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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 69

Declaring Portion of a Road through Land in the Kauroo Hill Settlement to be closed.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS a report has been received from the Surveyor-General from which it appears that the portion of a road described in the Schedule hereto is unformed and unused, and that the said portion of a road intersects land acquired under “The Land for Settlements Act, 1908,” and is not suitable for the subdivision of such land:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of section eighty of the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do by this notice hereby close the portion of a road hereinafter described, and I do hereby declare that the said portion of a road shall thereupon become subject to the said Act.

SCHEDULE.
KAUROO HILL SETTLEMENT.

In the Otago Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked as above mentioned, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above noted.

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

D. BUDDO,
Acting Minister of Lands.

Opening Lands in Southland 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-seventh day of October, 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.
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.
SOUTHLAND COUNTY.—INVERCARGILL HUNDRED.

| 106 | XXIII | 28 3 23 | 45 0 0 | 1 2 6 | 0 18 0 |
| 107 | " | 29 0 6 | 45 0 0 | 1 2 6 | 0 18 0 |

Situation fair; access good; soil fair, on a heavy clay sub-soil; timber fit for firewood and fencing. Distance from Invercargill—by rail seven miles to Waimatua, thence by formed road one mile and a half; also by rail six miles to One-Tree Point, thence by formed road two miles. Post and telephone office at Waimatua and One-Tree Point, and school at the latter place.

| 68,69 | XXIII | 209 0 14 | 315 0 0 | 7 17 6 | 6 6 0 |
| 6 to 10 | XXIV | 230 3 6 | 320 0 0 | 8 0 0 | 6 8 0 |

Sections 68 and 69 bush land, soil good; worked-out sawmill area; timber fit for firewood and fencing. Distance from One-Tree Point Railway-station, two miles. These sections are offered subject to Messrs. Leggatt and Campbell’s right to remove sawmilling timber from Section 68 within two years from 25th June, 1908; also subject to their having a tramway right through Sections 68 and 69 for the same period.

Sections 6 to 10 generally level land, swampy in places; 185 acres open land and 40 acres swamp. Situated three miles and a half from Longbush Railway-station.

SOUTHLAND COUNTY.—WINTON HUNDRED.

| 10 | VIII | 18 3 5 | 60 0 0 | 1 10 0 | 1 4 0 |

Soil fair, carrying bush of no commercial value. Situation and access good. Distant about three miles from Winton.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.
SOUTHLAND COUNTY.—HOKONUI SURVEY DISTRICT.

| 884 | XLIII | 169 0 21 | 110 0 0 | 2 15 0 | 2 4 0 |

Steep broken land, suitable for pastoral purposes, with about 94 acres of inferior and scrubby bush; bush of no commercial value. Altitude, 1,000 ft. above sea-level. Distant six miles from Kauana Railway-station and five miles from Harrington’s Post-office.

SOUTHLAND COUNTY.—MABEL HUNDRED.

| 28A | IV | 52 3 17 | 27 10 0 | 0 13 9 | 0 11 0 |

Situated about eight miles from Woodlands Railway-station. Open land; well watered; soil inferior.

SOUTHLAND COUNTY.—NEW RIVER HUNDRED.

| 56 | XXI | 312 0 0 | 235 0 0 | 5 17 6 | 4 14 0 |

Soil fair to good, on stiff clay formation; suitable for cultivation. Situated six miles from Waianiwa Railway-station.

SOUTHLAND COUNTY.—OTARA SURVEY DISTRICT.

| 28 | VI | 131 1 0 | 90 0 0 | 2 5 0 | 1 16 0 |

Situation good; access by formed road. Distant three miles from Tokonui Dairy Factory, Post-office, and school. Soil light, and carrying manuka scrub.

SOUTHLAND COUNTY.—OTERAMIKA HUNDRED.

| 11 | XII | 262 3 26 | 135 0 0 | 3 7 6 | 2 14 0 |
| 17 | " | 311 0 12 | 160 0 0 | 4 0 0 | 3 4 0 |

Inferior land, carrying light bush; well watered. Situated six miles from Kapuka Railway-station.

SOUTHLAND COUNTY.—WAIKAWA SURVEY DISTRICT.

| 28 | XVII | 358 1 0 | 270 0 0 | 6 15 0 | 5 8 0 |

Bush land; soil fair to good; well watered. Access by formed road. Situated about ten miles from Waikawa.

SOUTHLAND COUNTY.—WYNDHAM SURVEY DISTRICT.

| 50 | III | 23 3 5 | 12 10 0 | 0 6 3 | 0 5 0 |
| 51 | " | 52 1 37 | 27 10 0 | 0 13 9 | 0 11 0 |
| 52 | " | 34 0 7 | 17 10 0 | 0 8 9 | 0 7 0 |
| 53 | " | 9 0 15 | 5 0 0 | 0 2 6 | 0 2 0 |
| 54 | " | 59 3 27 | 30 0 0 | 0 15 0 | 0 12 0 |
| 55 | " | 65 3 14 | 35 0 0 | 0 17 6 | 0 14 0 |

Situated about seven miles from Wyndham. Land undulating, and covered with birch bush of no commercial value. Soil inferior.

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

D. BUDDO,
Acting Minister of Lands.