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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 1

Additional Land taken in the Papakaio Survey District for the Purposes of the Hurunui-Bluff Railway (Main Line).

A NOTIFICATION.

WHEREAS it has been found desirable, for the use, convenience, and enjoyment of the Hurunui-Bluff Railway (Main Line), to take further land in the Papakaio Survey District, in addition to land previously acquired for the purposes of the said railway:

Now, therefore, we, the New Zealand Railway Commissioners, in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on us by “The Government Railways Act, 1887,” and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling us in that behalf, do hereby notify and declare that the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto are taken for the purposes above mentioned.

SCHEDULE.

THE parcels of land mentioned hereunder:—

All in the Provincial District of Otago, as the said parcels of land are more particularly delineated on the plan marked 5652, deposited in the office of the New Zealand Railway Commissioners, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red, blue, and yellow.

Given under the common seal of the New Zealand Railway Commissioners, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.

(L.S.)

JAMES McKERROW.
J. P. MAXWELL.
W. M. HANNAY.

Crown Lands Notices.

Rural Land for Sale by Auction.

District Land and Survey Office,
Wellington, 11th November, 1892.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned rural land will be offered for disposal by public auction, at the Land and Survey Office, Wellington, on Thursday, the 12th January, 1893, at noon:—

SUBDIVISION OF LOTS 8 AND 9, TUTAEKARA SURVEY DISTRICT, COUNTY OF PAHIATUA.

These sections are situated on the east side of the main coach-road between Woodville and Masterton, about seven and a quarter miles south of Pahiatua. The soil is rich alluvial, inclined to be sandy, and the entire area is level. Native clearings of 8 acres and 3½ acres have been made on Sections 16 and 17 respectively. With this exception, the land is covered with forest, consisting chiefly of tawa, rata, kahikatea, horopito, patete, mahoe, kareao, &c., with the usual under scrub.

One-fifth of the purchase-money must be paid on the fall of the hammer to the Receiver of Land Revenue, and the balance, together with the Crown-grant fee, within thirty days, or the payment at auction will be forfeited.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale by Public Auction of a Pastoral Lease in the Taharua South Block.

District Land and Survey Office,
Wellington, 7th December, 1892.

IT is hereby notified, in terms of “The Land Act, 1892,” that the under-mentioned run will be offered at auction, at this office, on Friday, the 3rd February, 1893, at 3 p.m., on pastoral lease for a term of twenty-one years, at the upset rental stated in the Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

TAHARUA South Block, Run No. 28, Taupo East County, 14,000 acres, of which it is estimated about 10,000 acres are open grazing country, and about 4,000 acres bush land. Annual upset rental, £50. Term, twenty-one years.

Six months’ rent must be paid at the time of sale, and possession will be given on the 1st March, 1893. Conditions as to future payment of rent, date of lease, &c., may be obtained at this office, and will also be announced at the time of sale.

The purchase or removal of any existing fences on the Crown lands offered for license, whether at the date of sale or before the determination of the present license, will be matter of arrangement between the present licensee and the purchaser during the currency of the present license. No liability is accepted by or on behalf of the Crown in respect of any such fencing.

Where fences form the boundary between Crown lands offered for license and freehold land, the purchaser of such license will be liable to the provisions of any law now or hereafter in force relating to boundary-fences.

The lease of this run will be sold subject to the provisions contained in Part VI. of “The Land Act, 1892,” relating to the sale of pastoral runs.

Plans and form of lease, &c., can be seen at this office, and at the District Land and Survey Office, Napier.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Town and Rural Lands, Auckland, for Sale by Public Auction.

District Land and Survey Office,
Auckland, 25th November, 1892.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned town and rural lands will be offered for sale by public auction, at the Land Office, Auckland, on Friday, the 27th January, 1893, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

TOWN OF OPUA.—BLOCK XVIII.

RODNEY COUNTY.—PARISH OF ORUAWHARO.

N. 172 | 108 0 0 | 175 10 0

Undulating to broken forest land of inferior quality, containing 207 green and 39 dead kauri-trees; situated five miles from Hakaru Post-office.

791A | 64 2 0 | 115 17 6

About 8 acres fern land and burnt bush, remainder kauri and totara forest, containing 59 green kauri-trees and 108 totara-trees; situated four miles from Hakaru Post-office.

PARISH OF PUHOI.

50 | 185 3 0 | 126 0 0

N.W. 49 | 30 2 0 | 18 12 6

S. 49 | 81 0 0 | 35 7 6

Broken forest land, situated about seven miles from Puhoi. Section 50 contains about 150,000ft. kauri; Section 49, about 22,000ft. kauri.

WAITEMATA COUNTY.—PARISH OF MAKARAU.

185 | 318 0 0 | 149 5 0

Undulating forest land of fair quality, situated near proposed Kohekohe Railway-station, Makarau–Helensville line.

WHANGAREI COUNTY.—WHANGAREI SURVEY DISTRICT.—BLOCK VII.

7 | 231 0 0 | 122 2 6

8 | 463 3 0 | 292 0 0

9 | 626 0 0 | 347 10 0

10 | 547 0 0 | 227 2 6

Forest and open lands of fair quality. Section 7 contains 58 green and 13 dry kauri-trees; Section 8, 97 green and 23 dry kauri-trees; Section 9, 52 green and 17 dry kauri-trees; and Section 10, about 39 green and 5 dry kauri-trees. The sections are from eight to ten miles from Whangarei, and close to Horahora River.

Terms of Sale: One-fifth of the purchase-money to be paid on the fall of the hammer, and the balance, with Crown-grant fee, within thirty days thereafter, otherwise the part of the purchase-money paid by way of deposit shall be forfeited, and the contract for the sale of the land shall henceforth be null and void.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.