1570 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 71

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.

Offices opened; Office transferred.

Post and Telegraph Department,
General Post Office, Wellington, 15th August, 1899.

THE following particulars of offices opened and of an office transferred are published for general information.

W. C. WALKER,
For Postmaster-General and Electric Telegraph Commissioner.

OFFICES.

POST-OFFICES OPENED.

Ngapaeruru | Napier | 1 July, 1899.
Seddon | Blenheim | 1 " "

MONEY-ORDER OFFICES AND POST-OFFICE SAVINGS-BANKS OPENED.

Tuparoa | Gisborne | 1 August, 1899.
Ranfurly | Dunedin | 1 " "

POSTAL-NOTE OFFICE OPENED.

Wangamomona | New Plymouth | 16 July, 1899.

TELEPHONE-OFFICES OPENED.

Hilderthorpe* | Oamaru | 21 July, 1899.
Ngapaeruru† | Napier | 18 " "
Parapara‡ | Nelson | 4 " "

TELEPHONE BUREAUX OPENED.

Awakino | New Plymouth | 24 July, 1899.
Hilderthorpe | Oamaru | 21 " "
Lumsden§ | Invercargill | 16 " "
Ngapaeruru | Napier | 18 " "

OFFICE TRANSFERRED.

• Now post and telephone, combined.
  † Also post-office (combined) and bureau.
  ‡ No post-office at Parapara.
  § Communication limited to Gore and offices between Lumsden and Gore.