Oct. 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1481

SCHEDULE.

Description of the above Lands.

Waimate: Block I., parts of the land known as the Continuous Native Reserve. The sections front to cleared road-lines, running back into the bush. The land is partly open and partly bush.

Opunake: Block XIII., from three to four miles south-east of Opunake Town, by coach-road. The land is level, mostly open, with background of bush.

Oeo: Block I., open level land, on the coach-road south-east of Opunake.

Kaupokonui: Block XI. lies behind the Continuous Reserve. It is eight to ten miles from the Eltham Railway-station, and the same distance from Manaiia, being connected to both places by a cleared road-line. The land is level, all bush, and well watered, and very suitable for settlement.

Kaupokonui: Block XII., inland of the Waimate Plains, west of the Waingongoro Stream and Eltham Railway-station. From Eltham and other points roads have been opened up to this land, which is on the railway-line from Waitara and New Plymouth to Hawera. With the exception of a few rata, the bush consists mainly of soft woods and other light timber, and can easily be cleared. The country is well watered, and is admirably adapted for conversion into grass lands.

Kaupokonui: Blocks XIII. and XIV. lie behind, and also form part of, the Continuous Native Reserve to the east of the Oeo River. The land is level, all bush, and well watered.

Ngaiire: Block V. lies to the westward of the Waingongoro River, and is connected with the railway-line by cleared road-lines. The bush is mainly light timber, soft woods, and a few rata; and the land is well watered.

Ngaiire: Block IX. is similar to Block XII., Kaupokonui.

Terms of Sale: One fourth of the purchase-money to be paid on application, and the balance to the Receiver of Land Revenue at Patea or Hawera within one calendar month from date of application, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited, and the contract for the sale of the land thenceforth will be null and void. Crown-grant fees to be paid on completion of the purchase. In the event of two or more applications for the same land being made on the same day, the upset price at which such land shall be put up at auction shall be the price stated above.

Coloured lithographic plans of the above sections are on view at the Land Offices throughout the colony.

C. A. WRAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands for the West Coast Land District (North Island).

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.

In order to give new pastoral lessees time to make arrangements, the licenses will, in terms of the Land Acts, be sold by public auction, at the Land Office, Dunedin, in the latter end of February, 1883, twelve