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coming tenant. The maximum amount which the incoming tenant will be liable for on account of improvements is £630.

Run 66, Waitangi.

This run is situate on the north bank of the Waitaki River, about eight miles north-westward from Hakataramea Railway-station ; it has a frontage of about four miles to the Waitaki, and extends back about fourteen miles in a north-easterly direction. Altitude, from 800 ft. to 6,300 ft. above sea-level. It comprises about 1,000 acres of flat country fronting on the Waitaki River, the balance being mountainous and hilly country, the lower portions of which are generally fairly well grassed with tussock, snow-grass, blue-grass, and other native grasses. The improvements consist of about sixty-one miles of boundary and subdivision fencing. The maximum amount which the incoming tenant will be liable for on account of improvements is £3,311.

THOS. HUMPHRIES,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Runs in Southland Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 5th January, 1903.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral runs will be offered for lease by public auction, at this office, on Friday, the 27th day of February, 1903, at 11 o'clock a.m., under the provisions of Part VI. of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WALLACE COUNTY.

CONDITIONS.

Possession will be given on the 1st 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, license fee (£1 1s.), and the amount of the valuation for improvements, on the fall of the hammer.

JOHN HAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Opouriao Settlement, Auckland Land District, open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 30th December, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, at this office, on Wednesday, the 25th day of February, 1903, under the provisions of “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” and amendments.

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

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WHAKATANE COUNTY.—WHAKATANE SURVEY DISTRICT.—OPOURIAO SETTLEMENT.

First-class Land.

Flat alluvial land, in grass and rushes ; good soil ; frontage to main road. About seven miles from Whakatane Township.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office.
Auckland, 5th January, 1903.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned small grazing-runs will be open for lease on application, at this office, on Wednesday, the 25th day of February, 1903.

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

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WEST TAUP0 COUNTY.

Second-class Pastoral Country.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Runs in Otago Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 6th January, 1903.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral runs will be offered for lease by public auction, at this office, on Tuesday, the 24th February, 1903, for the terms and at the upset annual rentals stated.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

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

Runs Nos. 217 and 217A (grouped), Waitaki County (Class I.) : Area, 34,460 acres ; term, fourteen years ; upset annual rental, £360. Situated about six miles from Herbert Railway-station.

Runs Nos. 203B and 203C (grouped), Maniototo County (Class I.) : Area, 10,700 acres ; term, fourteen years ; upset annual rental, £200. Situated about two miles from Kyeburn Post-office.

Runs 213B and 213C (grouped), Taieri County (Class I.) : Area, 33,270 acres ; term, fourteen years ; upset annual rental, £623. Situated about three miles from Middlemarch Railway-station.

Runs 221A, 221B, and 221C (grouped), Vincent County (Class II.) : Area, 17,083 acres ; term, fourteen years ; upset annual rental, £230. Situated one mile from Alexandra, and the same distance from Clyde.

Runs Nos. 221, 221E, and 238H (grouped), Vincent County (Class II.) : Area, 20,298 acres ; term, fourteen years ; upset annual rental, £420. Situated about five miles from Alexandra, and the same distance from Clyde.

Runs Nos. 212E and 212F (grouped), Tuapeka County (Class II.) : Area, 3,407 acres ; term, fourteen years ; upset annual rental, £42 12s. Situated six miles north-west of Kelso, and five miles west of Heriot.

Section 28, Block VII., Table Hill District, Tuapeka County (Class II.) : Area, 650 acres ; term, fourteen years ; upset annual rental, £13 8s. Situated about three miles from Waitahuna.

Sections 10, 12, and 13, Block I., Dunback District, Waihemo County (Class II.) : Area, 588 acres ; term, ten years ; upset annual rental, £20. Situated about six miles from Palmerston.

D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.