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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 54

SCHEDULE.
HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—SETTLEMENT LAND.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.
Dannevirke County.—Norsewood Survey District.—Glengarry Settlement.

SECTION 30s: Area 16 acres. Capital value, £200; £600*. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £5; £30 6s.†

• Buildings.
  † Half-yearly instalment of principal and interest on buildings comprising woolshed and whare, valued at £600, which must be paid for in cash or in fourteen years by twenty-eight half-yearly instalments of £30 6s. Total half-yearly payment on lease, £35 6s.

Situated about two miles and a half from Dannevirke. The land comprised in this section is generally hilly, the soil being somewhat inferior in quality.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 27th day of July, 1925.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Opening Land in the Hawke’s Bay Land District for Sale or Selection.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1924, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, 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 seventy-six of the said Act, do hereby declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on Wednesday, the ninth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, and also that the land 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 price at which the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE.
HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.
Patangata County.—Porangahau Survey District.

SECTION 2, Block XIII: Area, 567 acres 3 roods. Capital value, £1,500. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £37 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £30.

Weighted with £750, valuation for improvements.

Situated eleven miles from Porangahau by formed road; the Te Uri Road runs through the section. Open country, consisting of easy narrow spurs between rough gullies, about one-quarter of the section being easily ploughable. Well watered. Soil light and indifferently grassed with patches of manuka-scrub. The section was originally portion of the well known Manawaangiangi Block.

Improvements include house, shed, clearing, plantation, and road-boundary and subdivisional fencing.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 17th day of July, 1925.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Opening Lands in the North Auckland Land District for Sale or Selection.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1924, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, 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 seventy-six 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-eighth day of September, 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, 1924.

SCHEDULE.
NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.
FIRST-CLASS LAND.
Waitemata County.—Waitemata Survey District.

SECTION 11, Block XIV: Area, 18 acres 2 roods. Capital value, £405. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £10 2s. 6d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £8 2s.

Section 18, Block XIV: Area, 15 acres 3 roods 30 perches. Capital value, £105. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £2 12s. 6d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £2 2s.

Sections are part of Birdwood Estate, situated between Henderson and Swanson. Access is from Swanson Railway-station, two miles distant, by formed road, half-mile metalled. Altitude, 200 ft. to 300 ft. above sea-level.

Section 11: Country undulating. Has been all ploughed and grassed, but now about 10 acres is going back into scrub and gorse. Clay soil of medium quality. Section watered by small streams, and lies well towards east.

Section 18: Section is of very broken country covered with gorse and hakea, about two-thirds ploughable. Well watered.

Whangarei County.—Purua Survey District.

Section 5, Block II: Area, 21 acres 3 roods 16 perches. Capital value, £25. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, 12s. 6d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, 10s.

Situated on bank of Wairua River about fifteen miles distant from Ruatangata Railway-station from which there is access, twelve miles of metalled cart-road, three miles unformed though accessible cart-road. About four miles distant from Ruatangata West School. Country is level to easy undulating, rising to 100 ft. above sea-level. Section is covered with fern and tea-tree scrub, and is well watered by the Wairua River.

Hobson County.—Tokatoka Survey District.

Section 6, Block XIV: Area, 50 acres. Capital value, £70. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £1 15s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £1 8s.

Situated about four miles from Tikinui Wharf from which access is by roughly formed cart-road for a distance of three miles and a half and by unformed surveyed road for the remaining half mile. There are about 4 acres flat, in rough grass; 3 acres flat, in fern and tea-tree scrub; about 8 acres undulating, in fern and tea-tree scrub; balance 35 acres broken, in fern. Soil is fair loam on sandstone formation on the flat part, balance poor clay land. Fairly well watered by small stream. There is about 25 chains of fencing.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.
Bay of Islands County.—Kawakawa Survey District.

Section 6, Block XV: Area, 98 acres 3 roods 16 perches. Capital value, £200. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £5. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £4.

Situated about one mile east of Otiria Railway-station. Access is from Kawakawa Railway-station, about three miles distant, by formed cart-road. Soil is poorish clay, 30 acres drainable swamp, balance undulating and hilly open scrub country. Country well watered by creeks, and is 25 ft. to 100 ft. above sea-level.

Hokianga County.—Waoku Survey District.

Section 8, Block XII: Area, 190 acres 1 rood 24 perches. Capital value, £145. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £3 12s. 6d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £2 18s.

Situated on old Hokianga-Dargaville Road, access being from Taheke, sixteen miles away, eight miles formed and metalled, balance roughly formed road. All flat, undulating to very steep, and broken country in heavy mixed bush. Soil is dark loam and clay on sandstone formation. Well watered by permanent streams. Elevation 1,500 ft. to 2,000 ft. above sea-level.

Sections 24 and 25, Block XVI: Area, 405 acres. Capital value, £300. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £7 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £6. Weighted with £265, valuation for improvements, comprising felling, grassing, fencing, and building.

Situated on old Hokianga-Dargaville Road on top of Waoku Range, in moss country. Access is from Taheke, fourteen miles and a half distant by road, half of which is formed and metalled and balance formed. Elevation ranges from 1,500 ft. to 2,000 ft. above sea-level. Sections comprise flat and undulating to steep and broken country. Originally heavy mixed bush, but some has been burnt, felled, and grassed. Well watered by several streams.