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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 3

Sections 36220 and 36503: £352 7s.—dwellinghouse, boundary and subdivision fencing, &c.
Sections 36222 and 36223: £575—two houses, woolshed, yards, boundary and subdivision fencing.
Sections 36227 and 36228: £293—boundary and subdivision fencing, &c.
Section 36229: £365—dwellinghouse, woolshed, yards, boundary and subdivision fencing, &c.
Section 36231: £250—dwellinghouse, woolshed, yards, boundary and internal fencing, &c.
Section 36205: £232—sheep-yards, boundary and subdivision fencing, &c.
Section 36388: £1,037 7s.—good dwellinghouse, stable, woolshed, yards, boundary and subdivision fencing, &c.
Sections 36389 and 36390: £305—yards and boundary and subdivision fencing, &c.
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, 1898.
The selector of Sections 36458 to 36461 will be required, within three months from the date of selection, to remove to the proper river boundary of Section 36458 the fencing at present erected on the Mackenzie Country Road opposite the section.
The selector of Sections 36463, 36466, &c., will be required, within three months from the date of selection, to erect at his own cost a legal fence along the eastern boundary of Section 34430 and part of Section 29564, abutting on the road near Lockhart’s Creek.

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-runs 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 amount of valuation for 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, 1898.

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.

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 or benefit of any other person or persons whatsoever.
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.

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

Crown Lands Office,
Dunedin, 10th January, 1898.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small grazing-runs will be open for lease on application, at the Crown Lands Office, on and after the 25th February, 1898, at the half-yearly rental noted opposite the runs. 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.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

FIRST-CLASS PASTORAL COUNTRY.

Waihemo County.

A. R. P. s. d. £ s. d.
Rock & Pillar | 12 | XII. | 2,975 0 11 | 0 7 | 43 7 9
Open pastoral country, with sunny aspect; fairly well watered. Situated about four miles from Macrae’s and about six miles from Hyde. Valuation for improvements, payable with application or immediately the result of the ballot is declared, £178 18s. 6d. Possession 1st March, 1898.

Taieri and Maniatoto Counties.

Strath Taieri | 2 | VI. | 2,801 1 5 | 0 6 | 35 0 3
Open pastoral country lying well to the sun; watered. Situated about six miles from Middlemarch. Valuation for improvements, payable with application or immediately the result of the ballot is declared, £410 11s. Possession on day of sale.

Waikouaiti County.

Hummock & Run 171A | .. | 2,898 0 0 | 0 7 | 42 5 3.
Hummock-side
Hummock.. | 171B | .. | 2,219 0 0 | 0 7 | 32 7 3

Undulating pastoral country; well watered. Situated about thirteen miles from Waikouaiti. Valuation for improvements, payable with application or immediately the result of the ballot is declared: Run 171A, £34 10s.; Run 171B, £75. Possession on 1st of March, 1898.

FIRST-CLASS PASTORAL COUNTRY.

Waitaki County.

Acres. s. d. £ s. d.
Maruwenua | 17G | 393 | .. | ..
This run consists of light undulating pastoral country, well watered, and in parts arable. Distance from Livingstone by road, about seven miles. Altitude averages 1,900 ft. above sea-level.

Taieri County.

Hummock .. | Sec. 2, Block VII. | 4,167 | 0 4 | 34 14 6
Nenthorn .. | “ 1, “ IX. |
“ 14, “ IV. |
Situated eighteen miles from Middlemarch. Altitude averages 2,000 ft. above sea-level.

SECOND-CLASS PASTORAL COUNTRY.

Vincent County.

Tiger Hill .. | 223F, 223G | 3,545 | 0 2 | 14 15 5
Valuation for improvements, payable with application or immediately the result of the ballot is declared, £168 2s. 6d. Low hill country, well suited for grazing, fronting the Manuherikia River.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.