2464
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 60

Weighted with £640, valuation for improvements, consisting of four-roomed house, 110 acres felled and grassed, and 160 chains of fencing. This amount is to be paid in cash or may be taken over by way of mortgage to the State Advances Superintendent.

Situated on the Waikaka Road. Access is from Matiere Railway-station, nine miles distant by formed road. Public Works train runs daily from Okahukura to Matiere. Comprises steep country; 400 acres of which have been felled and grassed, but have since gone back to second growth; balance in mixed forest, comprising rimu, tawa, tawhero, rewarewa, and birch. Soil is of medium quality, resting on sandstone and papa formation. Well watered by permanent streams.

Whangamomona County.—Waro Survey District.

Section 9, Block XIII: Area, 120 acres. Capital value, £600. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £15. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £12.

Weighted with £95, valuation for improvements, comprising shed, yards, and old dwelling. This amount is to be paid in cash on the applicant being declared successful.

Situated on the Rerekapa Road. Access is from Tahoma, which is about thirteen miles distant. Soil is of fair quality on sandstone formation. Section is well watered by running streams. About 100 acres has been felled and grassed, but is going back to second growth.

Whangamomona County.—Waro Survey District.

Section 2, Block XIII: Area, 594 acres. Capital value, £300. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £7 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £6.

Weighted with £400, valuation for improvements, comprising 200 acres felled and grassed, 150 chains fencing, and whare; £300 of this amount may be taken over on mortgage to the State Advances Superintendent, the balance of £100 is to be paid in cash.

Section is situated on the Rerekapa Road, ten miles from Tahoma Railway-station. Access is from Whangamomona (twenty-six miles distant) by Moki and Rerekapa Roads, and from Waitara (forty-six miles distant) by Main North, Okau, Kiwi, and Rerekapa Roads. Comprises steep and broken country; about 394 acres bush, consisting of rimu, rata, and totara, with birch on high country. Soil is of a good quality resting on papa and sandstone formation. Well watered by running streams.

Ohura County.—Aria Survey District.

Section 8, Block VI: Area, 484 acres. Capital value, £500. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £12 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £10.

Weighted with £247 10s., valuation for improvements, consisting of whare, 150 acres felled and grassed, and 175 chains of fencing. This amount may be taken over by way of mortgage to the State Advances Superintendent or paid in cash.

Situated on the Waitehena Road. Access is from Ohura, fifteen miles distant. Public Works train service daily from Okahukura to Toitoi, two miles from Ohura, thence by formed dray-road, five miles of which is metalled. Comprises 150 acres felled and grassed, but has all gone back to fern. Balance 334 acres standing bush, chiefly rewarewa, tawhero, and light rimu. Soil is of a medium quality to poor. Well watered by permanent streams.

Whangamomona County.—Pouatu Survey District.

Section 1, Block IX: Area, 1,112 acres. Capital value, £2,445. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £61 2s, 6d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £48 18s.

Situated on the Marco Road, about five miles from Kohuratahi Railway-station, and about one mile from the Stockwell School. Soil is of a good quality on papa formation. Section is well watered.

Improvements.—The improvements included in the capital value comprise whare, fencing, and felling and grassing, of a total value of £1,750.

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

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Opening National-endowment Land in Taranaki Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by the Land Act, 1924, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the national-endowment land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Tuesday, the twenty-ninth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, at the rental mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said land shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—NATIONAL ENDOWMENT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Waitomo County.—Aria Survey District.

SECTION 4, Block VI: Area, 249 acres; capital value, £250; half-yearly rent, £5.

Weighted with £415, valuation for improvements, consisting of four-roomed house, 180 acres felled and grassed, and 120 chains of fencing. This amount may be taken over by way of mortgage to State Advances Superintendent or paid in cash.

Section is situated on the Waitehena Road. Access is from Te Kuiti Railway-station. Motor service twice daily to Aria, nine miles distant, five miles of which are metalled, balance formed clay road. Comprises 249 acres of fairly steep country covered with tawhero, rewarewa, and rimu, with a small percentage of tawa. Soil is of a medium quality. Well watered by permanent stream.

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

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Opening Settlement Land in Taranaki Land District for Selection.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1924, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, and amendments, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the settlement land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Tuesday, the twenty-ninth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, at the rental mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said land shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—SETTLEMENT LAND.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Patea County.—Opaku Survey District.—Rahu Settlement.

SECTION 3, Block VIII: Area, 876 acres; capital value £1,500; half-yearly rent, £33 15s.

Section is situated twenty-two miles from Waverley and sixteen miles from Kohi Dairy Factory and School. Section is of a rough steep nature, 600 acres of which have been felled and grassed, but has since gone back to fern and second growth. Is well watered by running streams.

Improvements.—Improvements included in the capital value comprise dwelling and 25 chains of fencing, valued at £165.

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

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Opening Settlement Land in Taranaki Land District for Selection.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1924, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, and amendments, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the settlement land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Tuesday, the twenty-ninth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, at the rental mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said land shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—SETTLEMENT LAND.

Whangamomona County.—Kohura Settlement.

SECTION 1s: Area, 688 acres; capital value, £5,700; half-yearly rent, £128 5s.