Mar. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 275

Small Grazing Runs for Lease by Public Auction.

Crown Lands Office, Napier, 24th February, 1886.

NOTICE is hereby given that the leases of the small grazing runs enumerated in the Schedule hereunder will be offered by public auction, at the Courthouse, Clyde, Wairoa County, on Friday, the 2nd April next, at 2 p.m.

SCHEDULE.

Description.

Waihua and Taramarama Districts: Hilly pastoral country. Soil light, overlying a calcareous marl or papa formation. The vegetation consists of fern on the hills and slopes, with grass on some of the hill-tops, and scrub and light bush in the gullies. The land can be brought into good pasture by surface-sowing and subdividing. Distance by road from Clyde, the county-town, thirteen miles. The Wairoa County Council has in hand the formation of a road through these blocks. There is regular steam communication between Napier and Clyde.

Mohaka and Moeangiangi Districts: These runs are generally of the same description as the above. There are convenient shipping-places at the mouths of the Mohaka and Waikare Rivers. The distance from the sea-coast to these blocks varies from three to ten miles.

Block I., Maungaharuru District: Fern hills and spurs on the western slopes of the Maungaharuru, a limestone range. Situated five miles to the north of the Napier-Taupo coach-road, and forty miles from Napier.

Terms and Conditions.

The leases will be for an absolute term of twenty-one years, renewable for a further term of twenty-one years, in accordance with section 209 of "The Land Act, 1885."

Improvements equal in value to one year's rent must be effected in each year for the first two years, and before the end of the sixth year an additional amount, equal to two years' rent, must also be expended.

Valuations for permanent improvements, as described in sections 210 and 214 of "The Land Act, 1885," will be paid at the expiry of the leases to the outgoing tenants.

No person can take up more than one run. No person who owns freehold land under lease or license from the Crown which in all would exceed 6,000 acres, or who is incapable of making the declaration prescribed by section 200 of "The Land Act, 1885," can become a lessee.

Every lessee will have to reside on the land he leases within twelve months from the commencement of his lease, and thereafter for a period of six consecutive years. But the Land Board may relax this condition in the case of any lessee who is actually residing on any freehold or leasehold land of his own which is situated within ten miles of the run leased by him.

For a period of fourteen years from the date of the lease one-fourth of the rents will be handed over to the County Council or Road Board of the district, to be expended in the maintenance or construction of the roads leading to and opening up the land.

Intending purchasers must be prepared to hand to the auctioneer, on the fall of the hammer, a declaration, signed and witnessed by a Justice of the Peace, as required by section 200 of "The Land Act, 1885." In event of any purchaser failing to produce the required declaration, the lot will be put up again and resold.

The first half-year's rent, from the 1st September, 1886, to the 1st March, 1887, together with a fee of £1 1s. for the lease, must be paid at the sale.

LICENSE TO OCCUPY CROWN LANDS FOR PASTORAL PURPOSES.

There will also be submitted for public auction, at the same time and place, the under-mentioned pastoral runs, in pursuance of Part VI. of "The Land Act, 1885," viz.:

Rotokakarangu Block, Run No. 1, 9,615 acres.
" " 2, 7,015 "

Plans, forms, and further particulars can be obtained at this office, and at the Post Office, Clyde.

HORACE BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.