May 31.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 795

Small Grazing-run, Southland, open for Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 20th April, 1894.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small grazing-run will be open for lease on application on and after Wednesday, the 13th June, 1894, at the annual rental noted below. In case of more than one application for the run on the same day, priority of selection will be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m.

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

Tussock country, well watered; part can be ploughed; has a fair sprinkling of English grasses; height above sea-level, from 600ft. to 1,000ft.; distance from Dipton, about eight miles and a quarter. This run will be burdened with £70 13s., being half the value of boundary-fences.

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 hereon.

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 accompany the application; 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.

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.

G. W. WILLIAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

License of Pastoral Run for Sale by Auction.

Crown Lands Office,
Hokitika, 21st May, 1894.

NOTICE is hereby given that the license of the pastoral run set out below will be offered by public auction at the Land Office, Hokitika, on Tuesday, the 10th day of July next, at the hour of 2 o’clock in the afternoon, at the price and for the term given, and subject to any rights of renewal or resumption as may be prescribed by the Land Acts.

Maps may be seen at the Land Office, Hokitika, where other full particulars as to conditions of sale, license, &c., and as to declarations to be taken, may be ascertained.

Payment to be made on the fall of the hammer, and to consist of six months’ rent in advance and license-fee, £1 1s.

Run No. 118, 2,500 acres, between Hokitika and Kokatahi Rivers, comprising the whole of Koitirangi Hill; limestone formation, bush feed, cattle country; average altitude, 600ft.; access by Special-settlement Road and Hokitika River-bed. Bounded on the north by Cropp’s Swamp and surveyed lands; on the east by G. C. line; on the south by Hokitika River; and on the west by Hokitika River and surveyed land.

DAVID BARRON,
Commissioner 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.

Small Grazing-run, Auckland, open for Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 7th May, 1894.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small grazing-run will be open for lease on application on and after Wednesday, 11th July, at the annual rental noted below. In case of more than one application for the run on the same day, priority of selection will be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m.