1288

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 63

Sale of Timber and Lease of Town Lands by Public Auction, Hawke’s Bay Land District.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 1st August, 1896.

THE under-mentioned timber in the Tautane Survey District will be offered for sale, and the under-mentioned sections in the Township of Ormondville will be offered for lease, by public auction, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, on Wednesday, the 30th September, 1896.

SALE OF TIMBER.

Section 13, Block V., Tautane Survey District.

Terms of Sale.—The purchaser shall pay 50 per cent. of the purchase-money on the fall of the hammer, and the balance within thirty days from the date of sale. He shall have the sole use of the land, and the right to cut and remove all timber thereon, during a period of three years from the same date.

FOR LEASE.

Ormondville Town.

Conditions of Lease.—The leases shall be for a term of five years, commencing from the 1st January, 1897. The successful bidder at the auction shall pay one year’s rent on the fall of the hammer. No compensation shall be allowed, nor shall any be claimed, at the termination of the lease, for any improvements effected on the land during the term of lease.

THOS. HUMPHRIES,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Kauri Timber, Auckland, for Sale by Public Auction.

Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 1st August, 1896.

THE under-mentioned lots of dead and scorched kauri timber, situated in the Oue State Forest, in Blocks X. and XI., Mangakahia Survey District, Hobson and Whangarei Counties, will be offered for sale by public auction, at this office, on Friday, the 25th September, 1896, at 11 o’clock a.m. :—

424 scorched kauri-trees, containing about 1,354,397ft.; upset price, £451 9s. 4d.

50 old dead kauri-trees, containing about 50,000ft.; upset price, £12 10s.

Conditions of Sale.—One-half of the purchase-money to be paid by cash or marked cheque on the fall of the hammer, the balance within twelve months. Timber to be removed within three years from date of sale.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Reserve in Raglan County, Auckland, for Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 1st June, 1896.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned reserve at Karioi, Raglan, will be submitted for lease by public auction for a term of fourteen years, in terms of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” on Friday, the 21st day of August, 1896, at 11 a.m., at the Crown Lands Office, Auckland :—

Raglan County, Parish Karioi: Pilot and Signal Station Reserve, Section 15, containing 228 acres; upset annual rent, £5; term of lease, fourteen years.

No compensation for improvements will be allowed during either the currency or at the termination of the lease, but the lessee will have the right, on the termination of the lease, to remove any fences and buildings that he may have erected during the term of the lease.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Rural Lands, Wellington, open for Selection on Perpetual Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 9th June, 1896.

THE under-mentioned Crown lands, having been surrendered in terms of section 156 of “The Land Act, 1885,” will be open for selection for perpetual lease on and after Wednesday, the 19th August, 1896. If more than one application be received for the same section on the same day, then the order of selection shall be decided by ballot on the following day at 10 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

PAHIATUA COUNTY.

First- and Second-class Land.

MAKURI SURVEY DISTRICT.

PUKETOI SURVEY DISTRICT.

30 | II. | 640 0 0 | 0 9 12 0 0 | 1,315 0 0

MOUNT CERBERUS SURVEY DISTRICT.

37 | XII. | 329 3 3 | 1 3 10 6 1 | 667 6 6

42 | " | 200 0 0 | 0 9 3 15 0 | 314 2 0

34 | " | 200 0 0 | 1 1·5 5 12 6 | 332 15 1

43 | " | 450 0 0 | 0 9 8 8 9 | 828 7 6

These sections are situated in the Makuri, Upper Makuri, and Puketoi Districts, in the neighbourhood of Makuri, and are approached chiefly by roads leading into and towards that township; and consist principally of land in the Makuri and adjoining valleys, or country sloping into or served by them or their road-systems. The land, taken as a whole, is of an excellent character, with good soil on papa or limestone formation; the most of the sections being in a high state of improvement, to the extent and value set against the number of each.

The improvements have to be paid for in cash on the day that the application is approved.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Rural Lands, Wellington, open for Selection on Perpetual Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 30th June, 1896.

THE under-mentioned Crown lands, having been surrendered in terms of section 156 of “The Land Act, 1885,” will be open for selection on perpetual lease on and after Wednesday, the 19th August, 1896. If more than one application be received for the same section on the same day, then the order of selection shall be decided by ballot on the following day, at 10 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

PAHIATUA COUNTY.—MAKURI SURVEY DISTRICT.

First- and Second-class Land.

These sections are situated in the Makuri District, in the neighbourhood of Makuri, and are approached chiefly by roads leading into or towards that township. They consist