JULY 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2259

SCHEDULE.
WAIMATE COUNTY.-OTAIO SURVEY DISTRICT.-TIMAUNGA SETTLEMENT EXTENSION.
First-class Land.

• Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £300, payable in cash or in twenty-one years by half-yearly instalments of £11 14s.; total half-yearly payment, £157 1s.
  † Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £80, payable in cash or in twenty-one years by half-yearly instalments of £3 2s. 6d.; total half-yearly payment, £147 11s. 6d.

DESCRIPTIONS OF SECTIONS.

Section 3.--Altitude, from 900 ft. to 1,050 ft. above sea-level. Comprises easy undulating agricultural land, practically all ploughable; watered by small creeks. Access by formed dray-road about thirteen miles and a half from St. Andrews Railway-station.
The improvements which are included in the price of the section consist of 469 chains of fencing, valued at £192.
Section 4.--Altitude, from 650 ft. to 900 ft. above sea-level. Comprises fair, ploughable, agricultural downs inter-

sected by deep gullies, the soil in the gullies being generally inferior and wet. The area of these steep slopes and gullies, which are practically unploughable, is about 50 acres; the remainder is in fair grass, watered by small creeks and springs. Access by formed road about thirteen miles from St. Andrews Railway-station.
The improvements which are included in the price of the section consist of 525 chains of fencing, valued at £202. The improvements which are not included in the price of the section, but which must be paid for separately, consist of five-roomed house valued at £260, and two sheds together valued at £40; total, £300.
Section 5.--Altitude, from 650 ft. to 1,090 ft. above sea-level. Comprises undulating ploughable downs and fair agricultural land intersected by a deep and rather swampy gully; watered by creeks and dams. Access by formed road about thirteen miles and a half from St. Andrews Railway-station.
The improvements which are included in the price of the section consist of 480 chains of fencing, valued at £166. The improvements which are not included in the price of the section, but which must be paid for separately, consist of iron shed and stable, valued at £80.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Opening Lands in Southland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Wednesday, the twenty-fourth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, at the rentals mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to section one hundred and thirty-five of the said Act, as they contain, or are supposed to contain, metal, mineral, or valuable stone.

SCHEDULE.
OTAGO MINING DISTRICT.
Third-class Land.

Open level land of a wet and peaty nature. Situated about five miles from Gorge Road Railway-station.

STEWART ISLAND COUNTY.-PATERSON SURVEY DISTRICT.

*154 | I | 335 1 0 | 90 0 0 | 1 16 0
157 | " | 101 2 0 | 30 0 0 | 0 12 0
158 | " | 183 0 0 | 50 0 0 | 1 0 0
159 | " | 28 0 0 | 10 0 0 | 0 4 0
162 | " | 62 3 20 | 20 0 0 | 0 8 0
163 | " | 70 0 30 | 20 0 0 | 0 8 0
164 | " | 144 0 0 | 40 0 0 | 0 16 0
165 | " | 53 0 0 | 20 0 0 | 0 8 0
166 | " | 45 3 0 | 20 0 0 | 0 8 0

• Weighted with £11, valuation for fencing, bushfelling, and burning.
  Sections 154 to 159 contain fair soil; broken; well watered. Situated from one to two miles from Half-moon Bay. Sections 162 to 166 are rather broken; well watered. Soil mostly of a peaty nature, except on parts of Section 162, which contain good brown loam. All worked-out sawmill areas. Accessible by good formed road from Half-moon Bay and distant about two miles therefrom.

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

H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.