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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 45

Land in Waimarie Settlement, Hawke’s Bay, open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 13th June, 1898.

THE under-mentioned Crown lands will be open for selection at the Lands and Survey Office, Napier, or the Local Land Office, Gisborne, on Wednesday, 3rd August, 1898.

WAIMATA SURVEY DISTRICT.—COOK COUNTY.

Agricultural Land.

SECTION 18, Block I.: Area, 25 acres and 35 perches; half-yearly rent, £13 11s. 6d.

First-class land, lately in crop. It is fenced front and back, and a fence of about 30 chains runs near the boundary against Section 17, which can be removed to the boundary. The Waimarie Settlement is situated ten miles from Gisborne, on the main road from that town to Motu and Opotiki, the upper end reaching to within half a mile of the Ormond Village. There is a cheese-factory in the vicinity, but just at present it is not in operation. The main road from Gisborne is of the best, level, and gravelled the whole distance, and at the present time two lines of coaches are running, making communication with the town and port easy, frequent, and inexpensive.

ERIC C. GOLD SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Run, Otago, for Lease on Application.

Crown Lands Office,
Dunedin, 26th May, 1898.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned pastoral run will be open for application at the Crown Lands Office, Dunedin, on Wednesday, the 6th July, 1898.

SCHEDULE.

RUN No. 11, Mount Fortune (Class I.), Waitaki County: Area, 7,000 acres; term, 14 years; upset annual rental, £200.

Possession will be given on the 1st March, 1899.

Present licensee of run: The New Zealand and Australian Land Company.

The run is situated between the south and middle branches of the Waianakarua River, about three miles west of Herbert.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Rural Land in the Auckland Land District open for Sale or Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, 13th June, 1898.

THE under-mentioned Crown land will be open for sale or selection in terms of section 136 of “The Land Act, 1892,” either for cash, for occupation with right of purchase, or for lease in perpetuity, at the option of the selector, on and after Wednesday, the 20th July, 1898.

If more than one application be received, then the order of selection shall be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

All mixed-forest land; broken, with flat ridges; well watered; soil medium; nine miles from Waipu. Contains a few scattered kauri-trees of no commercial value.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Rural Land in the Hawke’s Bay District open for Sale or Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, 4th May, 1898.

THE under-mentioned Crown land will be open for sale or selection, in terms of section 136 of “The Land Act, 1892,” either for cash, for occupation with right of purchase, or for lease in perpetuity, at the option of the selector, on and after Wednesday, the 22nd June, 1898.

If more than one application be received on the same day, then the order of selection shall be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

With the exception of 15 acres felled and burnt in 1894, the section is entirely covered with forest, consisting of rata, hinau, and silver-birch; hilly and broken country, adapted for pastoral purposes; light stony soil, poor on tops of spurs; well watered. Distant about eight miles and a half from the Mangatera Railway-station.

ERIC C. GOLD SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.