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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 30

Conway and Clarence, and adjoining the Highfield Estate. Distant about twenty miles from Waiau, by the Kaikoura Road. This run has been worked in conjunction with the Highfield Station. This run is weighted with £750, valuation for improvements, consisting of woolshed, four-roomed cottage, men’s quarters, sheep-dip, orchard, and fencing, to be paid by the incoming tenant. Boundaries subject to survey. Formerly held by Wharton and Co.

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

Possession will be given on the date of the granting of the application.

Purchasers must deposit with their application a statutory declaration required by section 62 of “The Land Act, 1892,” and pay the sum of the half-year’s rent, license-fee, and valuation for improvements in the case of Run No. 15.

T. HUMPHRIES,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale of Education Reserves, New Plymouth.

Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 12th January, 1897.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned education reserves in the Town of New Plymouth will be offered for sale by public auction for cash, at this office, on Wednesday, the 14th day of April, 1897, at noon.

SCHEDULE.

Part Section 1523: Area, about 8½ perches; upset price, £5.
Part Section 1548: Area, about 8½ perches; upset price, £5.

Terms of Sale.—One-fifth of the purchase-money must be paid on the fall of the hammer; the balance, together with £1 Crown-grant fee, within thirty days thereafter, otherwise the part of the purchase-money paid by way of deposit shall be absolutely forfeited, and the contract for the sale of the land be null and void.

Full particulars may be ascertained and plans obtained at this office.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lease of Harbour Reserve, Castlepoint.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 5th February, 1897.

IT is hereby notified, in terms of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” that tenders for the lease of the under-mentioned section, with the buildings thereon, will be received at this office up to 4.30 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, the 21st day of April, 1897. The term of the lease will be five years. No allowance whatsoever will be payable on account of improvements effected by the lessee. A deposit of a half-year’s rent at the rate tendered, and £1 1s. lease-fee, must be enclosed with each tender.

Section 852, Block X., Castlepoint Survey District: Area, 68 acres.

A plan and conditions of lease can be seen at the Post-office, Castlepoint, and also at this office, where full particulars can be obtained. The highest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted.

J. W. A. MARCHANT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Kauri Timber, Auckland, for Sale.

Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 22nd March, 1897.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned clumps of kauri timber standing upon Crown land in Blocks XIII. and XIV., Kaeo Survey District, in the Hokianga and Bay of Islands Counties, about eight miles above the booms in Waihou River, Hokianga, will be offered for sale by public auction, at this office, on Friday, the 7th May, 1897, at 11 a.m. :

Clump A: 70 kauri-trees, containing about 200,000 sup. ft.; upset price, £100.

Clump B: 356 kauri-trees, containing about 725,000 sup. ft.; upset price, £362 10s.

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

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Kauri Timber, Auckland, for Sale.

Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 22nd March, 1897.

NOTICE is hereby given that the green and dry timber as below, and situated in Block XVI., Hukerenui, and Block XI., Opuawhanga Survey Districts, Whangarei County, will be offered for sale by public auction, at this office, on Friday, the 7th May, 1897, at 11 o’clock a.m. :

365 dead kauri-trees, containing about 1,202,259 sup. ft.; 98 green kauri-trees, containing about 365,873 sup. ft.; upset price, £784.

Timber is about two miles and a half from Hikurangi Railway-station, to which there is a fair road, and haulage easy.

Conditions of Sale.—One-half the purchase-money to be paid on the fall of the hammer, the balance within six months. Timber to be removed within two years from date of sale.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in the Town of Palmerston North for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 9th February, 1897.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned sections in the Town of Palmerston North will be offered for sale by public auction at Palmerston North on Wednesday, the 12th May, 1897 :

Section 822, Palmerston North: Area, 1 acre 1 rood; upset price, £200.

Section 1086, Palmerston North: Area, 1 acre 2 roods 6 perches; upset price, £100.

Terms of Sale.—One-fifth of the purchase-money to be paid on the fall of the hammer, and the balance, with Crown-grant fee, within thirty days thereafter; otherwise the part of the purchase-money paid by way of deposit shall be forfeited, and the contract for the sale of the land be null and void.

Mr. H. Martin, of Palmerston North, holds a lease o Section 1086 for twenty-one years from the 18th August, 1890. The annual rent payable under the lease is £4 4s. for the first seven years of the term, £5 5s. for the next seven years, and £6 6s. for the remaining seven years. This section is therefore offered subject to his lease, a copy of which may be inspected by intending purchasers.

J. W. A. MARCHANT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Native Land Court Notices.

Notice of Exhibition of Plan of the Tokaanu Native Township.

Native Land Court Office,
Auckland, 25th March, 1897.

NOTICE is hereby given that the plan of the Township of Tokaanu is at present, and will be, on exhibition at the Post-office at Tokaanu until the 18th day of May, 1897.

Any Native owner objecting to the sufficiency, size, or situation of the reserves or Native allotments, as shown on the said plan, must lodge objections with the Chief Judge of the Native Land Court, at Wellington, on or before the 18th day of May, 1897.

JAS. W. BROWNE, Registrar.

“The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

Native Land Court Office, Auckland, 20th March, 1897.

NOTICE is hereby given that the sitting of the Native Land Court which was notified to be held at Paeroa, Ohinemuri, on the 29th day of March, 1897, has been adjourned to the 8th day of April, 1897.

JAS. W. BROWNE, Registrar.

[Auckland, 97-20.]