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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 32

whole valued at £271 19s. The access is by the main Masterton-Tinui coach-road, distant from Masterton twenty-five miles, and from Tinui five miles.

NOTE.—The successful applicant for this section will be required to take a temporary license of Sections 1b and 1c, Block XV., Mangapakeha, containing together 19 acres, at a half-yearly rental of £1 5s. 4d., and in the event of the new surveyed road being made, then the lessee of Section 1, Block XV., Mangapakeha, will be given a lease of Section 1c, containing 2 acres 2 roods, and the lessee of Section 1a, Block XV., Mangapakeha, will be given a lease of Section 1b, containing 16 acres 2 roods, at half-yearly rentals of 3s. 10d. and £1 2s. respectively. The temporary license of Sections 1b and 1c will be subject to termination at any time or when the proposed new road is made and the old one closed, and the licensee will not be entitled to any compensation for such resumption or for any improvements which he may effect on Sections 1b and 1c.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in the Canterbury Land District open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 5th March, 1903.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned Crown lands will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity as workmen’s homes allotments, at this office, and the local Land Office, Timaru, on Monday, the 27th April, 1903, under the provisions of “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” and amendments.

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

SCHEDULE.
CHRISTCHURCH LAND DISTRICT.
First-class Land.

SELWIN COUNTY.—CHRISTCHURCH SURVEY DISTRICT.—TARAWAHI HAMLET.

35 | XV. | A. R. P. | £ s. d. | £ s. d.
| | 1 3 0 | 6 12 2 | 5 15 8

This section is situated near the south-western corner of the Tarawahi Hamlet, adjacent to the north bank of the Heathcote River, about 30 chains westward from Colombo Road South, and about two miles and a quarter southward from the Christchurch Post-office; it comprises flat agricultural land, black loamy soil on sandy subsoil. The improvements on the land consist of boundary fencing, valued at £6 6s., which must be paid for by the incoming tenant before being admitted to possession of the land; there are also a fowl-house with run, pigsty, windmill, tanks, &c., and walls of a brick building, all of which are included in the price of the section.

LEVELS COUNTY.—AROWHENUA SURVEY DISTRICT.—PUHUKA HAMLET.

5 | X. | 3 0 0 | 1 10 8 | 2 6 0

This section is situated near the western end of the Puhuka Hamlet, about two miles and a half northerly from Timaru, and three-quarters of a mile from the Smithfield Freezing-works, and comprises open sloping land of good quality on clay subsoil. There are old gorse fences on the southern and north-western boundaries, and the incoming tenant will be liable to the lessee of the adjoining Lot 4 for half the value of the boundary fence between Lots 4 and 5.

THOS. HUMPHRIES,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Janeield Settlement, Otago Land District, open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 18th March, 1903.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned Crown land will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, at this office, on Tuesday, the 5th day of May, 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.
OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—TAIERI COUNTY.—TAIERI SURVEY DISTRICT.—JANEFIELD SETTLEMENT.
First-class Land.

27A | I. | A. R. P. | £ s. d. | £ s. d.
| | 10 0 0 | 1 17 0 | (9 5 0)
| | | | (8 11 7)*

• Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £220, repayable in twenty-one years.

Description and Locality of Section.

First-class open, level, agricultural land, abutting on the Otago Central Railway. The following buildings and improvements go with the section: Eight-roomed dwelling-house and scullery, dairy, store, stable, cow-byre and cart-shed, plantation, fruit-trees, and fencing round homestead—value, £220: half-yearly payment of interest and sinking fund, £8 11s. 7d. The following buildings do not go with the section, and will be disposed of by tender: Old piggeries, with binder-shed; cow-shed, containing sixteen stalls; barn, with loft and chaff-house; piggery, and brick boiler-house. The buyer of these buildings will be allowed one month from date of acceptance of tender in which to remove them.

D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Small Grazing-run in Marlborough Land District open for Lease on Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 24th March, 1903.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned small grazing-run will be open for lease on application, at this office, on Tuesday, the 19th May, 1903, under the provisions of Part V. of “The Land Act, 1892.”

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

SCHEDULE.
MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—MARLBOROUGH COUNTY.
Second-class Pastoral Country.

141 | 16,020 0 0 | Patriarch .. | 0 1·5 | 50 1 3

About 1,350 acres of flat, fenced in on north bank of Wairau River by well-conditioned fence; 85 acres of this is a flax swamp, partly drained, and of the remainder three-fourths is well grassed, partly with English, but principally native grasses. A woolshed with two-roomed hut, and small paddock and yards, is situated about the centre of this flat. Beyond this the country is steep and rough for the most part, though here and there, as in Birch Hill Creek, are small patches fairly grassed, and capable of improvement. About one-half the area of this run is taken up by birch bush, in patches, and scrub, the north side of the mountain lying into the Goulter River being especially broken and rough, and, as is the case on the south face, carring tutu and fern, with little grass. Altitude from 950 ft. to 5,400 ft. Well watered with permanent streams throughout. Distant about forty miles from Blenheim by dray-road, passing through Birch Hill Station, and crossing the river opposite latter homestead. Formed dray-track leading from this crossing into the bush at the back of old Section 102, whence posts and firewood can be drawn. Eastern boundary partly fenced (about one mile and a half) by good fence. Possession on day of ballot.

Small Grazing-run No. 141 is offered for lease subject to the following special condition: That the lessee has no right to the timber in the two clumps of bush shown on the sale-plan and numbered 1 and 2 respectively, except such as may be required for fencing or for his domestic use, and the Crown reserves the right to grant permission to any person to enter upon the run and cut and remove therefrom such timber as may be required for domestic or fencing purposes.

C. W. ADAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.