Feb. 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 499

Run No. 353c, Tuapeka and Maniototo Counties: Area, 8,310 acres; term, fourteen years; upset annual rental, £17 10s.

Run No. 219c, Maniototo County: Area, 7,220 acres; term, fourteen years; upset annual rental, £30.

Run No. 245m, Cromwell Commonage, Vincent County: Area, 2,263 acres 2 roods 32 perches; term, fourteen years; upset annual rental, £3 10s.

Section 70, Block IV, Table Hill Survey District, Bruce County: Area, 173 acres 2 roods 29 perches; term, ten years; upset annual rental, £4 7s.; valuation for improvements, £32 14s.

Possession of Runs 353c, 219c, 245m, and Section 70, Block IV, Table Hill Survey District, will be given on day of sale.

Locality and Description of Runs.

Run No. 19: Situated on the western side of Rees River, eight miles north of Glenorchy. This run contains Mount Earnslaw and its slopes; altitude, 2,000 ft. to 9,000 ft. Along portion of Earnslaw Creek and the western side of Rees River there is a fair proportion of rough, tussocky, summer country.

Section 16, Block X, Teviot Survey District: Situated about four miles from Roxburgh by the most direct road; highest point, 3,149 ft. This is summer country, and carries fair tussock.

Sections 1, 2, and 8 to 19, Block II, Cairnhill Survey District: Mostly dry, bare, pastoral country; part warm in winter, with an early spring. The portion lying between Bald Hill Flat and the Molyneux River is safe winter country, although the tussock is scanty. The remainder on the west side of the flat rises to an altitude of upwards of 5,000 ft., the lower portion of which carries fair tussock, the balance being inferior country. Situated about eight miles from Alexandra.

Run No. 79c: Very fair country, with a south-easterly aspect; altitude, 1,500 ft. to 1,600 ft. Snow lies in the gullies during severe winters. Situated about eighteen miles from Middlemarch Railway-station, on a good road.

Run No. 353c: High country suitable for summer grazing; carries snow grass and tussock; subject to snow in the winter; general aspect southerly. Situated at the sources of the Taieri, Waipori, and Beaumont Rivers.

Run No. 219c: This run has a southerly aspect, and consequently is somewhat cold in winter. It affords good summer grazing. Altitude, 2,200 ft. to 4,000 ft. Situated about two miles from Naseby, and about three miles from Wedderburn Railway-station.

Run No. 245m: This run forms part of what is known as the Cromwell Commonage, and is distant about three miles from that town by a good road. The country is ridgy, broken, and somewhat dry, but there is permanent water in various creeks. It is good winter country, rising gradually from the Clutha and Kawarau Rivers, and has a good aspect.

Section 70, Block IV, Table Hill Survey District: An open section, somewhat broken by a series of steep gullies. About three-fourths of the area has a southerly aspect, and the remainder lies to the north; soil light; well watered. Situated about two miles from Manuka Creek Railway-station, and about the same distance from a school.

The above runs will be sold generally in accordance with the provisions of Part VI of “The Land Act, 1892.”

Valuations for improvements must be paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue, Dunedin, before the licensees will be let into possession.

Purchasers must deposit statutory declaration required by section 195 of “The Land Act, 1892,” and pay the first half-year’s rent, together with license fee, £1 1s., on fall of the hammer.

D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Rural Lands in Southland Land District open for Sale or Selection.

District Lands Office, Invercargill, 6th December, 1906.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands will be open for sale or selection, at this office, on the 13th March, 1907, under the provisions of Part III of “The Land Act, 1892,” and section 2 of “The Bush and Swamp Crown Lands Settlement Act, 1903.”

1. The said lands may be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase, or on lease in perpetuity: provided that in the case of lands containing or supposed to contain any metal, mineral, or valuable stone, they shall be selected on lease in perpetuity only and shall not be purchased for cash.

2. For the purposes of “The Bush and Swamp Crown Lands Settlement Act, 1903,” the said lands shall be deemed to be “light-bush land.”

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

4. 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 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.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Second-class Light-bush Land.

All level land. Altitude, 30 ft. to 40 ft. Sections 43 to 46, inferior land, all swamp, mostly covered with manuka scrub, Maori-heads, &c. Sections 46A to 49, inferior land, mostly swamp, partly covered with manuka scrub and mixed bush that has been worked out. Section 60, fairly good soil; about 12 acres cleared and in grass; northern portion swampy, with manuka scrub, &c.; mostly covered with mixed bush, worked out. Section 61, about one-half good land; northern and western portions swampy, with manuka scrub and flax; mostly covered with mixed bush, worked out. Section 62, soil fairly good in places; eastern and northern portions swampy, with clump of light mixed bush in north-eastern corner; a good deal of dead timber in places. Section 63, mostly cleared of bush, soil fairly good, swampy in places; patch of light mixed bush in north-west corner. Section 64, mostly cleared of bush, soil fairly good, low-lying and swampy, with clump of worked-out bush towards northern boundary. The whole block is distant from one mile and a half to three miles from Makarewa Post-office and school, and is accessible by metalled road for about two-thirds of the way, balance by unformed road.

JOHN HAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.