Feb. 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 507

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 9th February, 1904.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned small grazing-runs will be open for lease on application, at this office, on Monday, the 14th day of March, 1904, under the provisions of Part V. of “The Land Act, 1882,” and “The Bush and Swamp Crown Lands Settlement Act, 1903.”

For the purposes of “The Bush and Swamp Crown Lands Settlement Act, 1903,” the runs are classed as “heavy-bush land.”

No general rate shall be levied or collected by any local authority from the said runs for the period of four years from the date from which in each case respectively they are disposed of, and no local authority shall have power to levy or collect any such rate from such runs during such period.

After the first half-year’s rent has been paid by the selector the further instalments of rent payable by him for a period of four years shall not be demanded; provided that if at any time during the first five years of his occupancy a selector disposes of his interest in the run the rent so conceded shall be paid by him in full, and thereupon the Land Board may remit such instalments of rent payable by the incoming tenant, not exceeding in the aggregate the amount of rent previously conceded to the selector, as the Board shall think fit.

SCHEDULE.
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.
First-class Pastoral Country.

PATEA COUNTY.—MOMOHAKI SURVEY DISTRICT.—TE NGAUE BLOCK.

| 5 | IX. | 885 0 0 | 0 6·75 | 12 8 11 |
| 6 | " | 661 0 0 | 0 6·75 | 9 5 11 |

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 25th January, 1904.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned small grazing-runs will be open for lease on application, at this office, on Friday, the 26th day of February, 1904, under the provisions of Part V. of “The Land Act, 1892.”

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

SCHEDULE.
OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

Run 226 consists of open, broken, pastoral land, not ploughable, with fair soil of a gravelly nature. Access by good road, half of which is unformed. Situated about three miles and a half from St. Bathan’s Post-office and School. Altitude, 1,800 ft. to 5,000 ft. Improvements, half-value of 276 chains fencing on west and north-west boundaries, at 4s. per chain, £27 12s. Section 86 is open, level, and undulating land, mostly ploughable, 50 acres of frontage being good land. Situated about two miles from St. Bathan’s. Improvements consist of woolshed, sheep-yards, and dip, valued at £100. Total valuation for improvements, £127 12s.

Run No. 226F, and Section 92, Block I., St. Bathans’s | 3,466 3 27 | 0 2 | 14 8 11 |

Run No. 226F is similar to Run No. 226. Improvements, half-value of 346 chains fencing on west boundary, at 4s. per chain, £34 12s.; half-value of 44 chains fencing on south-west boundary, at 6s. 6d. per chain, £7 3s. Section 92 is open, level, gravelly land with good soil; has been ploughed. About one mile and three-quarters from St. Bathan’s. Altitude, 1,800 ft. Improvements, 60 chains of fencing along main road, at 6s. per chain, £18; 82 chains along Dunstan Creek, at 5s. per chain, £20 10s.; 15 chains of fencing on west boundary, at 5s. per chain, £3 15s. Total valuation for improvements, £84.

Tuapeka County.

Sections 17, 18, and 19, Block IX., Rankleburn, and Section 31, Block IV., Glenkenich | 792 1 13 | 0 6 | 9 18 0 |

Open agricultural and pastoral land. The soil is a clay loam on clay subsoil; watered. Broken by somewhat steep gullies in which are occasional patches of bush; fairly good tussock on upper ridges, lower ridges being covered with fern. Altitude, from 650 ft. to 2,000 ft.

D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 1st February, 1904.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, at this office, on Tuesday, the 8th day of March, 1904, under the provisions of “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” and amendments.

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

SCHEDULE.
CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—SELWYN COUNTY.—CHRISTCHURCH SURVEY DISTRICT.—TARAWAHI HAMLET.
Workman’s Home Allotment.

This allotment is situated at the north-eastern end of the Tarawahi Hamlet, fronting on Somerfield and Young Streets, about 25 chains westward from Colombo Road, and about two miles and a quarter distant from the Christchurch Post-office. It consists of flat agricultural land of excellent quality, with black loamy soil on clay subsoil. The value of the fencing on part of the boundary of the allotment is included in the price of the land.

THOS. HUMPHRIES,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.