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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 72

Notice of Intention to change the Purpose of a Reserve in Block XIII, Mangahao Survey District, Wellington Land District.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

WHEREAS by the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, it is, amongst other things, enacted that the Governor may declare his intention to change, exchange, or alter the dedication of any public reserve now or hereafter vested in His Majesty or the Governor for any of the purposes named in Class II of the Second Schedule to the said Act, whether the same be granted or not; and in the case of any reserve made under the authority of section three hundred and twenty-one of the Land Act, 1908, if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to change the purpose for which such reserve was set apart to any other purpose, or if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to exchange any of the land comprised in such reserve for other land of equal value, to be dedicated to one or more of the purposes named in the said Class II, the Governor may, by notice gazetted, make such change, exchange, or dedication, as the case may be, and in such notice declare the manner and terms in which the same is intended to be so made:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, aforesaid, declare my intention to change the specific purpose of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto from a resting-place for travelling stock to a reserve for gravel purposes.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 8 acres 0 roods 16 perches, more or less, being Section No. 135A, Block XIII, Mangahao Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east generally by a public road, towards the south-east by a public road, and towards the west generally by Section No. 137 of Block XIII aforesaid, 369·8 links, and by Section No. 134 of the same block, 1088·7 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 6/5/1, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

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

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-eighth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen; 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.

Mangonui County.—Mangonui Parish.

Sections 9 and E. 11: Area, 296 acres. Capital value, £150. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £3 15s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £3.

Altitude, 50 ft. to 600 ft. above sea-level. Hilly to broken land, covered with fern, manuka, and rushes. Soil inferior, heavy clay and pipeclay, on clay formation; well watered by stream. Situated seven miles from Mangonui, six miles and a half of which is by formed cart-road, balance formed pack-track.

Sections S.E. 76 and E. 77: Area, 209 acres 2 roods. Capital value, £110. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £2 15s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £2 4s.

Altitude, 300 ft. to 600 ft. above sea-level. Undulating to hilly land; a few acres of bush in gullies; balance fern. Clay soil, resting on sandstone formation; well watered by streams. Situated about six miles from Mangonui by formed 10 ft. road.

Tauranga County.—Te Papa Parish.

Section 194: Area, 50 acres. Capital value, £70. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £1 15s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £1 8s.

Altitude, 650 ft. to 800 ft. above sea-level. Undulating to broken fern country. Sandy soil of fair quality, on pumice formation; well watered by Kopurererua Stream. Distant ten miles from Tauranga, eight miles of which is by Tauranga-Cambridge Road, balance by rough track.

Sections 359, 361, and 362: Area, 131 acres 2 roods 26 perches. Capital value, £100. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £2 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £2.

Altitude, 600 ft. to 800 ft. above sea-level. About 20 acres undulating; balance broken, a deep gorge intersecting sections. About 30 acres mixed forest comprising tawa, hinau, tawhero, mangeao, &c., with thick undergrowth of supplejack and scrub; balance covered with fern, tutu, and scrub. Fair soil, of a pumice nature, on pumice formation; well watered by Kopurererua Stream. Distant twelve miles from Tauranga by good formed road. Tauranga Borough Council’s electric transmission line passes through this property, and rights of access thereto are reserved.

Waikato County.—Taupiri Parish.

Section 297: Area, 41 acres 2 roods 38 perches. Capital value, £130. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £3 5s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £2 12s.

Altitude, 200 ft. to 250 ft. above sea-level. Undulating land, covered with fern and manuka. Soil of second-class quality, fair to poor in quality, on clay subsoil; well watered by small stream. Distant ten miles from Ohinewai by good road.

Bay of Islands County.—Kawakawa Parish.

Section 182: Area, 113 acres. Capital value, £80. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £2. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £1 12s.

Altitude, 10 ft. to 442 ft. above sea-level. Hilly to broken land; about 20 acres ordinary light mixed forest, balance fern and scrub. Soil inferior clay, on clay subsoil; indifferently watered by swampy streams. Distant three-quarters of a mile from Taumarere Railway-station by partly formed cart-road. The ford across the river is a very fair one.

Whangaroa Survey District.—Whangaroa County.

Sections 8 and 9, Block VII: Area, 47 acres 3 roods 29 perches. Capital value, £40. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £1. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, 16s.

Altitude, 5 ft. to 250 ft. above sea-level. Undulating to hilly scrub land, with self-sown danthonia 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.

Awakino County.—Whareorino Survey District.

Section 11, Block V: Area, 499 acres 2 roods. Capital value, £1,130. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £28 5s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £22 12s.

Section 10, Block V: Area, 419 acres 3 roods. Capital value, £1,160. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £29. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £23 4s.

About 20 acres of Section 11 and 50 acres of Section 10 level and easy country; balance undulating to broken country. Sections are covered with heavy mixed forest comprising tawa, towai, tawhero, kohekohe, rata, and rimu, with heavy undergrowth of supplejack, konini, mahoe, makomako, &c. Soil of medium quality, on rubble-rock formation; well watered by small streams. Distant ten to eleven miles from Marakopa by formed dray-road.

West Taupo County.—Ranginui Survey District.

Section 1, Block II: Area, 682 acres. Capital value, £1,200. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £30. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £24.

Altitude, 1,700 ft. to 2,200 ft. above sea-level. Undulating to slightly broken land; about 4 acres have been felled, and are now coming up in scrub; balance heavy mixed forest comprising tawa, tawhero, rata, rewarewa, and a few rimu and matai, with heavy undergrowth of supplejack, makomako, raurekau, konini, &c. Soil of medium quality, on volcanic formation; well watered by small streams. Distant thirty-six miles from Te Awamutu—half a mile by pack-track, balance formed dray-road.