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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 1

Crown Lands for Sale, Lease, and License, Land District of Hawke's Bay.

Crown Lands Office,
Napier, 2nd December, 1889.

NOTICE is hereby given that the lands enumerated hereunder will be offered at auction at Napier and Gisborne as follows:—

At the Land Office, Napier, on Thursday, the 16th January, 1890, at 11.30 a.m.:—

PASTORAL RUNS.

Description of Land: Open fern country, light pumiceous soil, fronting Mohaka River; elevation from 500ft. to 3,000ft. above sea-level.

Maps showing the positions of the above runs may be seen and further particulars obtained on application at the Land Offices, Napier and Gisborne.

Abstract of Conditions.

Term of license, twenty-one years.

Rent to be paid half-yearly in advance, the first payment to be made on day of sale, being for the period from the 1st March, 1890, to the 31st August, 1890.

A pasturage license shall entitle the holder thereof to the exclusive right of pasturage over the lands specified therein, but shall give no right to the soil, or timber, or minerals, and shall immediately determine over any land which may be proclaimed a hundred, or which may be licensed, leased, purchased, granted, or reserved under this or any other Act.

Such roads and rights-of-way as the Governor or the Land Board may deem necessary may at any time be taken through any run without compensation.

No licensee of any run purchased hereunder shall be allowed to transfer his interest therein without the consent of the Land Board.

Twelve months before the expiration of the term of license (if it shall be determined to again let the land for depasturing purposes) the run shall be put up to public auction, subject to a valuation for improvements; such valuation in no case to exceed three times the amount of the average annual rental of the run. In the case where the run is not again offered for lease, the licensee will be allowed to remove buildings, fencing, enclosures, or other improvements made by him while lessee, at any time within three months after the expiration of his license.

Runs may be divided, with the sanction of the Land Board, and upon payment of £1 1s. for each subdivision.

If the licensee shall not pay the rent within fourteen days after it shall become due he shall become liable to a penalty of not more than £1 for every day that such rent shall be in arrear, and if such rent, together with the full amount of the penalty, be not paid within three months after such due date the license shall forthwith be declared forfeited.

The licensee of any run shall have the right, with the consent of the Land Board, to select and occupy as a homestead an area of not exceeding 150 acres, which shall be exempt from the right of determination during the currency of his license.

FOR LEASE FOR TWENTY-ONE YEARS.

Description of Land: Forest land, undulating and hilly, with good water-supply. The soil is generally good, being hilly bush land with clay soil. Access is given through the Makaretu Settlement, and fourteen miles of roads have been cleared and stumped through the block.

FORFEITED DEFERRED-PAYMENT VILLAGE SECTIONS.

Description of Land: The village of Matamau is in the centre of a large tract of timber country; it will presently be the centre of an important saw-milling district; distance by rail from Napier, seventy-four miles.

• Subject to £2 5s., valuation for improvements.

Description of Land: This settlement is situated on the Wainui-Tahoraiti Road. It is forest land of the richest description, well supplied with totara, pines, and other useful timber, and with an abundance of water.

Block VII., Woodville District.

| 5 | 1 0 24 | 4 0 6 |

Subject to £2 10s., valuation for improvements.

Description of Land: This section is half-way between the Woodville and Victoria Railway-stations, in the middle of a well-settled district. The growth on the section is scrub, and therefore easy to clear.

At the Crown Lands Office, Gisborne, on Thursday, the 16th January, 1890, at 11.30 a.m.:—

Town of Ormond.

| 9 | 1 1 28 | 42 15 0 |
| 14 | 1 2 3 | 45 11 3 |
| 23 | 1 2 11 | 47 1 3 |
| 24 | 1 2 11 | 47 1 3 |
| 33 | 1 0 0 | 30 0 0 |
| 35 | 1 0 2 | 30 7 6 |
| 36 | 1 0 2 | 30 7 6 |
| 63 | 1 0 0 | 30 0 0 |

These sections are situated on the Ormond-Gisborne main road, distant about thirteen miles from the latter place.

SMALL GRAZING RUNS.

Description of Land: Almost all bush, some fern and scrub. Hilly country, but well watered, and capable of being converted into good grazing country. These runs are situated between twenty-three and thirty miles from Gisborne by the Waimata Valley Road, which is formed for about twenty miles. Run 58 is about fourteen miles inland from Tolaga Bay.

Terms and Conditions.

The lease 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 or land held under lease or license from the Crown which in all would exceed 21,000 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 of 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 land 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 the event of any purchaser failing to produced the required declaration, the lot will be put up again and resold.

The first half-year's rent, from the 1st March, 1890, to the 31st August, 1890, together with £1 11s. for the lease, must be paid at the sale.

For further particulars apply at the Crown Lands Offices, Napier and Gisborne.

G. W. WILLIAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.