APRIL 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1045

Pastoral Runs, Auckland Land District, for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 25th 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 1st day of May, 1903, at 11 a.m., for the term and at the upset annual rentals stated.

SCHEDULE
CLASS II.

Altitude about 1,200 ft. above sea-level. The land is mostly high flat tussock and fern ridges, with deep gullies between ; contains about 300 acres of fair swamp land. The soil is very light, but fair for the district ; about 2,000 acres ploughable ; the gullies carry good grass. The run is well watered, and situated about sixteen miles from Rotorua.

81 6,450 Horohoro and Ngongotaha | Rotorua and East | Taupo | 12 18 0

Altitude about 1,300 ft. above sea-level. The run is very hilly, but there are some good wide valleys and terraces with fair feed ; covered chiefly with fern, tutu, and manuka; from 300 to 400 acres ploughable; soil light, but fair for the district; well watered, and situated about twelve miles from Rotorua by Atiamuri Road.

82 11,000 Ngongotaha | Rotorua and East | Taupo | 11 0 0

Altitude about 1,500 ft. above sea-level. The run contains two small clumps of forest, balance fern, tutu, and manuka, with fair feed in some of the valleys. The run is very hilly, and does not contain much ploughable land ; soil very light, but well watered. Fronts Atiamuri Road, about fifteen miles from Rotorua.

83 11,980 Ngongotaha and Paeroa | Rotorua and East | Taupo | 20 19 6

Altitude about 1,300 ft. above sea-level. Very hilly land, but there are wide valleys and terraces that carry good grass, and could be ploughed. Mostly covered with fern, tutu, and tussock, with patches of high manuka along streams; some good flax and clover along the Whirinaki Stream. The valleys near the old kainga, Waiwhakahihi, carry good feed throughout the year. The run is well watered throughout, and situated about sixteen miles from Rotorua.

84 9,100 Ngongotaha | Rotorua and East | Taupo | 11 7 6

Altitude about 1,300 ft. above sea-level. About 200 acres tawa, rimu, and scrubby forest; balance high fern and tea-tree, with tutu and tussock in the valleys; soil very light, and well watered. Situated about twenty-one miles from Rotorua.

85 8,161 Ruawahi | Rotorua | .. | 12 5 6

Contains about 500 acres mixed forest, balance fern, tea-tree, and tussock ; broken land, soil light, and covered in places with deposits from Tarawera eruption. The run fronts Rerewhakaitu Lake, and is situated about twenty-eight miles from Rotorua and four miles and a half off the Rotorua-Galatea Road.

86 12,310 Tuhingamata East | Taupo | East and Tatu | 24 12 6

Broken and undulating land ; about 500 acres mixed forest at north end of run; balance fern end tea-tree and tussock; light soil. Fronts the old Taupo-Atiamuri Road, about five miles from Taupo.

87 12,310 Tuhingamata East | Taupo | East, Tatus, and Tauhara | 24 12 6

The run contains two small clumps of mixed forest; balance fern, tee-tree, and tussock. The land is broken and undulating ; light soil. Fronts Lake Taupo : access by track about four miles from Taupo.

88 10,144 Kaingaroa | Rotorua | .. | 20 6 0

Broken and undulating land, covered with fern, tea-tree, and tussock: soil light and partly overlaid with deposits from Tarawera eruption. This run fronts Rerewhakaitu Lake, and is otherwise watered by several streams. Situated about twenty-five miles from Rotorua by the Rotorua-Galatea Road, passing through the south end of the run.

TERMS OF SALE.

These runs mi” be sold generally in accordance with the provisions of Part VI. of “The Land Act, 1892.” Term of leases, twenty-one years.

All hot springs, fumaroles, ngawas, geysers, mud volcanoes, and other centres of thermal action, with right of way thereto, are specially excluded from these pastoral leases.

Purchasers must deposit a statutory declaration required by section 195 of the Land Act, and pay the sum of half-year’s rent and lease fee on fall of the hammer.

These runs are to be disposed of with right of resumption; and in the event of the Government deciding to resume possession of the whole or any part of the land comprised in a run, after twelve months’ notice, in terms of “The Land Act, 1892,” the lease in respect of the land comprised in such notice shall determine and be void.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Reserve in Taranaki Land District for Lease by Public Tender.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 14th March, 1903.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, up to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, the 5th May, 1903, for a lease of the undermentioned section under the provisions of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881.”

If the land is not applied for on the date mentioned it will remain open thereafter for selection at the upset annual rental and for the term stated below.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—PATUA DISTRICT.

Part of Section No. 534, Block XI., Hawera Survey District: Area, 53 acres 2 roods 32 perches; minimum upset rental, £41 10s. 9d.; term of lease, 14 years.

Description and Locality of Reserve.

Situated on the Main South Road, which is metalled; distant about 15 chains from the Mokoa Railway-station, and about six miles from the Hewers Railway-station by the South Road. The land is practically level, in good pasture, and is ring-fenced, there being a belt of plantation with fencing on both sides.

It is in every respect a desirable property for depasturing purposes, being well sheltered from the prevailing and cold southerly winds.

CONDITIONS.

1. Tenders must be accompanied by marked cheque or post-office order for six months’ rent at the rate offered, together with £1 Is. lease fee.

2. Residence is not compulsory, and no statutory declaration is required. No compensation shall be claimed by the lessee, nor shall any be allowed by the Government, on account of any improvements effected by the lessee, nor for any other cause.

3. Possession will be given on the day of acceptance of tender.

4. The lease shall be for the term of fourteen years, but shall be subject to termination by twelve months’ notice in the event of the land being required by the Government at the end of the fifth and tenth years.

5. The rent shall be payable half-yearly in advance, free from all deductions whatsoever.

6. The lessee shall have no right to sublet, transfer, or otherwise dispose of the land comprised in the lease, except with the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands first had and obtained.

7. The lessee shall not take more than two crops, one of which must be a root-crop, from the same land in succession; and either with or immediately after a second crop of any kind he shall sow the land down with good permanent cultivated grasses and clovers, and allow the land to remain as a pasture for at least three years from the harvesting of the last crop before again being cropped.

8. The lessee shall prevent the growth and spread of gorse, broom, and sweetbriar on the land comprised in the lease; and he shall with all reasonable despatch remove or cause to be removed all gorse, sweetbriar, broom, or other noxious weeds or plants, as may be directed by the