MAORI LANDS FOR LEASE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13846, 4 September 1908, Page 6

MAORI LANDS FOR LEASE.

THE HELENSVILLE PROPERTY. ■; \V% TELEGRAPH. —SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] ' Weixu.'Gton, Thursday. The official notification of the opening for lea*s of Maori lands in the- Otakanlni Block, ?./:' near;Helen6ville {which was referred to by i " the Native Minister in his reply to the Auckland deputation "which ' waited upon him on Monday last), appears in to-night's Gazette. :'■■ The land, which ie to ft© offered 'k ;■'.-' for a 1 25 years* lease by auction at Helensville on the 25th inst.*, consists of 17 lots, ranging in area from three acre* and 112 acres to 1531 acres. Th* , following deV scription is given of the locality:—"The , ', south-eastern end of the block is situated five miles by road from Hclensville, and Helensville m 38. miles by rail from Auckland. The load is all formed and is (i metalled to within one mile of the bound* •. ar y. : A school and a post office are situv,]// ated a-quarter of. a,; mile from the. boundary and a creamery about three miles. The ■.''■■' ; ;: <. sections .are all .well watered, • the upland • ; of sections 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10; 11, 12, 13, 15, and 16,- consisting' generally of ■ ! a. light, easily-worked toil, on a sandstone ■ bottom, well adapted for turnip-growing ;,',"■ and clover. Water carriage will be avail- ; able for many, of the sections during spring '■-; ■"; tides."' 1 ■■-' ■ " ■''■-.'•' "