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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 96

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.

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 Marlborough for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 7th October, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned reserve will be offered for lease by public auction, at the Courthouse, Kaikoura, on Wednesday, the 26th day of November, 1902, for the term and at the upset annual rental stated below.

SCHEDULE.

SECTION 203, Block X., Mount Fyffe Survey District: Area, 29 acres; upset annual rental, £15. Term, fourteen years.

The land is limestone loam, upon limestone subsoil; is all in grass, and has permanent water; situated on South Coast Road, about one mile from Kaikoura Post-office.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Possession will be given on the 1st January, 1903.
2. The lessee shall have no right to compensation either for any improvements that may be placed upon the land or for any other cause.
3. The lessee shall have no right to sublet, transfer, or otherwise dispose of the whole or any portion of the land during the term of the lease, without the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands first obtained.
4. The lessee shall destroy all rabbits on the land, and shall prevent their increase and spread to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.
5. The lessee shall prevent the growth and spread of gorse, broom, sweetbriar, and other noxious weeds or plants on the land comprised in the lease, and shall with all reasonable despatch remove or cause to be removed all gorse, broom, sweetbriar, or other noxious weeds or plants, as may be directed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands.
6. The rent shall be payable half-yearly in advance, free from 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 thirty days after the date on which the same ought to be fulfilled.

C. W. ADAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Village-homestead Allotment, Wellington, open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 21st October, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned village-homestead allotment will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, at this office, on Wednesday, the 3rd day of December, 1902, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,”

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

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—BELMONT SURVEY DISTRICT.—PETONE BOROUGH.—KOROKORO VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

First-class Land.

This section is situated on the hills to the west of Petone, from which it is distant about one mile and a half by a good metalled road. It comprises rough hilly land, having about 2 acres in grass, 2 acres overrun with gorse, and the remainder in light bush, which consists of tawa, karaka, miro, maire, hinau, and a few rimu, with thick undergrowth of karamu, makomako, supplejacks, &c. The soil is of rather light quality; the section is fairly well watered by small streams. The elevation ranges from about 200 ft. to 250 ft. above sea-level.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.