2070

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 52

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.—TOWN OF MATAMATA.—MATAMATA SETTLEMENT.

Altitude, about 200 ft. above sea-level. Flat land, in old grass; soil of a light sandy nature, medium in quality. Situated about 13 chains from Matamata Railway-station by formed road.

ERIC C. GOLD SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in Southland Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands Office,
Invercargill, 27th June, 1911.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands will be offered for sale by public auction for cash, at the District Lands Office, Invercargill, at 11 o’clock a.m. on Friday, 4th August, 1911, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN OF GREENHILLS.

Suburban Land.

Fronting the Invercargill–Bluff Railway, and situated about half a mile from Greenhills Railway-station.

TERMS OF SALE.

One-fifth of the purchase-money to be paid on the fall of the hammer, and the balance, with Crown grant fee (£1), 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. Title will be subject to Part XIII of the Land Act, 1908.

Full particulars may be ascertained and plans obtained at this office.

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands Office,
Hokitika, 27th June, 1911.

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 Friday, 28th July, 1911, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.

*Part national endowment. Weighted with £35, valuation for hut, clearing, grassing, &c.

Runs 46 and 66 are offered subject to the rights of the present licensees to valuation for improvements in terms of section 244 of the Land Act, 1908. There are no improvements of any considerable value on these runs at present. The runs are offered subject to all existing mining and timber rights and right of access thereto. The right is reserved to the public to use all existing tracks, and free and unrestricted right of access along such tracks must be allowed at all times.

The right is reserved to grant mining and timber rights over the runs, and free right of access must be allowed to all areas over which such mining or timber rights may from time to time be granted.

The right is reserved to the public to take timber for domestic purposes from such portions of the runs as the Commissioner of Crown Lands may from time to time determine.

The holders of miners’ rights and mining privileges shall have the right to use all watercourses for the purpose of discharging therein tailings, mining débris, or waste water, and the licensees shall have no right to any compensation whatsoever on account of any damage or injury alleged to have been caused by the exercise of such right.

Possession of Runs 11 and 62 (grouped) and 628 will be given on the day of sale, and of Runs 46 and 66 on 1st March, 1912.

G. H. M. McCLURE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in Southland for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands Office,
Invercargill, 27th June, 1911.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands will be offered for sale by public auction for cash, at the District Lands Office, Invercargill, at 11 o’clock a.m. on Friday, 1st September, 1911, under the provisions of section 132 of the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WALLACE COUNTY.—ALTON SURVEY DISTRICT.

Rural Land.

LOCALITY AND DESCRIPTION.

Altitude, about 100 ft. above sea-level. Good, level, terrace land; all in heavy bush, chiefly birch, with a little totara and black-pine, and thick underscrub; no timber of any commercial value. Good loamy soil, on gravel formation; will grow good grass. All the sections front formed and gravel roads, and are situated near the junction of the main roads to Papatotara, Clifden, and Tuatapere. Distant from three-quarters to one mile from Tuatapere Railway-station and township.

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Otago Land District for Disposal under Section 129 of the Land Act, 1908.

District Lands Office,
Dunedin, 27th June, 1911.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that the undermentioned land will be disposed of under section 129 of the said Act, on or after Friday, the 29th day of September, 1911.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

An estimated area of 1 acre of unsurveyed land on the beach reserve fronting Section 48, Block VIII, Dunedin and East Taieri Survey District.

E. H. WILMOT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.