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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 20

miles from Christchurch, on the Christchurch–Dunedin Main Trunk Railway. The western portion is approached from Timaru by rail to Fairlie, the distance from Fairlie Township and railway-station by a good road being twenty-four miles. The nearest town to the settlement is Geraldine, nine miles distant by good metalled road. The Village of Woodbury lies between Geraldine and the settlement, being distant two miles and a half from the latter.

The settlement comprises nineteen agricultural allotments and five pastoral allotments. The agricultural allotments range in altitude from 730 ft. to 1,000 ft. above sea-level, and the pastoral allotments from 940 ft. to 4,811 ft. above sea-level. The agricultural allotments comprise practically level land and undulating downs. The soil varies, but, generally speaking, is good; much of the level land is rich, other portions light and very stony, while the downs are comparatively free from stones, with a heavy soil, on a clay subsoil.

The agricultural allotments are at present carrying old and new grass, stubble and grass, rape and grass, and rape alone, with a small portion of unbroken, level, stony, tussock land. Most of the agricultural allotments are ring-fenced, and partly watered by the Waihi and Orari Rivers (small streams flowing through the property from the higher country to the north), and partly by a water-race intersecting some of the sections on the Orari River. During exceptionally dry summers several of the small streams dry up for a short period. The water-supply can, however, be augmented by boring or damming up some of the streams, and in some cases by applying to the Geraldine County Council to form branch races from the main water-race. The average rainfall for the last seven years is 47·4 in.

The pastoral allotments occupy most of the Four Peaks Range and the lower spurs forming the watersheds of the Mowbray, Hae Hae te Moana, and Waihi Rivers. The central portion comprised in Allotment 25 is steep and stony, and snow-clad during the winter months. It carries snow-grass and tussock generally, but is sparse in vegetation on the highest peaks and shingle slides. The whole of the country in the Waihi watershed, with the exception of the highest points, has a good aspect, and is almost free from snow during the winter. Access to Allotments 26 and 27 is by a good cart-road from Fairlie Township and railway-station; the distance is twenty-four miles. Good homestead-sites have been provided for all the pastoral allotments. The lower spurs in most cases are more undulating, and carry good tussock and English grasses, with patches of light native bush and scrub along the Waihi and Hae Hae te Moana Rivers. The country is excellently watered.

There is a public school in a central position on the property.

The roads giving access to the agricultural sections, with the exception of a short road leading to Section 3 (which will be formed and metalled), and the road through Section 4 (which is a bridle-track only), are all formed, and, except Eugene’s and Bird’s Roads, are metalled.

IMPROVEMENTS.

The improvements on the allotments consist of fencing, and the values thereof are included in the prices of the allotments. The buildings, which are not included in the prices of the allotments, but are to be paid for separately by instalments, are as follow: On Section 3, cottage of four rooms; on Section 4, cottage of four rooms; on Section 11, cottage of four rooms; on Section 12, cottage of four rooms; on Section 14, cottage of four rooms. All these buildings are to be paid for separately in cash or by instalments spread over twenty-one years. The buildings on the pastoral allotments are as follow: On Section 24, one iron hut; on Section 25, two stone huts; on Section 26, three iron huts and one stone hut. All these huts are to be paid for in cash or by instalments spread over fourteen years.

The improvements which are included in the prices of the sections are as follow:—

Section 1. Half-value of 127 chains of post-and-wire fencing, and the whole cost of 49 chains of post-and-wire fencing. Total value, £53 2s.

Section 2. Half-value of 84½ chains of post-and-wire fencing, and the whole value of 135¼ chains of post-and-wire fencing. Total value, £90 7s.

Section 3. Half-value of 104 chains of post-and-wire fencing, and the whole value of 4 chains of post-and-wire fencing. Total value, £33 11s. 6d.

Section 4. Half-value of 110½ chains of post-and-wire fencing, and the whole value of 89 chains of post-and-wire fencing. Total value, £69 6s.

Section 5. Half-value of 134 chains of post-and-wire fencing, and the whole value of 9 chains of post-and-wire fencing. Total value, £25 19s.

Section 6. Half-value of 79 chains of post-and-wire fencing, and the whole value of 88 chains of gorse fencing. Total value, £55 17s.

Section 7. Half-value of 100 chains of post-and-wire fencing, and the whole value of 123 chains of gorse fencing. Total value, £81.

Section 8. Half-value of 113 chains of post-and-wire fencing, and the whole value of 9 chains of gorse fencing. Total value, £27 2s.

Section 9. Half-value of 63 chains of post-and-wire fencing, and the whole value of 34 chains of gorse fencing. Total value, £29 12s.

Section 10. Half-value of 12 chains of gorse fencing, half-value of 37 chains of post-and-wire fencing, and the whole value of 63 chains of gorse fencing. Total value, £42 16s. 6d.

Section 11. Drafting-yards, half-value of 135¼ chains of gorse fencing, half-value of 95 chains of post-and-wire fencing, and the whole value of 21 chains of post-and-wire fencing. Total value, £107 16s. 6d.

Section 12. Half-value of 65 chains of post-and-wire fencing, and the whole value of 94 chains of gorse fencing. Total value, £61 12s. 6d.

Section 13. Half-value of 35 chains of gorse fencing, and the whole value of 127 chains of gorse fencing. Total value, £72 5s.

Section 14. The whole value of 42¾ chains of gorse fencing, half-value of 21 chains of gorse fencing, and half-value of 15 chains of post-and-wire fencing. Total value, £29 17s. 6d.

Section 15. Half-value of 39 chains of gorse fencing, the whole value of 22½ chains of gorse fencing, and half-value of 22 chains of post-and-wire fencing. Total value, £25 19s.

Section 16. Half-value of 18¾ chains of gorse fencing, the whole value of 24 chains of gorse fencing, the whole value of 17¾ chains of post-and-wire fencing, and half-value of 49¼ chains of post-and-wire fencing. Total value, £35 12s. 9d.

Section 17. Half-value of 113 chains of post-and-wire fencing, and the whole value of 108¾ chains of post-and-wire fencing. Total value, £65.

Section 18. Half-value of 114½ chains of post-and-wire fencing, and the whole value of 20 chains of post-and-wire fencing. Total value, £39 3s. 6d.

Section 19. Half-value of 61 chains of post-and-wire fencing, half-value of 35 chains of gorse fencing, and the whole value of 45 chains of post-and-wire fencing. Total value, £67 17s.

Section 20. Half-value of 55¾ chains of post-and-wire fencing, and the whole value of 171 chains of post-and-wire fencing. Total value, £111 2s. 3d.

Section 23. Half-value of 187 chains of post-and-wire fencing, and the whole value of 35 chains of post-and-wire fencing. Total value, £79 18s.

Section 24. Half-value of 394 chains of post-and-wire fencing, and the whole value of 13 chains of post-and-wire fencing. Total value, £151 10s. 3d.

Section 25. Drafting-yards, half-value of 198 chains of post-and-wire fencing, and the whole value of 193 chains of post-and-wire fencing. Total value, £147 4s.

Section 26. Half-value of 615 chains of post-and-wire fencing, and the whole value of 346 chains of post-and-wire fencing. Total value, £326 15s.

Section 27. Half-value of 321 chains of post-and-wire fencing, and the whole value of 340 chains of post-and-wire fencing. Total value, £250 5s.

F. W. FLANAGAN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands Office,
Napier, 9th February, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land will be offered for sale by public auction, for cash, at the local Lands Office, Gisborne, at 11 o’clock a.m. on Monday, the 11th day of April, 1910, under the provisions of section 132 of “The Land Act, 1908.”

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT. — WAIPU COUNTY. — MATA SURVEY DISTRICT.

Rural Land.

Situated about six miles from Waipiro by formed dray-road. Two acres in bush, the remainder broken fern country; soil good. Altitude, about 350 ft. above sea-level.

T. N. BRODRICK,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.