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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.—WALLACE COUNTY.—APARIMA HUNDRED.

Section. Block. Area. Cash Purchase: Total Price. Occupation with Right of Purchase: Half-yearly Rent. Renewable Lease: Half-yearly Rent.

First-class Land.

A. R. P. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d.
10 V 196 0 0 350 0 0 8 15 0 7 0 0
15 " 277 0 0 490 0 0 12 5 0 9 16 0
16 " 245 0 0 370 0 0 9 5 0 7 8 0

Altitude, from 250 ft. to 800 ft. above sea-level. Hilly, but ridges are fairly easy. Fair soil, on clay subsoil; covered with mixed bush of no commercial value; mostly old sawmill workings; some small patches, swept by fire, have been sown down in grass; well watered by permanent streams. Section 10 is about two miles and a quarter, and Sections 15 and 16 about three miles to three miles and three-quarters, from Otautau Railway-station.

Second-class Land.

11 V 219 0 0 310 0 0 7 15 0 6 4 0
12 " 215 0 0 220 0 0 5 10 0 4 8 0
17 " 233 0 0 270 0 0 6 15 0 5 8 0
18 " 241 0 0 220 0 0 5 10 0 4 8 0

Altitude, from 500 ft. to 1,250 ft. above sea-level. Hilly; tops are flat and of considerable extent. Fair soil, on clay subsoil, covered with mixed bush of no commercial value; chiefly old sawmill workings; well watered by permanent streams. About from two miles and three-quarters to four miles and three-quarters from Otautau Railway-station.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eighteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

D. BUDDO,
For Minister of Lands.

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-seventh day of May, 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 price 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.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—HOKIANGA COUNTY.—MANGAMUKA SURVEY DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

Section. Block. Area. Cash Purchase: Total Price. Occupation with Right of Purchase: Half-yearly Rent. Renewable Lease: Half-yearly Rent.

A. R. P. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d.
25 IX 50 0 0 60 0 0 1 10 0 1 4 0

Weighted with £998 for improvements, comprising house, apple-drying plant and shed, cow-shed, dairy, fowlhouse, 35 acres grass, 7 acres orchard and vinery, 126 chains fencing, and 10 chains draining.

Altitude, from 1 ft. to 300 ft. above sea-level. Undulating, hilly, and rough land; about 35 acres rough grass, 7 acres orchard and vinery, 2 acres mixed forest; balance fern land. Clay soil of medium quality, on sandstone formation; only water is from stream liable to dry in summer. Situated six miles from Rawene by tidal creek.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eighteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

D. BUDDO,
For Minister of Lands.

Warrant vesting Control of Richardson Road in Mount Roskill Road Board, and apportioning the Cost of the Maintenance of the Same.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

WHEREAS by section twelve of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1909 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is provided that where a road or street lies along the boundary of two or more districts, whether that road or street is wholly within one or is partly within one and is partly within another of those districts, or is within none of those districts, the Governor may from time to time, by Warrant under his hand gazetted, direct which of the local authorities of those districts shall have control of the road or street, or any part thereof, and may also in like manner determine from time to time whether any of those local authorities shall contribute to the cost of the construction and maintenance of that road or street, and, if so, in what proportions:

And whereas the road known as Richardson Road described in the Schedule hereto, and hereinafter termed “the said road,” forms part of the boundary between the Avondale Road District and the Mount Roskill Road District:

And whereas a dispute has arisen as to which local authority shall have control of the said road, and what proportion of the cost of maintaining the said road should be borne by the local authorities affected:

And whereas an inquiry was duly held and a report was made in respect to the matter:

And whereas it is expedient that effect should be given to the recommendations contained in the said report, and that provision should be made for the purposes and in the manner hereinafter set forth:

Now, therefore, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby direct that, from and after the date of this Warrant, the said road shall be under the control of the Mount Roskill Road Board; and in further pursuance and exercise of the aforesaid powers and authorities, I do hereby fix and determine that the cost of maintaining the said road shall be borne in the following proportions —viz., the Mount Roskill Road Board to bear two-thirds of such cost, and the Avondale Road Board to bear one-third of such cost.

And I do also further direct that any contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Avondale Road Board shall be paid from time to time, in the proportion hereinbefore prescribed, out of the funds of the said Road Board, within a period of thirty days after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the Mount Roskill Road Board, and that such payments shall be made from time to time to the Clerk of the Mount Roskill Road Board for and on account of the Avondale Road Board.

SCHEDULE.

All that portion of road in the Auckland Land District known as Richardson Road, commencing at the southern boundary of the Mount Albert Road District, and proceeding in a southerly direction along the boundary between the Avondale and Mount Roskill Road Districts to the northernmost corner of Subsection 8 of Section 71, Mount Roskill Road District; as the said portion of road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 30824, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured red and marked A B.

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

R. McKENZIE,
Minister of Public Works.