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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 100

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

District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, 1st November, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned Crown lands will be open for sale or selection, at this office, 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 Monday, the 22nd day of December, 1902.

If more than one application is received for the same section on the same day, priority of selection shall be decided by ballot.

SCHEDULE.
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.
Second-class Land.

SALISBURY BLOCK.

Pohangina | Apiti .. | 7 | XVI. | 200 0 0 | 1 3 0 | 230 0 0 | 1 1·8 | 5 15 0 | 0 11·04 | 4 12 0
Weighted with £20, valuation for improvements.

The access to this section is from Ashhurst, which is about twenty-one and a half miles distant by a good metalled road. The section comprises broken country, with good building-site on Pohangina River. The soil is of fair quality, resting on papa-and-sandstone formation. The forest is fairly heavy, comprising matai, rimu, white-pine, rata, totara, maire, tawa, honeysuckle, hinau, with usual thick undergrowth. The section is well watered by Pohangina River and other small streams. The improvements comprise 10 acres felled and partly grassed (now overgrown), and slab whare, 18 ft. by 15 ft. (out of repair), valued at £20. The section is offered subject to the right of the Crown to take a road through it if required.

DELAWARE BLOCK.

Pohangina | Pohangina .. | 17 | IV. | 200 0 0 | 1 3 0 | 230 0 0 | 1 1·8 | 5 15 0 | 0 11·04 | 4 12 0
Weighted with £9 7s. 6d., valuation for improvements.

This section is situated in the Delaware Block, the access being from Ashhurst, which is about twenty-four miles distant, by twenty-one miles of good metalled road, two and three-quarter miles of unmetalled dray-road, and quarter-mile of horse-track. The section comprises broken country. The soil is of fair quality, resting on papa-and-sandstone formation. The forest is fairly heavy, comprising rimu, matai, miro, rata, maire, with thick undergrowth of mako, rangiora, &c. The section is well watered by numerous small streams. The improvements comprise 7½ acres felled and badly burned, valued at £9 7s. 6d.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Reserve in Auckland Land District for Lease by Public Tender.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 3rd November, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders will be received at this office up till 4 p.m. on Monday, the 29th December, 1902, for a lease of the undermentioned reserve for a term of fourteen years, at the upset annual rental stated below.

SCHEDULE.
HOWICK (SMALL LOTS NEAR).

ALLOTMENT 8, Section 7, containing 7 acres 3 roods 12 perches. Upset annual rent, £1.

The reserve is situated about three-quarters of a mile from the Howick Wharf.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Term of lease, fourteen years from 1st January, 1903.
2. Possession will be given on the day of sale. One year’s rent, and lease fee, £1 1s., to be paid on fall of the hammer.
3. The Commissioner of Crown Lands may, in the event of the land being required for burial purposes, resume any portion of the land comprised in the lease under a duly proportionate rebate of rent by giving to the lessee three months’ notice of his intention so to do.
4. The lessee shall have no right to compensation either for any improvements that may be placed upon the land, or on account of the aforesaid resumption, or for any other cause; but, before the expiration of the term of lease or notice of resumption as aforesaid, the lessee may remove all fences and buildings that may have been erected by him during the currency of the lease.
5. The lessee shall have no right to sublet, transfer, or otherwise dispose of the whole or any portion of the land comprised in the lease, except with the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands first had and obtained.
6. The rent shall be paid yearly in advance free of all deductions whatsoever.
7. The lease shall be liable to forfeiture in case the lessee shall fail to fulfil any of the conditions of the said lease within sixty days after the date on which the same ought to be fulfilled.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Crown Lands in Duncan Settlement, Otago Land District, open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 25th November, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned Crown lands will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, at this office, on Monday, the 29th December, 1902, under the provisions of “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” and amendments.

If more than one application is received for the same section on the same day, priority of selection shall be decided by ballot.

SCHEDULE.
OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—TAIERI COUNTY.—OTOKIA AND DUNEDIN AND EAST TAIERI SURVEY DISTRICTS.—DUNCAN SETTLEMENT.

First-class Land.—Ordinary Farms.—For Lease in Perpetuity.

SUBDIVISION No. 1.

1A | I. | Otokia .. | 110 3 6 | 3 6 | 9 13 11
4A | VIII. | Dunedin & East Taieri | 54 1 36 | 8 6 | 11 11 6

SUBDIVISION No. 2.

3A | VIII. | Dunedin & East Taieri | 165 2 12 | 6 4½ | 26 7 9
| | | | | | *9 15 0

SUBDIVISION No. 3.

2A | I. | Otokia .. | 106 3 25 | 7 7½ | 20 7 7
5A | VIII. | Dunedin & East Taieri | 95 0 12 | 7 6 | 17 16 6
6A | VIII. | Dunedin & East Taieri | 99 1 16 | 7 6 | 18 12 7

• Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £250, repayable in twenty-one years by half-yearly instalments of £9 15s.: total half-yearly payments, £36 2s. 9d.

D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.