Mar. 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 749

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—EDUCATION ENDOWMENT RESERVES.

FIRST- AND SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Cook County.—Hangaroa Survey District.

SECTION 1: Area, 1,110 acres; capital value, £11,650; half-yearly rent, £233.

Improvements which are included in the capital value comprise boundary and internal fencing and small sheep-yard, valued at £630.

Section 4: Area, 1,050 acres; capital value, £9,970; half-yearly rent, £199 8s.

Boundary and internal fencing and yards included in capital value amount to £674.

Section 5: Area, 1,255 acres; capital value, £6,080; half-yearly rent, £121 12s.; interest and sinking fund, £54 18s. 2d.*

Improvements included in capital value comprise road, boundary, and internal fencing, yards, cow-shed, and dip; valued at £811.

*Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £1,140. Payable in cash, or in fifteen years by half-yearly payments of £54 18s. 2d.; total half-yearly payment, £176 10s. 2d.

Section 6: Area, 1,285 acres; capital value, £9,000; half-yearly rent, £180.

Improvements included in capital value comprise road, boundary, and internal fencing valued at £510.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

The block is situate in the Hangaroa Valley, on the St. Leger–Gisborne Road, and is distant about thirty-three miles from Wairoa and forty miles from Gisborne. The village of Tiniroto, distant about four miles, has a regular mail service from Gisborne and Wairoa.

The country generally is hilly but not broken, ranging from 1,000 ft. to 2,000 ft. above sea-level. The soil varies from good to fair only, and is mostly pumice and loam with clay subsoil on papa formation, with outcrop of limestone in places. About 1,200 acres in light bush, manuka scrub, and fern, but generally well grassed. The land lies well to the sun, has a plentiful water-supply, and is capable of considerable improvement, but is only suitable for men with fair capital and a thorough knowledge of the methods of sheep-farming this class of country.

DESCRIPTION OF SECTIONS.

Section 1.—About 450 acres bush and scrub, balance carrying good sole of mixed English grasses; easy hilly country; good northern aspect, and well watered. The fencing is in good order, and with thirty more chains of boundary fence to complete ring fence five subdivisions will be obtained. Contains homestead-site.

Section 4.—Undulating and hilly country; about 9 acres of bush, balance in English and native grasses. About 650 acres of good papa country, and about 400 acres of rather light pumiceous land; well watered. Contains homestead-site. About forty chains of boundary fencing required to completely ring fence and subdivide into five paddocks.

Section 5.—About 857 acres in scrub and light bush; balance is pasture, chiefly native grasses. Easy hill country, well watered. Fair soil, on sandy loam, with papa in gullies and on steep faces. The improvements which are on the section include a seven-roomed dwelling, with bathroom, office, and washhouse, wool-shed, whare, and stable.

Section 6.—Has all been felled and grassed, carrying mixed pasture of English and native grasses. Easy hill country, well watered. Fair soil, resting principally on a sandy loam and pumiceous formation, with papa in gullies and on steep faces. Subdivided into four paddocks.

The following buildings are to be sold for removal: Cottage, shearers’ accommodation-hut, cook-house, motor-shed, store-room.

SPECIAL CONDITIONS.

1. The Crown reserves the timber-rights over that portion of Section 1 south of Camp Creek for a period of three years from the date of the disposal of selection.

2. The right is reserved to resume from each or any section, without payment of compensation, any area up to 5 acres required for a school-site.

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Cook County.—Block I, Patutahi Survey District.

Section 3: Area, 1,533 acres; capital value, £11,500; half-yearly rent, £230.

Improvements included in capital value comprise boundary and internal fencing valued at £270.

Section 4: Area, 582 acres 1 rood 32 perches; capital value £5,250; half-yearly rent, £105.

Improvements included in capital value comprise boundary and internal fencing valued at £120.

Section 5: Area, 671 acres 1 rood 38 perches; capital value, £3,700; half-yearly rent, £74.

Improvements included in capital value comprise boundary and internal fencing valued at £100.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

Distant about twenty-three miles from Gisborne by a good metalled road (Te Aroha Road), and four miles and a half from the Waerengaokuri Post-office. The block, for the most part, comprises easy hilly country carrying a fair sole of grass, with second growth of fern and manuka scrub in parts. Soil varies from fair only to good, on papa formation; fairly well watered. Altitude runs from 1,000 ft. to 1,400 ft. above sea-level.

DESCRIPTION OF SECTIONS.

Section 3.—About 500 acres of western part of section is rough broken country, practically unimproved; balance of section is good easy hilly country, mostly in good grass, but with a second growth of scrub and fern in places. Soil fair to good clay, on papa formation; well watered.

Section 4.—Easy hill country now in grass, but originally in good mixed bush. There is a considerable amount of second growth, chiefly in the gullies, of fern and manuka scrub. Soil good; fairly well watered.

Section 5.—Country varies from easy hill land to steep broken country, has been well grassed, but has now a second growth of fern and manuka scrub over it. Fairly well watered. Soil is fair to good, on papa formation.

SPECIAL CONDITION.

The right is reserved to resume from each or any sections without payment of compensation any area up to 5 acres required for a school-site.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 16th day of March, 1921.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

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Setting apart Crown Land under Section 20 of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1912.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section twenty of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1912, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby set apart the land described in the Schedule hereto for disposal under the section of the Act mentioned.

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SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—CROWN LAND.

SECTION 10, Block VII, Ruakaka Survey District: Area, 49 acres 2 roods 19 perches.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 19th day of March, 1921.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

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Warrant authorizing the Kaiapoi Borough Council to construct a Bridge over the Cam River on the Kaiapoi–Rangiora Road, Borough of Kaiapoi, and apportioning the Cost.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in me by section one hundred and nineteen of the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby authorize the Kaiapoi Borough Council to construct the bridge mentioned in the Schedule hereto; and I do hereby declare that the cost thereof, less such contributions (if any) as may be made thereto by the Government of New Zealand, shall be borne by the Kaiapoi Borough Council and the Rangiora County Council in the following proportions—viz., the Kaiapoi Borough Council shall pay one-half and the Rangiora County Council shall pay one-half of such cost respectively. And I do further direct that any contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Rangiora County Council shall be paid from time to time in the proportion hereinbefore prescribed, out of the funds of the said County Council, within a period of one month after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the Kaiapoi Borough Council; and all such payments shall be made from time to time to the Town Clerk, Kaiapoi, for and on behalf of the Rangiora County Council.