JAN. 31.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 199

Small Grazing-runs open for Lease on Application.

District Lands Office,
Dunedin, 23rd November, 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 13th February, 1895, 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.
OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

FIRST-CLASS PASTORAL COUNTRY.

Taieri County.

A. R. P. s. d. £ s. d.
Nenthorn.. | 2 | VII. | } 4,519 0 0 | 0 7 | 65 18 0
" .. | 3 | VIII. |

This is good grazing-country; well watered; has frontage to Taieri River. It contains a good homestead-site, and is situated between Mount Stoker and Three-o’Clock Creek, about fourteen miles from Middlemarch. It is accessible by a well-formed road. Valuation for improvements, payable with application, or immediately the result of the ballot is declared, £848. This run was lately surrendered by Donald McLeod.

Waitaki County.

Run No.
Domett .. | 17A | .. | 3,120 0 0 | 0 4½ | 29 5 0

This run is very steep and broken where it faces the Otekaike and towards the Maruwenua, but there are some very good slopes near the top of it; soil light; well watered. Distance from Kyeburn, on west, six miles; from Otekaike, to north-east, nine miles (both accessible by track); and from Livingstone, to south-east, seven miles (by road). Altitude averages 2,500ft. Valuation for improvements, payable with application, or immediately the result of the ballot is declared, £80.

SECOND-CLASS PASTORAL COUNTRY.

Waitaki County.

Section.
Domett .. | 1 | VIII. | }
" .. | 1 | X. |
" .. | 3 | XI. | } 10,977 0 0 | 0 2·18 | 50 0 0
Kyeburn .. | 1 | X. |
" .. | 2 | XIII. |
Kakanui .. | 2 | I. |

Subdivisions of parts of Pastoral Runs Nos. 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 miles from Tokarahi Railway-station. Average altitude, about 2,800ft. above the sea-level. Lately surrendered by Robert Little. Valuation for improvements, payable with application, or immediately the result of the ballot is declared, £10.

Domett .. | 2 | X. | }
" .. | 2 | XI. |
Kakanui .. | 1 | I. | }
" .. | 1 | II. | } 13,540 0 0 | 0 1·59 | 45 0 0
Kyeburn .. | 1 | VIII. |
" .. | 1 | XIII. |
" .. | 1 | XIV. |

Subdivisions of parts of Pastoral Runs Nos. 300 and 301. The country is of sound grazing quality, containing about 4,000 acres 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 lie several hundred acres of arable land. Livingstone is six miles and Tokarahi Railway-station eleven miles distant. Valuation for house and fencing, £50, which amount must either be lodged with application or paid immediately the result of the ballot is declared. This run was last held by James Chapman.

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 September, 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.

Pastoral Lands in Canterbury for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 26th November, 1894.

NOTICE is hereby given, in terms of “The Land Act, 1892,” and “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” that the under-mentioned pastoral licenses will be submitted to public auction, at the Local Lands and Survey Office, Timaru, on Wednesday, the 13th February, 1895, at 11 o’clock a.m.

SCHEDULE.

PASTORAL LICENSES UNDER “THE LAND ACT, 1892,”
MACKENZIE COUNTY.

Term of License.—Seven years, subject to termination on twelve months’ notice.