2622
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 97

Land in Merrivale Settlement, Southland Land District, open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 6th November, 1905.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, at this office, on Wednesday, the 20th day of December, 1905, under the provisions of “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” and amendments.

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

SCHEDULE.

SOUTH LAND DISTRICT. — WALLACE COUNTY. — WAIAU SURVEY DISTRICT. — MERRIVALE SETTLEMENT.

Weighted with £25, valuation for timber.

Situated about fifteen miles from Otautau, and two miles from dairy-factory reserve and school-site. All bush, excepting about 3 acres; undulating; mixed bush, principally white-pine, with a considerable area of manuka scrub. The soil is fair, excepting the manuka land; papa formation.

JOHN HAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 7th November, 1905.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned small grazing-run will be open for lease on application, at this office, on Wednesday, the 27th day of December, 1905, under the provisions of Part V. of “The Land Act, 1892,” and section 2 of “The Bush and Swamp Crown Lands Settlement Act, 1903.”

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

No general rate shall be levied or collected by any local authority from the said run for a period of four years from the date from which such run is disposed of, and no local authority shall have power to levy or collect any such rate from such run 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 the 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.

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

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT. — WAIMARINO COUNTY. — KAITIEKE SURVEY DISTRICT.

First-class Pastoral Country.

Situated in the Kaitieke Valley, and extending into the Mangahoe Valley. Accessible from Pukerimu, which is about nine miles distant by a good pack-track. Comprises spurs, gullies, and basins, with a few small flats; watered by the Kaitieke and Mangahoe Streams and their branches. Soil is a good loam in places; portions, however, consist of pumice sand resting on sandstone formation. The forest is light, comprising kahikatea, tawa, rimu, tawhero, rewa, and matai, with an undergrowth of manuka, scrub, fern, tataka, houhou, karamu, &c. Elevation, from 750 ft. to 1,200 ft. above sea-level. “Fourths” will accrue for a period of fourteen years and a half.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Wellington Land District for Sale under Section 114 of “The Land Act, 1892.”

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 8th November, 1905.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 240 of “The Land Act, 1892,” that the undermentioned land will be disposed of to the holder of adjoining land, under section 114 of the said Act, on or after Wednesday, the 14th day of February, 1906.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Bickerstaffe Settlement, Auckland Land District, open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 6th November, 1905.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, at this office, on Wednesday, the 27th day of December, 1905, under the provisions of “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” and amendments.

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

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT. — OTAMATEA COUNTY. — OTAMATEA SURVEY DISTRICT. — BICKERSTAFFE SETTLEMENT.

Dairy Farm.

Weighted with £16 10s., for 22 acres manuka felled.

Easy hilly country; about 35 acres in mixed bush; about 22 acres scrub felled; balance in manuka scrub, with cabbage-trees interspersed; section well watered; chiefly of clay formation, but there are outcrops of limestone; tops of spurs are inferior, lower levels of fair quality; section largely ploughable. Altitude, from high-water mark to 300 ft., with long frontage to Otamatea River. The improvements included in the price of the section are half-share and value in some 25 chains of fencing on south boundary, value £6. Situated about six miles from Maungaturoto Post-office and creamery, and about four miles from Batley.

JAMES MACKENZIE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Wellington Land District for Sale under Section 114 of “The Land Act, 1892.”

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 8th November, 1905.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 240 of “The Land Act, 1892,” that the undermentioned land will be disposed of to the holder of adjoining land under section 114 of the said Act, on or after Wednesday, the 14th day of February, 1906.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.