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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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sale or selection on Monday, the nineteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twelve; 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.

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SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—OHINEMURI COUNTY.—WAITOA SURVEY DISTRICT.—PART OF HAURAKI PLAINS.

First-class Land.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

The sections for selection lie between the Piako and Wai-toa Rivers, and consist of partly drained swamp lands and high, dry, flat ridges. The access is from Waitoa Railway-station by No. 1 Road, distant six miles and three-quarters by formed cart-road, the last mile of which is about to be re-formed. Access is also obtained from Waitoa Station by No. 7 Road, distant seven miles and three-quarters, of which one mile has yet to be formed. The distance from Morrinsville Railway-station by formed cart-road is some eleven miles and a half to the permanent bridge-site over the Piako River. A temporary bridge is now in position, but a permanent bridge will ere long be erected in its place.

There is also a temporary foot-bridge across the Piako River near the western end of Whakahoro Road, but this is merely a service bridge for convenience of workmen, and will later on be removed.

The land consists of good, dry, loamy soil ridges, hard swamp, and peaty swamp of varying depth, resting upon a pumice formation. The land adjacent to Piako River is generally high, and is, with a few exceptions, well above high-flood conditions, and is covered with heavy manuka, cabbage-trees, flax, light bush, fern, and light manuka.

The sections fronting West Road run from hard swamp country covered with flax, cabbage-trees, &c., to deep and shallow peat covered with wiwi, &c., with some loamy, dry, flat ridges in places. Sections fronting Whakahoro Road embrace land running from dry, loamy, flat ridges, hard swamp in flax, to shallow and deeper peat swamp in wiwi and flax, with a good amount of rough feed and grass on same. The sections between the North and Paeroa–Tahuna Roads and east of the West Road are generally of a peaty nature.

The land is of generally good quality throughout, especially where the loamy ridges and hard swamp bottoms obtain. The general elevation of sections is about from 35 ft. to 60 ft. above sea-level. All necessary main drains and roads to sections have either been formed or are in course of construction, and the same applies to the necessary culverts and bridges. All main drains are upon roads, and the only subdivisional drain is that between Sections 6, 7, 8, and 9, Block X, Waitoa Survey District. The sections are not permanently watered, with the exception of those adjacent to the Piako and Waitoa Rivers, but selectors of these sections should note that there is a reservation along the banks of both of these rivers. The Department is prepared to sink artesian bores at cost price where required by settlers, upon satisfactory arrangements being made for payment thereof.

The land for selection consists in some localities of old buried forest country, and timber for fencing is available on some sections.

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

D. BUDDO,
For Minister of Lands.

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Opening Land in Auckland 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 land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on Monday, the twenty-sixth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twelve; and also that the land 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 land shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

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SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—THAMES COUNTY.—TAIRUA SURVEY DISTRICT.

First-class Land.

Weighted with £869, valuation for improvements comprising five-roomed house, store-room, gum-store, two-roomed house, slaughterhouse, stable and loft, stockyard, grass and crop (as stated in description), 145 chains fencing, 25 chains draining.

Altitude, 50 ft. to 100 ft. above sea-level. Level to undulating land; 23 acres in oats, 36 acres grass, 3 acres manuka forest; balance scrubby manuka. Soil sandy loam on flat, inferior clay on undulating portion, on slate formation; well watered by Tairua River. Situated at Tairua Upper Landing, about nine miles from Tairua steamer landing by cart-road partly constructed or by launch.

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

D. BUDDO,
For Minister of Lands.

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Opening National Endowment Lands in Auckland Land District for 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, do hereby declare that the national endowment lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Monday, the twenty-sixth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, at the rentals mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Act.