SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Egmont County.—Opunake Survey District.

30 | XI | 0 3 0 | 6 0 0 | 0 3 0 | 0 2 5
Weighted with £11 10s. valuation for improvements, consisting of felling and grassing, £1 10s.; 5 chains fencing, £2 10s.; whare, £7 10s.
Situated in Punehu Village (Te Kiri), which is about eight miles distant from Opunake on the Eltham Road. The section comprises about half grass and half swamp land. The soil is of a volcanic nature.

Whangamomona County.—Pouatu Survey District.

86, 89 | X | 214 1 0 | 380 0 0 | 9 10 0 | 7 12 0
Situated on the Ohura Road. Access is from Whangamomona, which is about seven miles and a quarter distant, by good dray-road partly metalled. The sections comprise some fairly rough country, covered with mixed native bush. The soil is light, except in places along the Whangamomona Stream, and rests on a papa formation. The sections are well watered. A good homestead-site can be obtained close to the road.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Patea County.—Opaku Survey District.

5 | X | 718 0 0 | 1,350 0 0 | 33 15 0 | 27 0 0
Weighted with £418 10s. valuation for improvements, consisting of 132½ chains fencing, £123 10s.; buildings, £240; tracks, £50; yards, £5.
Situated on the Ball and Tarere Roads. Access is from the Ball Road Railway-station, which is about nine miles distant by dray-road, part of which is metalled. The section comprises rough to easy sidlings, with flats along the Patea River frontage. The soil is of good quality, on a papa formation. An area of 360 acres has been felled and grassed. The remaining forest is medium to heavy, comprising rata, rimu, &c., with birch on the ridge-tops. The section is well watered. Elevation ranges from 90 ft. to 1,300 ft. above sea-level.

Clifton County.—Pouatu Survey District.

9 | I | 1,090 0 0 | 1,090 0 0 | 27 5 0 | 21 16 0
Weighted with £44 valuation for improvements, consisting of 20 acres felled and grassed.
Situated on the Moki Road. Access is from Uruti, which is about fifteen miles and three-quarters distant, five miles being formed dray-road, and the balance formed track past section. The section comprises some very fair grazing-country, though rough in parts. The forest is heavy, consisting of tawa, rata, rimu, hinau, rewarewa, &c., with a dense undergrowth. The soil is of fair quality, on a papa formation. The section is well watered.

Patea County.—Taurakawa Survey District.

1 | V | 904 0 0 | 480 0 0 | 12 0 0 | 9 12 0
2 " | | 912 0 0 | 570 0 0 | 14 5 0 | 11 8 0
Situated on the Moeawatea Road. Access is from Eltham, which is distant about thirty-six miles, of which thirty-one miles is formed dray-road, about four miles horse-track, and the balance now in course of construction. A right of road is reserved in the south-west corner of Section 2 in order to obtain a shorter connection of the Koane with the Moeawatea Road. All pastoral country, more or less broken. The forest is heavy, comprising tawa, rata, rimu, towai, &c., and a dense undergrowth, with birch on several of the ridges. The soil is generally inferior, on a formation principally of papa, with shell-rock at intervals and outcrops of sandstone. Streams are numerous, but run in deep gorges. The hills rise from 700 ft. to 1,200 ft. above the streams.

Clifton County.—Mimi Survey District.

9 | XII | 511 0 0 | 580 0 0 | 14 10 0 | 11 12 0
Situated on the May Road. Access is from Uruti, which is about nine miles distant—five miles by formed dray-road, and the balance by 6 ft. track past section. The section comprises rough hilly country, with fairly heavy forest, consisting of tawa, rata, rimu, hinau, maire, &c., and a thick undergrowth. The soil is of fair quality, on a papa formation. The section is well watered.

Clifton County.—Waitara Survey District.

A. R. P. | £ s. d. | £ s. d. | £ s. d.
11 | XII | 648 0 0 | 410 0 0 | 10 5 0 | 8 4 0
Situated on the Kaipikari Road. Access is from Urenui, which is about five miles and three-quarters distant, five miles being dray-road, and the balance formed track. The section comprises some very rough country along the frontage, and fair land along the north-western boundary. The forest is fairly heavy, consisting of rimu, rata, tawa, rewarewa, hinau, &c., with a medium undergrowth. The soil is of inferior quality, on a papa formation. The section is fairly well watered.

Clifton County.—Waro Survey District.

10 | XIII | 1,013 0 0 | 1,140 0 0 | 28 10 0 | 22 16 0
Situated on the Rerekapa Road. Access is from Uruti, which is about twenty-five miles distant via the Moki, Makarakia, and Rerekapa Roads; also from Whangamomona, which is about twenty-five miles distant via the Ohura, Moki, and Rerekapa Roads, the latter road not being in good repair. The section comprises medium to steep slopes, with broken ridges. The forest is heavy, consisting of tawa, rata, rimu, hinau, &c., with a dense undergrowth. The soil is of fair to good quality, on a papa and sandstone formation. The section is well watered.

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

D. BUDDO,
Acting Minister of Lands.

Opening Lands in Southland 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 Wednesday, the twenty-sixth day of July, 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.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SOUTHLAND COUNTY, WINTON HUNDRED.

First-class Land.