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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 84

County, will be offered for sale at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Friday, the 8th day of October, 1897, at 11 a.m.

NOTE.—This timber is situated on the head branches of a stream flowing into the Oruaiti River, the confluence being about three miles from Mongonui.

Terms, cash for each separate clump; or, if taken by one purchaser, then half cash and balance in twelve months. Two years given for removal of timber.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Southland for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 24th August, 1897.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned land will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, at this office, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” on and after Thursday, the 14th October, 1897.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Southland County.—Wendonside Survey District.

The land is level; soil fair, with shingle bottom; it is covered with silver-tussock. The distance from Riversdale is about three miles.

D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Reserves in Parkville Township, Wellington Land District, for Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 24th August, 1897.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned reserves will be offered for lease at the Public Hall, Eketahuna, on Thursday, the 21st October, 1897, at 2 o’clock p.m.

SCHEDULE.

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

No compensation shall be claimed by the lessees, nor shall any be allowed by the Government, for improvements effected by the lessee, nor for any other cause.

Possession will be given on day of sale.

The leases shall be for the terms specified, but shall be subject to termination by twelve months’ notice in the event of the land being required by the Government.

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

Reserves in Manukau County for Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 14th September, 1897.

IT is hereby notified, in terms of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” that written tenders will be received at this office on and after Friday, the 5th November, 1897, for the lease of the under-mentioned reserves.

Tenders must be accompanied by marked cheque or post-office order for six months’ rent at the rate offered, together with £1 1s. lease-fee.

MANUKAU COUNTY.—PARISH OF WAITARA.

Section S.W. 53 and Section 55, together containing 84 acres (plantation reserves); situated on the West Coast, adjoining the Waitara River, and about six miles from Pollok Wharf.

Term of lease: Five years. No compensation for improvements during either the currency or on termination of lease, but lessee may remove fences or buildings erected by him.

The lease will contain a condition that the lessee shall, at his own cost, plant each year at least 10 acres of the reserves in sand-binding grasses.

The highest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Rural Lands, Wellington, open for Selection on Perpetual Lease and Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 14th September, 1897.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned lands will be open for selection, at this office, on and after Wednesday, the 27th October, 1897.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

The improvements have to be paid for in cash on the day on which the application is approved.

The lease- and registration-fee under the perpetual-lease system is £1 10s. for each holding.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

On Lease-in-perpetuity Conditions (“Land Act, 1892”).

A half-year’s rent and £1 1s. lease-fee, together with the amount with which the section is weighted for improvements, must be paid before the application can be approved.

These sections are situated in the Makuri District, in the neighbourhood of Makuri, and are approached chiefly by roads leading into or towards that township. They consist principally of land in the Makuri and adjoining valleys, or country sloping into or served by them or their road-systems. The land, taken as a whole, would be considered suitable for sheep-farming, as it contains some good soil on papa or limestone formation. The sections are in a high state of improvement, the extent and value of which are stated against the number of each.

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

Kauri Timber, Auckland, for Sale by Public Auction.

Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 21st August, 1897.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned singed kauri, within the Waerekahakaha State Forest, in Block IX., Mangakahia Survey District, Hobson County, will be offered for sale by public auction, at this office, on Friday, the 8th day of October, 1897, at 11 o’clock a.m.:

70 singed trees, containing about 207,072 sup. feet. Upset price, £103 10s. 8d.

This timber is situated about a mile from Mangakahia Post-office, and can be delivered into the Mangakahia River by a tramway about one mile and a half long.

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 six months thereafter. Timber to be removed within one year from date of sale.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.