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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 53

Small Grazing-run in the Waimate County, Canterbury, for Lease on Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 11th July, 1898.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small grazing-run will be open for lease on application at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, and the Land Office, Timaru, on Tuesday, the 6th September, 1898, at the annual rental noted below. In the event of the section not being applied for on the above date it will be open for application thereafter at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch. In case of more than one application for the run on the same day, priority of selection will be decided by ballot on the following day, at Christchurch, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.
CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—WAIMATE COUNTY.
First-class Pastoral Country.

This section is situated on the eastern side of the Hunters’ Hills, at the head-waters of the Otaio River, and comprises open hilly pastoral country, very rough and rocky in parts, and broken by gullies and the gorge of the Otaio River.

The section is weighted with a sum of £123, being valuation of boundary and internal fencing, &c., which sum must be paid by the successful applicant before being admitted to possession.

Possession of the land will be given to the successful applicant on the day of ballot, or, if there be only one application, then on the date when it is approved by the Land Board.

SIDNEY WEETMAN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Town and Village Allotments in the Township of Opawa (Albury), Mackenzie County, for Sale by Public Auction for Cash.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 11th July, 1898.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned town and village allotments will be offered for sale by public auction, at the District Land Office, Timaru, on Tuesday, the 6th September, at 11 o’clock a.m.

SCHEDULE.
CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—TOWNSHIP OF OPAWA.
Town Allotments.

Village Allotments.

These sections are situated in the Township of Opawa (Albury), adjacent to the Albury Station on the Timaru-Fairlie branch-line of railway, and comprise for the most part open light land, in native tussock.

Terms of Sale.—One-fifth of the purchase-money to be paid on the fall of the hammer, and the balance, with Crown-grant fee, within thirty days thereafter; otherwise the part of the purchase-money paid by way of deposit shall be forfeited, and the contract for the sale of the land be null and void. There are no restrictions or limitations imposed on purchasers of cash lands at auction.

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

SIDNEY WEETMAN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Town of Cambridge West for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 11th July, 1898.

NOTICE is hereby given that the lease for a term of fourteen years of the under-mentioned reserve will be offered for sale by auction, at this office, on Friday, the 2nd day of September, 1898, at 11 a.m.:

TOWN OF CAMBRIDGE WEST.

Lot 570: 8 acres; upset annual rent, £1 4s.

Term of lease, fourteen years, without right of renewal.

No compensation allowed for improvements during either the currency or at the termination of the lease.

Lessee will have the right to remove fences and buildings erected during tenancy.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Rural Land at Tautane, Hawke’s Bay, open for Lease upon Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 11th July, 1898.

THE under-mentioned Education Reserve will be open for lease for the term of thirty years, upon application at this office, on and after Wednesday, the 14th September, 1898.

If more than one application be received for the 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, Napier.

SCHEDULE.
HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.
Tautane Survey District.

Weighted with £60 for timber on section.

The land is of fair quality, undulating, and well watered, with papa and rotten-rock formation. On the frontage to the Angora Road there are about 40 acres partly level, with a number of totara-trees which the late bush-fires have slightly injured in patches. The section is about two miles distant from the Wimbledon Post-office, and a good metalled road connects it with Dannevirke, the nearest railway-station.

The section is almost all covered with light bush, and a fair amount of totara still remains on the land.

Conditions of Lease.—The lease shall be for a term of thirty years without right of renewal, commencing from the 1st day of January or July following the date of application, and ending on the 30th day of June which shall first ensue after the expiration of thirty years from that date.

The value of the timber on the section, £60, must be paid in cash at the time of application.

The conditions as to occupation and improvements shall be those of perpetual-lease lands under “The Land Act, 1885.” The lessee will not at any time be allowed to acquire the freehold of the land.

ERIC C. GOLD SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,