APRIL 28 ] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1183

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 18th April, 1904.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned small grazing-run will be opened for lease on application, at this office, on Friday, the 20th day of May, 1904, under the provisions of Part V. “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.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—MANIOTOTO AND TAIERI COUNTIES.

Weighted with £25 2s. 6d., valuation for improvements.
Open agricultural and pastoral land of good quality. Altitude, 1,800 ft. to 3,100 ft. On this run there is about 1,500 acres of flat land, of which 600 acres is now ploughable, the balance of 900 acres being half swampy and half gravelly land liable to flood, but good grazing country. The balance of the run consists of good sheep-grazing country, although broken and somewhat steep; but on account of the aspect it is generally considered fairly safe winter country. The pasture consists of tussock and snow-grass. The run is well watered by the Taieri and Loganburn Rivers and their tributaries. The access is by dray-road to the Styx, thence four miles by unformed road; in all, twenty-nine miles from Ranfurly and Waipiata Railway-stations. Improvements: Half of 28 chains of wire fencing on south boundary with Rocklands Run, at 3s. per chain, £2 2s.; half of 22 chains wire fencing on south boundary with Gladbrook Station, at 5s. 6d. per chain, £3 0s. 6d.; stone hut on Loganburn, £20: total, £25 2s. 6d.

D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 18th April, 1904.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned small grazing-runs will be open for lease on application, at this office, on Wednesday, the 8th day of June, 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 will be decided by ballot.

SCHEDULE.

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

Originally covered with birch bush and scrub, part of which has been burnt; fern is growing on the burnt portion. Clay soil. Broken pastoral country; about five miles from Havelock; altitude, 200 ft. to 2,000 ft.

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Originally covered with birch bush and mixed forest, the greater portion of which has been burnt; clay soil. Broken country; about seven miles from Havelock; altitude, 300 ft. to 2,000 ft.

C. W. ADAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Nelson, 18th April, 1904.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned small grazing-runs will be open for lease on application, at this office, on Wednesday, the 8th day of June, 1904, under the provisions of Part V. of “The Land Act, 1892,” 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 in the First Schedule are classed as “light-bush land,” and the run in the Second Schedule is classed as “scrub land.”

No general rate shall be levied or collected by any local authority from the said runs for the period of three years in the case of light-bush land and two years in the case of scrub land 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 three years in the case of light-bush land and two years in the case of scrub land 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.

SCHEDULES.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.
Second-class Pastoral Country.

All hills; from 400 to 500 acres of green bush, chiefly brown and red birch, remainder open fern and manuka land. Access by ridge road to the east, about four or five miles from Motupiko Railway-station.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
Scrub Land.

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All low hills; about one-half covered with manuka, remainder fern, tutu, and some native grass. Access by ridge road from Rough’n’s Gully.

W. G. MURRAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 18th April, 1904.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral run will be offered for lease by public auction, at this office, on Wednesday, the 8th day of June, 1904, at 11 o’clock a.m., under the provisions of Part VI. of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Runs Nos. 324A and 324B (grouped), Lake, Wallace, and Southland Counties: Area, 58,950 acres; upset annual rental, £60; term of lease, twenty-one years; weighted with £339, valuation for improvements.

Possession will be given on the day of sale.

The purchaser must deposit the statutory declaration as required by section 195 of “The Land Act, 1892,” and deposit the amount of the half-year’s rent at the rate offered, the license fee, and the valuation for improvements, on the fall of the hammer.

JOHN HAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.