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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 5

DESCRIPTION.

Situated five miles from Nightcaps Railway-station and two miles from Opio. Altitude 600 ft. to 700 ft. Open undulating land of only medium quality. Suitable for grazing.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 21st day of January, 1930.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

Opening Settlement Land in Southland 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, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, and amendments, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, 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 Acts.

SCHEDULE.

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

Southland County.—Brydone Settlement.

SECTION 1s: Area, 152 acres. Capital value, £2,740. Half-yearly building instalment, £21 9s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £68 10s. Loading for buildings, £550.

Section 2s: Area, 202 acres 2 roods. Capital value, £2,830. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £70 15s.

IMPROVEMENTS.

The improvements included in the capital values are as follows, and comprise boundary and subdivisional fences, boundary and internal ditches, &c.:

Section 1s: Fencing valued at £107 5s., and ditches valued at £8 15s.

Section 2s: Fencing valued at £79 12s. 6d., ditches at £39, and concrete trough at £5.

The improvements not included in the capital value, but which have to be paid for separately, are:—

Section 1s: Four-roomed house, barn, cart-shed, and wool-shed with electric light, cowbyre and shed with power-line, yards, and dip, &c., valued at £550. This amount is payable in cash or by forty-two half-yearly instalments of £21 9s. Total half-yearly payments on lease £89 19s.

DESCRIPTION.

Brydone Settlement is situated on the main road from Invercargill to Gore, on the east side of the main north railway, one mile from Brydone Dairy Factory and school, and four miles from Mataura. Altitude, 130 ft. to 180 ft. above sea-level. Suitable for dairying.

Section 1s comprises about 102 acres of level terrace land of first-class quality, mostly in fairly new pasture recently top-dressed, and about 50 acres of inferior land at a lower level, carrying good rough grazing. Well subdivided by about 150 chains of internal fences.

Section 2s comprises approximately 161 acres of level terrace land of good quality; about 18 acres of inferior land at a lower level, and some 20 acres of swamp. An area of about 3 acres near the south-east corner has been lost by erosion. Well subdivided by internal fences. Of the good-quality land, part is in good pasture and part in grain crops. About 42 acres of the land in oats has also been sown in grass.

CROPS.

The grain crops are the property of the former owner, who has the right of access until the 15th April, 1930, for the purpose of removing same.

GENERAL.

Possession will be given on the 1st April, 1930, from which date the rent will commence.

Successful applicants, however, will be permitted to take fencing and building material on to their holdings after the 1st of March, 1930.

The areas as shown on sale plan are subject to slight alteration on completion of survey.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 21st day of January, 1930.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

Revoking Warrants reserving for a Bridge Reserve part Section 46, Suburbs of Mangere, North Auckland Land District.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by Warrant dated the second day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, and published in the Gazette of the ninth day of that month, portion of Section 46, Suburbs of Mangere (erroneously referred to in the said Warrant as Section 46, Suburbs of Mangere), containing two acres three roods, was purported to be temporarily reserved for a bridge reserve pursuant to section two hundred and twenty-seven of the Land Act, 1885:

And whereas by Warrant dated the seventeenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, and published in the Gazette of the twenty-fourth day of that month, the said land was purported to be permanently reserved for the purpose hereinbefore referred to, pursuant to section two hundred and twenty-eight of the Land Act, 1885:

And whereas the said land has been treated as a public road and dealt with as such; and doubts have arisen as to the validity of the reservation for bridge purposes by virtue of the Warrants of reservation hereinbefore referred to, and it is desirable that the said Warrants should be revoked in so far as they affect the said land:

Now, therefore, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section five of the Land Act, 1924, do hereby revoke the said Warrants in so far as they relate to the said part Section 46, Suburbs of Mangere.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 28th day of January, 1930.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

Lands temporarily reserved in the Wellington Land District for Recreation Purposes.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-fifty-ninth section of the Land Act, 1924, and the seventy-first section of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, it is enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time set apart temporarily as reserves, 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, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the said Acts, do hereby set apart temporarily as reserves the lands in the Wellington Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, for recreation purposes.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—BOROUGH OF LOWER HUTT.

ALL that area in the Borough of Lower Hutt, Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 3 roods 3·9 perches, more or less, being Section 53, Block XLVII, Hutt Valley Settlement, and being portion of Section 12, Hutt Registration District, Block XIV, Belmont Survey District: As the same is delineated on plan numbered 169/16, deposited in the Wellington District Office, Department of Lands and Survey, and thereon bordered red.

Also all that area in the Borough of Lower Hutt, Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 4 acres 0 roods 33·53 perches, more or less, being Section 9, Block XXXVIII, Hutt Valley Settlement, and being portion of Section 22, Hutt Registration District, Block XIV, Belmont Survey District: As the same is delineated on plan numbered 169/23, deposited in the Wellington District Office, Department of Lands and Survey, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 28th day of January, 1930.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.