Land Selection Schedule




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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 32

SCHEDULE.
CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—WAIMATE COUNTY.—
TIMAUNGA SETTLEMENT.
First-class Land.

Section. Block. Area. Capital Value. Half-yearly Rental.
A. B. P. £ s. d. £ s. d.
1 and 2 VIII 669 2 0 5,850 0 0 131 12 6

WAIMATE COUNTY.—NIMROD SURVEY DISTRICT.

| 3 | *VIII | 537 3 0 | 5,380 0 0 | 121 1 0 |
| 4 | †V | | | |

WAIMATE COUNTY.—NIMROD SURVEY DISTRICT.

| 5 | VIII | 363 1 0 | 3,280 0 0 | 73 16 0 |
| 6 | " | 341 0 0 | 4,120 0 0 | 92 14 0 |

WAIMATE COUNTY.—OTAIO SURVEY DISTRICT.

| 7 | V | 335 3 0 | 4,500 0 0 | 101 5 0 |
| 8 | " | 259 2 0 | 4,000 0 0 | 90 0 0 |
| 9 | " | 229 0 0 | 3,090 0 0 | *21 9 0 |
| 10 | " | 370 3 0 | 5,190 0 0 | 116 15 6 |
| 11 | " | 315 3 0 | 5,430 0 0 | 122 3 6 |
| 12 | " | 398 3 0 | 5,050 0 0 | 113 12 6 |
| 13 | " | 398 3 0 | 6,100 0 0 | 137 5 0 |
| 14 | " | 352 2 0 | 5,260 0 0 | 118 7 0 |
| 15 | " | 300 0 0 | 5,120 0 0 | 115 4 0 |
| 16 | " | 187 2 0 | 3,200 0 0 | 72 0 0 |
| 17 | VI | 240 2 0 | 3,980 0 0 | 89 11 0 |
| 18 | V | 338 0 0 | 5,220 0 0 | 117 9 0 |
| 19 | VI | 319 0 0 | 5,040 0 0 | 113 8 0 |

  • Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £550, payable in cash or in twenty-one years by half-yearly instalments of £21 9s. Total half-yearly payment, £90 19s. 6d.

† Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £1,050, payable in cash or in twenty-one years by half-yearly instalments of £40 19s. Total half-yearly payment, £157 14s. 6d.

‡ Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £710, payable in cash or in twenty-one years by half-yearly instalments of £27 13s. 10d. Total half-yearly payment, £146 0s. 10d.

§ Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £1,275, payable in cash or in twenty-one years by half-yearly instalments of £49 14s. 6d. Total half-yearly payment, £164 18s. 6d.

DESCRIPTIONS OF SECTIONS.

Section 1.—Altitude, from 880 ft. to 1,140 ft. Chiefly in tussock and native grass; about 120 acres have been ploughed, and are now covered with Poa pratensis and tussock; all rather steep, excepting 20 acres of flat fronting main road; well watered by running stream; fair soil. Situated twenty-three miles from Timaru by well-formed road. Improvements which are included in the price of section consist of 148 chains of fencing, valued at £73.

Section 2.—Altitude, from 40 ft. to 1,080 ft. Chiefly in tussock; about 100 acres have been ploughed, and are now covered with Poa pratensis and tussock; 160 acres are flat, dry, and stony; balance undulating and rather steep terrace, all fair soil; well watered. Situated twenty-two miles from Timaru by well-formed road. Improvements which are included in the price of the section consist of 186 chains of fencing, valued at £84 10s.

Section 3.—Altitude, 760 ft. to 980 ft. About 84 acres in English grass; balance in tussock and native grass; 150 acres consist of rather shingly flat in tussock; balance down and terrace land; well watered; soil fair. Situated twenty-one miles and a half from Timaru by well-formed road. Improvements which are included in the price of the section consist of 234 chains of fencing, valued at £108 10s.

Section 4.—Altitude, 740 ft. to 900 ft. About 120 acres in rye-grass and clover; balance in tussock and native grass; 150 acres flat land stony in places; balance down and terrace land; well watered by creeks; soil fairly good. Situated twenty miles from Timaru by well-formed road. Improvements which are included in the price of the section consist of 194 chains of fencing, valued at £97.

Section 5.—Altitude, from 650 ft. to 1,200 ft. Chiefly in tussock and other native grasses; about 90 acres have been ploughed, and are now in English grass; balance broken tussock land, good soil, with 15 acres of flat at north-west corner; well watered by springs and creeks. Situated twenty-two miles and a half from Timaru by well-formed road. Improvements which are included in the price of the section consist of 295 chains of fencing, valued at £101 14s.

Section 6.—Altitude, 640 ft. to 930 ft. About 140 acres are in rye-grass and clover; balance in tussock and Native grass; 35 acres of flat, a little stony; remainder undulating and broken land; all well watered; soil fair to medium. Situated twenty-one miles and three-quarters from Timaru by well-formed road. The improvements which are included in the price of section consist of 256 chains of fencing, valued at £100 15s.

Section 7.—Altitude, 610 ft. to 900 ft. About 274 acres in English grass; remainder in tussock; 72 acres flat and stony, the balance terrace and easy-sloping land; fairly good soil; well watered. Situated twenty miles and three-quarters from Timaru by well-formed road. Improvements which are included in the price of section consist of 238 chains of fencing, valued at £96.

Section 8.—Altitude, 600 ft. to 870 ft. About 185 acres in rape and turnips; 60 acres in English grass, and the balance in tussock and Native grass; 60 acres shingly flat; remainder undulating and terrace land; well watered. Situated twenty miles and a half from Timaru by well-formed road. Improvements which are included in the price of the section consist of 222 chains of fencing, valued at £90 10s.

Section 9.—Altitude, 590 ft. to 860 ft. Consists of 15 acres shingly flat, the remainder undulating and terrace land, of which about 140 acres are rape, 40 acres English grass, 2 acres plantation four years old, balance steep face in tussock; well watered; soil good. Situated twenty miles from Timaru by well-formed road. Improvements which are included in the price of the section consist of 238 chains of fencing, valued at £90; 197 chains at 9s., £88 13s. Improvements which are not included in the price of the section, but which must be paid for separately, consist of a nearly new combined wool-shed (five stands) and stable (eight stalls), cart-shed, under one roof, built or iron on totara piles, £350, and a three-roomed cottage built of wood and roofed with iron, tongued-and-grooved lining, £200; total, £550.

Section 10.—Altitude, from 560 ft. to 930 ft. Flat, hilly, and undulating land of good quality, part limestone formation, of which about 182 acres are in rye-grass and clover; 5 acres plantation and garden; balance in tussock, native grass intermixed with surface-sown English grass; nearly all can be ploughed; well watered. Situated nineteen miles and a half from Timaru by well-formed road. Improvements which are included in the price of the section consist of 437 chains of fencing and 5 acres plantation and garden, all valued at £244. Improvements which are not included in price of section, but have to be paid for separately, consist of a nearly new, well-kept ten-roomed dwellinghouse with verandah, built of wood and roofed with iron, lathed and plastered, every convenience, concrete dairy and storeroom, septic tank, &c., £900. Wood-and-iron four-stall stable and harness-room, trap-house and motor-shed on concrete foundations, £150: total, £1,050; cost much more.

Section 11.—Altitude, from 640 ft. to 950 ft. Consists of about 50 acres flat, 160 acres easy ridges, balance steeper, but part ploughable: of this, 210 acres are in rape, turnips, and oats; balance tussock, with native and English grasses; soil all good, part limestone formation, flat shingly in patches; well watered by creeks and springs. Situated twenty miles and three-quarters from Timaru by well-formed road. Improvements which are included in price of section consist of 240 chains of fencing, valued at £89 10s.

Section 12.—Altitude, 570 ft. to 1,174 ft. About 50 acres flat in rape and turnips; 45 acres in English grass (old); balance in tussock, native and English grasses; very broken ground, but good limestone soil; fairly well watered by springs and small gullies. Situated twenty miles and a quarter from Timaru by well-formed road. The improvements which are included in price of section consist of 358 chains of fencing, valued at £117 10s.

Section 13.—Altitude, 570 ft. to 1,160 ft. About 35 acres of rather shingly flat, now in rape, turnips, and oats; 40 acres English grass (old) and 2 acres rape; total under cultivation 167 acres, including English grass; balance in tussock, native and English grasses, rather steep and broken, but very good limestone soil; fairly well watered by springs and small gullies. Situated nineteen miles and a half from Timaru by well-formed road. Improvements which are included in price of section consist of 347 chains of fencing, valued at £126 10s.

Section 14.—Altitude, 560 ft. to 1,050 ft. About 26 acres flat, rather shingly in places, now in rape and turnips, and about 162 acres in rape; balance in tussock, native and English grasses; is rather steep and broken in places, but all good limestone soil, fairly well watered by springs and creek. Situated nineteen miles from Timaru by well-formed road. Improvements which are included in price of section consist of about 350 chains of fencing, valued at



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