1880
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 89

PASTORAL LICENSE UNDER PART VI., "LAND ACT, 1892."
Onamalutu District, Run No. 101: 511 acres; term,
ten years; upset annual rent, £2 2s. 7d.
One half-year's rent, and £1 1s. (license-fee), must be paid
on the fall of the hammer.

RESERVES FOR LEASING UNDER "THE PUBLIC RESERVES ACT,
1881."
Mount Olympus District, Wairau Valley: Parts Sec-
tions 18 and 20; term, five years; upset annual rent, £15.
Part Section 3, Block I.: term, five years; upset annual
rent, £5.
Linkwater Survey District: Section 55, Block XII.,
40 acres; term, ten years; upset annual rent, £4. The
present fences not to be disturbed.
One half-year's rent, and £1 1s. (lease-fee), must be paid
on the fall of the hammer.

SIDNEY WEETMAN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands at Hanmer Plains for Lease on Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Nelson, 3rd December, 1895.
NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned
town and rural sections, being subdivisions of the
Hanmer Plains Reserve, will be open for leasing for the
term of forty-two years, upon application at this office, on
and after Wednesday, the 5th February, 1896.

SCHEDULE.
HANMER PLAINS RESERVE.

Section 1, about three-fourths covered with manuka scrub,
remainder tussock land; clay soil. Section 2, undulating
country, covered with manuka scrub; clay soil. Section 3,
undulating country; manuka scrub in patches; clay soil.
Section 4, partly clay soil and partly raupo swamp; patches
of manuka scrub. Section 5, undulating land; swampy,
with flax. Section 6, partly undulating and partly flat;
shingly soil; tussock and manuka. Section 11, about three-
fourths flat stony ground, remainder a terrace about 30ft.
higher; tussock country; fair soil. Section 12, flat stony
ground; tussock land. Section 14, about two-thirds terrace
land, tussocks, fair soil; remainder swampy, with flax and
manuka, good soil. Section 15, about one-third open stony
land, remainder swampy, with flax and manuka; good soil.
Section 16, swampy land, flax and manuka; good soil. Sec-
tion 17, about two-thirds swampy land, good soil, with flax
and manuka; remainder stony tussock land. Section 18,
swampy land; good soil, with flax and manuka. Section 19,
tussock land; flat ground; fair soil. Section 23, chiefly un-
dulating spurs; tussock land; small patches of manuka
scrub and swampy ground, with fair soil.

TERMS.
Rents are payable half-yearly, in advance, to the Receiver
of Land Revenue at Nelson. The first half-year's rent to be
paid on the day of sale, together with a fee of £1 1s. for the
lease.

Not more than one rural section may be leased by one
person.
On each of the town sections buildings of the value of at
least £50 must be erected within two years from date of
lease.
Plans and forms of lease may be obtained at the District
Lands and Survey Office, Nelson, or at the District Lands and
Survey Office, Christchurch; at the post-offices, Culverden,
and Waiau; and also at the Baths, Hanmer Plains.
J. S. BROWNING,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Forest Sections near Rotorua for Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 25th November, 1895.
IT is hereby notified that the sections specified in the
Schedule hereunder will be offered for lease by public
auction, at this office, on Wednesday, the 15th January,
1896, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.
MARAEROA-OTUROA BLOCK, THERMAL SPRINGS DISTRICT.

These sections are nearly all covered with mixed forest
soil light, but good. They are not well watered, owing to
the porous nature of the soil.

CONDITIONS OF LEASING.

1. TERM of lease, twenty-one years from the 1st day of
   March, 1896.
2. Rent payable half-yearly in advance; the first of such
   half-yearly payments to be made at the close of sale, and all
   future payments to be made to the officer appointed to
   receive the same within sixty days from the days on which
   they become due, and in default thereof the lease to be for-
   feited.
3. The lessee shall, within one year from the date of lease,
   fell, burn, and sow with grass an area equal to 5 per cent.
   of the land comprised therein; within two years a further
   5 per cent. of the area; within three years a further 5 per
   cent. of the area; within six years an amount equal to
   one-quarter of the total area; and at the end of the term an
   area equal to one-half of the total area.
4. The lessee shall be liable for all rates, taxes, &c.
5. No transfers or assignments to be permitted without
   the consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.
6. No valuation for improvements will be paid by the
   Crown, but the lease of the holdings will, a few months
   before the end of the term, be submitted to auction again for
   a further period of twenty-one years, loaded with the value
   of the improvements in favour of the lessee, the incoming
   tenant to pay the value of the improvements; but if there be
   no bid for the lease then the land, with the improvements,
   will revert to the outgoing tenant at the same rent paid
   under the expiring lease.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Native Land Court Notices.

"The Native Land Court Act, 1894."—Tautane Block.—In
the Native Appellate Court, New Zealand.

In the matter of the Tautane Block, and of an appeal made
by Henare te Atua from the decision of the Native Land
Court in the matter of the succession to the interest of
Henare Matua, deceased, therein.

NOTICE is hereby given that, by notice to the Registrar
and with leave of the Chief Judge, the said appeal
has been withdrawn.
Dated at Wellington, this 29th day of November, 1895.
H. DUNBAR JOHNSON,
Registrar.