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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 71

Town of Reids ton.

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Hyde Town.

One-fifth of the purchase-money, together with the value of improvements, must be deposited on the fall of the hammer, and the balance, with £1 Crown-grant fee, within thirty days, or the deposit will be forfeited.

Lithographs may be obtained at the Survey Office, Dunedin, and the Courthouses, Arrowtown and Naseby.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Aohanga Survey District, Wellington, for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 27th September, 1898.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned land will be offered for sale by public auction for cash at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, on Wednesday, the 7th December, 1898.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—WAIRARAPA NORTH COUNTY.—AOHANGA SURVEY DISTRICT.

Weighted with £109 for improvements.

The above section is situated in the Dannevirke Centennial Block, on the King’s Road. The access is from Rakau-nui, which is about eighteen miles distant—viz., two miles by the Alfredton-Weber Road; then for seven miles by a formed horse-track down the Huia, Waikereru, and Wai-owaka Roads; the other nine miles by the Spur and other roads, which are being formed. The section comprises hilly land, with homestead-site on King’s Road. The soil is clay and sandstone, resting on a papa formation. The section is under English grass, on which manuka scrub has grown up. The section is not well watered. The elevation ranges from about 700 ft. to 1,000 ft. above sea-level. The improvements comprise—144 acres in grass, at 7s. 6d., £54; 110 chains post-and-wire fence, at 10s., £55: total, £109.

Terms of Sale.—One-fifth of the purchase-money, together with the value of the improvements, 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 the purchaser of this section other than above mentioned.

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

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

Kahikatea Timber, Auckland, for Sale by Public Auction.

Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 22nd August, 1898.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned lots of kahikatea timber in Block XI., Tokatoka Survey District, Hobson County, will be offered for sale by public auction at this office on Friday, the 21st day of October, 1898, at 11 o’clock a.m.:

Lot 1: All the kahikatea timber on Sections 22 and 23, Block XI., Tokatoka Survey District, about 2,118 trees, containing about 3,680,000 sup. ft. Upset price, £920.

Lot 2: All the kahikatea timber on Sections 24 and 26, Block XI., Tokatoka Survey District, about 8,158 trees, containing about 14,228,000 sup. ft. Upset price, £3,557.

Lot 3: All the kahikatea timber on Sections 49, 50, and 53, Block XI., Tokatoka Survey District, about 4,400 trees, containing about 7,000,000 sup. ft. Upset price, £1,750.

Lot 4: All the kahikatea timber on Sections 34, 41, 42, 43, and 44, Block XI., Tokatoka Survey District, about 3,030 trees, containing about 4,190,000 sup. ft. Upset price, £1,047 10s.

The purchaser of any of the above lots of kahikatea timber to have the right to convey such timber over the Government iron tram-line to its terminus at the mouth of Bascombe’s Creek, Northern Wairoa River, during the period allowed him to remove the timber, the purchaser providing his own rolling-stock.

Conditions.—One-third purchase-money to be paid in cash or by marked cheque on the fall of the hammer, one-third in six months, and the balance within twelve months from date of sale. Timber to be removed within four years from date of sale.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Rural Lands in Southland District open for Sale or Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, 12th September, 1898.

THE under-mentioned Crown lands 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 Thursday, the 10th day of November, 1898.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

Situated about three miles and a half from the Dipton Railway-station. This section is mostly open, broken land, well watered; vegetation, silver-tussock, with fern and tutu; good pastoral land, with small parts ploughable. The section is burdened with £20, being the value of black-pine and kowhai growing upon it; also with £175 8s. 6d. for improvements thereon, consisting of fencing, £129 3s. 6d.; sheep-dip and yards, £36; 15 acres ploughed, £5 5s.; hut, £5.

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Situated about twelve miles from Fortrose, on the Otara-Waikawa Road. Soil fair and well watered; mixed bush of rimu, miro, and kamai. Burdened with valuation of £64 for improvements, consisting of house, £35; garden, £1 10s.; outhouse, £1; fencing, £2 10s.; and 16 acres in grass, £24.

D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.