Dec. 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2663

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.

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

SUBDIVISION No. 2.

| 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.

Land in the Canterbury Land District open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 26th November, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned Crown land will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, as a workman’s-home allotment, at this office, on Wednesday, the 7th January, 1903, under the provisions of “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” and amendments.

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

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—SELWYN COUNTY.—CHRISTCHURCH SURVEY DISTRICT.—TARAWAHI HAMLET.

First-class Land.

This section is situated at the south-eastern corner of the Tarawahi Hamlet, on the north bank of the Heathcote River, about 12 chains westward from Colombo Road, two miles and a quarter southward from the Christchurch Post-office, and one mile ten chains from the Sydenham Post-office. It comprises flat agricultural land, light loamy soil with gravel and sand.

THOS. HUMPHRIES,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Runs, Otago, for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 28th October, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that the leases of the undermentioned pastoral runs will be offered for sale by public auction, at this office, on Tuesday, the 30th day of December, 1902, at 11 o’clock a.m.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—VINCENT COUNTY.

Pastoral Runs under Part VI. of “The Land Act, 1892.”

Possession will be given on the day of sale.

The above runs form part of what is known as the Cromwell Commonage, from which town they are distant about three miles on a good road. The country is ridgy, broken, and somewhat dry, though there is permanent water in the various creeks. It is good winter country, rising gradually from the Clutha and Kawarau Rivers, and has a good aspect.

CONDITIONS.

The purchaser of each run shall, immediately on fall of the hammer, pay to the Receiver of Land Revenue, Dunedin, a deposit of the first half-year’s rent and £1 1s. lease fee, and shall deposit the statutory declaration required by section 62 of “The Land Act, 1892.”

D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.