APRIL 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 829

Terms of Sale.

A deposit of a half-year’s rent and £1 1s. lease-fee must be paid on the fall of the hammer. No allowance whatsoever shall be payable on account of improvements effected by the lessees.

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

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 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.

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.

Reserve in Auckland for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 17th February, 1897.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned reserve in the Suburbs of Mercer will be offered for lease by public auction, at this office, on Wednesday, the 14th April, 1897.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Section No. 8: 4 acres 2 roods 20 perches, Suburbs of Mercer; term, seven years; upset rental, £1 per annum.

Terms of Sale.

A deposit of a half-year’s rent and £1 1s. lease-fee must be paid on the fall of the hammer.

No allowance whatsoever shall be payable on account of improvements effected by the lessee.

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

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Reserve in the Town of Tauranga for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 4th February, 1897.

IT is hereby notified that the lease of the under-mentioned lands will be submitted at public auction, at the Land Office, Tauranga, under “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” for a term of fourteen years, on Wednesday, the 7th April, 1897, at 12 noon.

TOWN OF TAURANGA.

Lots 275, 276, 277, 280, 281, and 282 of Section II.: Area, 1 acre 2 roods; upset annual rental, £9.

Conditions of Lease.—Term, fourteen years without right of renewal. Rent payable quarterly in advance, and non-payment of rent for thirty days to carry forfeiture of lease. The lease is offered subject to a valuation of £75 for improvements.

No allowance for improvements will be made during the currency or at the termination of the lease.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

Crown Land Office,
Dunedin, 9th March, 1897.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small grazing-runs will be open for lease on application at the District Land Office, Dunedin, on and after Wednesday, the 14th April, 1897, at the 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.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—WAIHEMO COUNTY.—MOERAKI SURVEY DISTRICT.

First-class Pastoral Country.

Open pastoral land, easy rolling hills, containing about 300 acres of agricultural land; soil good; well watered. Situated about three-quarters of a mile from Dunback Railway-station, by dray-road. Improvements at present on the section, 430 chains of post-and-wire fencing. Altitude, 1,500 ft.

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Open land, of limestone formation, undulating to hilly; about 100 acres agricultural, remainder pastoral; soil good, well watered. Situated about one mile from Dunback Railway-station, by dray-road. Improvements at present on the section, 420 chains post-and-wire fencing.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Runs in the Nokomai District, Southland, to be offered for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 10th March, 1897.

NOTICE is hereby given that leases of the under-mentioned pastoral lands will be submitted to public auction, on Thursday, the 13th day of May, 1897, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, at 11 a.m.

PASTORAL LANDS UNDER PART VI. OF “THE LAND ACT, 1892.”

Land hilly. Vegetation, silver-tussock, fern, and native grasses. Height above sea-level, 850 ft. to 1,500 ft. Distance from Athol, about two miles.

Possession will be given on the day of sale. Purchasers must deposit a statutory declaration, as required by section 195 of “The Land Act, 1892,” and pay the sum of the first half-year’s rent and license-fee on the fall of the hammer.

D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.