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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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tion of 2,400ft., and having for the most part easy rounded
tops and spurs; the western portion of the run is more
broken: there are patches of bush and scrub in places.

CONDITIONS.

Possession will be given on the 1st March, 1897.

The above runs will be sold generally in accordance with
the provisions of Part VI. of “The Land Act, 1892.”

Purchasers must deposit statutory declarations required
by section 62 of “The Land Act, 1892,” and pay the first
half-year’s rent, together with license-fee and valuation for
improvements (if any), on fall of the hammer.

Full particulars, plans, forms of declaration, &c., may be
obtained on application at the District Lands and Survey
Office, Christchurch. Maps will be ready about the 1st
February.

The Crown reserves a right, at any time within two years
from the date of commencement of the term of lease, on
notice to the purchaser, to resume possession of Runs 139
(Loburn), 136 (Broomfield), and 159 (Rockwood), either in
whole or part, which may be selected by the New Zealand
Midland Railway Company (Limited), in virtue of any right
which the said company, or any person or body lawfully
claiming through or under it, may have to or in respect of any
unsatisfied land claim. The effect of any such resumption
shall be to determine the lease or license, wholly or in part,
as the case requires; if the resumption be only as to part,
then the rent in future shall be reduced in proportion to the
area resumed.

No compensation will be paid or payable by or on behalf
of the Crown by reason of the exercise of the power hereby
reserved. Provisions to the purport of this condition, and
necessary to give effect to the same, will be inserted in each
lease or license granted to a purchaser.

SIDNEY WEETMAN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 12th January, 1897.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned
small grazing-runs will be open for lease on application, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch,
on and after Wednesday, the 24th February, 1897, at the
annual rental noted below. 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.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—MACKENZIE COUNTY.—BURKE
AND TENGAWAI SURVEY DISTRICTS.

First-class Pastoral Country.

These sections are situated adjacent to and south of
Burke’s Pass, being subdivisions of the original Three
Springs, Albury, and Rollesby Stations, and comprise
generally mountainous and hilly open tussock country of
good quality, rocky and shingly on the main tops and spurs,
with patches of undulating land and small flats. The
sections are fairly well watered by springs and streams.
The elevation of the country ranges from 1,700ft. to about
3,500ft. above sea-level, and it is subject to heavy falls of
snow, which lie on the higher lands during the winter. The
access is by the main roads connecting Burke’s Pass with
Fairlie and Albury, the distances therefrom to the nearest
points on the sections being respectively about ten and
twelve miles. The Duck Stream and other branch roads
are unformed. These sections, except for the drawback of
being subject to falls of snow, are, by quality of soil and
situation, well adapted for pastoral pursuits.

The sections are weighted with valuations for improvements as follows:—

Sections 36458 and 36459 with £134 10s. 6d., being valuation of boundary and subdivision fencing.

Sections 36460 and 36461 with £843 5s. 10d., being valuation of good eight-roomed dwellinghouse, outbuildings, yards, garden, boundary and subdivision fencing, &c.

Section 36462 with £225 15s. 10d., being valuation of small dwellinghouse, yards, and boundary-fencing.

Section 36463 with £193, being valuation of three-roomed dwellinghouse, outbuildings, and boundary and subdivision fencing.

Sections 36464 and 36465 with £141 10s., being valuation of small dwellinghouse, yards, and boundary-fencing.

These sums must be paid on allotment, in addition to the usual deposit of a half-year’s rent, and lease-fee of £1 1s.

Possession of the sections will be given to the successful applicants for the same on the 1st March, 1897.

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 small grazing-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, and the sum fixed for valuation of improvements, 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.

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 __, 189__, before me—

__, a Justice of the Peace in and for the Colony of New Zealand.

• Place of abode or occupation. † Here specify.

SIDNEY WEETMAN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 24th December, 1896.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned kauri and totara timber, situated in the Auckland Girls’ High School Endowment, in Blocks XI., XII., and XVI., Maungaru Survey District, Hobson County, will be submitted for sale by public auction at this office on Friday, the 5th March, 1897, at 11 o’clock a.m. :—