JULY 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1371

Small Grazing-runs, Hawke’s Bay, open for Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 10th July, 1899.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small grazing-runs will be open for lease, upon application at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, on and after Tuesday, the 29th August, 1899, at the annual rentals noted below. In case of more than one application for the same run on the same day, priority of selection will be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—COOK COUNTY.
Second-class Pastoral Country.

Locality and Description of Runs.

All undulating and broken country, consisting of light soil on papa formation, watered by numerous small streams. The Gisborne–Waikaremoana Main Road (formed 6 ft. wide) and the Gisborne–Rotorua Stock Track give access to Runs 29, 30, 31, 32, 62, and 65, the distance from Gisborne being forty-two miles via Hangaroa Village, it being a dray-road from that point to Gisborne. The Bushy Knoll Road gives access to Runs 33, 34, and 41, the distance from Gisborne being forty-three miles via Tiniroto Village, situated on the main Gisborne–Wairoa Road.

Detailed Descriptions.

On Run 29 about half the area is covered with good mixed bush, the balance being fern. Height of land, from 700 ft. to 2,000 ft.

On Run 30 there are a few patches of mixed bush, the remainder being fern country, the bush being on the banks of streams and heads of gullies. There is about one mile and a half of frontage to the main road, and the Hangaroa River also forms part of the boundary. Height of land, 700 ft. to 2,000 ft.

On Run 31 about half is covered with bush, 200 acres of which is black-birch, the other portion being fern and scrub. The height of run varies from 1,000 ft. to 2,500 ft.

On Run 32 the land is nearly all bush, and the Manga-poipoi Stream runs through it. Height, from 1,000 ft. to 2,000 ft.

On Run 33 about one-third is bush, the other part being open fern and scrub. Height, from 800 ft. to 2,400 ft.

On Run 34 the land is mostly open fern, with patches of bush and scrub. Height, from 600 ft. to 1,700 ft.

On Run 41 it is nearly all mixed-bush country, height being from 600 ft. to 1,700 ft.

On Run 62 about one-quarter is covered with bush, the other part being fern and scrub. Height, from 900 ft. to 2,000 ft.

On Run 65 about one-third is covered with bush, the other portion being fern and scrub.

ERIC C. GOLD SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Small Grazing-run, Marlborough, open for Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 11th July, 1899.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small grazing-run will be open for selection at this office on Friday, the 18th August, 1899.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.
Richmond Brook Settlement.

C. W. ADAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sections in the Town of Seddon open for Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 11th July, 1899.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned sections in the Town of Seddon will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity at this office, on Friday, the 18th August, 1899.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—STARBOROUGH SETTLEMENT.—TOWN OF SEDDON.
(116 Sections.)

• On Section 16, Block VIII., there is a good clay house, valued at £110. Interest and sinking fund on building repayable in ten years by half-yearly instalments of £7 2s. 5d.—total half-yearly, £7 19s. 11d.

† On Section 17, Block VIII., there is a cookhouse, with range and oven, valued at £90. Interest and sinking fund on building repayable in ten years by half-yearly instalments of £5 16s. 7d.—total half-yearly, £6 11s. 7d.

‡ On Section 2, Block XII., there is an iron shed, valued at £70. Interest and sinking fund on building repayable in ten years by half-yearly instalments of £4 10s. 8d.—total half-yearly, £5 3s. 2d.

C. W. ADAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.