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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 79

in respect of the above-mentioned loan pay annually to the Waipa County Council on the thirty-first day of July in each and every year during the currency of the said loan the above-mentioned amount of two pounds nine shillings and fivepence as its duly proportionate part of the interest and other charges payable in respect of the said loan.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General this 18th day of November, 1924.

F. H. D. BELL,
For the Minister of Finance.

Opening Lands in the Gisborne 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 on 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 Tuesday, the thirteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, 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.

GISBORNE LAND DISTRICT.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Opotiki County.—Opotiki Survey District.

SECTION 8, Block XII: Area, 442 acres 2 roods. Capital value, £445. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £11 2s. 6d. Renewable lease, half-yearly rent, £8 18s.

Weighted with £275 valuation for improvements, consisting of approximately 200 acres grassing, 110 chains fencing, and concrete dip, &c.

Situated at head of Otara Valley, at the junction of Pakihi and Te Waiti Roads. Nine miles and a half from Opotiki by good metalled road. Steep broken country; elevation 70 ft. to 2,000 ft. above sea-level; 260 acres at one time felled, but 60 acres of this back in light bush and balance in fern with grass through portions of it; about 180 acres in bush, too steep for felling. Soil poor. Bush fairly heavy, principally tawa, with birch on ridges. Well watered by running streams.

Opotiki County.—Waiawa Survey District.

Section 8, Block XIII: Area, 204 acres. Capital value, £205. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £5 2s. 6d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £4 2s.

Weighted with £280 valuation for improvement, consisting of 30 acres grassing, approximately 100 chains fencing, and house and outbuildings.

Altitude, 70 ft. to 1,500 ft. above sea-level. Situated in Otara Valley at junction of Pakihi and Te Waiti Roads, nine miles and a half from Opotiki by good metalled road. Steep broken country with poor shady aspect. Approximately 170 acres felled at one time, but only about 30 acres in grass at present; balance gone back to high fern and second growth. Soil on frontage fair, balance poor. Forest, heavy mixed timber, principally tawa with birch on ridges. Well watered by good streams. Good homestead-site.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Opotiki County.—Opotiki Survey District.

Section 1, Block XII: Area, 134 acres 1 rood 22 perches. Capital value, £100. Occupation with right of purchase: half-yearly rent, £5. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £4.

Section originally covered with bush which has been felled, but land has gone back to fern and scrub. Steep and broken section, with a bad frontage and no building-site. Altitude, 500 ft. to 2,000 ft. above sea-level. Situated about six miles from Opotiki.

Opotiki County.—Waioeka Survey District.

Section 4, Block VIII: Area, 1,128 acres 2 roods. Capital value, £700. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £17 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £14.

Weighted with £520, valuation for improvements, comprising felling and grassing 375 acres and fencing. This amount will require to be paid in cash unless the successful applicant can arrange with the State Advances Office to allow part to remain on mortgage.

Section situated about eighteen miles from Opotiki; nine miles by good road, balance up the bed of the Tutaetoko Stream. Elevation ranges from 600 ft. to 3,000 ft. above sea-level. Section comprises steep, rough, broken country originally covered with heavy mixed bush, of which 350 acres has been felled and grassed; the pasture has gone back, and there is a quantity of sweet fern, bidi-bidi, and bracken in the clearing.

Section 7, Block IV: Area, 1,327 acres. Capital value, £700. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £17 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £14.

Weighted with £165, valuation of improvements comprising whare, fencing, grassing, and sheepyards.

Section is situated on Te Waiti Stream, about twelve miles from Opotiki, ten miles by dray-road, balance bridle-track. Homestead-site about one mile and a half further upstream. Elevation ranges from 100 ft. to 2,000 ft. above sea-level. There is between 12 and 15 acres of flat and terrace land along the frontage; balance steep and broken country; poor soil, resting principally on volcanic formation; about 150 acres has been felled—of this, between 20 and 30 acres along frontage is in fair grass, balance covered with fern, bidi-bidi, and second growth.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 20th day of November, 1924.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Land temporarily reserved in the Canterbury Land District for a Site for a Public-school.

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 section 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 land in the Canterbury Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, for a site for a public-school.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 4 acres 2 roods 14 perches, more or less, situated in Block X, Christchurch Survey District, being Reserve 4117, formerly Lot 3 of Subdivision of Section 17, Avonhead No. 2 Settlement, bounded as follows: On the west by Lot 16, Avonhead No. 2 Settlement, 473·1 links; on the north by Lot 2, 963·8 links; on the east by Avonhead Road, 465·9 links; and on the south by Lot 13, Avonhead Settlement, 971·5 links: be all the said linkages more or less. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 6/6/394, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 21st day of November, 1924.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Inspector of Scenic Reserve appointed.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section four of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, I John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

Percy Harold Edward Surrey

to be an Inspector under the said Act in respect to the scenic reserve described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

PUKERANGIORA PA SCENIC RESERVE.

ALL that area in the Taranaki Land District, containing by admeasurement 36 acres, more or less, and being part of