 4,240 0 0 | 95 8 0
31a | " | 111 1 8 | 1,220 0 0 | { 124 13 0
(b)37a | V, VIII | 1,015 1 25 | 4,320 0 0 |
32a | V | 128 0 18 | 1,410 0 0 | { 251 2 0
(b)38a | V, VIII | 3,248 3 34 | 9,750 0 0 |
33a | II, V | 517 2 38 | 3,490 0 0 | 78 10 6
34a | " | 747 0 0 | 5,600 0 0 | 126 0 0
35a | V | 879 1 0 | 6,370 0 0 | 143 6 6

Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £75, payable in cash or in five years by half-yearly instalments of £8 13s. 3d. Total half-yearly payment, £97 15s. 3d.

(a) Weighted with £20, valuation for hut and yards.

(b) Weighted with £25, valuation for hut.

The sections have been classified as “rural land” and “pastoral land”: Sections 1a, 21a and 36a (grouped), 22a, 31a and 37a (grouped), 32a and 38a (grouped), 34a, and 35a are “pastoral” sections, the remainder rural sections.

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

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Lands.