JULY 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1509

Pastoral Run, Southland, for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 24th June, 1901.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned Crown land will be offered for lease at this office on Wednesday, 21st August, 1901, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.
(Under Part VI. of “The Land Act, 1892.”)
Pastoral Run No. 532, Centre Hill District (formerly Small Grazing-run 38): Area, 2,744 acres; upset annual rental, £22 17s. 4d.; term, seven years. Burdened with £133 19s. 6d., valuation for improvements consisting of hut, sheep-yards, and fencing.
Possession will be given on the day of sale.
The purchaser must deposit the statutory declaration as required by section 195 of “The Land Act, 1892,” and pay the amount of the half-year’s rent and license-fee, together with the valuation for improvements, on the fall of the hammer.

JOHN HAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Lands in Westland for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Hokitika, 24th June, 1901.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned pastoral run will be offered for lease by public auction at this office on Wednesday, the 21st August, 1901, at 2.30 p.m.

SCHEDULE.
WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Term, 10 years.
Subject to the provisions of Part VI. of “The Land Act, 1892.” Possession will be given on the day of sale.
The purchaser must deposit the statutory declaration as required by section 195 of “The Land Act, 1892,” and pay the amount of the half-year’s rent and license-fee on the fall of the hammer.

W. G. MURRAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Wellington for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 24th June, 1901.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned land in the Wellington Land District will be offered for sale by public auction at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, on Wednesday, the 14th August, 1901, at 12 o’clock noon. If not sold on that date it will remain open for sale thereafter at upset price.

SCHEDULE.
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

These sections are situated on the western side of Whiteman’s Valley Road. The access is from Silverstream, which is about four miles distant via the Whiteman’s Valley Road, which is formed and metalled. The sections comprise rough, barren, hilly country, with about 15 acres of flat land. The soil is of poor quality, resting on a sandstone-and-clay formation. There are about 5 acres of bush, comprising mostly birch; dead timber through which the fire has run is standing or lying on the remainder of the sections, fern having sprung up wherever the fire has been. The sections are well watered by permanent springs. The elevation ranges from about 1,000 ft. to 1,500 ft. above sea-level.

TERMS OF SALE.

One-fifth of the purchase-money to be paid on the fall of the hammer, and the balance, with Crown-grant fee, within thirty days thereafter; otherwise the part of the purchase-money paid by way of deposit shall be forfeited, and the contract for the sale of the land be null and void.
Full particulars may be ascertained and plan obtained at this office.

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

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

District Lands and Survey Office, Hokitika, 1st May, 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 Friday, the 2nd August, 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, Hokitika.

SCHEDULE.
WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.
First-class Land.

Very rich red soil, 5 ft. deep to gravel; ribbonwood and vines; very open, and intersected with patches of open pakihis laid down in English grass; well watered; on road-frontage there is an area of 18 acres recently cleared and laid down in English grass. Weighted with £36 as valuation for improvements.

| Westland | Whitcombe Pass | 933 | I. | 418 0 0 | 1 10 0 627 0 0 | 1 6 15 13 6 | 1 2·4 12 10 10 |

All very rich red soil, lightly timbered with ribbonwood and vines; about 30 acres cleared some years ago, and now in excellent English grass; soil in many places 5 ft. deep. Weighted with £10 as valuation for improvements.

W. G. MURRAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.