June 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 831

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 ac-
   company 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 pur-
   chaser 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 be-
   lieving 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 con-
sist 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 Ap-
plication.

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 applica-
tion 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.