MAY 31.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

1049

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—BLIND RIVER ESTATE.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

Land in Elsthorpe Village, Hawke’s Bay, open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 18th April, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned Crown lands will be open for selection upon lease in perpetuity on Wednesday, the 6th June, 1900.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—PATANGATA COUNTY.—ELSTHORPE VILLAGE.

First-class Land.

This section is situated on the main road from Kaikora to the coast, is a good residence-site, and is about fourteen miles from the former place.

ERIC C. GOLD SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Blind River Estate, Marlborough, open for Application on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 18th April, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned Crown land will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity at the District Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, on Monday, the 4th June, 1900, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” and “The Land for Settlements Act, 1894,” and its amendments.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—MARLBOROUGH COUNTY.—CLIFFORD BAY SURVEY DISTRICT.—BLIND RIVER ESTATE,

First-class Land.

Weighted with £75, value for improvements.

Description of section: Twenty-five miles from Blenheim by good road. The land consists of flats and easy slopes,

nearly the whole of the section being ploughable, but the soil on the upper flats and slopes is light; the lower flat, of about 15 acres, is good agricultural land.

C. W. ADAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Kauri Timber, Auckland, for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 18th April, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned green and dead kauri timber, standing upon Blocks IV. and VIII., Hukerenui Survey District, in the Puhipuhi State Forest, Bay of Islands and Whangarei Counties, will be offered for sale by public auction, at this office, on Friday, the 8th day of June, 1900, at 11 o’clock a.m. :

Lot No. 1.—1,957 green kauri-trees, containing 6,163,407 superficial feet; 3,142 singed kauri-trees, containing 5,537,920 superficial feet; and 56 totara trees. Upset price, £5,907.

Conditions of Sale.—One-third of the purchase-money to be paid in cash or by marked cheque on the fall of the hammer, one-third within two years, and the remaining third within four years from date of sale.

The timber to be removed within seven years from date of sale.

All timber to be shipped by railway at the Whakapara booms.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Blind River Estate, Marlborough, open for Application on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 10th April, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned Crown land will be opened for selection on lease in perpetuity, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, on Monday, the 4th June, 1900, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” “The Land for Settlements Act, 1894,” and its amendments.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—MARLBOROUGH COUNTY.—CLIFFORD BAY SURVEY DISTRICT.—BLIND RIVER ESTATE.

Second-class Land.

Weighted with £84, valuation for improvements.

Section 10, Block XII., Clifford Bay Survey District.—110 acres of flat and sloping land, easily ploughable, and 40 acres of hilly and broken country, fit for pastoral purposes only, are comprised in this section. The altitude ranges from 10 ft. to 150 ft. The section extends between the Blind River and the coast, in a belt of about 26 chains in width, and is accessible by Redwood Pass Road, Blenheim to Kaikoura. Distance from Blenheim, about twenty miles.

The improvements consist of house valued at £35, 55 chains boundary-fence valued at £33, and 35 chains division-fence valued at £12, fencing material valued at £4; total, £84.

C. W. ADAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Rural Land in the Hawke’s Bay Land District open for Sale or Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, 18th April, 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 6th June, 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, Napier.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.

First-class Land.

Broken land, with deep gullies; about 25 acres clear land; fair soil; timber chiefly rimu and matai, with dense under-scrub. About two miles from Pohui.

ERIC C. GOLD SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.