Aug. 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1525

O.R.P. License No. 81, Sections 5 and 6, Block XV., Hangaroa Survey District: Held by John MacIntosh Mackenzie; forfeited 16th December, 1898.

Lease in Perpetuity No. 151, Section 39, Whetukura Village Settlement: Held by Jean Benjamin Teychenne; forfeited 19th May, 1899.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

Lands in the Auckland Land District open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

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

THE under-mentioned Crown lands will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity at this office on Monday, the 21st August, 1899.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WHAKATANE COUNTY.—WHAKATANE SURVEY DISTRICT.—OPOURIAO ESTATE.

First-class Land.

About 20 acres good land and flat alluvial, 17 acres easily drained swamp, about 70 acres scrub and light bush, 87 acres fern hills, undulating, with steep faces at back. Section well watered, and fronting main road; six miles from Whakatane Township.

3A | XIII. | 12 0 0 | 10 0 | 3 0 0

Generally flat alluvial land, with frontage to river and main road; no bush, soil excellent; situated eleven miles and a half from Whakatane Township.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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 Mangapoipoi 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.

Rural Lands in the Wellington Land District open for Selection on Perpetual Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 8th August, 1899.

THE under-mentioned Crown lands will be open for selection, in terms of section 159 of “The Land Act, 1892,” for perpetual lease, on and after Wednesday, 27th September, 1899.

If more than one application be received for the same 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, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

PAHIATUA COUNTY.—MAKURI SURVEY DISTRICT.

First-class Surveyed Land.

Weighted with £137 10s. for improvements, and £42 13s. 4d. for survey-fee.

11 | VII. | 61 0 0 | 1 0 | 1 10 6

Weighted with £10 for improvements, and £11 14s. for survey-fee.

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

Land in Wellington open for Selection on Perpetual Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 1st August, 1899.

THE under-mentioned section will be opened for selection on perpetual lease, in terms of section 159 of “The Land Act, 1892,” on and after Wednesday, 20th September, 1899.

SCHEDULE.

PAHIATUA COUNTY.—MOUNT CERBERUS SURVEY DISTRICT.—NORTH-EAST PUKETOI BLOCK.

First-class Land.

Weighted with £1,353 for improvements.

Section 35, Block XII., Mount Cerberus, is situated in the North-east Puketoi Block, on the Mangatoro and Towai Roads. The improvements comprise the felling and grassing of the whole of the section (viz., 324 acres), 260 chains of fencing, and sheep-yards, &c. The section comprises hilly, broken country. The soil is of fair quality, resting partly on limestone formation. Elevation ranges from 1,400 ft. to 1,900 ft. above sea-level.

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