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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 60

SCHEDULE.
NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.
Murchison County.—Rahu and Burnett Survey Districts.
Maruia Settlement.

Sections 1s and 2s: Area, 2,519 acres. Capital value, £5,030. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £113 3s. 6d.
Section 3s: Area, 962 acres. Capital value, £2,415. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £54 6s. 9d.
Section 4s: Area, 794 acres. Capital value, £2,345. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £52 15s. 3d.
Section 5s: Area, 824 acres. Capital value, £1,915; buildings, £475. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £43 1s. 9d; half-yearly instalment of interest and sinking fund on buildings, £18 10s. 6d.
Section 7s: Area, 730 acres. Capital value, £1,315. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £29 11s. 9d.
Section 8s: Area, 1,048 acres. Capital value, £1,455. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £32 14s. 9d.
Section 9s: Area, 149 acres. Capital value, £1,805. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £40 12s. 3d.
Section 10s: Area, 178 acres. Capital value, £2,355; buildings, £85. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £52 19s. 9d; half-yearly instalments of interest and sinking fund on buildings, £4 6s. 3d.
Section 11s: Area, 164 acres. Capital value, £2,390. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £53 15s. 6d.
Section 12s and 13s: Area, 385 acres. Capital value, £4,275. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £96 3s. 9d.

IMPROVEMENTS.

The improvements which are included in the capital value of the sections are as follows: Section 1s, fencing, £24; Section 3s, fencing, £95; Section 4s, fencing, £255 10s.; Section 5s, fencing, sheep-dip, and stock-yards, £315; Section 7s, fencing, £130; Section 9s, fencing, £90; Section 10s, fencing, £90; Section 11s, fencing, £70; Section 12s, fencing, £55; Section 13s, fencing, £170.

The improvements which do not go with the land, but which have to be paid for separately by the lessees, are as follows:—

Section 5s.—House, stables, shearing-shed, wool-shed, &c., valued at £475. Payable in cash, or in forty-two half-yearly payments at £18 10s. 6d.; total half-yearly payment on lease, £61 12s. 3d.

Section 10s.—Four-roomed cottage, valued at £85. Payable in cash, or in twenty-eight half-yearly payments of £4 6s. 3d.; total half-yearly payment on lease, £57 6s.

A motor-shed valued at £50, whare £80, and dairy £50, at present on Section 5s will be sold for removal.

DESCRIPTION OF SECTIONS.

Section 1s.—150 acres rough bush country, 150 acres rough open country in grass and scrub, 150 acres open undulating country in scrub, remainder flat tussock and scrub. Soil fair quality; fairly well watered by small stream.

Section 2s.—About 450 acres bush; remainder flat and undulating open country in fern, manuka, and tussock, with scrub on flat. Soil fair quality; fairly well watered by permanent streams.

Section 3s.—330 acres bush country, generally undulating, but rough and steep near eastern boundary; 430 acres open and scrub country, of which about 150 acres is terrace, balance easy sidling; 200 acres river-flat of generally fair quality, covered with light scrub and grass; well watered by permanent streams.

Section 4s.—180 acres generally undulating bush country; 260 acres flat tussock terrace; 260 acres open and scrub sidling of generally poor quality; 90 acres good river-flat, of which 30 acres is undrained swamp. Soil generally fair quality, and good on river-flat; fairly well watered by Shingle Creek and water-race.

Section 5s.—550 acres of generally undulating bush country varying from poor to good; remainder flat, in tussock and grass with the exception of about 100 acres undulating fern and manuka country. Soil generally fair quality; well watered by Station Creek and water-race.

Section 7s.—About 70 acres flat open country in grass; remainder generally undulating bush country, but steep and rough in places. Soil generally fair quality; well watered by permanent streams and Woolley River.

Section 8s.—About 200 acres river-flat of generally good quality, but stony in places; remainder from flat to undulating bush country. Soil poor on hills.

Section 9s.—All flat; about 15 acres bush; remainder open, generally swampy. Soil very good quality; well watered.

Section 10s.—All flat; about 25 acres bush, remainder open land in inferior grass. Soil generally good; well watered.

Section 11s.—All flat; about 10 acres bush, remainder open country in inferior grass. Soil generally good; fairly well watered.

Section 12s.—All flat; about 20 acres bush, remainder open country in inferior grass and rushes. Soil generally good; fairly well watered.

Section 13s.—All flat; about 8 acres bush, remainder partly open land and partly swamp. Soil generally good open land in inferior grass and rushes; indifferently watered by small stream.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

The settlement comprises an area of 7,793 acres, situated on the Maruia River, the main portion being on the eastern bank of the river.

The property has been for many years successfully worked by Messrs. Walker Brothers as a cattle and sheep run. A large proportion of the area is capable of great improvement in the way of draining and bushfelling, &c.

The access to the settlement is either by way of Murchison or Reefton, the distance from Murchison to the most northerly section being thirty-three miles, and the section at the southern end about two miles from the formed road to Reefton, which is forty miles distant.

The main road from Murchison is being improved up to the homestead, and will be formed and improved up to the southern end of the block.

There are three post and telegraph offices situated within the limits of the settlement—viz., Warwick Junction at the northern end, Maruia approximately in the middle, and Koura towards the southern end of the settlement.

A dairy factory is at present in course of erection at Station Creek, situated approximately in the middle of the settlement.

The forest is principally red and brown birch, with some kahikatea in gullies, the scrub being generally horopito, fuchsia, broad-leaf, five-finger, &c. The altitude ranges from 1,040 ft. to 2,263 ft. above sea-level.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General this 5th day of September, 1924.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Lands temporarily reserved in the Westland Land District.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-twenty-first section of the Land Act, 1908, and the sixty-ninth section of the Land for Settlements 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 sections mentioned:

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 temporarily reserve from sale the lands in the Westland Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, for the purposes in the said Schedule specified at the end of the respective descriptions of the lands so intended to be temporarily reserved.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Westland Land District, containing by admeasurement 4 acres 0 roods 14 perches, more or less, being Reserve 181, and being part of Section 1, Poerua Settlement, situated in Block X, Te Kinga Survey District. Bounded towards the north by the other part of Section 1, 630 links; towards the east by Section 2, 719·3 links; towards the south by Reserve 182, 510·2 links; and towards the west by a public road, 725·9 links: be all the aforesaid linkages a little more or less. As the same is more particularly delineated on plan marked L. and S. 1/755, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red. For a recreation reserve.

Also all that area in the Westland Land District, containing by admeasurement 2 acres 1 rood 17 perches, more or less, being Reserve 182, and being part of Section 1, Poerua Settlement, situated in Block X, Te Kinga Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Reserve 181, 510·2 links; towards the east by Section 2, 502·6 links; towards the south by a public road, 425·4 links; and towards the west by a public road, 513 links: be all the aforesaid linkages a little more or less. As the same is more particularly delineated on plan marked L. and S. 1/755A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red. For a resting-place for travelling stock.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 8th day of September, 1924.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.