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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 14

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 Canterbury Land District for License by Public Auction.

District Lands Office,
Christchurch, 5th January, 1911.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral runs will be offered for license by public auction at the Assembly Rooms, Timaru, at 11 o'clock a.m. on Tuesday, 28th February, 1911, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.

Class A.

Run 234A, Waimate County : 4,713 acres ; term of license, fourteen years ; upset rental, £235 per annum.

Run 234B, Waimate County : 4,596 acres ; term of license, fourteen years ; upset rental, £287 per annum.

LOCALITY AND DESCRIPTION.

These runs are situated on the slopes of the Station Peak Range, which flanks the eastern side of the Hakatereamea Valley, South Canterbury. They lie on the northern side of Meyer's Pass, near the source of the South Waihao River, about twenty-three miles from Waimate and fourteen miles from Hakatereamea. They comprise high open hill country of purely pastoral character, the spurs being intersected by deep rough gullies. The vegetation consists of native and English grasses, with snow-grass only on the higher altitudes. The runs are fairly well watered by springs and streams, but are liable to burn up in a dry summer, and, as the altitude ranges from about 1,500 ft. up to about 3,500 ft. above sea-level, it is liable to heavy falls of snow in winter.

The approximate valuations of improvements, consisting in each case of a hut, and boundary and subdivision fencing, are £330 on Run 234A and £428 on Run 234B. This information is published for the information of intending purchasers, but must be taken as approximate only, as the final valuation will be made in accordance with section 244 of the Land Act, 1908, at least three months before the expiry of the present licenses, and the purchasers of the new licenses (being other than the present licensees) will be required to pay the amount of such valuations before being admitted to possession of the runs.

Possession will be given on the 1st March, 1912.

SPECIAL CONDITIONS.

The licensee of every run shall, during the second and every succeeding year of the term of his license, plant with suitable trees, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, an area of at least one acre upon some part of his run. The number of trees so planted upon every acre shall be at least 1,000. The areas planted shall be securely fenced in with a rabbit- and stock-proof fence ; all failures or losses shall from time to time be replanted as may be found necessary ; and the plantations shall be protected, trimmed, and maintained during the term of the license to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

The licensee shall not, during the months of December, January, February, March, April, May, and June, or such other months not exceeding altogether seven in any one year, as the Commissioner shall from time to time determine, burn the grass on his run.

T. N. BRODRICK,
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, Otamatataku 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,