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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 10

Small Grazing-runs in Wellington Land District open for Lease on Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 4th February, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned small grazing-runs will be open for lease on application under the provisions of Part V. of “The Land Act, 1892,” at this office, on Tuesday, the 25th day of March, 1902.

In the event of more than one application being received for the same run on the same day, priority of selection will be decided by ballot.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—PATEA COUNTY.—MOMAHIKI SURVEY DISTRICT.

Te Ngaua Block.

These runs are situated on the western bank of the Waitotara River, lying in a north-westerly direction from the Waitotara Township, the present access being from the Waitotara Township, from which the land is distant, via the Mangawhio Road, about twenty miles, which is formed as far as McConochie’s Bridge, over the Waitotara River, as a dray-road; from thence another mile is in course of construction to the northern boundary of Section 5. A more direct route from the land later on will probably be by road down the Waitotara River and by Puao Road through the University Reserve; thence by Mangawhio Road on to Waitotara Township. This route is, with the exception of three or four miles at the northern end, constructed either as a dray or horse road. The runs consist of undulating land, sloping towards the river, the soil varying from poor to good. There is a good homestead-site on each run, of moderate size, alongside the river. The land is well watered, and, with the exception of some old Native clearings on the river, the whole is heavily timbered, the timber consisting chiefly of birch on the ridges, and tawa, tawhero, rimu, hinau, kahikatea, and other mixed forest on the slopes and in the valleys.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Small Grazing-runs in Wellington Land District open for Lease on Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 4th February, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small grazing-runs will be open for lease on application, at this office and the Survey Office, Wanganui, under the provisions of Part V. of “The Land Act, 1892,” on Wednesday, the 26th day of March, 1902.

In the event of more than one application being received for the same run on the same day, priority of selection will be decided by ballot.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—WANGANUI COUNTY.

Wanganui River Trust Endowment Block.

This block, which has been subdivided into four sections, is situated in the Waimarino Block, on the eastern side of the Wanganui River, being about two miles and a quarter back therefrom, and about ten miles and a quarter above Pipiriki, and sixty-four miles from Wanganui. The access will be from the landing-place at the mouth of the Arawata Stream, from which point a road has been surveyed into and through the block; the nearest point of the latter is distant two miles and a quarter from the landing-place, the centre of the block being distant about thirteen miles. The area, taken as a whole, comprises broken hilly country, with fair soil resting on sandstone formation. There is a homestead-site on each of the runs, but there is no extent of flat land anywhere. The forest is of a mixed character, the larger trees comprising tawa, rata, rimu, hinau, with tawhero on the ridges where the soil is poor, with a thick mixed undergrowth, and is light in places, with here and there patches of large manuka and scrub. Most of the land is well sheltered by the dividing ridges and surrounding hills, and is well watered throughout by permanent streams. The elevation ranges from 600 ft. to 1,800 ft. above sea-level. The climate is healthy and bracing, with copious rainfall. Fruit grows well in the neighbourhood, and when the land is cleared and sown down in English grasses it should form good sheep and cattle country, being probably on the whole better adapted for the former than it is for the latter.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 4th February, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned small grazing-runs will be open for lease on application at this office, under the provisions of Part V. of “The Land Act, 1892,” on Wednesday, the 26th day of March, 1902.

In the event of more than one application being received for the same run on the same day, priority of selection will be decided by ballot.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—WAIROA COUNTY.

Run 79: Open fern ridges; soil poor to fair; well watered; there is some fencing and building timber on this run. Run 80: About one-third open fern ridges, one-third good mixed bush, and one-third fern and scrub; soil fair to good; some grass; well watered. Run 81: About one-third open fern and scrub ridges, remainder good bush, carrying rimu, totara, &c.; well watered; soil fair. Run 82: Rough pastoral country, a little of which is open fern land, and the remainder heavy bush land, bush consisting of rimu, kahikatea, and totara; well watered; soil poor to fair. Run 83: Heavy bush country, with the exception of a few small clear patches; soil good; well watered; the bush consists of rimu, kahikatea, and some totara. The above lands are situated near Lake Waikaremoana, from thirty to thirty-five miles from Wairoa.

ERIC C. GOLD SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 30th December, 1901.

IT is hereby notified, in pursuance of section 240 of “The Land Act, 1892,” that the undermentioned Crown land will be offered to the holder of adjoining land, under section 117 of “The Land Act, 1892,” on Wednesday, the 9th April, 1902.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

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