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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 25

Kauri and Totara Timber, Auckland, for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 7th April, 1896.

THE under-mentioned clumps of dead timber situated
in the Puhipuhi State Forest, and dead and green
timber situated in Blocks XV. and XVI., Hukerenui Survey
District, will be offered for sale by public auction, at this
office, on Tuesday, the 26th May, 1896:—

DEAD KAURI ON SECTION 4, BLOCK XV., HUKERENUl SURVEY
DISTRICT (A RESERVE).

1 | 165 | 450,000 | 168 15 0

GREEN KAURI ON SECTIONS 2 AND 3, BLOCK XVI., HUKERENUl
SURVEY DISTRICT.

2 | 199 | 618,400 | 231 18 0

Conditions of Sale.—One-half the purchase-money to be
paid on the fall of the hammer, the balance to be paid
within twelve months. Timber to be removed within three
years from date of sale. Plans can be seen at this office, at
the County Office, Whangarei, and post-offices, Whangarei,
Hikurangi, and Kawakawa.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Ardgowan Estate, Oamaru Survey District, for Lease
on Application.

Crown Lands Office,
Dunedin, 7th April, 1896.

APPLICATIONS for leases of the under-mentioned
sections will be received up to 4 p.m. on and after
Tuesday, the 12th May, 1896, at the office of Mr. Henry
MacIntosh, Oamaru, and at the Crown Lands Office, Dun-
edin. If there be more than one application on the first day
for any of the sections a ballot will be taken on Thursday,
the 14th May, at 11 a.m., at the Weir Street Hall, Oamaru.
No deposit is required with the application, but the suc-
cessful applicant must be prepared to pay a half-year's rent
and £1 1s. lease-fee immediately on his application being
approved.

SCHEDULE.

OAMARU SURVEY DISTRICT.—ARDGOWAN ESTATE.

Term of Lease: From year to year until required by the
Government. The lessee of Section 84 will have to give up
possession on one month's notice should it be required for a
school.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Education Reserve, Oamaru Survey District, for Lease by
Public Auction.

Crown Lands Office,
Dunedin, 7th April, 1896.

THE lease of the under-mentioned section will be offered
for sale by public auction on Thursday, the 14th May,
1896, immediately after the ballot for sections in the Ard-
gowan Estate is concluded, at the Weir Street Hall, Oamaru.

SCHEDULE.

EDUCATION RESERVE, OAMARU SURVEY DISTRICT.—ARDGOWAN
ESTATE.

Section 134, Block II.: Area, 40 acres; upset half-yearly
rental, £29.
Term, fourteen years from 1st July, 1896.
The purchaser must pay half-year's rent and the lease-fee
of £1 1s. upon the fall of the hammer.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Southland Land District.—Pastoral Leases in the District of
Centre Hill, Wallace County, 10,281 Acres, to be offered
for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 7th April, 1896.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned
pastoral lands will be submitted to public auction
for lease, on Wednesday, the 27th May, 1896, at the District
Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, at 11 a.m.:—

PASTORAL LANDS, UNDER PART VI. OF "THE LAND ACT, 1892."
Run No. 198a, known as "Dunrobin," 8,181 acres: Upset
rental, £68 3s. 6d. yearly; distance, about ten miles from
Mossburn; term, twenty-one years.
Run No. 198c, known as "Jim Crow," 2,100 acres: Upset
rental, £26 5s. yearly; distance, about twelve miles from
Mossburn; term, twenty-one years.
The above runs consist of hilly and broken land, mostly
open, covered with silver-tussock and fern, and well watered.
Height above sea-level, from 1,000ft. to 3,000ft.
Run No. 198a is burdened with valuation for improve-
ments, £92 4s.
Possession will be given on the day of sale.
Valuation for improvements must be paid to the Receiver
of Land Revenue, Invercargill, before the licensee will be
let into possession.
Purchasers must deposit a statutory declaration required
by section 62 of "The Land Act, 1892," and pay the sum
of the half-year's rent and license-fee on the fall of the
hammer.

G. W. WILLIAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Runs, Hawke's Bay, for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 17th February, 1896.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned pas-
toral runs will be submitted to public auction at the
District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, on Wednesday,
the 15th April, 1896.

SCHEDULE.

On Run No. 1 there are about 5,600 acres of open fern
country, the remainder being mixed bush. About half the
run is undulating and level, the rest rather broken. On
Run No. 2, about 2,100 acres are open fern land, the balance
being bush. The soil on both runs is light pumice, and
they are well watered. They are accessible by pack-track
from Wairoa, distant forty-eight miles, and from Mohaka,
about twenty-eight miles.
Runs Nos. 9 and 10 are very much broken, and the land
is of poor quality, carrying fern with bush in gullies; well
watered, and fit for grazing purposes, though the carrying-
capacity of the land is light. The runs are accessible from
Wairoa, distant about twenty-three miles.
Run No. 9 has some land which would carry good grass,
but it exists in patches. Run No. 10 contains about 6,000
acres of pumice land, with clay subsoil, and little or no
vegetation on it.

THOS. HUMPHRIES,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lease of Reserve for Sale by Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 23rd March, 1896.

IT is hereby notified that a lease of the under-mentioned
land will be offered for sale by auction at the Lands
and Survey Office, Blenheim, on Wednesday, the 20th day
of May, 1896:—