Aug. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3133

Weighted with £768 10s., valuation for improvements, consisting of 200 acres grassing, 310 chains fencing, and well-built modern house, buggy-house, shed, stable and three small rooms; stock-yard. Of this amount, £590 may remain on mortgage, the balance, £178 10s., to be paid immediately on approval of application.

Altitude varies from 500 ft. to 950 ft. above sea-level. Distant about ten miles from Okoroire Railway-station by good formed road; Okoroire Post-office and hotel about seven miles from the section. Agricultural and pastoral land of inferior to very good light loam, on decomposed rhyolite formation; undulating to broken. About 400 acres bush, 1,600 acres fern; balance once sown and in good grass, but now gone back considerably; well watered.

ERIC C. GOLD SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Run in Hawke’s Bay Land District for License by Public Auction.

District Lands Office,
Napier, 2nd August, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral run will be offered for license by public auction, at the local Lands Office, Gisborne, at 11 o’clock a.m. on Wednesday, the 28th day of September, 1910, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—WAIA PU COUNTY.—WAIA PU SURVEY DISTRICT.

Class B.—National Endowment.

Situated on the inland Waiapu Road, about sixty miles north of Gisborne and fifteen miles from Tokomaru Bay. There is no flat land on the section, which comprises ridges with good wide sloping sides. The soil is fair on a subsoil of inferior clay, with patches of pumice here and there; covered with fern and tutu; well watered.

C. R. POLLEN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Southland Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands Office,
Invercargill, 2nd August, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land will be offered for sale by public auction, for cash, at this office, at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, the 7th day of September, 1910, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SOUTHLAND COUNTY.—TUTURAU SURVEY DISTRICT.—RURAL LAND.

Education Reserve.

Weighted with £1,766, valuation for improvements, comprising a seven-roomed house, stable, storehouse, fish-ponds, and other enclosures and fencing in connection with the hatchery-site of the Southland Acclimatisation Society.

TERMS OF SALE.

One-fifth of the purchase-money and valuation for improvements to be paid on the fall of the hammer, and the balance within thirty days thereafter, otherwise the part of the purchase-money paid by way of deposit shall be forfeited and the contract for the sale of the land be null and void. The title is under the Land Transfer Act, 1908. Purchaser must pay cost of transfer. Full particulars may be ascertained at this office.

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Marlborough Land District open for Sale or Selection.

District Lands Office,
Blenheim, 20th April, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that the undermentioned land is open for sale or selection, and applications will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, the 8th day of August, 1910.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—MARLBOROUGH COUNTY.—HERINGA SURVEY DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

F. STEPHENSON SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Village-homestead Allotments in Wellington Land District open for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands Office,
Wellington, 18th July, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that the undermentioned village-homestead allotments are open for selection on renewable lease, and applications will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, the 25th day of October, 1910.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—PAHIATUA COUNTY.—MANGAHAO SURVEY DISTRICT.—MAKARETU VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

Village-homestead Allotments.

JAMES MACKENZIE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Auckland Land District open for Sale or Selection.

District Lands Office,
Auckland, 11th July, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that the undermentioned land is open for sale or selection, and applications will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, the 24th day of October, 1910.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—MANGONUI COUNTY.—MAUNGATANIWHA SURVEY DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

ERIC C. GOLD SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.