JULY 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1893

LOCALITY AND DESCRIPTION.

Paeroa is situated on the Thames--Te Aroha Railway, and is distant seventy miles from Auckland via Thames, and 180 miles by direct rail from Auckland. The owner of the building on Section N.W. 2, Block VII, will be allowed one month to remove it.

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

D. BUDDO,
Acting Minister of Lands.

Notifying Lands in Hawke’s Bay Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-twenty-sixth section of “The Land Act, 1908,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Wednesday, the eighth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and nine, as the time at which the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction; and I do hereby fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.

Motu Village is situated fifty-seven miles from Gisborne, and thirty-six from Karaka Railway-station.

Good alluvial river-flats; nearly all in grass. Situated three-quarters of a mile from Puba Railway-station, and one mile from Te Karaka.

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

D. BUDDO,
Acting Minister of Lands.

Opening Lands in Wellington 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 twenty-ninth day of September, 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.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT. — WAIMARINO COUNTY. — MAKOTUKU SURVEY DISTRICT.

First-class Land.

• Weighted with £582, valuation for improvements.

LOCALITY AND DESCRIPTION.

These sections are situated on the main coach-road between Raetihi and Ohakune, about four miles from the former, and about three miles and a half from the latter. They comprise flat and easy undulating land, felled and in grass, the greater portion being ploughable when the stumps and logs are removed. The soil is of fairly good quality, light in places, on sandstone-and-grit formation.

Elevation ranges from about 1,500 ft. to 1,800 ft. above sea-level.

The improvements on Section 1 comprise felling and grassing, fencing, and 4 acres stumped and ploughed, and are included in capital value.

The improvements on Section 2, which are included in capital value, comprise felling and grassing, fencing, two wells, tracks and bridges, garden, and 40 acres stumped and ploughed. The improvements not included in capital value comprise five-roomed house, woolshed, granary, two whares, potaka, stable, butcher’s shop, sheep-yards, cowshed and yards, slaughterhouse and yards, pigstye, sheep dip and yard, fowl-house, &c., valued at £582. This sum must be paid immediately the applicant has been declared successful.

Both sections are offered subject to an existing right of tramway through them, at least 10 ft. wide, for a period of five years from 1st January, 1908, subject to renewal for another term of five years. The right is also reserved to grant permits to take other tramways and roads through the sections.

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

D. BUDDO,
Acting Minister of Lands.