Jan. 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 103

Land in Tuatini Township, Hawke’s Bay Land District, for Lease by Public Tender.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 12th November, 1900.

THE under-mentioned sections in the Township of Tuatini will be offered for lease by public tender, for a term of twenty-one years, with the right of renewal for a further term of twenty-one years, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Gisborne, on Wednesday, the 16th day of January, 1901. Sections not applied for on the 16th January, 1901, will be open thereafter at upset ground-rentals noted below.

SCHEDULE.
HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.
Tuatini Township.

Valuation for buildings, fencing, &c., on Section 4, Block II., £200.

Tuatini Native Township is situated in the Tokomaru Bay, which is one of the most beautiful bays on the East Coast, and is the port for a large pastoral country. Steamers trading between Auckland and Gisborne call in when necessary. The township is situated on high land overlooking the sea. The soil is good, being suitable for gardens and orchards. The Main Coast Road goes through the township. It has a post-and-telegraph station and Native school. There is good fishing to be obtained in the bay.

ERIC C. GOLD SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Crown Land in Wellington for Sale under Section 117 of “The Land Act, 1892.”

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 16th October, 1900.

IT is hereby notified, in pursuance of section 240 of “The Land Act, 1892,” that the under-mentioned Crown land will be offered for sale, under section 117 of “The Land Act, 1892,” on or after Thursday, the 24th January, 1901.

SCHEDULE.
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—PATEA COUNTY.—MOMAHAKI SURVEY DISTRICT.

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

Small Grazing-run, Marlborough, for Lease on Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 5th December, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small grazing-run will be open for lease on application on and after Monday, the 11th February, 1901, at the half-yearly rental stated.

SCHEDULE.
MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—KAIKOURA COUNTY.—WEHERNSIDE AND PUHPUHU SURVEY DISTRICTS.

Second-class Pastoral Country.

All open country, except a few patches of light bush, mostly ngaio. There is a strip of ploughable land, averaging 5 chains wide, along the main road. About 1,000 acres shingle and steep rocky faces, very broken; remainder low limestone hills covered with tussock, fern, and scrub; good sheep country. Excellent homestead-site; small cottage; 210 chains boundary-fence, 245 chains interior fence; well watered; altitude, sea-level to 1,126 ft.; fronts on Main South Road. About sixty miles from Blenheim, and thirty-five miles from Kaikoura. Weighted with £31 10s., value of cottage and fences in the vicinity.

C. W. ADAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Grazing-lease of Forest Reserve, Mangahao Survey District, for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 12th November, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned forest reserve will be submitted to public auction, for lease for grazing purposes, at the Olympic Theatre, Pahiatua, on Wednesday, 16th January, 1901.

If not sold on 16th January, 1901, the lease of this reserve will remain open for application at upset annual rental.

SCHEDULE.
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—PAHIATUA COUNTY.—MANGAHAO SURVEY DISTRICT.

SECTION 129, Block III., 180 acres; upset annual rental, £35.

Term of lease, five years.

This reserve is situated east of Ballance, on the right bank of the Mangahao River, and comprises flat, low-lying land of good quality, with good alluvial soil, on a shingle formation; part is subject to floods.

About 90 acres were sown in grass about two years ago; the remaining area is covered with green and partly scorched, bush, scrub, swamp, &c. The milling timber has been removed.

CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. A deposit of one half-year’s rent and £1 1s. lease fee must be made on the fall of the hammer.

2. The land comprised in the lease shall remain under “The New Zealand State Forests Act, 1885,” subject only to the right of the lessee to use it for grazing purposes.

3. The lessee 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.

4. All persons duly authorised in that behalf shall have free right of ingress, egress, and regress for any of the purposes of the Act last aforesaid, or for felling or removing from the land any trees or timber.

5. The lessee shall have no claim for compensation for improvements at any time, but at the expiration of his lease may remove all fencing and buildings erected by him on the land.

6. The Commissioner of State Forests may issue licenses at any time during the currency of grazing-lease to the lessee or other persons to cut and remove either standing or felled timber under the State Forest Regulations, without compensation to lessee of grazing-right.

7. In the event of any of the timbered or cleared portions of the land leased being damaged by fire, the area so burned shall be sown by the lessee with approved English grasses and clovers to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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