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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 83

the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, and is not suitable to
the subdivision of such land :
Now, therefore, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe,
Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in
pursuance and exercise of section eighty of the Land for
Settlements Act, 1908, as amended by section twenty-eight
of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1920, and of all other
powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf,
do by this notice hereby close the road hereinafter described ;
and I do hereby declare that the said road shall thereupon
become subject to the Land for Settlements Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.
ALMADALE SETTLEMENT.
APPROXIMATE area of the piece of road to be closed: 19
perches.
Adjoining Section 12, Subdivision D, Manchester Block,
Block XI, Oroua Survey District.

In the Wellington Land District; as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S. 26/5/35,
deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and
Survey, at Wellington, under number 1920, and thereon
coloured green.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 9th day of September, 1921.
D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Notifying the Proposed Exchange of Crown Land in the
Wellington Land District for other Land.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and forty-two of
the Land Act, 1908, as amended by section six of
the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1920, it is enacted that it
shall be lawful for the Governor-General, whenever he
deems it expedient in the public interest, to grant in fee-
simple any area of Crown land which is subject to the
provisions of the Land Act, 1908, in exchange for the fee-
simple of any other land, and on any such exchange to pay
or receive any sum by way of equality of exchange :
And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor-General, it
is expedient to exchange the Crown land described in the
First Schedule hereto for the land of equal value described
in the Second Schedule hereto, and the owner of the land
described in the Second Schedule has agreed to such ex-
change :
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of
the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the aforesaid
powers and authorities, doth hereby declare that it is his
intention to grant in fee-simple the area of Crown land
described in the First Schedule hereto in exchange for the
fee-simple of land described in the Second Schedule.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
DESCRIPTION OF CROWN LAND AUTHORIZED TO BE
EXCHANGED.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing
by admeasurement 1 acre 3 roods 27 perches, more or less,
being Section 33, Block XII, Maungakaretu Survey District.
Bounded towards the north-west generally by parts of Sub-
divisions A 8 and A 6 No. 1 of the Ngaurukehu Block; to-
wards the south and south-east generally by the Hautapu
River and part of the said Subdivision A 8; and towards
the west by the Waitoka Road. As the same is more par-
ticularly delineated on the plan marked 256/2, deposited
in the office of the Chief Surveyor at Wellington, and thereon
coloured red.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
DESCRIPTION OF LAND TO BE OBTAINED IN EXCHANGE
THEREFOR.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing
by admeasurement 2 acres 1 rood 28 perches, more or less,
being part of Subdivision A 6 No. 1 of the Ngaurukehu
Block, situated in Block XII, Maungakaretu Survey Dis-
trict. Bounded towards the north by the southern boundary-
line of Subdivision A 6 No. 2 of the Ngaurukehu Block, 785·3
links; towards the south-east by other part of the said
Subdivision A 6 No. 1, 1200·2 links; and towards the west
by the Waitoka Road, 630·3 links: be all the aforesaid
linkages more or less. As the same is more particularly
delineated on the plan marked 256/2, deposited in the office
of the Chief Surveyor at Wellington, and thereon bordered
purple.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 9th day of September, 1921.
D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Opening Land in Auckland Land District for Sale or Selection.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1908, I, John
Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General 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-first day of
November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one; 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 renew-
able 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.—CROWN LAND.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Hauraki Plains County.—Pirko Survey District.
Section 4, Block VII: Area, 370 acres 3 roods. Capital
value, £460. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-
yearly rent, £11 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent,
£9 4s.
Situated about eight miles from Waitakaruru by formed
cart-road, two miles of which is metalled, balance suitable
for wheeled traffic during summer months only. Open,
hilly to broken land, intersected by swampy gullies; part
ploughable. Contains about 12 acres second-growth bush,
comprising mostly tawa, rewarewa, and birch, with fairly
dense undergrowth of punga, rangiora, &c.; balance covered
with short fern and tea-tree. Soil a heavy clay, on clay
formation; well watered by small stream and springs.
Altitude, 200 ft. to 600 ft. above sea-level.

Hauraki Plains County.—Waitoa Survey District.
Section 1, Block V: Area, 461 acres 2 roods. Capital
value, £240. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-
yearly rent, £6. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £4 16s.
Situated about six miles from Tahuna Post-office and
landing by formed road. Owing to the steepness of the
country the immediate road access is bad. Broken land
covered with fern and manuka, with patches of mixed forest
in gullies. Soil of second-class quality, on clay subsoil;
poorly watered by springs. Altitude, 400 ft. to 600 ft.
above sea-level.

Section 4, Block V: Area, 371 acres 3 roods 25 perches.
Capital value, £280. Occupation with right of purchase:
Half-yearly rent, £7. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent,
£5 12s.
Distant about seven miles from Tahuna Post-office by fair
road. Broken to undulating land; about 120 acres in fern
and scrub, balance mixed forest comprising tawa, kohekohe,
rata, pukatea, &c., with dense undergrowth of supplejack,
bushferns, and shrubs. Soil of second-class quality, on sand-
stone formation; fairly watered by streams. Altitude,
500 ft. to 600 ft. above sea-level.

Hauraki Plains County.—Piako Survey District.
Section 2, Block XII: Area, 347 acres 2 roods 13 perches.
Capital value, £360. Occupation with right of purchase:
Half-yearly rent, £9. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent,
£7 4s.
Situated about three miles from Kaihere; or twelve miles
from Patetonga Landing on the Piako River, three miles
and a half by tramway, balance by good formed cart-road.
Broken fern and manuka country, with patches of mixed
forest in gullies; a few acres of good level land on banks of
Torehape Stream, but liable to flood. Soil generally of
inferior quality, on clay subsoil; well watered by Torehape
Stream. Altitude, 50 ft. to 370 ft. above sea-level.

Section 9, Block XI: Area, 291 acres. Capital value,
£300. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent,
£7 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £6.
Situated about eleven miles from Waitakaruru by formed
road. Broken fern land of poor quality, with occasional
clumps of manuka; well watered by streams.

Whakatane County.—Rangitaiki Upper Survey District.
Section 6, Block V: Area, 588 acres 3 roods 29 perches.
Capital value, £460. Occupation with right of purchase:
Half-yearly rent, £11 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly
rent, £9 4s.
Situated about ten miles from Matata and six miles from
Te Teko on Rotorua-Whakatane coach-road. A proportion