Jan. 28.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 265

Small Grazing-runs, Otago, open for Lease on Application.

District Land Office,
Dunedin, 8th December, 1896.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small grazing-runs will be open for lease on application, at the Land Office, Dunedin, on and after Wednesday, the 10th February, 1897, at the half-yearly rental noted below. If more than one application be received for the same run on the same day, priority of selection will be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.
OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.
Small Grazing-runs.

FIRST-CLASS PASTORAL COUNTRY.
Tuapeka County.

Good land, fairly well watered; situated about ten miles from Miller’s Flat Post-office. About 120 acres have been cultivated, and the remainder is in tussock. Valuation for improvements, to be lodged with application or paid immediately the result of the ballot is declared, £285 5s. Valuation is also to be allowed for 14 acres of oat-crop at present on the run. The crop to be valued fourteen days prior to date of sale. Possession 1st March, 1897.

Waitaki County.

| Maerewhen’a Run 17D | .. | 711 3 0 | 0 6·06 | 9 0 0 |

One of the subdivisions of Run 17 (portion of the Otekaike Station). This run consists of light pastoral land, well watered, and sloping toward the Maerewhenua River. Distance from Livingstone by road, seven miles. Altitude averages 2,400ft. Valuation for improvements, payable with application or immediately the result of the ballot is declared, £93. Possession on day of sale.

| Maerewhen’a | 1 | XVI. | 398 1 9 | 0 10 | 8 5 10 |

Partly grazing and partly agricultural land; soil fair; well watered; situated about one mile from the Town of Livingstone. Valuation for improvements, payable with application or immediately the result of the ballot is declared, £205 9s. Possession 1st March, 1897.

Vincent County.

| Tiger Hill .. | 220E, 220F | .. | 3,903 0 0 | 0 3 | 24 7 10 |

Undulating to broken pastoral country, situated about eight miles from Alexandra and adjoining the Galloway Station. Valuation for improvements, payable with application or immediately the result of the ballot is declared, £260. Possession 1st March, 1897.

Waitaki County.

| Domet | 1 | XI. | 865 0 0 | 0 8 | 14 8 4 |
| Maerewhen’a | 5 | XVI. | | | |

One of the subdivisions of Tapui and Tokarahi Stations. This run contains good grazing-land, several portions of which are fit for cultivation; well watered; situated from five to six miles from Livingstone. Valuation for improvements, payable with application or immediately the result of the ballot is declared, £376 14s. 6d. Possession, 1st March, 1897.

SECOND-CLASS PASTORAL COUNTRY.
Waitaki County.

| Kurow | 3 of 23, 4 of 23 | .. | 9,400 0 0 | 0 2 | 39 3 4 |

Hilly pastoral land of fair quality; well watered; situated about eight miles from Kurow Township. Valuation for improvements, payable with application or immediately the result of the ballot is declared, £624 3s. Possession 1st March, 1897.

Vincent County.

| Tiger Hill.. | 220 B.G.H.I. | .. | 7,323 0 0 | 0 2 | 30 10 3 |

Subdivisions of Pastoral Runs 220B and 220C, part of Galloway Station. Undulating to broken country, containing good pastoral land. The run has frontage to the main Alexandra-Ida Valley Road; it fronts the Manuherikia River, and is traversed by the proposed Otago Central Railway. Its distance from Alexandra is about eight miles. Valuation for improvements, payable with application or immediately the result of the ballot is declared, £217 7s. Possession 1st March, 1897.

Waitaki County.

With the exception of 2,000 acres on the south-west end, this run is well grassed throughout, and is watered by a number of small streams; the north-east portion contains some arable land. Distance from Livingstone by formed road, four miles, and from Tokarahi Railway-station, ten miles. The average altitude of this country is 2,600ft. Valuation for improvements, payable with application or immediately the result of the ballot is declared, £544 12s.

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, 1897.

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 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 __, 189____, 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.