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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 23

PASTORAL LICENSE UNDER PART VI. OF “THE LAND ACT, 1885.”

Maruwenua District: Section No. 47, Block IX., and Section No. 10, Block XVI. (grouped), containing about 2,850 acres. Term, ten years, from the 1st March, 1893. Upset annual rental, £71 5s. Possession on day of sale.
Description of Country: Adjoining Livingstone Township, about six miles from Tokaraki Railway-station; well grassed throughout, but rather cut up by mining claims, tail-races, &c. Estimated carrying capacity, 1,400 sheep.
The purchaser will be required to pay the first half-year’s rent from date of sale, and 21s. license-fee on fall of hammer.

TOWNSHIP SECTIONS.

Kurow: Upset price, £30 per acre. Terms, 20 per cent. deposit on fall of hammer; balance, with Crown-grant fee, 20s., within thirty days.
For further particulars apply at this office.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Rural Lands open for Sale or Selection, Hawke’s Bay Land District.

District Land and Survey Office, Napier, 18th February, 1892.

THE under-mentioned Crown lands will be open for sale or selection, in terms of sections 3 to 11 of “The Land Act Amendment Act, 1887,” either for cash, on deferred payments, or for perpetual lease, at the option of the selector, on and after Wednesday, the 6th April, 1892. In cases where more than one application is received for the same section on the same day, priority of choice will be decided by lot on the following day, at 11 a.m., at the Crown Lands Office, Napier:—

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

A. R. P. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d.
Cook .. | Hangaroa .. | 27 | X. | 64 2 27 | 1 0 0 | 64 13 6 | 1 5 0 | 4 1 3 | 0 1 0 | 1 12 6
Situated about forty-five miles from Gisborne and two and a half miles from Tiniroto, on a formed road; the country is broken fern land, light soil, with some flats suitable for a homestead.

Patangata | Weber .. | 3 | X. | 387 0 0 | 1 5 0 | 483 15 0 | 1 11 3 | 30 4 8 | 0 1 3 | 12 2 0
Fair land, with mixed bush and good road-access; three miles from the Wainui-Danevirke formed road and the Weber Village.

Waipawa.. | Woodville .. | 40 | I. | 22 0 9 | 2 10 0 | 55 3 0 | 3 2 6 | 3 8 9 | 0 2 6 | 1 7 6
Covered with mixed bush; fair soil. The land is nine miles from Woodville and eight from Danevirke, and has easy road-access; it fronts Top Grass Road and a cross road. All the adjoining land at Maharahara is taken up and settled.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Cook .. | Hangaroa .. | 20 | X. | 50 2 21 | 0 15 0 | 37 19 6 | 0 18 9 | 2 7 10 | 0 0 9 | 0 19 3
Situated about forty-five miles from Gisborne and two and a half from Tiniroto Village, on a formed road; the country is broken fern land, light soil, with some small flats suitable for a homestead.

Cook .. | Motu .. | 9 | III. | 195 0 0 | 0 12 6 | 121 17 6 | 0 15 7½ | 7 12 6 | 0 0 7½ | 3 1 0
Hilly pastoral country, covered with light bush, on the banks of the Motu River. The section fronts the Gisborne-Opotiki Road, and is about a mile and a half away from the Motu Village.

Cook .. | {Uawa .. | 1 | I. } | 627 0 0 | 0 10 0 | 313 10 0 | 0 12 6 | 19 12 0 | 0 0 6 | 7 16 9
| Tokomaru .. | 1 | XIII. |
Mostly bush, good soil; about forty-five miles from Gisborne. The Ormond-Waiapu Road (not formed) runs through the western corner.

Wairoa .. | Mohaka .. | 4 | XI. | 85 3 17 | 0 10 0 | 43 0 0 | 0 12 6 | 2 13 9 | 0 0 6 | 1 1 6
The land is unbroken country, covered with fern and light scrub; the soil is light pumice. The section is situated close to the Napier-Wairoa main road, and is about eight miles from Mohaka Post-office.

Wairoa .. | Taramarama* | 2, 3 | V. | 464 3 0 | 0 10 0 | 232 7 6 | 0 12 6 | 14 10 8 | 0 0 6 | 5 16 3
There are about 28 chains of fencing on the land, which is about twelve miles from Frasertown.

• Weighted with £15 for improvements.

T. HUMPHRIES,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Rural Lands in the Marlborough Land District open for Sale or Selection.

District Land and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 18th February, 1892.

THE under-mentioned Crown lands will be open for sale or selection, in terms of sections 3 to 11 of “The Land Act Amendment Act, 1887,” either for cash, on deferred payments, or for perpetual lease, at the option of the selector, on and after Wednesday, the 6th April, 1892, when the first applicant on any tenure will be entitled to the area applied for:—

SECOND-CLASS UNSURVEYED LAND.

Marlborough County.—Wakamarina Survey District.

Part of Block IV.; area, 1,100 acres. Cash price, 10s. per acre; deferred-payment half-yearly instalments for ten years, 7½d. per acre; perpetual-lease rent, half-yearly, 3d. per acre.

Steep hills, mixed bush, principally birch. Accessible by boat from Havelock to the head of Nydia Bay, seventeen miles; thence by unformed road, one mile.

HENRY G. CLARK,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land for Sale by Auction, Land District of Canterbury.

District Land and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 16th March, 1892.

IT is hereby notified, in terms of “The Land Act, 1885,” that the under-mentioned section will be offered for sale by public auction, for cash, at this office, on Friday, the 17th June next, at 12 o’clock noon:—

ASHBURTON COUNTY.—WESTERFIELD SURVEY DISTRICT.

This section is situated immediately below the high terrace on the south-west side of the south branch of the Ashburton River. It has frontage on the Shepherd’s Bush Road, about one and three-quarter miles north-east of the Westerfield Railway-station, and is distant about eight miles in a north-westerly direction from the Town of Ashburton. The section comprises soil of fair quality, but is liable to flood.

A deposit of one-fifth of the purchase-money shall be paid on the fall of the hammer, and the balance, together with a Crown-grant fee of £1, within thirty days thereafter, or the deposit will be forfeited and the sale cancelled.

There are no restrictions or limitations incumbent upon purchasers of cash lands at auction.

Plans may be seen and further particulars obtained at this office.

J. W. A. MARCHANT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.