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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 10

SCHEDULE.
OTAGO LAND DISTRICT. — WAIHEMO COUNTY. — HIGHLAY SURVEY DISTRICT.
Small Grazing-run.

Weighted with £1,001 7s. 6d., valuation for improvements. A valuation of the growing crops will be made about fourteen days before the date for receiving applications for this run. Such valuation will be equal to two-thirds the value of the crops, and shall not exceed £100. The amount shall be payable in addition to the sum of £1,001 7s. 6d. stated above.

Description and Locality of Run.

Section 3, on which the homestead stands, rises to a height of 2,692 ft. above sea-level. There is an area of about 100 acres round the homestead, which is all the land that can be cultivated. The remainder rises abruptly to the trig. station on Mount Highlay, and in winter is very cold and sometimes under snow. The soil is light, and is covered with snow-tussock. Section 6 is better land. Section 5 is poor, the larger portion on the south side of Deepdell Creek especially so. The soil is light, and just covers the schist rock. This run is situated alongside the Township of Macrae’s. The improvements consist of seven-roomed house, men’s hut, dairy, woolshed and stable, cowshed, pigsty, dip, sheep-yards, plantation, water-power plant and fittings, 70 acres in grass, and 1,018 chains of boundary and subdivisional fencing.

D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Village-homestead Allotment in Southland Land District open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 19th December, 1904.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned village-homestead allotment will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, at this office, on Tuesday, the 28th day of February, 1905, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

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

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—INVERCARGILL HUNDRED.—ACKERS VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

SECTION 107, Block XX.: Area, 17 acres 2 roods 10 perches; rent per acre per annum, 1s. 7·2d.; half-yearly rent, 14s. 1d. Situation good. Distance from Invercargill eight miles by good summer road. Soil sandy loam; bush of no commercial value, fit only for firewood. Weighted with £11 10s., valuation for 10 chains fencing and 6 acres clearing. Limit of holding, 65 acres.

JOHN HAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Village-homestead Allotments in Southland Land District open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity under the Provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” and “The Bush and Swamp Crown Lands Settlement Act, 1903.”

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 19th December, 1904.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned village-homestead allotments will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, at this office, on Tuesday, the 28th day of February, 1905, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” and “The Bush and Swamp Crown Lands Settlement Act, 1903.”

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

For the purposes of “The Bush and Swamp Crown Lands Settlement Act, 1903,” the lands enumerated the First Schedule hereto are classed as “light-bush land,” and the lands in the Second Schedule are classed as “scrub land.”

No general rate shall be levied or collected by any local authority from the said lands 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 such land is disposed of, and no local authority shall have power to levy or collect any such rate from such land 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-bushland, 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 the selector disposes of his interest in the land 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.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Situation fair. Distance from Tisbury Railway-siding, three miles by good summer road. Soil fair, covered with bush, consisting of kamai and white-pine, fit only for fencing and firewood. Limit of holding, 50 acres.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
Light-bush Land.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
Scrub Land.

| Hokonui Survey District (Croydon Village Settlement) | 774 | .. | 6 2 18 | 1 7·2 | 0 5 2 |
| Ditto | 779 | .. | 10 2 11 | 1 7·2 | 0 8 6 |

Situation fair. Distance from Gore, about four miles. Road partly formed to sections, but not suitable for heavy traffic. Light sandy soil; undergrowth heavy scrub; timber chiefly kamai and white-pine, suitable for firewood only. Limit of holding, 50 acres.

JOHN HAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 19th December, 1904.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral run will be offered for lease by public auction, at the upset annual rental and for the term stated below, on Tuesday, the 28th day of February, 1905, at the Land Office, Timaru, at 11 a.m., under the provisions of Part VI. of “The Land Act, 1892.”

In the event of the run not being sold at auction, it will immediately thereafter be open for lease on application at this office, and at the Land Office, Timaru.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—WAIMATE COUNTY.

Class I.

Run No. 44, Bluecliffs: Area, 17,000 acres; upset annual rental, £250; term of lease, thirteen years.

This run is situated on the western slopes of the Hunters Hills, between the summit and the River Waihao, about twenty-three miles distant from St. Andrew’s Railway-station, at an altitude of from 2,000 ft. to 5,000 ft. above sea-level. It comprises high spurs, falling steeply into the creeks, but becoming less rugged as they approach the Waihao River, mostly covered with tussock, snow-grass, and other native grasses. The run is weighted with a sum of £324 3s. 9d. as valuation for improvements: this comprises the half value of about thirteen miles of boundary fence, full value of about three miles and a quarter of fencing which lies entirely within the run although used as a boundary fence, full value of nearly three miles of subdivisional fencing, and two huts, each 12 ft. by 12 ft., built of wood and roofed with iron. The amount of this valuation must be paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue, Christchurch, before possession is given.

THOS. HUMPHRIES,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.