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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 38

Reserve at Auckland for Lease by Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 17th April, 1894.

NOTICE is hereby given that the lease for a term of fourteen years of the plantation reserve, Section 218, Takapuna Parish, containing 5 acres 2 roods 7 perches, will be offered at public auction at this office on Friday, the 22nd day of June proximo, at 11 a.m. Upset annual rent, £1 10s.

Description: Open land on the Birkenhead to Lucas Creek Road, about four miles from the Birkenhead Wharf.

Term of Lease: Fourteen years from the 1st July, 1894, without any right of renewal.

Rent payable half-yearly in advance on the 1st January and 1st July in every year.

No valuation for improvements will be allowed during either the currency or at the termination of the lease, but the lessee will have the right to remove fences and buildings that may be erected by him.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Small Grazing-runs open for Lease on Application.

District Lands Office,
Dunedin, 14th May, 1894.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small grazing-runs will be open for lease on application, at the District Lands Office, on and after the 4th July, 1894, at the half-yearly rental noted opposite the runs. In case of more than one application for the runs on the same day, priority of selection will be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.
WAITAKI COUNTY.

Subdivisions of parts of Pastoral Runs Nos. 300 and 301. The country is of sound grazing quality, containing about 4,000 acres of well-grassed land, about 4,000 acres fairly-grassed, and the remainder poorly-grassed and broken. It averages an altitude of 2,800ft., is well watered, and fronts the main Livingstone-Naseby Road. The run contains a capital homestead-site, around which are several hundred acres of arable land. Livingstone is six miles and Tokarahi Railway-station eleven miles distant. Valuation for house and fencing, £57 14s., which amount must be paid immediately the result of the ballot is declared. This run was lately surrendered by James Chapman.

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Subdivisions of parts of Pastoral Runs 300 and 301. This is a very compact run, good aspect, and it is well grassed throughout, silver-tussock on lower slopes and snow-grass on higher levels. Situated about nine miles from Livingstone, and about fourteen from Tokarahi Railway-station; average altitude about 2,800ft. above the sea-level. Lately surrendered by Robert Little. Valuation for improvement, £13 5s. This amount must either be lodged with application, or must be paid immediately the result of the ballot is declared.

CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The term of lease is twenty-one years, with the option of renewal for a further period of twenty-one years, at a rent to be fixed by valuation, and improvements being secured to lessee as provided by “The Land Act, 1892,” section 182. Each lessee is required to make the declaration as per form printed below.

2. No person can lease more than one run.

3. Residence on the run is compulsory, and commences within three years in bush or swamp land, and within one year in open or partly open land, unless the lessee obtain the consent of the Land Board to reside on other land in his occupation.

4. Permanent improvements must be effected equal to one year’s rental by the end of the first year, two years’ rental by the end of the second year, and four years’ rental at the end of the sixth year; and on bush land, in addition thereto, improvements must be made to the value of 10s. an acre if first-class land, or of 5s. an acre if second-class land.

5. One half-year’s rent and £1 1s. for the lease must be paid immediately the application is declared successful; the rent to be paid half-yearly in advance during the term of the lease. The next payment of rent will become due on the 1st March, 1895.

6. The lessee has no right to purchase any part of the land; but he can select 150 acres around the homestead through which no road can be taken or other public privilege exercised without compensation.

NOTE.—One-fourth of the rent paid during the first fifteen years is returned to the local body, to be spent in improving the access to the land.

DECLARATION.

I, __, of* __, do solemnly and sincerely declare—

1. That I am of the age of seventeen years and upwards.

2. That I am the person who, subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” am desirous of becoming the purchaser of a lease of Run No.† __.

3. That I am purchasing such lease solely for my own use and benefit, and not directly or indirectly for the use of any other person or persons whatever.

4. That I am not already the holder of any such lease in any part of the colony, nor have I any interest in any such lease.

5. That I am not the holder of any run under Part VI. of the aforesaid Act, nor have I any interest in any such run.

6. That I do not own any freehold land or land held by lease or license of any kind whatever anywhere in the colony, either by myself or jointly with any other person, which, exclusive of the land I am now purchasing the lease of, will exceed in area 1,000 acres.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

(Signature.)

Declared at __, this __ day of __, 18 __, before me
— a Justice of the Peace in and for the Colony of New Zealand.

• Place of abode or occupation. † Here specify.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Small Grazing-runs, Taranaki, open for Lease on Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 25th April, 1894.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small grazing-runs will be open for lease on application, at the District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, on and after Wednesday, the 27th day of June, 1894, at the annual rental noted opposite each run. In the case of more than one application for the runs on the same day, priority of selection will be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.
TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.
First-class Pastoral Country.

• Weighted with £100, value of improvements.

These lands are situate on the Patea River, access being obtained by the Maben Road and by the Ball Road, the latter being formed for dray-traffic as far as Run No. 3, within two miles of the block, thence by a good pack-track into the block. The country is very rough; that portion of No. 5 next to the Patea River is not so broken. On the south-west corner of No. 6 fifty acres of bush have been felled and grassed. The soil is of fair quality, and well watered. The timber is light, consisting of rata, rimu, tawa, and the usual undergrowth.

Plans and further particulars may be obtained on application at this office.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.