Feb. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 445

Village Allotments, Chatton, Southland, open for Sale or Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, 16th January, 1900.

THE under-mentioned village allotment will be open for sale or selection either for cash, for occupation with right of purchase, or on lease in perpetuity, at the option of the applicant, on Tuesday, the 6th March, 1900.

If more than one application be received 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, Invercargill.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

First-class Land.

Situated about eight miles from Gore. Land level; good black loamy soil, with silver-tussock. Limit of holding in this village, one acre.

D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Rural Land in the Wellington Land District open for Sale or Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, 13th February, 1900.

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 18th April, 1900.

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.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—TE NGAUE BLOCK.

Second-class Land.

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

Village-homestead Land, Matapouri Village, Taranaki, open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 12th December, 1899.

THE under-mentioned Crown land will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity on and after the 28th February, 1900.

If more than one application be received for the 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, New Plymouth.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—PATEA COUNTY.—KAPARA SURVEY DISTRICT.

First-class Land.

Weighted with £9 0s. 6d., valuation for improvements, which must be paid on approval of application. All level, well-watered land, cleared and in grass; good soil, on papa formation. The Waitotara Valley Road is formed for dray traffic past the section. Distance from Waitotara, about twenty-nine miles.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Karapiro Estate, Auckland, open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 6th February, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned Crown land will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity at this office, on Monday, the 26th March, 1900.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WAIKATO COUNTY.—CAMBRIDGE SURVEY DISTRICT.—KARAPIO ESTATE.

First-class Land.

Comprises about 35 acres flat land in grass; balance gully and river-flat, fit for surface-sowing; frontage of 19 chains to the Thornton Road, which is fenced with a good post-and-wire fence; the eastern and southern boundaries are also fenced about 47 chains. The section contains about half an acre of wattle-trees, and is well watered. Distant about half a mile from the Borough of Cambridge. The section is portion of the Karapiro Estate.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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