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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

No. 76

The rural land enumerated in the Schedule hereto is hereby set apart for selection on renewable lease on Tuesday, the eighth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, at the rental specified in the said Schedule, and shall be deemed to be heavy-bush land.

After the first half-year's rent has been paid by the selector the further instalments of rent payable by him for period of three years shall not be demanded; provided that if at any time during the first five years of his occupancy the selector disposes of his interest in the land the rent so conceded shall be paid by him in full, and thereupon the Land Board may remit such instalments of rent payable by the incoming tenant, not exceeding in the aggregate the amount of rent previously conceded to the selector, as the Board thinks fit.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—WESTPORT HARBOUR ENDOWMENT. SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Buller County.—Mokihinui Survey District.

(Exempt from Rent for Three Years.)

Section 1, Block VII: Area, 996 acres; capital value, £560; half-yearly rent, £11 4s.

Improvements.—The improvements included in the capital value consist of felling and grassing 140 acres, of a total value of £60.

Situated along the sea-coast about three miles north of Mokihinui. Access by one mile and a half of sea-beach and one mile and a half pack-track. With exception of 140 acres of felling, the section is in heavy bush. Soil fair to good on limestone and papa formation. Well watered. Altitude rises to 1,200 ft. above sea-level.

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

F. H. D. BELL, for Minister of Lands.

Opening Lands in Nelson 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 lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Tuesday, the eighth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, at the rentals mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

(Exempt from Rent for Ten Years.)

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT.

Murchison County.—Maruia Survey District.

SECTION 6, Block XVI : Area, 622 acres ; capital value, £295 ; half-yearly rent, £5 18s.

Situated in Maruia Valley, about nineteen miles and a half from Murchison and five miles from Paenga Post-office. Access by eighteen miles of metalled road and one mile and a half of overgrown track. About 25 acres of bush has been felled and sown, but has now run to fern and second growth; balance of section consists of medium to heavy bush. Small flats along creeks, with soil of good quality, fair on hillside, limestone formation; well watered. Altitude, 800 ft. to 1,880 ft. above sea-level.

Section 7, Block XVI : Area, 413 acres; capital value, £185; half-yearly rent, £3 14s.

Situated twenty-one miles from Murchison—seventeen miles by good formed road, then four miles up Pea Soup Creek, where there is no road or formed track, but it is possible to ride a horse up the creek. Small flats along creek; remainder of section hillside, all forest, consisting of mixed birch with a few matai; medium undergrowth of birch scrub and broadleaf. Soil fair loam running to light, on granite and sandstone formation. Well watered. Altitude, 800 ft. to 2,000 ft. above sea-level.

Section 9, Block XII : Area, 544 acres; capital value, £275; half-yearly rent, £5 10s.

Situated in the Maruia Valley, about sixteen miles from Murchison by good formed road. There is a post and tele-

phone office within two miles and a school within three miles of the section. Thirty-four miles from Inangahua Junction Railway-station. Contains about 30 acres good flat land on roadside, balance terrace and hillside. A bush fire has been through 240 acres of the section. Soil good on flat, fair on hillside, partly limestone formation. Medium forest of birch, with white-pine on flats and matai on hillside, with medium undergrowth of birch scrub, horopito, broadleaf, &c. Well watered. General quality fair to good. Altitude, 700 ft. to 1,600 ft. above sea-level.

Section 1, Block XV : Area, 282 acres l rood; capital value, £180; half-yearly rent, £3 12s.

Weighted with £80 10s. valuation for improvements, consisting of 52 chains of fencing, and hut, 20 ft. by 10 ft., and iron chimney.

Situated in Maruia Valley, seventeen miles from Murchison by good metalled road. About 50 acres of bush has been felled and sown, but is now overgrown with fern and second growth; remainder of section bushclad. Soil of good quality on flat, fair on hillside; well watered by small streams. Altitude, 940 ft. to 2,000 ft. above sea-level.

Murchison County.—Burnett Survey District.

Section 8, Block III : Area, 657 acres; capital value, £265; half-yearly rent, £5 6s.

Situated in Mid-Maruia Valley, about twenty-six miles from Murchison—twenty-five miles formed road, one mile pack-track. Section runs from river-flat to high hills, with fair area undulating land, in vicinity of Ruffe's Creek. Soil good on flats, fair on hills, sandstone and granite formation. Forest fairly heavy mixed birch and pine. Not accessible enough to be of value. Fair undergrowth of birch scrub and horopito, little broadleaf, five-finger, &c. Well watered. Elevation, 850 ft. to 2,700 ft. above sea-level.

Sections 1 and 2, Block IV : Area, 1,312 acres; capital value, £655; half-yearly rent, £13 2s.

Weighted with £220, valuation for felling and grassing 220 acres.

Situated in Shennandoah River Valley, thirty miles from Murchison. Access twenty-eight miles good dray-road and two miles pack-track. Soil good on small river-flats, remainder undulating to steep hills; 220 acres felled, burnt, and grassed, but beginning to run to fern; good loam, clayey in places, sandstone formation. Forest medium to heavy of no commercial value, comprising mixed birch, fair undergrowth of birch scrub, with a little horopito and broadleaf. Well watered. Altitude, 1,200 ft. to 2,300 ft. above sea-level.

Sections 4 and 5, Block IV : Area, 723 acres; capital value, £530; half-yearly rent, £10 12s.

Weighted with £80, valuation for improvements, consisting of 110 acres felled and grassed.

Situated in Shennandoah River Valley, about thirty miles from Murchison—twenty-eight miles by formed road, two miles by bridle track. Small flats with fair soil, remainder undulating to hillside. Soil of fair loam, sandstone formation. Forest medium to heavy, but of no commercial value, comprising mixed birch, fair undergrowth of birch scrub, horopito, &c. Well watered. General quality fair to good. Altitude, 1,200 ft. to 2,000 ft. above sea-level.

Section 6, Block IV : Area, 850 acres; capital value, £365; half-yearly rent, £7 6s.

Situated up Pea Soup Creek in the Maruia Valley, twenty-one miles from Murchison—seventeen miles by formed road thence by bridle track. A little flat land along creeks, remainder hillside, bushclad. Soil a fair loam in vicinity of creeks, inferior on hillside, resting on sandstone and granite formation. Medium bush of red, silver, and brown birch with a fair undergrowth. Land inclined to be mossy. Well watered. General quality fair to poor. Altitude, 800 ft. to 2,300 ft. above sea-level.

Section 3, Block IV : Area, 1,000 acres; capital value, £500; half-yearly rent, £10.

Sandstone formation, steep, and carrying heavy birch bush. Situated twenty-eight miles from Murchison by dray-road, one mile by stock-track, and two miles by unformed road.

CROWN LAND.

Murchison County.—Maruia Survey District.

Section 1, Block VII : Area, 1,375 acres; capital value, £830; half-yearly rent, £16 12s.

About 100 acres bush felled, burnt, and sown in grass, but owing to neglect is now to a great extent covered in fern. Soil of fair quality, on sandstone and granite formation. Well watered by permanent streams. A fair amount of low undulating spurs and flat land, covered with forest, principally birch and mixed timber, with usual under scrub. Situated at the head of Glengarry Stream, about sixteen miles from Murchison and eight miles from the junction of the Maruia