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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 13

SCHEDULE.
OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

Run 496, Vincent County (Class B): Area, 1,310 acres; term, fourteen years; upset annual rental, £25; valuation for improvements, £56 7s. 6d.

Run 497, Vincent County (Class B): Area, 2,275 acres; term, fourteen years; upset annual rental, £48; valuation for improvements, £50 12s.

Run 501, Tuapeka County (Class B): Area, 4,495 acres; term, fourteen years; upset annual rental, £66; valuation for improvements, £123 17s.

Possession will be given on 1st March, 1911, subject, however, to the right of the present pastoral licensees to occupy the country up to 31st March, 1911, on condition that they pay the incoming tenants the proportion of rent for the month of March, 1911.

Locality and Description.

Run 496.—Open, broken, pastoral country, two-thirds of the area being winter country, well grassed and watered; the balance is summer country, not so well watered or grassed. Altitude, 2,000 ft. to 5,000 ft. Distant about twelve miles from Alexandra. The improvements consist of fencing on boundary with Run 425B, 26 chains, at 5s. per chain, £6 10s.; fencing on half boundary with Butler’s pastoral run, 133 chains, at 7s. 6d. per chain, £49 17s. 6d.: total, £56 7s. 6d.

Run 497.—Similar to Run 496. Has a frontage to the main road. The improvements consist of fencing on boundary with Run 425B, 76 chains, at 3s. per chain, £11 8s.; fencing along road, not on boundary, 104 chains, at 6s. per chain, £31 4s.; stone hut, £8: total, £50 12s.

Run 501.—Rough, broken, pastoral land, summer country only. Altitude, 2,000 ft. to 5,000 ft. Distant about nine miles from Roxburgh. The improvements consist of fencing on boundary with Run 425B, 176 chains, at 6s. per chain, £52 16s.; fencing on half boundary with Small Grazing-run No. 500, 98 chains, at 7s. per chain, £34 6s.; fencing on half boundary with Small Grazing-run No. 502, 36 chains, at 10s. per chain, £18; fencing on half boundary with Small Grazing-run No. 502, 50 chains, at 7s. 6d. per chain, £18 15s.: total, £123 17s.

E. H. WILMOT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands Office,
Dunedin, 20th December, 1910.

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 Tuesday, the 28th day of February, 1911, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.
OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

Run 243D, Waitaki County (Class A): Area, 15,500 acres; term, twenty-one years; upset annual rental, £250; valuation for improvements, £669 10s.

Run 243E, Waitaki County (Class A): Area, 31,800 acres; term twenty-one years; upset annual rental, £600; valuation for improvements, £907 19s.

The purchaser of Run 243E will be required to take a license (expiring at the same time as the run license) under section 59 of the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, over Section 3, Block II, Otamatakau District. Area, 30 acres; annual rental, £9; valuation for buildings, £800. The buildings may be paid for in cash or by half-yearly instalments of £31 4s., extending over the period of twenty-one years.

Possession will be given on 1st March, 1912.

Locality and Description.

Run 243D.—Situated about eleven miles and a half from Kurow Railway-station. Good tussock hills, with bare faces towards the main road. Dark, steep faces into Otematata River. Good pasture on river-bed. Steep and broken in parts. Well watered by Parson’s Rock Creek and Waitaki River. There is a small quantity of water in Rugged Ridges Creek. The run has a good homestead-site. Altitude, 820 ft. to 4,700 ft. The improvements consist of half fencing on north-east boundary with Run 243C, 118 chains, at 8s. per chain, £47 4s.; half fencing on part south boundary with Run 243C, 66 chains, at 6s. 6d. per chain, £21 9s.; half fencing on part of south boundary with Run 243C, 28 chains, at 5s. per chain, £7; half fencing on west boundary with 243E, 168 chains, at 6s. 6d. per chain, £54 12s.; half fencing on north-west boundary with Run 243E, 135 chains, at 10s. per chain, £67 10s.; fencing on south side of main road, 135 chains, at 9s. per chain, £60 15s.; fencing on north side of main road, 40 chains, at 13s. per chain, £26; fencing on north side of main road, 66 chains, at 9s. per chain, £29 14s.; fencing on north side of main road, 77 chains, at 7s. per chain, £26 19s.; subdivisional fencing down Parson’s Rock Creek, 110 chains, at 6s. 6d. per chain, £35 15s.; subdivisional fencing from near Trig. J to Section 2, 254 chains, at 8s. per chain, £101 12s.; subdivisional fencing into Parson’s Rock Creek, 52 chains, at 6s. 6d. per chain, £16 18s.; subdivisional fencing to opposite corner of Section 2A, 142 chains, at 7s. 6d. per chain, £53 5s.; subdivisional fencing west of Section 2, 16 chains, at 4s. per chain, £3 4s.; subdivisional fencing east of Section 2, 20 chains, at 9s. per chain, £9; subdivisional fencing west of Sections 1 and 4, 17 chains at 5s. per chain, and 18 chains at 7s. per chain, £10 11s.; subdivisional fencing east of Sections 1 and 4, 48 chains at 6s. 6d. per chain, and 26 chains at 5s. per chain, £22 2s.; sheep-yards at Harrison’s Spur, £6; shearers’ accommodation-house, £50; stone-yards, £20. Total valuation, £669 10s.

Run 243E: Situated about sixteen miles from Kurow Railway-station. This run is divided into two parts by the Otematata River, over which is a sheep-bridge. The first part, comprising about 10,200 acres, is all good tussock hills, bare towards the Waitaki River. This part is subdivided into seven large paddocks and two small ones, all the fences being in fairly good order. Well watered. A small race from Station Creek supplies the homestead. A good supply of water could be taken out of the Otematata River, and this supply could be used to irrigate the flat land around the homestead. The back portion of the run, comprising about 21,600 acres, and known as the “Forks” country, lies on the south side of the Otematata River. It is bounded by branches of the river on the east and west sides and by a fence on the south side. It is all fairly good tussock country, with steep slopes and gorges into the river and creeks through it. Altitude, 850 ft. to 5,000 ft. The improvements consist of half fencing on south boundary, 274 chains, at 6s. per chain, £82 4s.; half fencing on part of the south-east boundary with Run 243D, 135 chains, at 10s. per chain, £67 10s.; half fencing on part of east boundary with Run 243D, 168 chains, at 6s. 6d. per chain, £54 12s.; fencing on boundary with Sections 2, 4, and 5, 62 chains, at 13s. per chain, £40 6s.; fencing on south side of main road, 112 chains, at 12s. 6d. per chain, £70; fencing from Munro’s Freehold to Otematata thence to Waitaki River, 64 chains, at 9s. per chain, £28 16s.; fencing on north side of main road from Munro’s Freehold to opposite Section 3, 54 chains, at 8s. per chain, £21 12s.; subdivisional fencing in Blocks X and XI, 160 chains, at 9s. per chain, £72; subdivisional fencing near confluence of east and west branches of Otematata River, 76 chains, at 10s. per chain, £38; fencing from near Trig. B to bend in Otematata River, 343 chains, at 8s. per chain, £137 4s.; old wire-and-standard subdivisional fence, 100 chains, at 3s. per chain, £15; from near Trig. B to old fence, 78 chains, at 8s. per chain, £31 4s.; subdivisional fencing past Trig. A to shearing paddock, 132 chains, at 7s. per chain, £46 4s.; from old fence to corner of Section 3, 154 chains, at 8s. per chain, £61 12s.; subdivisional fencing into Station Creek, 42 chains, at 7s. 6s. per chain, £15 15s.; fencing round shearing paddock in the north-west corner of the run, 160 chains, at 7s. 6d. per chain, £60; huts (Chimney Gully, £16; and Forks, £5), £21; sheep-bridge, £45. Total valuation, £907 19s.

Section 3, Block II, Otamatakau District, is the homestead-site of Run 243E. The improvements which are included in the value of the land consist of 101 chains boundary and subdivisional fencing at 6s. per chain, £30 6s.; sheep-yards, £20; garden and trees, £40; fowl-run, £2 10s.: total, £92 16s. The improvements not included in the value of the land consist of buildings valued at £800, made up as follows: Dwelling-house of nine rooms, £380; wool-shed, £250; stable and feed-house, £45; shepherds’ hut, £30; shearers’ hut, cook-house, and dining-room, £90; shed, £5. The buildings may be paid for in cash, or in twenty-one years by half-yearly instalments of £31 4s.

E. H. WILMOT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.