2758
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 97

Lands permanently reserved.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-twenty-first section of the Land Act, 1908, it is enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:

And whereas by the three-hundred-and-twenty-second section of the said Act it is provided that land temporarily reserved under the said three-hundred-and-twenty-first section may, at the expiration of one month but not later than six months after the publication in the Gazette of notice of such temporary reservation, be permanently reserved, and that notice of such permanent reservation shall be published in the Gazette:

And whereas the lands specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto were, by the Warrants the dates of which are specified in the third column of the said Schedule, and the notifications of which were published in the Gazette specified in the fourth column, temporarily reserved under the authority of the said Acts for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule:

Now, therefore, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the said Act, do hereby permanently reserve the lands so temporarily reserved as aforesaid, and enumerated in the first column of the Schedule hereto, for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule, being the same purposes for which the said lands were so temporarily reserved as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

First Column.
DESCRIPTION OF RESERVES.

• Survey district.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 14th day of November, 1921.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Opening Lands 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-third day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two; 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 renewable 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.

Waitomo County.—Pakaumanu Survey District.

These sections are situated from nine to twelve miles east of Te Kuiti—five miles by metalled road, four miles formed dray-road, balance at present in course of construction. Undulating to hilly country, well watered by river or streams. Sections 1 and 2 are covered with fern and tea-tree scrub, with broken spurs and cliffs on Mahorehore Stream; remaining sections consist partly of heavy mixed bush country of good quality, with dense undergrowth, and partly of open fern and scrub country of lighter quality. Altitude, 700 ft. to 1,200 ft.

Situated from seven to eleven miles from Kopaki Railway-station (thirteen miles from Te Kuiti), the road being formed for seven miles (to south-western corner of Section 10), and provision has been made for completing formed access to the other sections. Principally undulating to hilly country, Section 10 being steep and broken. Section 1 comprises open land in fern and tea-tree scrub, Sections 7 and 10 partly open land and partly mixed forest which mostly carries a heavy undergrowth. The soil varies from good quality on the forest portions to light sandy pumice on the open portions, resting on sandstone formation. Sections are well watered by river or streams.

Special Conditions.—The right is reserved to the Crown to take a road through Section 7, Block XI, Pakaumanu Survey District, without payment of compensation.

The areas of Sections 3, 4, and 5, Block VI, and Section 7, Block XI, Pakaumanu Survey District, are subject to alteration upon completion of the road survey.

Mangaorongo Survey District.

| 6 | XV | 632 1 28 | 1,700 | 42 10 0 | 34 0 0 |
| 7 | ,, | 679 6 | 2,180 | 54 10 0 | 43 12 0 |

Distant from fourteen to sixteen miles from Otorohanga Railway-station, twelve miles by good road, balance by horse or cart track. Provision has been made for completion of necessary formed access. There are small flats of good quality; but most of the land is undulating to hilly and broken and of light quality. Section 1 is all mixed forest with light undergrowth; Section 7 contains about 80 acres of mixed forest; Sections 3 and 6 are open manuka, scrub, and fern land. All sections are well watered by the Waipa River and streams. Altitude, 200 ft. to 600 ft.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 11th day of November, 1921.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.