LANDS FOR SELECTION.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 104, 3 May 1911, Page 9

LANDS FOR SELECTION.

Four blocks of land comprising some 307 acres have been opened for selection

under the optional system and may be I had either for cash, or for occupation j"j ■with right of purchase, or fox renewable lease, at the option of the applicant."' Applications will close at the District ' Xiands Offi-ee, Auckland, at 4 p.m. on May 22. Block I: About 222 acres of undu- J lating -land situated in the Ohinemuri ( County, and covered with manuka and:, fern. The soil is clayey, resting on slate I ■formation, and badly watered. The sec-1 ■ tion is about sixteen miles from Morrins- i, ville by cart road. Block 2: The section ( comprises some 52 acres; a mixture of ] swampy flat and undulating land. The ( i soil is good in the swamp, poor on the ] hills, and is well watered fey a.; lake. It I , is eituated in the Waifcato Gpjmty. about '" three miles from Ngaruawahia by formed cart road. Block 3: 47 acres of fairly • level land situated in the'Wiumgaroa' County, about half fern and-scrab, and half swatop. "The soil'is of a poor sec-'' ( ond-olass quality, being a worked biit • gumfield. , Situated about eight miles . from Kaeo by'iair road.' Block: About ' 45 acres of fern, land, situated in the.. Raglan County, about 12 miles from Huntry. The land is fair .to poor in quality, and- well watered. Preference, "will be given to landless applicants.