Jan. 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 35

SCHEDULE III.
LANDS TO BE SOLD ON DEFERRED PAYMENTS.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
Crown Lands Office, Christchurch,
7th December, 1883.

Crown Lands in Waitara Block for Lease.

Crown Lands Office,
Napier, 15th December, 1883.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Rural Lands mentioned in the Schedule hereunder will be offered for lease by public auction, at the Council Chamber, Napier, on Thursday, the 17th January next, at the hour of noon.

Lithograph plans of the block may be obtained and conditions ascertained on application at this office.

HORACE BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.

26,736 ACRES OF THE WAITARA BLOCK FOR LEASE FOR DEPASTURING PURPOSES FOR A PERIOD OF TWENTY-ONE YEARS, IN TERMS OF “THE LAND ACT, 1877,” AND THE LAND ACT 1877 AMENDMENT ACTS, 1879 AND 1882.

Rent to the 31st August next to be paid in advance, and thereafter to be paid half-yearly in advance.

Description.—Pohui District: Open fern hills, intersected by narrow valleys; soil light; frontage to the Taupo Road. Maungaharuru District: Fern hills and spurs on the western slopes of the Maungaharuru Range; the soil is light; about one-half of Sections Nos. 2 and 3 is undulating country, covered with natural grasses; there are a few clumps of bush on Section No. 1. Waitara District: Open fern country, hilly; a bridle-road on the permanent grades has been formed a distance of twelve miles through the block, starting from the Taupo Road about thirty-five miles from Napier.

Sale of the Napier High School Endowment Block, situated in the Waihua and Taramarama Survey Districts, Wairoa County.

Crown Lands Office,
Napier, 17th December, 1883.

NOTICE is hereby given that the lands referred to in the Schedule hereunder will be offered for sale, for cash, by public auction, at the Council Chambers, Napier, on Thursday, the 17th January next, at the hour of noon.

Lithograph plans are being prepared, and, when printed, plans will be forwarded to any person who makes application for them.

Terms: One-fourth of the purchase-money must be paid at the sale, and the balance within one month thereafter, or the part of the purchase-money paid by way of deposit will be forfeited. Further particulars may be ascertained on application at this office.

HORACE BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.

NOTE.—The roads laid out to give access to the sections in Block VIII. will be taken under the Public Works Act.

The Endowment Block consists of first-class pastoral country, and has been occupied as a sheep run for fully twenty years, having been held on lease from the Crown by the owners of the Wakamahia property.

The eastern portions of the block are distant about three miles from the township and port of Clyde, on the Wairoa River.

Sections Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4, Block VIII., Waihua District, are hilly country; elevation from 100 to 700 feet. There is some flat land on each section. The summits of the hills and ridges are covered with native grasses, with a sprinkling of English grass. The hill-tops on Section No. 1 have been sown down with English grass, and are now covered with a thick sward of permanent pasture. There are several miles of fencing on these sections. Where practicable the fences have been made the boundaries of sections. A sheep-dip has been erected on Section No. 3; value about £200.

Block IV., Waihua Survey District: Section No. 1 contains about 350 acres of well-grassed hill country, and is subdivided by a fence; the rest of the section is part swamp and good hill land covered with fern and scrub. Section No. 2 contains 25 acres of level and swamp land; the rest is undulating and hilly pastoral country.

Section No. 1, Block VII., Waihua Survey District, and Sections Nos. 1 and 2, Block XIX., Taramarama Survey District, are undulating and hilly ground, covered with fern and scrub except on the tops of the ridges, where there is native grass. Elevation from 300 to 1,000 feet.

Notification respecting Napier High School Endowment Block, to be sold as above.

THE Board of Governors of the Napier High School will be willing to lend on mortgage, for a term of ten years, at 6 per cent., three-fourths of the purchase-money of the above-described blocks.

J. D. ORMOND,
Chairman, Board of Governors, Napier High School.
Napier, 17th December, 1883.