1846
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 73

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—NATIONAL ENDOWMENT.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Ohura County.—Piopiotea West Survey District.

SECTION 11, Block II: Area, 34 acres 3 roods 22 perches; capital value, £210; half-yearly rent, £4 4s.

Situated on the Mania Road, about two miles and a quarter distant from Taumarunui by dray-road. The section comprises open land under fern and light scrub, with a small area of raupo swamp on the western side. Nearly all the section is ploughable. The soil varies from rather inferior to good quality, on pumice formation; well watered. Elevation, 600 ft. to 650 ft. above sea-level.

Waitomo County.—Totoro Survey District.

Section 17, Block IV: Area, 299 acres 1 rood 12 perches; capital value, £750; half-yearly rent, £15.

Situated on the Kahuwera Road, within about three miles and a half of Piopio, where there are saleyards, post and telephone office, school, bank, stores, &c. There is also a school at Te Mapara, within about two miles and a half of the section. Access is from Te Kuiti, which is about twenty-two miles distant—by metalled road for sixteen miles and a half, the rest of the way being formed dray-road only. The section comprises level to easy undulating and very steep country. The level country is swampy in places. The soil is of fair quality, resting on rhyolite, papa, and clay formation. The vegetation is mixed, comprising a small area of tawa, rata, hinau, tawhero, and rewarewa bush on the steep country, and manuka, fern, and tutu elsewhere, with a fairly dense undergrowth of the usual kind. The section is well watered by the Mapiu and small streams.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Clifton County.—Tainui Survey District.

Section 2, Block IV: Area, 1,243 acres; capital value, £1,400; half-yearly rent, £28.

Situated on the Mohakatino Road, about forty-eight miles from Waitara—by dray-road forty-three miles, balance 6 ft. track. There is a daily coach to within five miles of section and port at Mokau, eight miles distant. The section comprises broken country, very steep in parts, with a little easy ground on the frontage. Heavy forest of tawa, rimu, pukatea, rewarewa, tawhero, hinau, totara, &c., and birch towards the back, dense undergrowth of raurekau, mahoe, kotukutuku, supplejacks, pongas, ferns, &c. Soil of fair quality, sandstone and papa formation; well watered.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

D. H. GUTHRIE,
Minister of Lands.

Opening National Endowment Lands in Taranaki Land District for Selection by Discharged Soldiers on Renewable Lease.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

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-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the national endowment lands described in the Schedule hereto, which have been set apart for selection by discharged soldiers, shall be open for selection by discharged soldiers on renewable lease on Monday, the twenty-second day of July, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, 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 Act and the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915, and section one hundred and thirty-five of the Land Act, 1908, as they contain or are supposed to contain metal, mineral, or valuable stone.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—NATIONAL ENDOWMENT.—

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Ohura County.—Aria Survey District.

SECTION 10, Block V: Area, 380 acres; capital value, £1,330; half-yearly rent, £26 12s.

Section 11, Block V: Area, 668 acres; capital value, £1,340; half-yearly rent, £26 16s.

Situated about five miles from the junction of the Kumara and Paraheka Roads, via a surveyed road down the Paraheka and Mokau Streams and up the Mangamahoe Stream. Access is from Te Kuiti, about thirty-five miles distant—by dray-road for about thirty miles, the rest of the way being a pack-track only. The Township of Aria, where there is a school, post and telephone office, stores, &c., is about ten miles distant by the road to Te Kuiti, and Paraheka School is about five miles away. The sections comprise partly easy sloping and level country, and partly very steep country. Half Section 10 and a small portion of Section 11 is adapted to dairying, the balance will make excellent hill grazing-country. The soil is fair to good quality, resting on papa and sandstone formation. The forest is fairly heavy, comprising rata, rimu, pukatea, miro, tawhero, tawa, hinau, titoki, mahoe, &c., with a fairly dense undergrowth of supplejacks, houhere, raurekau, kotukutuku, rangiora, nikau, kiekie, hoho, manuka, kawakawa, ramarama, horoeka, matipou, koromiko, pongas, &c. The sections are well watered by Motoiwananga and smaller streams. Road-formation partly completed.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

D. H. GUTHRIE,
Minister of Lands.

Polling-places for Grey Electoral District appointed.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the Legislature Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby abolish all existing polling-places in the Electoral District of Grey, and do hereby appoint the places mentioned in the Schedule hereto to be polling-places for the said Electoral District of Grey.

SCHEDULE.

GREY ELECTORAL DISTRICT.

Atarua .. The Public School, Lower Moonlight.
Barrytown .. The Public School.
Big River .. The Billiard-saloon.
Blackwater .. The Public School.
Blackball .. The Public School.
Blaketown .. The Public School.
Canoe Creek .. Mr. Langridge’s House (Post-office, Barrytown).
Cobden .. The Public School.
Dunollie .. The Druids’ Hall.
Globe Hill .. The Public School.
Greymouth .. The Courthouse (Principal).
,, .. Columba Club Rooms, Alexander Street.
,, .. County Council Chambers.
,, .. District High School.
,, .. The Town Hall.
,, .. The United Club’s Pavilion, Shakespeare Street.
Hukawai .. The Boardinghouse.
Ikamatua .. The Public School.
Maimai .. The Railway-station.
Mawheraiti .. The Railway-station.
Merrijigs .. The Old Schoolhouse.
Middle Flat .. The Boardinghouse (Post-office, Roa).
Moonlight .. The Old Schoolhouse.
Rapahoe .. P. Wilson’s House.
Reefton .. Perotti’s Building, Lower Broadway.
,, .. The County Council Chambers.
,, .. The Public School.
,, .. Mr. Smith’s House (Railway-station).
Rewanui .. The State Mine Office.
Rewanui, Upper .. The Miners’ Hall.
Roa .. The Public School.
Runanga .. The Public School.
Taylorville .. The Public School.
,, .. The North Brunner Mine Hut.
Waitahu .. The Public School (Post-office, Reefton).

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this ninth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

W. H. HERRIES,
Minister in Charge of Electoral Department.