THE PYRAMID AND OKAPUA HUNDREDS.

Clutha Leader, Volume IV, Issue 160, 3 August 1877, Page 5

THE PYRAMID AND OKAPUA HUNDREDS.

4> At Wednesday's meeting of the Wasto Lands Board the following report was read : — Survey Office, Dunedin, J uly 25th, 1377. To the Commissioner of Crown Lands-). Deferred Payment Land at Mabuur-t Kiver, The survey of this land is all completed now, and 1 have sent you maps of biuuk K. uud XI., Chatr.ou district, being portions of OKapua Hundred, and map of block L, Utaina district/wittim tho Pyramid Hundred. Sco several tracings attached, whore tho Pyramid, Wendou, 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 igv deferiecl payments, excepting about iiOOO acres rough country at tho Pyramid, whioh might advantageously bo Bold. The deterred payment land is in 200 -acre sections or thereby, and tbe rou^h laud round Pyramid Hill above referred to is ih larger sections— ifc' is in block HI. . . Valuation of improvements of sections wilt bo sent you forthwith aud maps pf' remaining" b'lpcka which are being prepared for tho Land OlHce. All abpve hundreds are within lnvuicurgill registration district. " ' '• W. Aktiiur, (Jln-.-f i-juryoyor. The Board resolved that, in forms of section 47 of the Otago --Vaste Lands Act, L 872, the 7th section of the Otago Wasto Lands Administration Act, 187,0,, and the Sth and yhth sections of the Waste Lands Administration Act, 187*3, the several allotments mentioned in block 1. , 11. , and 111., Ofcama, and in blocks X., XL, and XII. , Chatton district, be sut apart for license on deferred payments, to 'be open tor application on the otn Hop comber next, and that the approval of tiis Jiixeeliuncy fche Goyernoi be requested in terms of thu sections above quoted ; and that sections 19, 20, 21, 22, 2d, 20, and 27, block 111., Otai-ia tUsonct, Oo sold as land of spcuat, value at tiie ;.****«-g price of ')0,-> per a<..iv. and vaiuiiriou of J--*-j.*i*'jYeiii..'iH.b jtadud, Liv s-iuio jii:v*iity h'.'.vn linpx-oved by fiCHiin:..*-