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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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flats, balance fair soil; well watered by streams. Distant about five miles and three-quarters from Whakapara Railway-station by formed road.

Section 10, Block IV: Area, 434 acres 3 roods 22 perches; capital value, £440; half-yearly rent, £8 16s.

Weighted with £90, valuation for bushfelling and grassing, and fencing.

Altitude, 450 ft. to 1,300 ft. above sea-level. Level, hilly, and broken land; about 30 acres alluvial flat, balance poor soil; about one-third green and burnt forest, balance burnt kauri-workings now in fern. Well watered by streams. Distant about six miles and a half from Whakapara Railway-station by formed road.

Section 9, Block VII: Area, 433 acres 2 roods 12 perches; capital value, £650; half-yearly rent, £13.

Altitude, 700 ft. to 1,100 ft. above sea-level. Level and undulating land comprising burnt kauri-workings now in fern and rough feed, with some good and fair river-flats. Soil good on flats, fair elsewhere, on sandstone formation; well watered by streams. Distant about five miles and a half from Whakapara by formed road.

Section 10, Block VII: Area, 253 acres 0 roods 13 perches; capital value, £280; half-yearly rent, £5 12s.

Altitude, 750 ft. to 1,100 ft. above sea-level. Undulating to hilly land, chiefly burnt kauri-workings, now in fern and a fair amount of rough feed. Soil of fair quality, on sandstone formation; well watered by streams. Distant about four miles and three-quarters from Whakapara by formed road. There is a right-of-way 100 links wide along the southern boundary of the section.

Section 11, Block VII: Area, 388 acres 3 roods 34 perches; capital value, £240; half-yearly rent, £4 16s.

Altitude, 400 ft. to 900 ft. above sea-level. Undulating, hilly, and broken land, with patches of mixed forest in gullies; balance burnt forest and open land, formerly kauri-workings, now in fern and rough feed. Soil mostly of poor quality, on sandstone formation; well watered by streams. Distant about four miles from Whakapara by formed road.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eighth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Opening Lands in Auckland 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 Monday, the twenty-second day of January, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, 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.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Bay of Islands County.—Hukerenui Survey District.

SECTION 8, Block VII: Area, 381 acres 2 roods 33 perches; capital value, £580; half-yearly rent, £11 12s.

Weighted with £186, valuation for improvements comprising house (three rooms), outbuildings, orchard, fencing, grassing, &c.

Altitude, 850 ft. to 1,300 ft. above sea-level. Undulating and hilly land, with a small clump of mixed forest at northern end; 2 acres has been stumped and ploughed, 20 acres burnt and surface sown, balance burnt kauri-workings in fern and rough feed. Soil of fair to good quality, on sandstone formation; well watered by streams. Distant about five miles and three-quarters from Whakapara Railway-station, five miles and a half of which is by formed road, balance unformed but passable.

Bay of Islands and Whangarei Counties.—Hukerenui Survey District.

Section 15, Block VII: Area, 319 acres 2 roods 21 perches; capital value, £480; half-yearly rent, £9 12s.

Weighted with £199, valuation for improvements comprising five-roomed house, two outhouses, fencing, cultivation, well, dairy, and pigsty.

Altitude, 700 ft. to 1,100 ft. above sea-level. Level and undulating land, with some small river-flats of good quality; balance kauri-workings now in fern and a fair amount of rough feed. Soil of fair quality; well watered by streams. Distant about three miles and three-quarters from Whakapara by formed road.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eighth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

F. H. D. BELL,
For 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-second day of January, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen; 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.

Whangarei County.—Hukerenui Survey District.

SECTION 12, Block VII: Area, 259 acres 3 roods 14 perches. Capital value, £390. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £9 15s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £7 16s.

Weighted with £110, valuation for improvements comprising four-roomed house, two outhouses, fencing, cultivation, well, and 20 acres burnt and sown.

Altitude, 400 ft. to 750 ft. above sea-level. Level, undulating, and hilly land; about 50 acres green and burnt forest, balance open land and old kauri-workings now in fern and carrying a fair amount of rough feed. Soil of good and fair quality, on sandstone formation; well watered by streams. Distant about three miles and three-quarters from Whakapara by good cart-road.

Section 30, Block VIII: Area, 203 acres. Capital value, £310. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £7 15s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £6 4s.

Weighted with £140, valuation for improvements comprising house of five rooms, eight outbuildings, cultivation, and fencing.

Altitude, 550 ft. to 800 ft. above sea-level. Level and undulating land, mostly open, with small patches of mixed forest in gullies, and small river-flats and old kauri-workings carrying rough feed. Soil good on flats, rather poor on higher land; well watered by streams. Distant about two miles and a half from Whakapara by formed road.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eighth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Opening Lands in Nelson Land District for Sale or Selection by Discharged Soldiers.

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 and provide as follows, that is to say:—

1. The rural lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto, which have been set apart for selection by discharged soldiers under the said Act, are hereby set apart for disposal by way of sale or selection on Wednesday, the tenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, at the price specified in the said Schedule, and shall be deemed to be “light-bush land.”