3556
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 97

Maori Lands for Sale and Lease by Public Auction.

Office of the Waikato-Maniapoto District
Maori Land Board,
Auckland, 13th October, 1911.

NOTICE is hereby given, in terms of the Native Land Act, 1909, and the regulations thereunder, that the several lands named in the First and Second Schedules hereto will be offered for sale and lease respectively by public auction, at Otorohanga, at 11.30 o’clock, on Wednesday, 20th December, 1911.

Term of lease: Twenty-three years, with right of renewal for a further term of twenty-three years.

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SCHEDULES.

FIRST SCHEDULE.—LAND FOR SALE.

WAITOMO COUNTY.—AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Kinohaku East No. 2, Section 25B No. 2B.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Heavy mixed bush, principally tawa and rimu. Three-fourths of section rough and broken. Good soil, on limestone formation; well watered. Access from Te Kumi—Mairoa Road, via Koropupu Road.

Kinohaku East No. 2, Section 13B No. 2.

13B | XVI | Kawhia South | 197 3 3 | 1 15 0

About 100 acres good bush, balance tea-tree, scrub, and fern. Undulating land. Fair soil, limestone formation; well watered. Access from Hauturu Road, via Kokakoroa Road, and Mangapohue Road.

Kinohaku East No. 2, Section 6B No. 2.

13 | XVI | Kawhia South | 522 0 0 | 1 5 0

Undulating land. About 300 acres tea-tree, balance light bush. Soil of rather poor quality, on sandstone formation; well watered. Access from Mangapohue and Hauturu Roads, via Mangarere and Kokakoroa Roads.

14 | XVI | Kawhia South | 536 0 0 | 1 7 6

Undulating land; small tea-tree; half ploughable. About 30 acres mixed bush. Poor soil, on sandstone formation; well watered. Access from Mangapohue and Hauturu Roads.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

16 | XVI | Kawhia South | 431 2 0 | 2 5 0

Good rich land; mostly heavy bush. Soil very good, on limestone formation; well watered. Access from Mangapohue and Hauturu Roads.

Kinohaku West No. 3B.

15 | XVI | Kawhia South | 365 0 0 | 2 0 0

Easy to broken country. Half mixed bush, balance small tea-tree. Good soil, on limestone formation; well watered. Access from Mangapohue Road.

Kinohaku West No. 1.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

2 | XV | Kawhia South | 337 2 20 | 1 5 0

Flat and undulating land. About 30 acres heavy bush, 60 acres light bush, and balance small tea-tree and gorse, with rich raupo swamp. Soil poor, on limestone and sandstone formation; well watered. Access from Mangapohue Road.

KAWHIA COUNTY.—AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Aotea South No. 1 Block.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

1 | I. II, V. and VI | Kawhia North | 380 0 0 | 3 0 0

Situated on the southern side of the Aotea Harbour. All open country, steep in parts. About a mile and a half from Raglan—Kawhia Road. Access by beach. Loaded with £400 for improvements.

SECOND SCHEDULE.—LAND FOR LEASE.

WAITOMO COUNTY.—AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Rangitoto-Tuhua Nos. 26A2, 26A3, 26B, 26D2, 35B2, and 35D, and Rangitoto A No. 42B.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Undulating to easy fern land. Fair soil. Access from Otorohanga, seven miles, by formed road; also from Hangatiki, six miles.

25 | IX | Mangaorongo | 379 0 0 | 0 2 3
26 | " | " | 392 0 0 | 0 2 0

Undulating to easy fern land. Fair soil. Access from Otorohanga, eight miles; also from Hangatiki, about seven miles.

27 | IX | Mangaorongo | 473 1 0 | 0 2 0

Undulating to easy hilly fern land. Fair soil. Access from Otorohanga, twelve miles; also from Hangatiki, about eleven miles.

9 | XIII | Mangaorongo | 573 0 0 | 0 2 0

Undulating to easy hilly fern land. Fair soil. Access from Otorohanga, eight miles; also from Hangatiki, about seven miles.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

10 | XIII | Mangaorongo | 343 0 0 | 0 1 9

Undulating to fair hilly fern land. Fair soil. About 100 acres mixed bush. Coal-bearing country. Access from Otorohanga, fourteen miles; also from Hangatiki, about thirteen miles.

11 | XIII | Mangaorongo | 292 0 0 | 0 1 9

Undulating to easy hilly fern land. Fair soil. Limestone in south-eastern end. About 80 acres mixed bush. Coal-bearing country. Access from Otorohanga, ten miles; from Hangatiki, about nine miles; and also from the Otewa—Ahuroa Road.

12 | XIII | Mangaorongo | 295 0 0 | 0 1 9

Easy hilly fern land. Fair soil. About 10 acres mixed bush, and probably 40 acres silver-wattles. Similar access to last section.

13 | XIII | Mangaorongo | 467 0 0 | 0 1 9

Fair hilly fern land. Fair soil. About 30 acres light bush. Access from Otorohanga, sixteen miles; and from Te Kuiti, about eight miles.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

32B | X | Mangaorongo | 908 2 7 | 0 2 3

Undulating to hilly fern land. Fair soil. Access from Otorohanga, seven miles, by formed road and Native wagon-track.

42B | X | Mangaorongo | 467 0 16 | 0 3 6

Good section; partly improved river-flats. Rich soil. Fern flats, undulating fern hills, with some steep faces. Soil fair to very good. Right to remove Maori whares reserved. Grave to be kept fenced by lessee. Access from Otorohanga, about eight miles, by formed road and Native wagon-track. This section is loaded with £100 for improvements.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

The above sections adjoin the Rangitoto Improved-farm Settlement. The soil generally is fair to good, on a sandstone formation. All the sections are well watered.

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ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS.

Land for Sale.

1. Successful purchaser, on fall of hammer, to deposit a sum equal to 10 per cent of the price bid, and a fee of £3 3s. to meet costs and expenses incidental to the purchase, together with the amount with which the section is loaded for improvements (if any). The balance of the purchase-money to be paid in twenty equal half-yearly instalments.

2. The purchaser to pay interest on unpaid purchase-money at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum. Interest to be payable on the 1st July and 1st January of each year and to date from the signing of contract of sale.