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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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4. No bonus to be paid until the invention has been continuously worked for not less than six months, and it shall, during that period, have treated not less than 100,000 cubic yards of material, working three shifts a day.

5. The bonus will be paid on the certificate of an officer that not less than twenty persons other than the applicant for the bonus are successfully working the invention.

6. Any person who receives the bonus shall not be allowed to take out patent rights in New Zealand for his invention.

JAMES McGOWAN,
Minister of Mines.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Lands in Marlborough Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 16th January, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that, the leases of the under-mentioned lands having been forfeited by resolution of the Marlborough Land Board, the said lands have thereby reverted to the Crown, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—TOWNSHIP OF SEDDON.—STARBOROUGH ESTATE.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Small Grazing-run, Southland Land District, open for Lease on Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 10th December, 1901.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small grazing-run will be open for lease on application, at this office, on and after Tuesday, the 11th day of February, 1902.

In the event of more than one application being received for the run on the same day, priority of selection will be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

SMALL GRAZING-RUN NO. 8.

Description.—Situated eight miles and a quarter from Dip-ton Railway-station. Situation and access good, soil fair, no bush; height above sea-level, 600 ft. to 1,000 ft. Weighted with £125 13s., being half the value of boundary-fences.

JOHN HAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Kauri Timber in Auckland for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 7th January, 1902.

IT is hereby notified that a sale by public auction of the undermentioned kauri timber will be held at this office on Friday, the 28th day of February, 1902, at 11 o’clock a.m.:

Clump of kauri trees, 231 in number, and containing about 691,367 superficial feet. Upset price, £519. Timber is near Trig. Station 16, Block II., Whangaroa Survey District.

Conditions of Sale.

One-half purchase-money in cash, or by marked cheque, on the fall of the hammer, the balance within six months thereafter.

Timber to be removed before 31st March, 1903.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Runs in Southland for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 27th January, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that leases of the under-mentioned pastoral runs will be offered at public auction at this office on Thursday, the 27th day of February, 1902, at 11 o’clock a.m.

SCHEDULE.

(PASTORAL LANDS UNDER PART VI. OF “THE LAND ACT, 1892.”)

TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

Term, fourteen years.

Possession will be given on the 1st day of March, 1903.

Purchasers must deposit a statutory declaration as required by section 195 of “The Land Act, 1892,” and pay the sum of the half-year’s rent at the rate offered, and license fee, on the fall of the hammer.

Valuation for improvements must be paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue before the licensees will be let into possession.

JOHN HAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Run in Stewart Island, Southland Land District, for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 7th January, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that a lease of the under-mentioned pastoral run will be submitted to public auction at this office, on Wednesday, the 26th day of February, 1902.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—STEWART ISLAND COUNTY.

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

Burdened with valuation for half boundary-fence between this run and Run No. 419, and other fencing, £38 6s. 8d. Possession will be given on the day of sale. Situated at Mason Bay, Stewart Island. Part bush and part open land. Land inferior, covered with tussock and scrub, about one-third of the area being sandhills.

The purchaser must deposit a statutory declaration, as required by section 195 of “The Land Act, 1892,” and pay the sum of the half-year’s rent and the license fee, together with the valuation for improvements, on the fall of the hammer.

JOHN HAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.