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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 32

Crown Lands Notices.

Small Grazing Runs, Wairoa County, Hawke’s Bay.

Crown Lands Office,
Napier, 4th May, 1886.

NOTICE is hereby given that applications will be received for the small grazing runs enumerated in the Schedule hereunder, on and after Friday, the 4th June next.

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 District: This run is generally of the same description as the above. There are convenient shipping-places at the mouths of the Mohaka and Wajkare Rivers. The distance from the sea-coast to this block is 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 in-

capable 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 situate 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.

A declaration, signed and witnessed by a Justice of the Peace, as required by section 200 of “The Land Act, 1885,” must be attached to the application.

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 on application.

In event of more than one application being received on the same day for the same run, it will be sold by auction, limited to the applicants, at 4 p.m., on the day of the receipt of applications.

Further particulars can be obtained at this office.

Provincial District of Canterbury.—Small Grazing Runs for Lease by Public Auction under Part VII. of “The Land Act, 1885.”

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 20th May, 1886.

NOTICE is hereby given that the leases for a term of twenty-one years of the small grazing runs enumerated will be offered by public auction at the Land Office, Christchurch, on Wednesday, the 30th June, 1886, at 12 o’clock noon.

The land is well covered with native grasses, a great deal of it being limestone country, but is difficult of access, Sections 35151 and 35157 being at present only accessible to stock- and horse-traffic. The sections are well-watered and are close to the coast, the average altitude not exceeding 1,000 feet.

On the fall of the hammer the purchaser must pay to the Receiver of Land Revenue six months’ rent, together with a license-fee of £1 1s., and hand to the Commissioner of Crown Lands the declaration prescribed by the Act, duly signed before a Justice of the Peace.

Plan may be seen, and full particulars as to the terms and conditions of the lease and renewals of the same may be obtained, at the Crown Lands Office, Christchurch.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

PARTICULARS of the Estates of Deceased Persons which have been placed under the Charge of the PUBLIC TRUSTEE for Management during the Month of May, 1886.

Dated at Wellington, this 1st day of June, 1886.

R. C. HAMERTON,
Public Trustee.