Government Land Bales. PROCLAMATION. j By his Honor Donald M'Lean, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Hawke's Bay, in the Islands of New Zealand. WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly, intituled "The Hawke's Bay Waste Land Regulations Amendment Act, 1865," it is enacted that all waste lands of the Crown in the said Province not heretofore proclaimed as open for selection or sale, shall, before being proclaimed as open for selection or sale, be classified as follows by the Commissioner of Crown Lands : — Class 1 shall comprise lands suitable for townships or for special settlement. Class 2 shall comprise lands suitable for agricultural settlement. Class 3 shall comprise land suitable for pastoral purposes. And whereas there are no lands within the boundaries of the land described in the Schedule hereunto annexed suitable for townships, or for special settlement, or for agricultural settlement ; And whereas by the said Act it is further enacted that all the lands comprised in Class 3 aforesaid shall be divided into blocks suitable for runs, and offered for lease for terms of fourteen years by public auction — Now, therefore, I, the said Donald M'Lean, Superintendent of the Province of Hawke's Bay, do hereby notify and proclaim that the land comprised in the said First Schedule, hereunto annexed, will be offered to be leased by public auction, for a term of fourteen years, at the Crown Lands Office in Napier, on Thursday, the twentythird day of April next, at noon, in the lots set forth in the Second Schedule, hereunto annexed, and that the person who shall bid the highest for each lot shall become the lessee of the same ; and I further notify that the sums of money set against each lot shall represent the lowest rent which will be accepted for each lot. Dated this twenty-first day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight. DONALD M'LEAN, Superintendent. SCHEDULE No. 1. Description of Runs to be Leased. All that parcel of land, containing about 9000 acres, more or less, of the Nuhaka Block. The boundaries are as following: — Towards the north by 39*0 parallel of latitude, forming the northern boundary of the Province of Hawke's Bay ; towards tho east by native land, the Kapuawhara Block, and by that portion known by the name of Ihaka's Reserve ; towards the south by the sea, and by the eastern portion of the Rural Section of Waihua ; and towards the west by the said sections and by the Nuhaka River. All that parcel of land in the Wairoa District, containing by admeasurement 5300 acres, more or less. Boundaries : — Towards the north by Rural Section of Turiroa, Nos. 9, 10, 11, and 12 ; east, by Rural Section of Wairoa, Nos. 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 ; south, by Rural Section of Potutu, from Nos. 1 to 15 inclusive ; and west, by Crown land and Rural Section of Turiroa, Nos. 27, 33, and 35. Also all that parcel of land, in the district aforesaid, containing by admeasurement about 9000 acres, more or less. Boundaries : — Towards the north, by the boundary of the province, latitude 39*0 south ; towards the east, by Rural Sections of Turiroa, Nos. 22, 24, 26, 30, 31, 34, and 36, and by Crown land ; towards the south, by Rural Sections Nos. 17 and 18, Waihua ; towards the south-west and west, by the back line of the Rural Sections of tho Waihua and the Waihua River. All that parcel of land, containing 1000 acres, more or less, known as the Moeangiangi Reserve. Boundaries : — Towards the north and south, by portion of the Moeangiangi Block ; east, by the sea ; and west, by the road from Napier to the Wairoa. Exclusive of a reserve, containing about 10 acres, near the mouth of the Moeangiangi River. All that parcel, known as the Mangaharuru Block, containing by admeasurement 7760 acres, more or less, situated on the eastern slope qf the Mangaharuru Range, bounded — north, by native land ; east, by the Te-Awa-te-Matea Stream, the Opawehe Lake, and Waipapa Stream ; and towards the south by native land. SCHEDULE No. 2. Schedule of Runs to be Leased by Auction, at the Crown Lands Office, at Napier, at noon on Thursday, 23rd of April, 1868. NuJiaka Block. Upset price. Lot 1.— 9000 acres ... £18 15s. annum Wairoa District. Lot 2.— 5300 acres ... £11 W annum Lot 3. — 9000 acres ... £18 15s. r 4P annum Moeangiangi Reserve. Lot 4. — 1000 acres ... £2 2s. '$■ annum Mangahururu Block. Lot 5. — 7760 acres ... £16 3s. V- annum 247 PROCLAMATION. By Donald M'Lean, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Hawke's Bay, in the Islands of New Zealand. I DONALD M'LEAN, Superintendent , of the Province of Hawke's Bay, do hereby proclaim that a sale of Crown lands will take place at the Crown Lands Office, Napier, on Thursday, March 12, 1868, at noon precisely, when the allotments of land specified in the Schedule hereunto annexed, except such as may be reserved under the provision hereinafter mentioned, and which have been duly certified by the Commissioner of Crown Lands, on the application of intending purchasers, as being unavailable for agricultural purposes, will be put up to public auction, at the upset price of ss. per acre, in accordance with the Land Regulations of the 4th of March, 1863, and the additional regulations for the amendment and extension of the said regulations recommended by the Superintendent and the Council for the Province of Wellington (session 2) to the Governor. If at any time during the sale it may appear to the Commissioner of Crown Lands beneficial or expedient for the public service to reserve from sale either of the sections t specified in the said Schedule, or to vary the order in which they are to be put up, he is hereby authorised to do so. Dated this twentieth day of January, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight. DONALD M'LEAN, Superintendent. Schedule of Unagiucultural Land to go to Auction at the Crown Lands Office at Napier, on Thursday, 12th March, 1868, at noon. Kapuawhara Block. Application No. Lot. Acres. 1792 139 300 1797 1140 80 1797 1141 170 1806 1142 100 1808 1143 264 914 J. C. LAMBTON CARTER, 248 Commissioner of Crown Lands.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 12, Issue 919, 22 February 1868, Page 4
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