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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 77

Rural Land in Taranaki District open for Sale or Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, 1st August, 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 23rd day of November, 1898.

SCHEDULE.
TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.
First-class Land.

This land is situate on the Main South Road, right bank of Oeo Stream; distant from Manaia about ten miles, and from Opunake nine miles. Weighted with £548, valuation for improvements. The Oeo Hotel stands on the section.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
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.

| Southland | Otara | 6 | VII. | A. R. P. 369 0 0 | £ s. d. 10 0 £ s. d. 184 10 0 | s. d. 0 6 £ s. d. 4 12 3 | s. d. 0 4 8 £ s. d. 3 13 10 |

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.

Small Grazing-run, Southland, for Lease upon Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 20th September, 1898.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small grazing-run will be open for lease upon application at this office on Thursday, 24th November, 1898.

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

SCHEDULE.
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WALLACE COUNTY.—WAIATU SURVEY DISTRICT.—SMALL GRAZING-RUN NO. 3.
Second-class Land.

Situated about eighteen miles from Otatatau Railway-station. Land hilly and broken; soil poor; clay formation; vegetation, manuka scrub and fern. Height above sea-level, 400 ft. to 600 ft.

D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Small Grazing-run, Wairaki, Southland, open for Lease upon Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 5th September, 1898.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small grazing-run will be open for lease upon application on Thursday, the 3rd November, 1898, at the half-yearly rental stated.

SCHEDULE.
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WALLACE COUNTY.—WAIRAKI SURVEY DISTRICT.
Small Grazing-run No. 42.—Second-class Land.

Distance from Nightcaps Railway-station, about nine miles. The country is somewhat broken, and mostly covered with fern, the balance being well grassed. The fern country is capable of being improved with surface-sowing. This run is burdened with valuation for half boundary-fencing, £72 6s.

D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.