946.                                'THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.                     [No. 41

Cloudy Bay Survey District, Run No. 5: 180 acres; term,
10 years; upset annual rent, £2.
Cloudy Bay Survey District, Run No. 132: 50 acres;
term, 10 years; upset annual rent, £1.
Cloudy Bay Survey District, Run No. 133: 70 acres;
term, 10 years; upset annual rent, £1.
One half-year's rent and £1 1s. license-fee must be paid
on the fall of the hammer.

Reserve for Leasing (under "The Public Reserves Act,
1881").

Heringa Survey District, Section 1, Block II.: 50 acres;
term, 14 years; upset annual rent, £2 10s. Conditions will
be inserted in this lease as to travelling stock. Particulars
may be obtained on application at this office. One half-
year's rent and £1 1s. lease-fee must be paid on the fall of
the hammer.

C. W. ADAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Reserve for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 6th April, 1897.
NOTICE is hereby given that a lease for a term of seven
years of the under-mentioned land will be submitted
at public auction under "The Public Reserves Act, 1881,"
at this office, on Friday, the 18th day of June, 1897, at
11 a.m.:—
Section No. 9, Parish of Awhitu: 200 acres; upset annual
rental, £4.
Terms.—Rent is payable half-yearly in advance. No com-
pensation will be allowed for improvements during the
currency or at the termination of lease, but the lessee may
remove any buildings erected by him before the termination
of the lease.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Reserve for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 2nd April, 1897.
NOTICE is hereby given that a lease for a term of seven
(7) years of the under-mentioned land will be sub-
mitted at public auction, under "The Public Reserves Act,
1881," at this office, on Friday, the 11th day of June, 1897,
at 11 a.m.

MANUKAU COUNTY.—PARISH OF MANUREWA.
Section 199a (Canal Reserve): Area, 5 acres 2 roods 10
perches; upset annual rent, £5. This lot is part of the
Canal Reserve at Otahuhu, nine miles from Auckland.
Terms of Lease.—Lease for term of seven years, without
any right of renewal. Rent payable half-yearly in advance.
No compensation allowed for improvements during either
the currency or at the termination of lease, but the lessee
may remove any buildings erected by him before the termi-
nation of the lease.

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 Ho-
kianga 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 re-
moved 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.

Reserves in Wellington Land District for Lease by Public
Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 23rd February, 1897.
THE under-mentioned reserves will be offered for lease
by public auction at Palmerston North on Wednesday,
the 12th May, 1897:—

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 whatso-
ever 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.

Rural Lands, Southland, open for Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 20th March, 1897.
THE under-mentioned Crown lands will be open for
selection, in terms of sections 121 and 136 of "The
Land Act, 1892," for lease in perpetuity, on and after
Thursday, the 13th May, 1897.
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 11 a.m., at the
District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill.

SCHEDULE.
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SOUTHLAND COUNTY.—NOKOMAI
SURVEY DISTRICT.
First-class Land.

Sections 8 and 9, Block III., undulating; Sections 10, 11,
and 12, Block III., and 10, Block IV., level; soil good, but
poorly watered; height above sea-level, from 900 ft. to
1,500 ft.; distance from Athol, from half a mile to three
miles.

D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.