THE PYRAMID AND-OKAPUA HUNDREDS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1340, 4 August 1877, Page 10

THE PYRAMID AND-OKAPUA HUNDREDS.

At the last meeting^ of .the .Waste -Lands Board the following'rep'pft was readj:^-" ' Survey Office, Dunedin^; ' ', 1 «.«■:•• July ,25th, 1877. To the Commissioner of Crown Ls&lus. , r Deferred Payment .Land at MaHur^River. The survey of rthis land.w all completedtnow, and I. have sent you -maps of and XL, Chatton district^ being portions f otiokapua Hundred, and map. of -block L^OWiadis. • trict, within the Pyramid Hundred. -"See. several tracings attached, where the" Pyramid, 'Wendon, and Okapua Hundreds are tinged brown— total acreage, -28,900 acres. -, , * As to the- quality of the land, all that along the Mataura River is suitable for deferred payments, excepting about 2000 .acres Mrough country at , the Pyramid, which might .advantageously be sold. The deferred payment land is in 200-acre_ sections or :thereby,, r and the rough land round, Pyramid HilV above referred to is in larger sections-r-it is m.blockjllL* Valuation, of improvements, of /sections will be sent you forthwith, and mapa of remaining blocks which are being prepared Jfor^thVjJand Office. All above hundreds are within Invercargill registration district. . - ~ r ■ W. Abthdb,- / - Chief' Surveyor. The Board resolved that, in terms of .section 47 0f the Otago Waste Lands' Act,' p.B72, the 7th 'section of- the Otago- Waste Lands Administration Act, 1876, and tie. Bth and 59tj^ sections of the Waste Lands Administration »Acti 1876, the several allotments mentioned iR block L, II:, and' 1111, Otama, and' in blocks X., XL, and XIL,> Chaiton district/, be sot apart for license on deferred' payments, ta be open' for application on- the sth September next, and that the approval' of His Excellency the Governor be requested in terms' of the sections above quoted : and that sections 19, 20, 21, 22, 25,: 26,- and 27, block 111. 1 , Otama district, be sold as land of special value -atthe upset price-of' 3os 'per acre and valuation^ of improvements added, the same having, been improved by fencing. • -' ' v ,- * ' -~ r