SELWYN SETTLEMENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13049, 14 December 1905, Page 5

SELWYN SETTLEMENT.

Applications for. leases in connection with ; "r-a, Selwyn sottlemcn' - will bo received at tho \ i Crown Lands Office up to four p.m. on Monday next, -and applicants, who are expected ; to be very numerous, arc required to appear personally at the Land Board meeting on Thursday, December 21, for examination as to bonafides. and suitability. The first ballot for allotments for which there &ro more <*"f - than ous applicant wi'l be held on I'Viday, . December 22, at ten a.m. ' .. . The southern portion of Qelwyu nettle- ./■> ttent, which is the portion to be thrown j . - open immediately, has been subdivided i'ito V. dairy farms, ordinary farms, snu i! grazing runs, and village allotments. The farms and village allotments are for lease for 999 years, - 1 , and the email grazing runs are for lease for 21 years, with the right of renewal at a yearly rental equal to five per cent, on the then unimproved value for a 'further period tfe£Cof;2l years. The portion to be thrown open consists of 50,937 acres 15 perches, lying img-: ' f fiifedi&tely south of the Auckland-Rotorua j line, the Taumangi station being at 137 mil*-", ; and the Putaruru station at 140 miles from ' Auckland. Tho quality of the soil is stated y to vary considerably. On the north side of the Waotu-l'ufjiiruru Road the soil is fair >. | < to Very. good, resting on sandstone formation, r/.v.#nd is liable for dairying. Between Pais . taruru and Lichfield tho soil is not of such quality, and will require proper manur- . Ipß- "ii lher«; aro servo dairy farms, . • varyirs from 30) .-.re- "J '675 <•;:««>• 1* orui- /; liary farms, varying from 58^acres to '1065 Ituality, and will require varying from 1 f»:- all there aro sew?u dairy farms, g from SOI ,r jre. ic 5V3 14 oruiarms* varying from 584 acres to 1065 10- small grazing runs, varying from ■.: / 2SB*cr«B to 5620 acres, and 151 village allot-1 r £rom i acre to 10 aires. ' |