HOROWHENUA BLOCK.—TOWNSHIP OF LEVIN.

Manawatu Herald, 24 December 1889, Page 3

HOROWHENUA BLOCK.— TOWNSHIP OF LEVIN.

last Gazette notifies that "Suburban Sections Nos 38 contain ing 4 acres, Nos 39 to 43 containing 5 acres each. No 60 containing 20 acres, and Nos 61 to 63 containing 15 acros each, have been set apart for a village settlement under the terms mentioned in 167 th section of " The Land Act 1885. " The following account is stated to be the description of land : — The ser 'ions in the Horowhenu* Block rre ai uated in the Hoiowhemu 1). strict, on the Wellington Manawatu Railway, at Levin sixty miles from Wellington and twenty eight miles f torn Prtlrp.erston North. The f.tea is nearly level ; the soil varios from fair to good. The whole aroi is covered by a mixed forest, including -naatai, tawa, limn, 'and usual underjgvowth, which has been cut inio and utilised for Bartholomew and Dunn's saw-mill. There are no permanent ■watercourses ; wells have been sunk on the railway-lino and Suburban Section 58, aud good water obtained at depths between 20ft. and 40ft. The block is situated in the centre of one of the most extensive and ifortile tracts of flat country between the Manawatu and Wellington ; it is intersected by the county rood, and is contiguous to the Horo - wheuua Lake, a ftno picturesque sheet of water about two miles long by one mite in width. The sea-coast is only six miles off, and has one of tin tinest sandy beaches in the fcolony. The general elevation of the flats varies from 100 ft. to 200 f . above the Jsea, and the climate is equable and most favourable; ihe capabilities of the count ly for all pui* j poses of agriculture, dairy farming, fruit-growing, mai'ket-gardening-, ■&c, can hardly be exaggerated, and it may be anticipated that the district is destined to be one of the "richest and most densely-populated parts of the colony The following are the most important conditions, ex?ept, that no perron shall by ailowed to apply for or select more than one allotment : — The lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be opened as smallfarm allotments for sale or selection either for cash, or on deferred payments, or on perpetual le ise. The day upon which the lands shall be open for sale or selection Bhall be Friday, the thirty-first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety. The purchaser for cash of any of the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto must deposit with the Re. ceivor of Land Revenue for the land district one-fifth of the purchasemoney at the time of application, and shall pay the who'e remainder of the purchase-money within thirty days of the granting of his applicaion; and if not paid within thirty days his deposit shall be forfeited, and the lauds shall be again open for sale or occupation forthwith ; and upon full payment of the pnrchasemoney he wi'lbe entitled to a Crown (jrant, to be issued in. the usual way.