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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 13

ments on Run 221k consist of 155 chains of boundary-fencing, valued at £120 2s. 6d. Total valuation for improvements, £346 11s. 6d.

Runs 221i and 221j.—Situated about thirteen miles from Clyde, the nearest railway-station. Very rocky in places, but with good pasture on the sunny slopes. Low country devoid of water, but high country well watered. Altitude, from 1,200 ft. to 5,222 ft. Access by well-formed roads. The improvements on Run 221i consist of 299 chains of boundary and snow-line fencing, valued at £79 7s. The improvements on Run 221j consist of 355 chains of boundary and subdivisional fencing, valued at £118 19s. Total valuation for improvements, £198 6s.

E. H. WILMOT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in Auckland Land District for Sale or Selection.

District Lands Office,
Auckland, 19th November, 1911.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands are open for sale or selection under the Land Act, 1908; and applications will be received at this office and the Public Hall, Morrinsville, on Monday, the 19th day of February, 1912, up to 4 o’clock p.m.

Applicants will have to appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the Public Hall, Morrinsville, at 10 o’clock a.m. on Thursday, the 22nd day of February, 1912.

The ballot for the sections for which there is more than one applicant will be held at the conclusion of the examination.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—OHINEMURI COUNTY.—WAITOA SURVEY DISTRICT.—PART OF HAURAKI PLAINS.

First-class Land.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

The sections for selection lie between the Piako and Wai-toa Rivers, and consist of partly drained swamp lands and high, dry, flat ridges. The access is from Waitoa Railway-station by No. 1 Road, distant six miles and three-quarters by formed cart-road, the last mile of which is about to be re-formed. Access is also obtained from Waitoa Station by No. 7 Road, distant seven miles and three-quarters, of which one mile has yet to be formed. The distance from Morrinsville Railway-station by formed cart-road is some eleven miles and a half to the permanent bridge-site over the Piako River. A temporary bridge is now in position, but a permanent bridge will ere long be erected in its place.

There is also a temporary foot-bridge across the Piako River near the western end of Whakahoro Road, but this is merely a service bridge for convenience of workmen, and will later on be removed.

The land consists of good, dry, loamy soil ridges, hard swamp, and peaty swamp of varying depth, resting upon a pumice formation. The land adjacent to Piako River is generally high, and is, with a few exceptions, well above high-flood conditions, and is covered with heavy manuka, cabbage-trees, flax, light bush, fern, and light manuka.

The sections fronting West Road run from hard swamp country covered with flax, cabbage-trees, &c., to deep and shallow peat covered with wiwi, &c., with some loamy, dry, flat ridges in places. Sections fronting Whakahoro Road embrace land running from dry, loamy, flat ridges, hard swamp in flax, to shallow and deeper peat swamp in wiwi and flax, with a good amount of rough feed and grass on same. The sections between the North and Paeroa-Tahuna Roads and east of the West Road are generally of a peaty nature.

The land is of generally good quality throughout, especially where the loamy ridges and hard swamp bottoms obtain. The general elevation of sections is about from 35 ft. to 60 ft. above sea-level. All necessary main drains and roads to sections have either been formed or are in course of construction, and the same applies to the necessary culverts and bridges. All main drains are upon roads, and the only subdivisional drain is that between Sections 6, 7, 8, and 9, Block X, Waitoa Survey District. The sections are not permanently watered, with the exception of those adjacent to the Piako and Waitoa Rivers, but selectors of these sections should note that there is a reservation along the banks of both of these rivers. The Department is prepared to sink artesian bores at cost price where required by settlers, upon satisfactory arrangements being made for payment thereof.

The land for selection consists in some localities of old buried forest country, and timber for fencing is available on some sections.

H. M. SKEET,
Acting Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Reserves in the Town of Reefton, Nelson Land District, for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands Office,
Nelson, 5th February, 1912.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned reserves will be offered for lease by public auction at the Courthouse, Reefton, on Tuesday, the 12th March, 1912, at 10 o’clock a.m., under the provisions of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, and amendment.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN OF REEFTON.

Terms and Conditions of Lease.

1. One half-year’s rent, at the rate offered, together with £1 1s. lease fee, to be paid on the fall of the hammer.

2. Possession will be given on the day of sale.

3. Each lease will be for a term of fourteen years without right of renewal, and shall be subject to termination at any time by twelve months’ notice in writing.

4. The lessee shall have no right to sublet, transfer, or otherwise dispose of the whole or any portion of the land comprised in the lease, except with the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands first had and obtained.

5. The rent shall be payable half-yearly, in advance, free of all deductions whatsoever.

6. The lease shall be liable to forfeiture in case the lessee shall fail to fulfil any of the conditions of the said lease within thirty days after the date on which the same ought to be fulfilled.

7. The lessee shall prevent the growth and spread of gorse, broom, and sweetbriar on the land comprised in the lease, and he shall with all reasonable despatch remove, or cause to be removed, all gorse, sweetbriar, broom, or other noxious weeds or plants as may be directed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Full particulars may be obtained at the District Land Office, Nelson, and the local Land Office, Reefton.

ROBT. T. SADD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.