1814
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 104

Terms of Payment.—With the application for deferred-payment sections, one-twentieth of the upset price; the balance in half-yearly instalments, extending over ten years. For the cash sections, one-fourth at the fall of the hammer, and the balance, with Crown-grant fee, within one month from day of sale.

The Harbour Board Block is covered with valuable timber, including totara. Settlement on the block is satisfactorily progressing, twenty-six sections having been purchased. Approachable by good roads. Distance from Palmerston, about fourteen miles.

The Tokomaru sections are undulating and hilly, well watered, and accessible by roads formed and in progress. The growth of timber is light, interspersed with fern; the soil good. Distance from Wanganui, about thirteen miles.

Lithographed maps and schedules are in course of preparation, and when ready for distribution notice will be given by newspaper advertisements.

Jos. G. Holdsworth,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale of Crown Lands, Hawke’s Bay Land District.

Crown Lands Office,
Napier, 7th November, 1882.

NOTICE is hereby given that the lands referred to in the Schedules hereunder will be offered for sale by public auction, at the Council Chamber, Napier, on Wednesday, the 13th December next, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon.

Terms and conditions may be ascertained on application at this office.

J. T. Tylee,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE OF SUBURBAN SECTIONS, AWATOTO, FOR SALE FOR CASH.

The above sections are situated between two and three miles from Napier, on the Main South Road, each having a frontage to the railway-line.

SCHEDULE OF LANDS WHICH HAVE BEEN CLASSIFIED UNDER “THE LAND ACT, 1882,” FOR SALE FOR CASH.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

TAHORAITE SURVEY DISTRICT.

| IX. | 21 | 200 0 0 | 200 0 0 |

Description.—The lands in the Woodville and Tahoraite Districts are agricultural and pastoral forest, about five miles from Woodville, to which access is given by roads cleared and formed. The distance from Napier is about ninety miles, of which seventy-one miles are by rail.

TAKAPAU SURVEY DISTRICT.

| VI. | 2 | 85 3 38 | 86 0 0 |
| | 8 | 44 0 30 | 88 7 6 |
| | 10 | 43 2 0 | 87 0 0 |
| X. | 3 | 44 2 16 | 89 4 0 |

Description.—Norsewood District: Mixed forest, some good agricultural land where level, the hilly parts suited for pastoral purposes; distance from Napier about seventy-two miles, of which sixty-five miles are by rail.

Takapau District: Forest land, with some good timber; soil generally light; situated between Ormondville and Kopua. Section 3 has a frontage to the railway-line.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

NORSEWOOD SURVEY DISTRICT.

| III. | 21 | 138 2 0 | 69 5 0 |

MAUNGAHARURU SURVEY DISTRICT.—POHUI BUSH.

| IX. | 16 | 25 1 6 | 12 13 0 |

Description.—The section at Pohui Bush is pastoral land, partly bush, partly open, distant about one mile from Napier-Taupo Road.

SCHEDULE OF LANDS FOR SALE ON DEFERRED PAYMENTS.

BUSH MILLS SPECIAL SETTLEMENT.

| | 17 | 150 0 0 | 150 0 0 |
| | 18 | 150 0 0 | 150 0 0 |

Description.—The Bush Mills Settlement is in the Woodville District, about two and a half miles from the township.

NORSEWOOD SURVEY DISTRICT.

| III. | 16 | 74 1 0 | 111 7 6 |
| | 28 | 50 0 0 | 90 0 0* |
| VI. | 3 | 50 0 0 | 62 10 0 |
| | 5 | 50 0 0 | 125 0 0† |

• £15, which must be paid in cash at sale, added for improvements.
  † £50, which must be paid in cash at sale, added for improvements.

SMALL-FARM ALLOTMENT, KUMEROA.

| III. | 11 | 9 3 26 | 55 5 8* |

• £30 10s., which must be paid in cash at sale, added for improvements.

Sale of Pastoral Leases of Crown Lands.—Preliminary Notice.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 20th September, 1882.

ONE million seven hundred and fifty thousand acres of Crown lands will shortly be open for pastoral lease in the Provincial District of Otago, New Zealand.

This country is at present held under lease in forty-six runs until the 1st March, 1884, and will again be offered in runs suitable to the nature of the country; but no lessee will be allowed to take up more than will carry twenty thousand sheep or four thousand head of cattle.

The leases will be for a term of years to be hereafter determined; but in no case will any lease be for a period exceeding twenty-one years.

Compensation for improvement up to three years’ rental will be allowed at the end of the lease.