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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 15

DESCRIPTIONS OF RUNS.

Runs 235A, 235B, and 235C consist of well-grassed and well-watered country, at an elevation of from 1,500 ft. to 5,000 ft. They are situated at about five to twelve miles from Tarras Post and Telephone Office, and twenty-five to thirty miles from Cromwell. Each run contains a fair percentage of low country. The high country is well grassed, and is not excessively steep.

Runs 345A and 345B have an elevation of from 2,000 ft. to 7,000 ft. They consist of well-grassed ridges, with an easterly and north-easterly aspect. The distance from Cromwell is about twenty-four miles, on a fairly good road, and there is a telephone and post office, and also a school, at Nevis Township, within easy reach of the runs. The higher ridges are more or less subject to severe snowstorms.

Runs 330A and 330B consist of dry warm ridges, about two-thirds of which has a good aspect, the remainder facing the west and north-west. The altitude is from 1,100 ft. to 4,000 ft. The higher tops are fairly well grassed, but are somewhat dangerous in winter of heavy snow. They are adjacent to Bannockburn Town, at which there is a post-office, telephone-office, and school.

D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Grazing-runs in Otago Land District open for Lease.

District Lands Office,
Dunedin, 23rd February, 1909.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned grazing-runs are open for lease, and applications will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, the 29th day of March, 1909, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1908.”

Applicants will have to appear personally before the Land Board at the District Lands Office, Dunedin, at 10 o’clock a.m. on Tuesday, the 30th day of March, 1909, to answer any questions the Land Board may ask.

The ballot will be held at noon on Wednesday, the 31st day of March, 1909, at the District Lands Office, Dunedin.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—TAIERI COUNTY.—SUTTON AND NENTHORN SURVEY DISTRICTS.
(Otago University Endowment).
First-class Pastoral Land.

DESCRIPTION OF RUNS.

Run 79A: Open, broken, pastoral and agricultural land. About 190 acres in the south-west corner is ploughable, and probably about 400 acres more can also be ploughed. Accessible by good road, about eight miles from Middlemarch Township. The Matarae Railway-siding is on the north-east corner of the run. Altitude, 700 ft. to 1,400 ft. The improvements consist of half-value of 142 chains of wire fencing on west boundary (off the line) at 4s. per chain, £14 4s.; half-value of 104 chains of wire fencing on west boundary at 6s. per chain, £15 12s.; half-value of 166 chains of wire fencing on east boundary at 4s. per chain, £16 12s.; value of 47 chains of subdivisional fencing near Matarae Siding at 6s. per chain, £14 2s.; value of 108 chains of subdivisional fencing on the north-west part of the run at 7s. per chain, £37 16s.; value of 84 chains of subdivisional (paddock) fencing at 6s. per chain, £25 4s. Total valuation for improvements, £123 10s.

Run 79B: Good agricultural and pastoral run, open and undulating. About 480 acres of the west part have been ploughed, and are now in grass (“Chewing’s fescue”); about 200 acres more can be cultivated; the remainder is good grazing-land. Accessible by good road, distant about eleven miles from Middlemarch and seven miles from Sutton Railway-station. Altitude, 1,200 ft. to 1,600 ft. The improvements consist of half-value of 36 chains of wire fencing (old) on east boundary at 4s. per chain, £3 12s.; value of 111 chains of subdivisional fencing, including old yards, at 4s. per chain, £22 4s.; value of 335 chains of subdivisional fencing about paddocks at 6s. per chain, £100 10s.; hut and stable, £17. Total valuation for improvements, £143 6s.

Run 79D: Good grazing-run, with frontage to Taieri River. The Otago Central Railway passes through this run, and Matarae Siding adjoins the northern corner. Open, broken land. Homestead-site near the railway. About 200 acres is ploughable. Altitude, 700 ft. to 1,600 ft. The improvements consist of half-value of 202 chains of wire fencing on western boundary at 4s. per chain, £20 4s.; value of 165 chains of subdivisional wire fencing at 6s. per chain, £49 10s. Total valuation for improvements, £69 14s.

Run 79E: Good grazing-land, with frontages to Taieri River and Deep Stream. The Otago Central Railway passes through the run, and Barewood Siding is about half a mile from the boundary. Open, broken country; soil is a light loam, on a rocky subsoil; patches of about 100 acres—say, 500 acres in all—can be ploughed. Altitude, 850 ft. to 1,600 ft. The improvements consist of half-value of 406 chains of wire fencing on eastern boundary at 6s. per chain, £60 18s.; value of 112 chains of subdivisional fencing at 5s. per chain, £28. Total valuation for improvements, £88 18s.

Run 79F: Open, broken grazing-run, with about 500 acres ploughable land in scattered patches; fairly well watered; frontages to Taieri River and Deep Stream; Barewood Railway-siding is within the boundaries. Accessible by good country roads. Altitude, 850 ft. to 1,300 ft. The improvements consist of half-value of 406 chains of wire fencing on north-west boundary at 6s. per chain, £60 18s.; value of 138 chains of subdivisional wire fencing at 5s. per chain, £34 10s. Total valuation for improvements, £95 8s.

Run 79G: Open, broken grazing-run, with about 400 acres of ploughable land in patches; frontage to Deep Stream; about two miles from Barewood Railway-station and post-office by good country road. Altitude, 1,000 ft. The improvements consist of 107 chains of subdivisional wire fencing at 5s. per chain, £26 15s.

Run 79H: Open, broken, pastoral and agricultural land. About 1,000 acres have been ploughed, and are now in grass (chiefly “Chewing’s fescue”); fairly well watered; frontage to Deep Stream. Accessible by good road, about four miles and a half from Barewood Railway-station and post-office. Altitude, 800 ft. to 1,200 ft. The improvements consist of half-value of 266 chains of wire fencing on north-east boundary at 3s. 6d. per chain, £23 5s. 6d.; value of 150 chains of subdivisional wire fencing (old) at 3s. 6d. per chain, £26 5s.; value of 818 chains of subdivisional wire fencing at 5s. 6d. per chain, £224 19s.; eight-roomed house, £250; outbuildings (wash-house, dairy, store-room, &c.), £30; wool-shed, with yards and wool-press, £175; men’s house, £80; implement-shed, £12; stone stable and cow-byre, £120; men’s hut, £15; sheep dip and yards, £30. Total valuation for improvements, £986 9s. 6d.

Run 79I: Open, broken, agricultural and pastoral land, with steep, rough faces towards Taieri River and along Deep Stream; about 400 acres ploughable. Distant about six miles from Barewood Railway-station and post-office. Altitude, 700 ft. to 1,100 ft. The improvements consist of half-value of 266 chains of wire fencing on north-west boundary at 3s. 6d. per chain, £23 5s. 6d.

Run 79J: Open, broken, pastoral land, with steep faces towards Deep Steam; about eight miles from Sutton Railway-station. Altitude, 1,200 ft. to 1,600 ft. The improvements consist of half-value of 72 chains of wire fencing on the southern boundary at 5s. per chain, £9; half-value of 92 chains of wire fencing on western boundary at 6s. per chain, £13 16s.; value of 15 chains of subdivisional wire fencing at 4s. per chain, £3. Total valuation for improvements, £25 16s.

NOTE.—There is a school in the hall at the Reefs Settlement.

D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands Office,
Auckland, 10th February, 1909.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of “The Land Act, 1908,” that the undermentioned land will be disposed of to the holder of adjoining land, under section 131 of the said Act, at the Land Board meeting to be held on Thursday, the 27th day of May, 1909.

SCHEDULE.

Section 4b, Block VIII, Orahiri Survey District, containing 6 acres 1 rood 24 perches, more or less, County of Waitomo.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.