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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 24

Rodney County.—Pakiri Parish.

Altitude, 10 ft. to 80 ft. above sea-level. Mostly level land, covered with fern, scrub, and old kauri workings, with some swamp. Soil brown loam of good quality, on clay subsoil; well watered by stream and swamp. Distant seven miles from Pakiri by formed road, of which two miles is metalled.

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

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands.

Opening Lands in Nelson Land District for Sale or Selection.

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, 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 lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on Tuesday, the twelfth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen; 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.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT. — MURCHISON COUNTY. — HOPE SURVEY DISTRICT.—STATION CREEK BLOCK.

Second-class Land.

DESCRIPTION OF SECTIONS.

Section 4, Block X.—The altitude varies from 1,020 ft. to 2,200 ft. About 400 acres open land in good rough feed; the remainder is in heavy birch bush. The section rises steeply from the Buller River for some 15 chains, and then runs back into easy flat-topped ridges and basins with good feed throughout the year. All is pastoral country, and there is no swamp. The soil is fair to good, on a conglomerate formation. There is a site for a homestead alongside the Buller Road. The south-west corner of the section is about five miles from the Glenhope Railway-station by dray-road.

Section 11, Block VI.—Altitude varies from 1,100 ft. to 2,300 ft. The section is undulating and nearly all in heavy birch bush. The formation is a stiff clay with some fair soil at the back of the section. The lower slopes are very cold and inferior. There is a homestead-site on Station Creek about 15 chains from its mouth. All is pastoral country, and is well watered. The south-west corner of the section is about seven miles distant by dray-road from Glenhope Railway-station. Access by the Buller dray-road, and by a road to be formed up Station Creek.

Section 12, Block VII.—Altitude varies from 1,400 ft. to 2,500 ft. The section is all undulating pastoral country, and well watered; about 300 acres in manuka and scrub, the remainder being in birch bush. The soil is inferior, and the formation is a stiff clay. The south-west corner is about eight miles and a half from the Glenhope Railway-station,

more than seven miles and a half of which is by a dray-road, the remaining distance being by a road to be formed up Station Creek.

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

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands.

Opening Lands in Auckland Land District for Sale or Selection.

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, 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 lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on Monday, the twenty-fifth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen; 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.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Whangaroa County.—Whangaroa Survey District.

Altitude, 5 ft. to 250 ft. above sea-level. Undulating to hilly scrub land, with self-sown dianthonia in places. Soil inferior clay, on clay subsoil; poorly watered by swampy creek, liable to fail in summer. Distant one mile and a half from Whangaroa by cart-road partly metalled.

Ohinemuri County.—Waitoa Survey District.

11 | V | 295 2 0 | 190 0 0 | 4 15 0 | 3 16 0

Altitude, 200 ft. to 500 ft. above sea-level. Undulating to broken land, covered with fern and scrub. Soil of inferior second-class quality, on clay subsoil; fairly watered by small streams. Distant five miles from Tahuna by formed road.

Ohinemuri County.—Piako Survey District.

2 | XII | 347 2 13 | 180 0 0 | 4 10 0 | 3 12 0

Altitude, 50 ft. to 370 ft. above sea-level. Broken fern and manuka country, with patches of mixed forest in gullies; a few acres of good level land on banks of Torehape Stream, but liable to flood. Soil generally of inferior quality, on clay subsoil; well watered by Torehape Stream. Situated twelve miles from Waikaka Landing on the Piako River, three miles and a half by tramway and balance by good formed road.

10 | XVI | 494 2·0 | 560 0 0 | 14 0 0 | 11 4 0

Weighted with £97 10s., valuation for improvements consisting of 30 acres grassing and 50 chains fencing.

Altitude, 200 ft. to 1,200 ft. above sea-level. Broken country; about 47 acres in grass and fern; balance mixed forest comprising rata, tawa, kohekohe, rimu, &c., with dense undergrowth of nikau, supplejack, bush ferns and shrubs. Soil of fair second-class quality, on sandstone formation; well watered by streams. Distant five miles from Waikaka or twenty miles from Ohinewai, by formed road in each case.

Whakatane County.—Rotoma Survey District.

6 | III | 592 0 0 | 480 0 0 | 12 0 0 | 9 12 0

Weighted with £45, valuation for 75 chains fencing.

Altitude, 300 ft. to 700 ft. above sea-level. Undulating to broken land; about 150 acres fern and manuka; balance light mixed forest comprising tawa, manuka, rewarewa, hinau, tawhero, &c., with thick undergrowth of scrub and vines. Soil of a sandy nature, on pumice-cement formation; well watered by two small streams. Situated fourteen miles from Matata by formed road,