Dec. 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2187

CANTERBURY.

All that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 3 acres 3 roods 1 perch, more or less, being Reserve No. 3536, Blocks V. and IX., Hawkins Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by Rural Section No. 35830, 1079 links; towards the east by Rural Section No. 26140, 734 links; towards the south-west by a road-line, 1484 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Christchurch. For a gravel-pit.

All that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 5 acres, more or less, being Section No. 3537 (in red), Block V., Halswell Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west by McDonald’s Road, 1095·5 links; towards the south-east by Rural Section No. 7806, 1036 links; and towards the south-west by a road-line, 1095·5 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Christchurch. For a gravel-pit.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this first day of December, one thousand nine hundred.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Notifying Lands in Southland for Sale by Public Auction.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-thirteenth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Wednesday, the sixth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and one, as the time at which the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction; and I do hereby fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto following the description of such lands respectively.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WALLACE COUNTY.—LILLBURN SURVEY DISTRICT.

Section 6, Block VIII.: 1,529 acres; upset price, £509 13s. 4d.

Section 1, Block IX.: 1,996 acres 3 roods; upset price, £499 3s. 9d.

Land broken, pastoral country, well watered; soil heavy, with clay bottom. Height above sea-level, 350 ft. to 800 ft. Situated about thirty miles from Otautau.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this sixteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

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

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-thirty-sixth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on and after the thirteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and one; and also that the land mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase or on lease in perpetuity, or, in respect of any land containing or supposed to contain any metal, mineral, or valuable stone, be selected on lease in perpetuity only; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WESTLAND COUNTY.

Unsurveyed Second-class Land.

All that area in the Westland Land District, containing 300 acres, more or less, situated in Block XI., Bruce Bay Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west by Sections Nos. 873 and 875; towards the north-east and south-east by road reserve along the Makawhio River; and towards the south-west by Run No. 43, a distance of 83 chains.

Description of land: Flat, alluvial, sandy soil along river-bank, swamp surface further back, covered with heavy scrub and mixed timber; not very good soil.

Cash price, 5s. per acre; occupation with right of purchase, 3d. per acre per annum; lease in perpetuity, 2·4d. per acre per annum.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-ninth day of November, one thousand nine hundred. T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Notifying Lands in Otago for Sale by Public Auction.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-thirteenth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Wednesday, the sixth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and one, as the time at which the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction at Oamaru; and I do hereby fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN OF KUROW.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-ninth day of November, one thousand nine hundred. T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.