IMPORTANT SALE OF CROWN LANDS WELLINGTON PROVINCE.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1735, 6 September 1875, Page 2

IMPORTANT SALE OF CROWN LANDS WELLINGTON PROVINCE.

We desire to draw the attention of intending farmers and investors to an exceedingly important sale of very fertile land, situated in Wellington province, which, as notified in another column, is to be held at the Provincial Crown Lands Office in Wellington on the 21st of the present month. Its situation, described as being between Mungaroa and Waikanae, will be knowa from the intimation that the block is within twenty miles of the city, and within three miles of the intended site of the Upper Hutt Railway Station. Besides the advantages of this proximity, a road is in course of construction from the station right through the block to open up the western districts of the province, so as to avoid the celebrated, or rather nd* torious, Paikakariki Hill. The lots for sale are on the east and west sides of this road, and all possess a frontage to it; and it is anticipated that a branch line of railway will ultimately be formed, of eighteen miles in length, by the same route reaching to the West Coast, and opening up a most valuable district. We clip the following description of the country from an article which appears in the Post of a recent date:—" The lands to be traversed by this road or railway, of which the 11,000 acres about to be sold form only a very small part, vary in quality but include much of a valuable kind. From the main road at Mungaroa to the Hutt river it consists of flat or terrace land covered with birch, rimu, and naatai timber, while between the Hutt river and the Teakatarawa stream there is a flat strip also covered with the same kinds of timber. Again, in other places the road line passes through table land timbered with black and red birch, varied further on by a steep sidling with pretty flats on the top and terraces at the base. Westward of a locality known as the ' Black Creek' the country opens into a valley of gradually incroasing width, .watered by a large stream running through it. The land is of good quality and timbered with rimu, matai, and totara. Further eastwards from the ' Blind Creek' the country opens out to a considerable extent, and in a south-easterly direction no hills appear for a long way back. In other parts westward, some steep hills are found with valleys situated between them. These valleys consist of very rich soil and contain abundance of the best sawing timber. They would be admirably adapted +o form the sites of small farm settlements. The numerous

streams by which these valleys are watered all possess sufficient power to work sawmills ; and with the country opened np by roads, the demand for sawn timber would be practically unlimited. It may be added that the road line, as laid out, presents very few difficulties; that the cuttings are m nearly all cases only sidelings; and that the gradients, which, as before stated, do not exceed i in 20, could, in most cases, be reduced nearly to a level by increasing the leDgth of the road or deepening the cuttings. It will be obvious that these lands will acquire a high value when the district has opened up by the means indicated. The sections vary m size from 150 to 228 acres each, the average being about 200 acres. The upset price is low, being 10s per acre, or from £77 to £112 for each section, accordipg to size. Each section, when put up to auction, will be sold to the highest bidder while any sections remaining unsold can afterwards be taken up by intending purchasers at the upset price. Besides this sale of rural agricultural land, the same event gives opportunity for investment in properties in some of the most rising . centres of population in that province, and altogether this sale of lands is one <uf the most attractive and important for intending settlers and bona fide investors that have been presented for a long time.