The improvements not included in the capital value, and
which must be paid for separately, consist of a house of five
rooms, in good order, and outbuildings, valued at £250.

Section 4.—Undulating land. Altitude, 120 ft. to 500 ft.
above sea-level. 130 acres fern and scrub, balance good
grass; well watered. Eleven miles and a half from Ruawai
or thirteen from Matakoh by formed road.

The improvements included in the capital value consist of
half share in 47 chains boundary fence, £23 10s.; and 42
chains irregular road fence, £12 12s. This latter fence will
require to be removed and placed on the correct boundary,
and the value has been reduced on that account.

Section 5.—Altitude, 120 ft. to 500 ft. above sea-level.
136 acres easy hilly country, inclined to be a little steep at
the north end, carrying good grass, with short fern through
it; 63 acres at south end easy slope, suitable for dairying.
Small patches light bush. Well watered. Ten miles and
three-quarters from Ruawai—a quarter of a mile unformed,
balance formed; six miles and a half from Matakoh by
formed road.

The improvements included in the capital value consist of
half share in 47 chains boundary fence, £29 7s. 6d.; 42 chains
road fence, £26 5s.; stock-yards, £5; and 65 chains internal
fences, £25 13s. 6d.

Section 6.—Altitude, 120 ft. to 350 ft. above sea-level.
100 acres easy hilly country, 19 acres short scrub, balance
grass and short fern; 69 acres at south end easy sloping
country—58 acres good grass, 11 acres in bush. Ten miles
and a half from Ruawai or twelve and a half from Matakoh
by formed road.

The improvements included in the capital value of the
land consist of half share in 18 chains boundary fence, £11 5s.;
80 chains internal fencing, £50; 79 chains road fencing,
£49 7s. 6d.; and water-trough, £5.

The improvements not included in the capital value, and
which must be paid for separately, consist of a house of six
rooms in good order, a cow-shed, washhouse, storeroom,
sheep-dip, yards, and shed, the total value being £500.

Section 7.—Altitude, 300 ft. to 500 ft. above sea-level.
95 acres easy sloping country in good grass, suitable for
dairying; 19 acres mixed bush, with grass through it. Ten
miles from Ruawai or twelve miles from Matakoh by formed
road.

The improvements included in the capital value consist of
half share in 19 chains boundary fencing, £11 17s. 6d.;
72 chains road fencing, £45; 19 chains internal fencing,
£11 17s. 6d.; and two water-troughs, £10.

Block VIII, Tokatoka Survey District.

Section 1.—Altitude, 120 ft. to 500 ft. above sea-level.
Easy sloping ground, in good grass. Eleven miles from
Ruawai or thirteen miles from Matakoh by formed road,
except last 50 chains access road.

The improvements included in the capital value consist of
half share in 33 chains boundary fencing, £20 12s. 6d.;
15 chains internal fencing, £4 10s.; and water-trough, £5.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

Parahi Settlement, formerly the property of Messrs. Burch
and Son, is situated in the Northern Wairoa District, from
nine to thirteen miles from Ruawai on the Northern Wairoa
River, and a similar distance from Matakoh. The proposed
Waikiekie Railway-station will be from six to seven miles
away, but the road of access thereto is not yet laid off.

Practically the whole of the estate is easy undulating
country, nearly all in grass, and over half of it is suitable for
dairying purposes. There is an abundance of good feed, and
the drought-resisting qualities of the land are good.

The soil throughout is of a heavy nature, with a clay sub-
soil on a sandstone and limestone formation. The clay is of
a grayish nature, similar to that in the swamp country in the
same locality. The estate is splendidly watered by never-
failing streams and springs. On most of the sections a certain
amount of bush has been left for shelter and other purposes,
the principal trees being taraire, rimu, and puriri, the under-
growth being mostly nikau.

The fences and buildings are generally of good material,
both the houses on the estate being built of heart of kauri.
The roads where formed are 16 ft. wagon and cart roads.
The only unformed roads are two or three short access roads,
and provision is being made for their formation.

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

H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Opening Settlement Lands in Hawke's Bay Land District for
Selection.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1908, and the
Land for Settlements Act, 1908, and amendments, I, Arthur
William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of
the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the
settlement lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be
open for selection on renewable lease on Wednesday, the
seventeenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and
fifteen, 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 Acts.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE'S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—WAIPAWA COUNTY.—
GWAVAS SETTLEMENT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Maraekakaho Survey District.

IMPROVEMENTS.

Improvements which are included in the prices of the
sections consist of fencing valued as follows:---

Block XII, Wakarara Survey District.

Section 1, £129 7s. 6d.; Section 2, £151 17s. 6d.; Section 3, £68 17s.; Section 4, £170 9s. 9d.; Section 5, £294 15s.;
Section 6, £160 17s. 6d.; Section 7, £186 18s.; Section 8, £78 6s.; Section 9, £73 16s.

Block XIII, Maraekakaho Survey District.

Section 43, £44 16s.; Section 44, £27; Section 45, £17 10s.

DESCRIPTION OF SECTIONS.

Block XII, Wakarara Survey District.

Section 1.—Altitude, from 1,100 ft. to 1,500 ft. All open
country, with patches of fern and manuka scrub. Mostly
easy ridges, with small flats; has fair pasture of native and
English grasses; permanent water. Distance from Waipawa
by formed road about nineteen miles.

Section 2.—Easy ridges and small flats, in fair English and
native grasses, with patches of fern and scrub; permanent
water. Altitude, from 1,000 ft. to 1,600 ft. About seven-
teen miles from Waipawa by formed road.

Section 3.—Easy ridges and small flats, in fair pasture of
native and English grasses, with a little scrub and mixed
bush on Opokororo Stream. Altitude, from 1,100 ft. to
1,500 ft. About eighteen miles and a half from Waipawa.
Permanent water.

Section 4.—Easy ridges and low terraces in fair pasture.
About one-half of this section is ploughable; permanent
water. Altitude, from 1,000 ft. to 1,400 ft. About sixteen
miles and a half from Waipawa.

Section 5.—Easy ridges and small flats, mostly fair pasture
of native and English grasses; about 20 acres of mixed bush
and patches of manuka scrub and fern; permanent water.
Altitude, from 1,000 ft. to 1,400 ft. About eighteen miles
from Waipawa.

Section 6.—Easy ridges and small flats, fair pasture of
native and English grasses, with patches of fern and manuka
scrub; permanent water. Altitude, from 950 ft. to 1,400 ft.
About seventeen miles and a half from Waipawa.