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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 107

Pastoral Runs in Westland Land District for License by Public Auction.

District Lands Office,
Hokitika, 8th November, 1909.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral runs will be offered for license by public auction, at this office, at 11 o’clock a.m. on Wednesday, the 12th day of January, 1910, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1908.”

SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.—GREY COUNTY.

Class A.

• National endowment.
  † Part national endowment.
  ‡ Weighted with £20, valuation for clearing, grassing, and hut.

LOCALITY AND DESCRIPTION.

Run 619 occupies the upper watershed of the New River, with Cockabulla and Eight-mile Creeks and other branches of the New River. Almost wholly covered with bush, and mainly suitable for cattle, with a little sheep-feed in the river-beds. Access by Marsden–Dunganville Road.

Run 620 occupies part of the New River Valley and its northern watershed. Wholly rough bush-covered terrace country; suitable for cattle only. Access by Marsden–Maori Gully Road.

Run 621 occupies the valleys of Cockeye, Irishman’s, and Mosquito Creeks, branches of the New River. Almost wholly covered with bush. Chiefly low terrace land; suitable for cattle, with a little sheep-feed in the river-beds. Access by Marsden Road.

Run 623 occupies the head-waters of the New River and Maori and Eight-mile Creeks. Comprises rough bush-covered terrace country; suitable for cattle only. Access by Greenstone–Lake Brunner Road and Morgan Road, which is formed for part of the distance.

Run 624, Harata. Altitude, from 600 ft. to 5,000 ft. above sea-level. Comprises mostly forest-clad hillsides, with the open top of Mount Harata. There is some good flat land near the Grey River. Situated thirteen miles from Ikamatua—nine miles by dray-road and four miles by bridle-track to junction of Clarke and Grey Rivers.

Run 625, May, comprises part of the upper valley of the Grey River and the valleys of the May and Brown Grey Rivers, with a considerable area of open mountain-tops. About 1,000 acres is fairly flat land, heavily timbered, and there are some grass flats in the river-beds. A large part of the area consists of steep hillsides, covered with birch forest. Greatest altitude, about 5,000 ft. Accessible by horse-tracks from Reefton and Ikamatua.

Run 626, Christobel, occupies the head-waters of the Grey and Mary Rivers. Practically the whole consists of bush-covered hillsides, with a small proportion of open hilltops. Greatest altitude, 4,500 ft. Distant about forty-four miles from Reefton—twenty miles by dray-road and twenty-four miles by horse-track.

Run 627, Elliot, occupies the open tops of Mount Elliot, with the bush-covered slopes into the Clarke and Nancy Rivers. The greater part of the area comprises rough hillsides, with a small proportion of flat land near the rivers. There is good sheep-feed on the top of Mount Elliot.

Greatest altitude, 4,700 ft. Accessible by dray-road, twenty-one miles from Ahaura.

Run 628, Pohaturoa, comprises that portion of the valley of the Grey River between Paddy’s Creek and a point about one mile above the junction of the Grey and Robinson Rivers, together with the hillsides and open mountain-tops lying between that portion of the Grey River and the Clarke River. Mostly bush-covered land, with some flats near the rivers, and some open grass land in the river-beds. Accessible by horse-track, twenty miles from Ikamatua.

Run 629, Robinson, comprises the valley of the Robinson River from a point about one mile and a half above its junction with the Grey River, together with a considerable area of open hilltops between the Robinson and Grey Rivers. There is some good sheep-feed on the hilltops, the greatest altitude of which is about 5,800 ft. The area in the valley of the Robinson River is all heavily timbered. Accessible by dray-road, twenty miles, and thence by horse-track, thirty-six miles, from Reefton; or by dray-road, nine miles, and thence by horse-track, twenty-six miles, from Ikamatua.

Run 630, Waikite, comprises the valley of the Waikite River and the upper valley of the Trent River, together with the open hilltops of Mount Newcombe (4,381 ft.), Mount Elizabeth (5,718 ft.), Mount Ranunailus (4,549 ft.), and a portion of the area lying between the Nancy and Ahaura Rivers. There is some sheep-feed on the hilltops, and the lower country is all bush-covered. Accessible by dray-road, twenty-two miles, from Ahaura.

Run 631, Ajax, comprises the valleys of the Waikehe and Tutaikuri Rivers, with the open hilltops of Mount Hochstetter (5,140 ft.), Mount Novaro (5,135 ft.), and Mount Ajax (5,000 ft. to 6,000 ft.). The lower land is somewhat rough and heavily timbered, and there is some fair sheep-feed on the hilltops. There are some small flats near the river, carrying fair feed. Accessible from Ahaura, twenty-one miles, by dray-road, and nine miles by horse-track up the river-bed.

The runs are offered subject to all existing mining and timber rights and right of access thereto. The right is reserved to the public to use all existing tracks, and free and unrestricted right of access along such tracks must be allowed at all times.

The right is reserved to grant mining and timber rights over the runs, and free right of access must be allowed to all areas over which such mining or timber rights may from time to time be granted.

The right is reserved to the public to take timber for domestic purposes from such portions of the runs as the Commissioner of Crown Lands may from time to time determine.

The holders of miners’ rights and mining privileges shall have the right to use all watercourses for the purpose of discharging therein tailings, mining débris, or waste water, and the licensees shall have no right to any compensation whatsoever on account of any damage or injury alleged to have been caused by the exercise of such right.

Possession will be given on the day of sale.

G. H. M. McCLURE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Wellington Land District for Disposal under Section 131 of “The Land Act, 1908.”

District Lands Office,
Wellington, 11th October, 1909.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of “The Land Act, 1908,” that the undermentioned land will be disposed of, under section 131 of the said Act, to the holder of adjacent land on or after Friday, the 14th day of January, 1910.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 40, Mataroa Suburbs: Area, 17·4 perches.

JAMES MACKENZIE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.