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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 23

Pastoral Runs in Wellington Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 26th February, 1906.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral runs will be offered for lease by public auction, at this office, on Wednesday, the 18th day of April, 1906, at 11 o’clock a.m., under the provisions of Part VI of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—MOTUKAWA BLOCK.

Wanganui County.

| 23 | Moawhango | XV | 1,600 0 0 | 70 0 0 | 7 years |
| | " | XVI | | | |
| | Ohinewairua | I | | | |

Wanganui and Hawke’s Bay Counties.

Run No. 22 is situated on the left bank of the Hautapu River, and comprises about 1,621 acres of open undulating and hilly country of from inferior to fairly good quality, with volcanic and pumice soil, and a vegetation of tussock and native grasses. Access to the run is by the main coach-road from Taihape to Waiouru. The Main Trunk Railway line intersects the run. The distance from Taihape is about fourteen miles. The elevation varies from about 2,300 ft. to 3,000 ft. above sea-level. Snowfalls are frequent in the winter.

Run No. 23 comprises about 1,600 acres of open land, 1,100 acres being fairly easy and good sheep-country; the remainder is broken. In the eastern portion are patches of cocksfoot grass and meadow-fog, and the general vegetation comprises the grasses mentioned, together with flax, fern, native grasses, and some snow-grass. The soil is on the whole fairly good. Access is by the Waipuna Road, which has not been formed. The elevation ranges from about 2,500 ft. to 3,500 ft. above sea-level.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 19th March, 1906.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, at this office, on Monday, the 23rd day of April, 1906, under the provisions of “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” and amendments.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—PIAKO COUNTY.—PATATERE NORTH SURVEY DISTRICT.—SELWYN SETTLEMENT (SOUTHERN PORTION).

Ordinary Farm.

Agricultural and pastoral land of light soil, resting on rhyolite formation. Section is, generally speaking, undulating, and its altitude varies from 550 ft. to 700 ft. Section is nearly all ploughable. About 135 acres in good grass, 200 acres in rough feed overgrown with scrub, and the balance in manuka scrub. Well watered by springs. Distance from Putaruru Railway-station. about a mile and a half. Access to section is at south-east corner from Napier-Taupo Road. The boundary-line between this section and railway is not fenced, but there is a fence between the railway and the road. This fence, with some new fencing which the selector will have to erect on the northern boundary of about 30 chains, will completely fence the section. About 170 acres of section are now ring-fenced. The improvements (which are included in the price of the land) consist of a half-share in 160 chains of boundary-fencing, valued at £40, and the whole of 56 chains of sub-divisional fencing, valued at £28; total value, £68.

JAMES MACKENZIE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 26th February, 1906.

NOTICE is hereby given that the small grazing-run described in the Schedule hereto will be open for lease on application, at this office, in terms of Part V of “The Land Act, 1892,” and section 2 of “The Bush and Swamp Crown Lands Settlement Act, 1903,” on Wednesday, the 25th day of April, 1906.

For the purposes of “The Bush and Swamp Crown Lands Settlement Act, 1903,” the run in the said Schedule hereto has been classed as “scrub land.”

No general rate shall be levied or collected by any local authority from the said run for the period of two 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 two 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.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—TAURANGA COUNTY.—OTANEWAI NUKU SURVEY DISTRICT.

Second-class Scrub Land.

SECTION 6, Block IV: Area, 360 acres; half-yearly rent £2 16s. 3d.

One-third fern land, balance heavy scrub, and light bush consisting of rewarewa, tawa, mangeao, and rata, sufficient only for building and fencing; soil of a light, porous nature, resting on clay subsoil; well watered. Situated about thirteen miles from Tauranga.

JAMES MACKENZIE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 12th February, 1906.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral run will be offered for lease by public auction, at this office, on Wednesday, the 28th day of March, 1906, under the provisions of Part VI of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—MARLBOROUGH COUNTY.—CLOUDY BAY AND LINKWATER SURVEY DISTRICTS.

RUN No. 65: 1,580 acres. Term, twenty-one years. Upset annual rental, £10.

All steep, broken country; inferior soil; covered with bush, mostly birch. Fire has been through the Crown portion of the spurs, which are now covered with fern, with a little grass and blackberry. About seventeen miles from Blenheim, and about two miles from main road from Blenheim to Picton.

HENRY TRENT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.