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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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Run No. 447: Takes in the whole of the Wills River Valley, with the grass tops of the Bealey Range. Good open well-grassed river-flats, only fit for sheep; reported to have rabbits. Access from Haast Valley via Bealey Range.

Run No. 448: All mountainous country; open grass summits and thickly timbered lower faces; fitted for a few cattle, and also for sheep in summer. Access from Jackson Valley Road across open river-bed of Arawata River.

Run No. 449: Bush-clad country sloping to sea-beach immediately south of Hope River; cattle-feed only. Access by bridle-road, which is in course of construction, from Hope River along coast.

Run No. 450: This comprises all the bush country in the valleys of the George and Jerry Rivers; all cattle country. Access by sea-beach from Barn Bay difficult; also by Cascade bridle-road, now in bad repair.

Run No. 451: High, broken forest lands immediately north of Big Bay; only suitable for cattle. Access difficult, and via steamer, landing at Big Bay.

Run No. 452: Heavily timbered slopes and flats of the upper valley of Cascade River; cattle-feed only. Access by river-bed and terraces.

G. J. ROBERTS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Runs in the Auckland Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 10th February, 1903.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral runs will be offered for lease by public auction, at this office, on Friday, the 3rd day of April, 1903, at 11 a.m.

PASTORAL RUNS UNDER PART VI., “THE LAND ACT, 1892.”

Nearly all open land; fern, tea-tree, and tussock, with a few patches of light mixed forest; broken and undulating country; soil light, overlaid in parts with deposits from Tarawera eruption. Situated from three to nineteen miles from Rotorua by the Rotorua-Waiotapu and Rotorua-Wairoa Roads. [NOTE.—All centres of thermal action, together with right of way thereto, to be reserved from these areas.]

These runs are all high mountainous country, ranging to 3,500 ft. above sea-level; soil fairly good, but mostly covered with pumice; mixed forest, contains totara and rimu in small quantities. Situated from 15 to 38 miles from Poro-o-te-Rau Railway-station and from 13 to 37 miles from Taumaranui.

Pastoral Lands (Class I.).

| 90 | 20,000 | Tauhara and Wai-tahanui | East Taupo | 10 0 0 |
| 91 | 20,000 | Tauhara, Waitahanui, and Otukotara | " | 10 0 0 |

Open land; fern, tea-tree, and tussock, with a small clump of mixed forest on each run; light pumice soil of inferior quality. Access by Taupo-Napier Road, from 11 to 18 miles from Taupo.

TERMS OF SALE.

These runs will be sold generally in accordance with the provisions of Part VI. of the Land Act. Term of lease, twenty-one years from 1st September, 1903. Purchasers must deposit a statutory declaration required by section 62 of the Land Act, and pay the sum of half a year’s rent and lease fee on fall of the hammer.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, 14th January, 1903.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned Crown land will be open for sale or selection, 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 Wednesday, the 4th day of March, 1903.

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

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

First-class Land.

Weighted with £5 for improvements.

This section is situated on the Owhakura Road; the access is from main road near Karioi, which is about nine miles distant via pack-track and surveyed road. The eventual outlet will be to Raketepauma (fourteen miles distant), when the railway is completed to there. The section comprises some flat land along the road-frontage and on the top of the spurs; the back portion is broken. The soil is of good quality, resting on sandstone-and-papa formation. The forest is fairly heavy, comprising chiefly rimu, kahikatea, matai, maire, miro, &c., with a fairly heavy undergrowth of kotukutuku, mahoe, mako, rangiora, &c. The section is watered by permanent stream. The elevation ranges from about 1,780 ft. to 1,950 ft. above sea-level. The improvement consists of about 4 acres felled.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.