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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 102

five-finger, and birch scrub. Well watered. Altitude, 800 ft.
to 3,000 ft. Eleven miles and a half from Murchison by good
metalled dray-road.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Scrub Land.-Exempt from Rent for Two Years.
KARAMEA MINING DISTRICT.-SECOND-CLASS LAND.
Takaka County.-Kaiteriteri Survey District.
Part Sections 7 and 8, Block III : Area, 423 acres ; capital
value, £210; half-yearly rent, £4 4s.
Land is all steep hills, of fair quality, on a granite formation,
suitable for pastoral purposes only, mostly covered with
mixed bush and scrub. Altitude, from sea-level to 1,200 ft.
Access at present by sea, track on east boundary of Section 7
being unformed.
Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued
under the Seal of that Dominion, at the Government
House at Wellington, this 28th day of November, 1921.
D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.
GOD SAVE THE KING!

Declaring Crown Lands in the Westland and Karamea Mining
Districts, Nelson Land District, open for Disposal on Renewable Lease.
[L.S.] JELLICOE, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and thirty-three of
the Land Act, 1908, it is enacted that the Governor-General, by Proclamation, may from time to time declare any
Crown lands within any mining district not held under lease
or license, or for which a lease or license has been cancelled,
to be open for disposal, as provided in section one hundred
and thirty-five of the said Act:
Now, therefore, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe,
Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in
exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by
section one hundred and thirty-three of the said Act, and of
every other power and authority in anyway enabling me in
this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the sections
of land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open on
Monday, the thirtieth day of January, one thousand nine
hundred and twenty-two, for disposal on renewable lease,
as provided in section one hundred and thirty-five of the said
Act.

SCHEDULE.
NELSON LAND DISTRICT.-SECOND-CLASS LAND.
WESTLAND MINING DISTRICT.-NATIONAL ENDOWMENT.
Inangahua County.-Inangahua Survey District.
SECTION 17, Block VIII : Area, 587 acres; capital value,
£445 ; half-yearly rent, £8 18s.
All hills, broken towards the ridge; thin soil, on limestone.
Altitude rises to 1,600 ft. above sea-level. Timber principally brown birch. There is a site suitable for a homestead. Access to a road at present unformed up Hard Creek. Distant about a mile and a quarter from the
Reefton - Inangahua Junction Road and proposed railway,
and about three miles and a half from the Inangahua Junction Post-office.

Murchison County.-Maruia Survey District.
Section 1, Block VII : Area, 1,375 acres; capital value,
£830 ; half-yearly rent, £16 12s.
About 100 acres bush felled, burnt, and sown in grass,
but owing to neglect is now to a great extent covered in fern,
and therefore practically valueless.
Soil of fair quality, on sandstone and granite formation;
well watered by permanent streams. A fair amount of low
undulating spurs and flat land, covered with forest, principally birch and mixed timber, with usual underscrub.
Situated at the head of Glengarry Stream, about sixteen
miles from Murchison and eight miles from the junction of
the Maruia and Buller Rivers. Good formed road to the
junction of the Glengarry and Maruia Rivers, thence by
partly formed road. Altitude, 650 ft. to 2,000 ft.

KARAMEA MINING DISTRICT.-NATIONAL ENDOWMENT.
Buller County.-Brighton Survey District.
Section 8, Block IX : Area, 416 acres 3 roods; capital
value, £260 ; half-yearly rent, £5 4s.
Section 9, Block IX : Area, 463 acres 1 rood; capital
value, £290; half-yearly rent, £5 16s.

Section 10, Block IX : Area, 268 acres; capital value,
£170; half-yearly rent, £3 8s.
Sections 8 and 9 have homestead-sites on old boundary
road or Bullock Creek; high country, broken and rugged;
limestone formation; suitable for sheep, but will run a few
cattle; all mixed forest, with heavy undergrowth. Access
by old inland road from Fox's River and Punakaikai River,
or by pack-track up Bullock Creek.
Section 10 has several homestead-sites; broken and
rugged between old road and Bullock Creek; all mixed forest,
with heavy undergrowth; limestone formation; suitable
for sheep, and will run a few cattle. Access by Bullock
Creek pack-track and by old inland road.

Buller County.-Kawatiri Survey District.
Section 16, Block V : Area, 15 acres; capital value, £30;
half-yearly rent, 12s.
All flat; about 3 acres fronting the coast has been cleared
and grassed, but is now covered with fern, blackberry, and
gorse; remainder birch bush, subject to floods from creek.
About six miles from Westport by sea-beach.

KARAMEA MINING DISTRICT.-CROWN LAND.
Buller County.-Oparara Survey District.
Sections 42 and 43, Block IX: Area, 80 acres 1 rood 6 perch es; capital value, £60; half-yearly rent, £1 4s.
Sections 44 and 45, Block IX: Area, 87 acres 3 roods 25 perch es; capital value, £55; half-yearly rent, £1 2s.
Sections 46 and 47, Block IX: Area, 132 acres 3 roods 24 perch es; capital value, £70; half-yearly rent, £1 8s.
Section 42 and 43 are all terrace flat, soil fair to poor,
originally covered with forest consisting of rimu, kamahi,
and yellow-pine, with dense undergrowth, from which milling-timber has been removed; watered by small streams. Altitude 60 ft. to 100 ft. above sea-level. Access from Karamea
Post-office one mile and a half by formed road and thirty
chains unformed road. Two miles and a half from butter-factory.
Sections 44 and 45 are all terrace flat, soil fair to poor,
originally covered with forest consisting of rimu, kamahi,
and yellow-pine, with dense undergrowth, from which milling-timber has been removed; watered by small streams.
Altitude, 60 ft. to 100 ft. above sea-level. Access from
Market Cross Post-office one mile and a half by formed road,
and balance of twenty-five chains unformed. One mile and
a half from butter-factory.
Sections 46 and 47 are all terrace flat, soil poor. About
20 acres cleared, but now in fern. Originally all forest, consisting of rimu, kamahi, and yellow-pine, dense underscrub,
from which milling-timber has been removed; well watered.
Altitude, 60 ft. to 100 ft. above sea-level. Access from
Market Cross Post-office about one mile and a half distant
by formed road. One mile and a half from butter-factory.
Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand; and issued
under the Seal of that Dominion, at the Government
House at Wellington, this 28th day of November, 1921.
D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.
GOD SAVE THE KING!

Crown Land set apart for Disposal by way of Sale or Lease
to Discharged Soldiers, under Special Tenures, in the
Auckland Land District.
[L.S.] JELLICOE, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon
me by section four of the Discharged Soldiers Settlement
Act, 1915, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim
and declare that the area of Crown land described in the
Schedule hereto shall be and the same is hereby set apart
and declared open for disposal by way of sale or lease to
discharged soldiers, under special tenures, in the manner
provided in the said Act.

SCHEDULE.
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.-CROWN LAND.
SECTION 14, Block LXIV, Te Aroha Township: Area, 1 rood
12 perch es.
Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand; and issued
under the Seal of that Dominion, at the Government
House at Wellington, this 30th day of November, 1921.
D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.
GOD SAVE THE KING!