APRIL 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1341

LOCALITY AND DESCRIPTION.

Section 88: Undulating to steep; fronting unformed road; in good grass pasture; sunny aspect; good view.
Section 162: Rather broken and cut up by watercourse; in manuka scrub; fronts an unformed road.
Section 386: Flat to undulating; in grass; fronts formed road.
Sections 389 to 393, 395 to 399, and 402 and 403: Situated on steep hillside.
Section 540: Flat, low-lying section in wiwi rush; covered at high water, spring tides.
Part Section 580: Rather steep, grass-covered section; difficult of access.
Section 587: About one-third good flat land; balance steep hillside; in grass.
Section 588: Steep hillside; bad aspect; in grass.
Section 589: Mostly steep hill; in manuka and other scrub. Associated with 590–596; 597 would make a valuable building-site with good view; the access, however, is rather bad.
Sections 594 and 595: Situated on hill covered by scrub; good view, but at present is cut off from access by quarry-face from road. Valuable as filling for lower sections.
Section 598: Small quantity of flat land at foot of quarry-face, remainder steep hillside; fronts metalled street.
Sections 806, 808, 810, 812, and 814: Rather broken clay hills, covered by manuka and other scrub; a good building-site can be obtained on this block.
Section 856: Good flat land; rather low, and requires drainage; fronts formed road.
Sections 878 to 882: Situated on very steep hill-face.
Sections 905 to 910: Situated on a manuka-covered hill.
Sections 911, 912, and 914: Hillside section; rather good building-sites fronting on formed road.
Sections 916 to 920: Situated on poor clay hills covered by scrub; 916 and 917 have fairly good building-site.
Section 936: Situated on the side of hill; clear and in grass.
Section 1001: Low-lying section, intersected by bad gully at one end; fairly flat; accessible by formed road.
Section 1031: Undulating; corner section fronting Waikawa Road; under manuka scrub; fairly good building-site.
Section 1039: Fronts on Waikawa Road; fairly flat and low-lying.
Sections 1101 and 1102: Accessible by unformed road. Undulating land, covered by burnt manuka; fairly good building-site.
Section 1166: Fronts the Crescent and Round Street; rather swampy hollow, covered by noxious weeds.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

D. BUDDO,
Acting Minister of Lands.

Notifying Lands in Auckland Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

ISLINGTON, 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, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Friday, the twenty-eighth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, 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.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WHANGAREI COUNTY.—PURUA SURVEY DISTRICT.

Rural Land.

Altitude, 350 ft. to 360 ft. above sea-level. Practically level land; all in good young grass; the whole area has been ploughed, except one small paddock, which is stony and damp in winter. There are ornamental plantations, comprising garden shrubs, flax, and muricata pines, to-

gether with a bed of young totara-seedlings. Volcanic soil, brown to red in colour, of good quality, suited for orchards or any form of agriculture. Well watered by Waipanga Stream. Section is fenced with wire and live hedges, except on road on north boundary. Situated half a mile from Ruatangata Railway-station, with access from Ruatangata-Kamo Road by new formed and metalled road fronting section. Shed No. 1 on the section will be offered for sale as a separate lot for removal, at an upset price of £50. Improvements in addition to those mentioned include stable and workshop.

Altitude, about 400 ft. above sea-level. Twelve acres flat land and 4 acres undulating; about 3 acres red-gum plantation, balance mixed grass and fern, with clumps of scattered forest comprising puriri, taraire, cabbage-tree, and totara. Area near small stream in grass and scattered forest; very sheltered; good grazing-land. Soil a good brown loam on sandstone formation near railway; good volcanic, slightly stony, at south end of section; well watered by Ngaupoaka Stream. Situated half a mile from Ruatangata Railway-station and about one mile from Kamo Township by formed road. There is a four-roomed house on section, also 46 chains of fencing.

Altitude, 360 ft. to 500 ft. above sea-level. Six acres flat land, in good grass and fallow; balance undulating hillside, in rough grass, manuka, fern, and scattered clumps of forest comprising taraire, tipau, punga, and kohekohe. Soil of good quality, varying from red volcanic to brown loam; well watered by Waipanga Stream; land is well suited for orchard or vine-growing. Situated half a mile from Ruatangata Railway-station and one mile from Kamo Township by formed road. There is a four-roomed house on section, and a three-roomed Native whare constructed of sawn timber. The right of water-supply to the Railway Department and to Sections 2 and 3 is reserved over this section.

Altitude, 350 ft. to 375 ft. above sea-level. Level and undulating land, nearly all in grass, with plantations of ornamental flax, muricata pines, and young totara-trees on some of the sections; good volcanic soil. Sections 5, 6, 7, 8, and 11 front main Ruatangata-Kamo Road, and Sections 9 and 10 new road. Distant about a quarter of a mile from Ruatangata Railway-station, and three-quarters of a mile from Kamo.

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

D. BUDDO,
Acting Minister of Lands.

Opening Lands in Taranaki Land District for Sale or Selection.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1908, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, having received the report of the Under-Secretary in this behalf, as provided by 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 Monday, the nineteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and eleven; 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.