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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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 al-
lowed 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 depastur-
ing purposes) the run shall be put up to public auction, sub-
ject 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 build-
ings, 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 home-
stead 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.

Section.

Area

Upset Price.

Weber Village.

A. R. P.

£ s. d.

9

10 1 10

18 1 0

19

10 0 0

20 0 0

38

1 0 0

5 0 0

42*

1 0 0

5 0 0

43

1 0 0

5 0 0

48

50 1 12

69 4 0

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

Description of Land: This settlement is situated on the
Wainui-Tahoraite 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 situ-
ated 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
Tolago 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 accord-
ance 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 produce 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.