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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 1

Land in the Hawke’s Bay Land District for Sale or Lease to Discharged Soldiers.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 8th January, 1919.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands are open for sale or lease under the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915, and the regulations thereunder, and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, up to four o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, the 12th March, 1919.

The lands may be selected for cash or on deferred payments, or selected on lease for sixty-six years, with right of renewal for further successive terms of sixty-six years, and a right to acquire the freehold.

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, on Thursday, the 13th March, 1919, at 10 o’clock a.m.

The ballot will be held at the conclusion of the examination of applicants.

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SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—HAWKE’S BAY COUNTY.—PUKETAPU SURVEY DISTRICT.—PAKURATAHI BLOCK.

Second-class Land.

SECTION 3, Block VIII: Area, 549 acres; capital value, £3,570; instalment on deferred payment, excluding interest, £178 10s.; half-yearly rent on lease, £80 6s. 6d.

Section 4, Block VIII: Area, 583 acres; capital value, £3,280; instalment on deferred payment, excluding interest, £164; half-yearly rent on lease, £73 16s.

Section 5, Block VIII: Area, 416 acres; capital value, £2,500; instalment on deferred payment, excluding interest, £125; half-yearly rent on lease, £56 5s.

Section 6, Block VIII: Area, 477 acres; capital value, £2,860; instalment on deferred payment, excluding interest, £143; half-yearly rent on lease, £64 7s.

Section 7, Block VIII: Area, 400 acres; capital value, £2,600; instalment on deferred payment, excluding interest, £130; half-yearly rent on lease, £58 10s.

Section 8, Block VIII: Area, 279 acres; capital value, £2,440; instalment on deferred payment, excluding interest, £122; half-yearly rent on lease, £54 18s.

HAWKE’S BAY COUNTY.—MOEANGIANGI SURVEY DISTRICT.—AWA-O-TOTARA BLOCK.

Second-class Land.

SECTION 4, Block I: Area, 1,286 acres; capital value, £2,030; instalment on deferred payment, excluding interest, £101 10s.; half-yearly rent on lease, £40 12s.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

Pakuratahi Block.

This block, distant from fourteen to eighteen miles to the north of Napier, in Hawke’s Bay County, has been held under Native lease for the last thirty years or more, has been improved by felling and sowing but allowed to go back of late years, and can be greatly improved by clearing, ploughing, sowing, and draining.

It is excellent sheep and cattle country, capable of great improvement, and a good living should be made off any of the sections when improved. All English grasses take well, especially cocksfoot. Comprises the watershed of the Pakuratahi Stream, with generally broad, flat, and easy ridges, falling in steep sunny faces to the road; intersected by deep gullies, with good rich flats along the road and the south boundary. The latter, however, requires draining. About two-thirds in good grass, native and exotic, remainder mostly tall manuka scrub and light bush in gullies, with blackberry on the flats and creeping up the creeks and hillsides; good black soil on clay, limestone outcrop.

Suitable ploughable land for root crops will be found on most of the sections, and good homestead-sites on all. Well watered and grassed.

The access to all the sections, with the exception of Section 3, will be by two miles and a quarter of new road, turning off the Napier–Wairoa Road about twelve miles from Napier on the east side of the Tongoio Lagoon. Section 3 will front on the Eskdale–Tutira Road eighteen miles from Napier, seven miles of which are unformed. It is, however, under construction coming from the north, and will soon be completed, but by this way it will be fourteen miles longer to Napier.

DESCRIPTION OF SECTIONS.

Section 3.—549 acres. Altitude from about 90 ft. to 1,100 ft. Open pastoral country, partly in manuka scrub, with light bush in gullies, comprising easy ridges and steep gullies well grassed and watered, the western corner cleared and laid down in cocksfoot. Good black soil on clay. Fenced along the north, south, and west boundaries. Distant about eighteen miles from Napier, seven miles unformed.

Section 4.—583 acres. Altitude from about 90 ft. to 900 ft. Pastoral country, about half in grass, remainder manuka scrub and light bush with a few scattered pines, and blackberry along the Pakuratahi Stream. Comprising easy ridges with steep and precipitous gullies, and small flat in the south-east corner suitable for homestead-site. Well watered; generally good black soil on clay with limestone outcrop. Fenced on the north, east, and about half on the south boundary, also about forty chains internal fencing. Distant about fourteen miles from Napier, two miles unformed.

Section 5.—416 acres. Altitude from about 50 ft. to 700 ft. Open pastoral country, with patches of manuka scrub, fern, and light bush, blackberry along the southern face and half of south-east boundary. Comprising fairly easy ridges and steep gullies, with good flat along the road suitable for homestead-site. Well grassed and watered; generally good black soil on clay with limestone outcrop. Fenced on the north and west boundaries. Distant about thirteen miles and a half from Napier, one mile and a half unformed.

Section 6.—477 acres. Altitude from 90 ft. to 900 ft. Open pastoral country, about half in good native and English grass, remainder manuka scrub with light bush in gullies and some scattered blackberry; comprising broad, flat, easy ridges, steep gullies and faces, and small flat on the road suitable for homestead-site. Well watered; good black soil on clay with limestone outcrop. Fenced on the western and part of the north-eastern boundary. Distant about fourteen miles from Napier, two miles unformed.

Section 7.—400 acres. Altitude from about 90 ft. to 900 ft. Open pastoral country, with patches of manuka scrub; thick blackberry on flat adjoining the road and along the east boundary. Intersected by deep gullies, easy flat ridges, falling in steep sunny faces to swampy flats adjoining road and south boundary. Well grassed and watered; good black soil on clay with limestone outcrop. Fenced along the western, southern, and part eastern boundary, also sixty-five chains of subdivision fence. Distant about fourteen miles from Napier, two miles unformed.

Section 8.—279 acres. Altitude from about 90 ft. to 300 ft. Open agricultural and pastoral country, with small patches of manuka scrub; blackberry on the flats and creeping up the hillsides. Comprises low hills and about 70 acres of flats. The flat along the south boundary requires draining. Well grassed and watered. The south and part east boundary is fenced, and there is about a mile of subdivisional fences, also a two-roomed whare that goes with the land. Distant about thirteen miles and a half from Napier, one mile and a half unformed.

Awa-o-Totara Block.

Section 4, Block I, Mocangiangi Survey District.—1,286 acres. Altitude from 200 ft. to 1,330 ft. Mostly pastoral land, somewhat broken by steep northerly slope to Mangangarara Stream, with gravel outcrop. Small scattered portions ploughable; about 500 acres under heavy manuka and light bush, remainder carrying native grass with scattered fern and light manuka. Soil light to good, resting mostly on pumice. Well watered. Distant about thirty-seven miles from Napier by road, half a mile being unformed. The improvements, which go with the land, are seventy-six chains of subdivisional fencing.

Sale posters and full particulars may be obtained at this office.

W. F. MARSH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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Lands in Nelson Land District for Disposal on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Nelson, 6th January, 1919.

NOTICE is hereby given, pursuant to section 21 of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913, that the undermentioned land is open for selection on renewable lease; and applications will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Thursday, 13th February, 1919.

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SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—MURCHISON COUNTY.—TUTAKI SURVEY DISTRICT.—MURCHISON VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

First-class Land.

SECTION 27, Block 1: Area, 2 acres. Capital value, £25; renewable lease, half-yearly rent, 10s.

Weighted with £50 valuation for improvements consisting of house and fencing.

Section fronts main Matakitaiki–Murchison Main Road, and is about one mile from village of Murchison. Level land partly covered with birch bush and blackberries.

A. D. BURNS,
For Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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Land in Wellington Land District for Disposal under Section 14 of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1912.

District Lands Office,
Wellington, 12th December, 1918.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that Section 15, Block X, Makotuku Survey District, Wellington Land District, will be disposed of under section 14 of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1912, to the adjoining owner on or after Thursday, the 13th March, 1919.

G. H. M. MCCLURE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.