APRIL 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 957

Small Grazing-run, Takitu Settlement, Canterbury, open for Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 24th April, 1901.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned small grazing-run will be open for application under “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” and “The Land Act, 1892,” at this office, on Wednesday, the 29th May, 1901.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.

Elephant Hill Survey District, Takitu Settlement.

*Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £490, repayable in twenty-one years by half-yearly instalments of £19 2s. 2d.: total half-yearly rent, £159 12s. 11d.

Section 2a; 508 acres 3 roods.

Mixed agricultural and pastoral land, at an altitude about 450 ft. above sea-level. With the exception of two low terraces and watercourses, the section is level throughout, and well watered by the River Waitaki, natural springs, and streams. It is subdivided into nine paddocks by substantial post, standard, and wire fencing, seven and eight wires. The soil varies considerably, ranging from rich deep alluvial loam to light and stony, the whole being well adapted to growing oats, root-crops, turnips, and rape. It has nearly all been cultivated and laid down in English grass five to ten years, and at the present time is laid down to English grasses. Distance from Hakataramea Railway-station, ten miles and a half; from Glenavy, twenty-two miles; and adjoins school reserve. The improvements, which go with the land, consist of 388½ chains of substantial seven- and eight-wire fencing, with posts and standards, valued at £149 9s. There are also a substantial dwellinghouse of six rooms, bath-room, wash-house, &c., overseer’s house of five rooms, iron wool-shed for eight shearers, shearers’ quarters, dip, stable, and coach-house, garden, plantations, and ornamental trees and willows, valued at £490, repayable in twenty-one years, in half-yearly instalments of £19 2s. 2d.

Section 2b; 985 acres 1 rood.

Consists of mixed agricultural and pastoral land, comprising flat-topped, undulating, and rolling downs, intersected by gullies, some of which are very rough and rocky. Water is obtained from springs in the gullies. The section is ring-fenced, with the exception of the road running through the section and the reserves therein, and is subdivided into three paddocks. About 670 acres have been cultivated and laid down in English grass for five and six years, the remainder in native grasses. The soil on the downs is generally a fair depth and good, on a loamy clay subsoil on a limestone formation, which crops out in the terrace near the south-east corner. A large portion would yield good crops of wheat. The ploughable portion is very suitable for oats, rape, and turnips. The soil on the flat is lighter, but suitable for growing turnips. Altitude, from 436 ft. to 1,400 ft. above sea-level. Distance from Hakataramea, eleven miles; from Glenavy, twenty-two miles; and adjoins school reserve. The improvements, which go with the land, consist of 505 chains of boundary and subdivision fencing, valued at £159 19s.

Possession of the run will be given to the successful applicant ten days after the ballot, to enable the present occupier to remove his stock.

The half-yearly rent payable with the application counts as from the 1st September next: the next half-yearly rent will be due on 1st March, 1902.

SIDNEY WEETMAN.
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Small Grazing-runs, Hawke’s Bay Land District, open for Lease on Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 13th March, 1901.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small grazing-runs will be open for lease on application at this office on and after Wednesday, 1st May, 1901.

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.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—COOK COUNTY.—NGATAPA SURVEY DISTRICT.

Second-class Pastoral Country.

These runs are mostly open fern and scrub lands; 200 to 400 acres mixed bush; with light soil, well watered, and frontage to the Hangaroa River. Altitude, from 700 ft. to 1,900 ft.

The Gisborne-Rotorua Stock Track and the Hangaroa-Tahora Road pass through the runs.

ERIC C. GOLD SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in Auckland Land District open for Sale or Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, 22nd April, 1901.

THE under-mentioned Crown lands 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 12th June, 1901.

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, Auckland.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

Open, level land, fronting Herekino Harbour, and partly improved.

Chiefly forest land, partly improved, on Tapuae Creek, about three miles from Motukaraka.

Broken forest land of fair quality. Adjoining Wairoa, about five miles from Clevedon.

All mixed-forest land; volcanic soil, and well watered. About six miles from Te Rau-a-moa Settlement.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,

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