Mar. 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 337

Crown Lands Notices.

Sale of Crown Lands by Auction, Marlborough.

Crown Lands Office,
Blenheim, 2nd March, 1885.

THE Land Board of the Marlborough Land District hereby notifies that at noon on Tuesday, the 7th day of April, 1885, at the Survey Office, Blenheim, the under-mentioned sections of town and pasture land will be offered for sale by public auction at the respective upset prices stated against each section.

PASTURE LAND.

(Under section 90 of “The Marlborough Waste Lands Act, 1867.”)

Anakoa Bay, Pelorus Sound, Gore Survey District.

IV. | 1 | 50 0 0 | 25 0 0 | 6 0 0*

*If any other person than applicants becomes the purchaser, the cost of survey must be paid at the auction by the purchaser, to be handed to applicants.

Twenty-five per cent. of the purchase-money must be paid at auction, and the balance and Crown-grant fees within one month, or the money paid at auction will be forfeited.

HENRY G. CLARKE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale of Rural Lands, Tauranga.

Crown Lands Office,
Auckland, 7th February, 1885.

I HEREBY notify that the rural lands mentioned in the Schedule hereunder will be offered for sale by public auction, at the Land Office, Tauranga, on Wednesday, the 25th day of March next, at the hour of 11 o’clock in the forenoon.

D. A. TOLE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.

WHAKATANE COUNTY.

Description of Land.—Lot 456, 120 acres good fern land, portion flat, 30 acres manuka flat, low-lying, remainder broken forest country containing good totara, tawai, tanekaha, rimu, &c.; 457 and 458, all broken forest, containing totara, puriri, tawai, tanekaha, rimu, rata, tawa, hinau, &c.

PARISH OF WAIMANA.

Description of Land.—Lot 310, 150 acres good fern land, broken, remainder heavy forest, very broken bush, puriri, rata, rimu, puketea, tawa, hinau, &c.; 311, 24 acres good fern hills and flat, 4 acres good swamp land, remainder broken bush, few puriris, rimu, rata, kahikatea, &c.

Terms of sale: One-fourth of purchase-money to be paid at time of sale, and the balance within one month thereafter, otherwise the part of the purchase-money paid by way of deposit shall be forfeited, and the contract for the sale of the land shall thenceforward be null and void. Crown-grant fee to be paid on completion of purchase.

NOTE.—Maps of the above lands may be seen, and further particulars obtained, on application at this office, and at the Land Office, Tauranga.

Schedules containing descriptions, &c., of the above lands will be exhibited at Railway Stations and Post Offices.

Sale of Rural Lands, District of Auckland.

Crown Lands Office,
Auckland, 7th February, 1885.

I HEREBY notify that the rural lands mentioned in the Schedule hereunder will be offered for sale by public auction, at this office, on Wednesday, the 25th day of March next, at the hour of 11 o’clock in the forenoon.

D. A. TOLE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.

WAIKATO COUNTY.

Description of Land.—Lot 108, open, undulating; 110, open, broken; 111, part open, 52 acres bush, 12 acres swamp, broken; 112, part open, 21 acres bush, undulating; 113,145, 368, open, broken; 390, 25 acres swamp, the balance low land; 391, 7 acres swamp, the balance ridge.

PARISH OF MARAMARUA.

| 17 | 177 3 0 | 44 8 9 |

Description of Land.—19 acres swamp, 4 acres bush, 4 acres high manuka, the balance rough ridges.

RAGLAN COUNTY.

PARISH OF PEPETE.

| 164 | 19 3 7 | 10 0 0 |
| 171 | 314 3 25 | 118 2 6 |

Description of Land.—Lot 164, principally fern, manuka scrub on small flats adjoining Waihi Lake, undulating land, accessible by road; 171, about one-fourth dry land, fern and manuka, remainder swamp, but easily drained into Waikato, accessible by roads.

PARISH OF WHANGAPE.

| 85 | 600 0 0 | 150 0 0 |

Description of Land.—All swamp, western portion deep and wet, may possibly be drained into Roto Ngaro, eastern portion drier, partially drained, soil where dry of a very deep, crushy peat.

MANUKAU COUNTY.

PARISH OF WAIUKU WEST.

| 150 | 22 2 24 | 22 15 0* |

*Subject to £41 5s. for improvements.

Description of Land.—All in grass, surface-sown; soil sandy, well watered; good road from Waiuku.

RODNEY COUNTY.

Description of Land.—Block VIII., Section 2, and Block XII., Section 2, 24 acres mixed bush, 80 acres undulating flat and open, remainder swamp land; Block XII., Section 3, 34 acres swamp, 20 acres open, covered with fern, remainder undulating and broken, covered with mixed bush, soil good; 4, 70 acres flat, covered with kahikatea, mixed bush, remainder open and rather broken, 70 acres swamp; 5, 70 acres swamp, 120 acres mixed bush, about 80 acres flat land, good soil; 6, 40 acres swamp containing kahikatea, 30 acres fern and tea-tree land, remainder mixed bush, undulating, 60 acres flat, good soil, easy access to Port Albert—Warkworth Road; all the above sections have a frontage to the Hoteo River; 7, about 15 acres swamp, remainder undulating land, covered with tea-tree and scrub, clay soil, frontage to Port Albert—Warkworth Main Road.

OTAMATEA SURVEY DISTRICT.

| XVI. | 27 | 96 3 0 | 86 5 9 |
| | 28 | 86 3 8 | 82 12 6 |
| | 29 | 84 1 8 | 31 13 9 |

Description of Land.—Section 27, about 30 acres swamp, remainder open, undulating country, fair soil; 28, 35 acres swamp, remainder open, undulating, clay soil; 29, 10 acres swamp, open, undulating land, 10 acres bush land. Each of these sections has a frontage to the main road from Port Albert to Warkworth.