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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 3

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

District Lands Office,
Dunedin, 6th 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 325c, Vincent County: Area, 8,340 acres; term, thirteen years; upset annual rental, £40; valuation for improvements, £47 15s.

Sections 23, 24, 57, 58, and 59, Block I, and 28 and 29, Block VI, Akatore Survey District, Bruce County: Area, 388 acres 1 rood; term, ten years; upset annual rental, £3 5s.

Run 325c: Open, broken, pastoral country, with rough and steep rocky faces along the Clutha River. The northerly faces are bare and shingly. Above the 2,500 ft. level is fair tussock land. Altitude, 800 ft. to 3,600 ft. Access by dray-road about a mile from Bannockburn Post-office. The improvements consist of fencing on half boundary with Run 330a, 50 chains, at 6s. 6d. per chain, £16 5s.; fencing on half boundary with area set aside for future settlement, 60 chains, at 6s. 6d. per chain, £19 10s.; stone hut, £12: total, £47 15s.

The sections in Akatore district consist of light inferior land, a large proportion of the area being covered with fern. Situated about four miles from the Town of Milton. Possession will be given on the day of sale.

E. H. WILMOT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Auckland Land District open for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands Office,
Auckland, 18th October, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that the undermentioned land is open for selection on renewable lease, and applications will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, the 23rd day of January, 1911.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—COROMANDEL COUNTY.—HARATAUNGA SURVEY DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

ERIC C. GOLD SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands for Disposal in Hawke’s Bay Land District.

District Lands Office,
Napier, 21st November, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that Sections 25 and 32, Mahia Rural Sections, containing about 254 acres, and Section 8, Whangawehi Rural Sections, containing about 35 acres, all situated in the Mahia Peninsula, Hawke’s Bay Land District, will be disposed of by way of exchange under section 142 of the Land Act, 1908, on or after Friday, the 24th day of February, 1911.

C. R. POLLEN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Auckland Land District for disposal under Section 128 of the Land Act, 1908.

District Lands Office,
Auckland, 19th December, 1910.

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 128 of the said Act, on or after Thursday, the 23rd day of March, 1911.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SECTIONS S.E. 101 and N.W. 102, Parish of Tauraroa (Whangarei County), containing 74 acres, more or less.

ERIC C. GOLD SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Hawke’s Bay Land District for Disposal under Section 140 of the Land Act, 1908.

District Lands Office,
Napier, 25th October, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that Section 3, Block VII, Nuhaka Survey District, Wairoa County, containing 1 acre 2 roods 17 perches, will be disposed of as a cheese-factory site, under section 140 of the Land Act, 1908, to the Nuhaka Co-operative Dairy Company (Limited), on or after Friday, the 27th day of January, 1911.

C. R. POLLEN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Selwyn Settlement, Auckland Land District, open for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands Office,
Auckland, 14th December, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land is open for selection on renewable lease, and applications will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, the 23rd day of January, 1911, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1908.

Applicants will have to appear personally before the Land Board at the District Lands Office, Auckland, at 10 o’clock a.m. on Thursday, the 26th January, 1911, to answer any questions the Land Board may ask, but if any applicant so desires he may be examined by the Land Board of the district in which he resides.

The ballot for the section, if there is more than one applicant, will be held on Thursday, the 26th January, 1911, at 2.30 o’clock p.m., at the District Lands Office, Auckland. Preference will be given to landless applicants, and the decision of the Land Board as to which of the applicants are landless shall be final and conclusive.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—MATAMATA COUNTY.—PATETERE NORTH* AND PATETERE NORTH-EAST SURVEY DISTRICTS.—SELWYN SETTLEMENT.

Second-class Land.

Weighted with £660, valuation for improvements consisting of 100 acres grassing, 310 chains fencing, and well-built modern house, buggy-house, shed, stable and three small rooms, and stock-yard. Of this amount, £590 may remain on mortgage, the balance, £70, to be paid immediately on approval of application.

Altitude, 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. Undulating to broken agricultural and pastoral land of inferior to very good light loam, on decomposed-rhyolite formation; well watered.

ERIC C. GOLD SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.