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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 62

Small Grazing-runs, Otago Land District, open for Lease on Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 9th July, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small grazing-runs will be open for lease on application at this office on and after the 29th August, 1900.

If more than one application be received for the same run on the same day, then the order of selection shall be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

First-class Land.

This run is situated about three miles from Macrae’s, and runs down to the Shag River. The land is warm and sunny. Valuation for improvements, payable with application or immediately the result of the ballot is declared, £413 1s. 6d.

MANIOTOTO COUNTY.—NASEBY SURVEY DISTRICT.

| 37 and 43 | I. | 196 1 32 | 0 0 10 | 4 1 8 |

Open grazing-land, of medium quality; dry; situated about one mile from the Town of Naseby. Valuation for improvements, payable with application or immediately the result of the ballot is declared, £501 7s. 6d.

TAIERI COUNTY.—SUTTON SURVEY DISTRICT.

| 1 and 2 | VI. | 2,176 1 16 | 0 0 6 | 27 4 0 |

Open tussock land, very good grazing; watered by Sutton Stream; situated about nine miles from Middlemarch. Valuations for improvements, payable with application or immediately the result of the ballot is declared, £171 12s. 2d.

TAIERI COUNTY.—NENTHORN AND STRATH TAIERI SURVEY DISTRICTS.

| *1, 2, 3, | II. | | | |
| 8 to 12 | | | | |
| +16 | XIII.| 4,299 3 18| 0 0 7| 62 14 2|
| +3 and 9 | XII. | | | |

Open agricultural and pastoral land of fair quality; watered; situated about five miles from Middlemarch. Valuation for improvements, payable with application or immediately the result of the ballot is declared, £1,421 14s.

Nenthorn Survey District. +Strath Taieri Survey District.

WAITAKI COUNTY.—MARUWENUA SURVEY DISTRICT.

| Runs 17c | .. | 1,019 0 0 | 0 0 5 | 10 12 4 |
| & 17g | | | | |

This country is part of the old Ben Lomond Run, and consists of open pastoral land; well watered; situated about four miles from Livingstone. Valuation for improvements, payable with application or immediately the result of the ballot is declared, £318 5s.

TAIERI COUNTY.—MOUNT HYDE SURVEY DISTRICT.

| Run 185 | .. | 4,500 0 0 | 0 0 6 | 56 5 0 |

Good grazing-land, well watered; situated about sixteen miles from Outram. Valuation for improvements, payable with application or immediately the result of the ballot is declared, £182 5s.

| 1, 10, & 12 | VII. | 1,253 3 33 | 0 0 4½ | 11 15 2 |

Open ridgy country of medium quality; well watered; situated thirteen miles from Outram. Valuation for improvements, payable with application or immediately the result of the ballot is declared, £280 5s.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Runs, Otago Land District, for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 9th July, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned pastoral lands will be submitted to public auction for lease on Wednesday, the 29th August, 1900, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin, at 11 o’clock a.m.

SCHEDULE.

PASTORAL LANDS.

(Under Part VI. of “The Land Act, 1892.”)

Runs 179, 163, and 163A (grouped, Class I.), Tuapeka County: Area, 16,200 acres; term, twenty-one years; upset annual rental, £100. Situated on Clutha River, three miles below Dunkeld, and including northern slopes of Tapanui Mountains.

Run 96 (Class I.), Clutha County; Area, 2,900 acres; term, fourteen years; upset annual rental, £30. Situated between Kaihiku Range on the north and Kaihiku Stream on the south, about four miles south of Warepa Railway-station.

Sections 13, 14, 15, and 17, Block VII., and Sections 18 and 21, Block V., Table Hill District, Bruce County: Area, 1,127 acres 3 roods 9 perches; term, fourteen years; upset annual rental, £14; valuation for improvements, £135.

Possession of Runs 179, 163, and 163A (grouped), and Run 96 will be given on 1st March, 1901.

Possession of Sections 13, 14, 15, and 17, Block VII., and 18 and 21, Block V., Table Hill District, will be given on day of sale.

Valuations for improvements in respect of Runs 179, 163, and 163A (grouped), and Run 96, must be paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue, Dunedin, before the licensee will be let into possession.

Such valuations shall, exclusive of the value of a rabbit-proof fence, in no case exceed three times the amount of the average annual rental paid under the expired or expiring license during the term thereof, and five times such amount in cases where the annual rental does not exceed £50.

The above runs will be sold generally in accordance with the provisions of Part VI. of “The Land Act, 1892.”

Purchasers must deposit statutory declarations required by section 62 of “The Land Act, 1892,” and pay the first half-year’s rent, together with license-fee (£1 1s.), on fall of the hammer.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Forest Reserves in the Nelson Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Nelson, 12th June, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that leases of the under-mentioned forest reserves, for grazing purposes only, will be offered for sale by public auction under section 232 of “The Land Act, 1892,” at the District Lands and Survey Office, Nelson, on Wednesday, the 1st August, 1900, at 12 o’clock noon, subject to the following conditions:—

SCHEDULE.

The above reserves, on which the timber has been burnt, are situate in the Wai-iti Survey District—Sections 6, 11, and 157, Block III., Wai-iti, about four miles to the east of Thorpe, and Sections 24, Block VI., 8, 25, 26, and 28, Block X., have access to the Stanley Brook-Wakefield Road, about eleven miles from Wakefield, on the Nelson-Belgrove Railway.

A deposit of a half-year’s rent and £1 1s. lease-fee must be paid on the fall of the hammer. Possession will be given on the day of sale.

Full particulars, plans, &c., may be obtained at this office.

CONDITIONS.

1. That the lessees shall have no right to fell or remove from the land any live or dead trees or timber, whether standing or lying on the ground, without the consent in writing of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

2. That all persons duly authorised shall have free right of ingress, egress, and regress for any of the purposes of the aforesaid Act, or for felling or removing from the land any timber or trees as aforesaid.

3. That the lands so leased shall be sown with the best cultivated grass-seed, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, before the 30th September, 1900.

4. Lessees will be required to take the greatest precaution against the spread of fires into any green timber that may be on the land leased, or on adjoining lands, and, in the event of such taking place through negligence on the part of the lessee, his lease will be cancelled.