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good. Situated twenty miles from Timaru by well-formed road. Improvements which are included in the price of the section consist of 194 chains of fencing, valued at £97.

Section 5.—Altitude, from 650 ft. to 1,200 ft. Chiefly in tussock and other native grasses; about 90 acres have been ploughed, and are now in English grass; balance broken tussock land, good soil, with 15 acres of flat at north-west corner; well watered by springs and creeks. Situated twenty-two miles and a half from Timaru by well-formed road. Improvements which are included in the price of the section consist of 295 chains of fencing, valued at £101 14s.

Section 6.—Altitude, 640 ft. to 930 ft. About 140 acres are in rye-grass and clover; balance in tussock and Native grass; 35 acres of flat, a little stony; remainder undulating and broken land; all well watered; soil fair to medium. Situated twenty-one miles and three-quarters from Timaru by well-formed road. The improvements which are included in the price of section consist of 256 chains of fencing, valued at £100 15s.

Section 7.—Altitude, 610 ft. to 900 ft. About 274 acres in English grass; remainder in tussock; 72 acres flat and stony, the balance terrace and easy-sloping land; fairly good soil; well watered. Situated twenty miles and three-quarters from Timaru by well-formed road. Improvements which are included in the price of section consist of 238 chains of fencing, valued at £96.

Section 8.—Altitude, 600 ft. to 870 ft. About 185 acres in rape and turnips; 60 acres in English grass, and the balance in tussock and Native grass; 60 acres shingly flat; remainder undulating and terrace land; well watered. Situated twenty miles and a half from Timaru by well-formed road. Improvements which are included in the price of the section consist of 222 chains of fencing, valued at £90 10s.

Section 9.—Altitude, 590 ft. to 860 ft. Consists of 15 acres shingly flat, the remainder undulating and terrace land, of which about 140 acres are rape, 40 acres English grass, 2 acres plantation four years old, balance steep face in tussock; well watered; soil good. Situated twenty miles from Timaru by well-formed road. Improvements which are included in the price of the section consist of 238 chains of fencing, valued at £90; 197 chains at 9s., £88 13s. Improvements which are not included in the price of the section, but which must be paid for separately, consist of a nearly new combined wool-shed (five stands) and stable (eight stalls), cart-shed, under one roof, built or iron on totara piles, £350, and a three-roomed cottage built of wood and roofed with iron, tongued-and-grooved lining, £200; total, £550.

Section 10.—Altitude, from 560 ft. to 930 ft. Flat, hilly, and undulating land of good quality, part limestone formation, of which about 182 acres are in rye-grass and clover; 5 acres plantation and garden; balance in tussock, native grass intermixed with surface-sown English grass; nearly all can be ploughed; well watered. Situated nineteen miles and a half from Timaru by well-formed road. Improvements which are included in the price of the section consist of 437 chains of fencing and 5 acres plantation and garden, all valued at £244. Improvements which are not included in price of section, but have to be paid for separately, consist of a nearly new, well-kept ten-roomed dwellinghouse with verandah, built of wood and roofed with iron, lathed and plastered, every convenience, concrete dairy and storeroom, septic tank, &c., £900. Wood-and-iron four-stall stable and harness-room, trap-house and motor-shed on concrete foundations, £150; total, £1,050; cost much more.

Section 11.—Altitude, from 640 ft. to 950 ft. Consists of about 50 acres flat, 160 acres easy ridges, balance steeper, but part ploughable: of this, 210 acres are in rape, turnips, and oats; balance tussock, with native and English grasses; soil all good, part limestone formation, flat shingly in patches; well watered by creeks and springs. Situated twenty miles and three-quarters from Timaru by well-formed road. Improvements which are included in price of section consist of 240 chains of fencing, valued at £89 10s.

Section 12.—Altitude, 570 ft. to 1,174 ft. About 50 acres flat in rape and turnips; 45 acres in English grass (old); balance in tussock, native and English grasses; very broken ground, but good limestone soil; fairly well watered by springs and small gullies. Situated twenty miles and a quarter from Timaru by well-formed road. The improvements which are included in price of section consist of 358 chains of fencing, valued at £117 10s.

Section 13.—Altitude, 570 ft. to 1,160 ft. About 35 acres of rather shingly flat, now in rape, turnips, and oats; 40 acres English grass (old) and 2 acres rape; total under cultivation 167 acres, including English grass; balance in tussock, native and English grasses, rather steep and broken, but very good limestone soil; fairly well watered by springs and small gullies. Situated nineteen miles and a half from Timaru by well-formed road. Improvements which are included in price of section consist of 347 chains of fencing, valued at £126 10s.

Section 14.—Altitude, 560 ft. to 1,050 ft. About 26 acres flat, rather shingly in places, now in rape and turnips, and about 162 acres in rape; balance in tussock, native and English grasses; is rather steep and broken in places, but all good limestone soil, fairly well watered by springs and creek. Situated nineteen miles from Timaru by well-formed road. Improvements which are included in price of section consist of about 350 chains of fencing, valued at £131 5s. The improvements not included in price of section, but which must be paid for separately, consist of new wool-shed (six stands) and stable (eight stalls, two loose boxes), machine-shed, and storeroom lined with wood, all under one roof, built of iron on jarrah piles, £400; new cottage (four rooms), bathroom, and wood-shed, built of wood and roofed with iron, tongued-and-grooved lining, £300; wool-shed, £10; total, £710.

Section 15.—Altitude, 530 ft. to 1,030 ft. All in English grass, excepting about 4½ acres in garden, orchard, and plantation one year and a half old, and 15½ acres in tussock; hilly faces rather steep, but excellent limestone soil; well watered by springs and small creeks. Situated eighteen miles and a half from Timaru by well-formed road. Improvements which are included in price of section consist of about 277 chains of fencing, valued at £93 10s. The improvements not included in price of section, but which will have to be paid for separately, consist of a quite new dwellinghouse, built of wood, with tile roof, lined with plaster and wood, all well finished, containing six bedrooms, drawing-room, kitchen, scullery, bathroom, dairy, wash-house, coal-house, two store-rooms, cupboards, &c., verandah, hot and cold water service, bells, and pipes laid for acetylene gas, valued at £1,275; much below cost price.

Section 16.—Altitude, 530 ft. to 1,020 ft. All limestone hill in English grass, except 10 acres, which is rather broken, covered with tussock and English grasses; all but a few acres ploughable; good soil; fairly well watered by springs and one small creek. Situated seventeen miles and three-quarters from Timaru by well-formed road. The improvements which are included in the price of the section consist of 129 chains of fencing, valued at £42 15s.

Section 17.—Altitude, 500 ft. to 1,039 ft. All ploughable limestone hill in English grass, a little broken in part; soil very good, fairly well watered by springs and small creek. Situated seventeen miles from Timaru by well-formed road. The improvements which are included in the price of the section consist of 156 chains of fencing, valued at £49 7s.

Section 18.—Altitude, from 600 ft. to 980 ft. Hilly limestone land; 160 acres have been ploughed and laid down in English grass; the balance, most of which can be ploughed, is in tussock and English grass; all is very good soil, well watered by springs and creeks. Situated eighteen miles from Timaru—seventeen miles and a quarter of which is well formed, remainder to be formed. The improvements which are included in the price of the section consist of 232 chains of fencing, valued at £73 10s.

Section 19.—Altitude, from 570 ft. to 980 ft. Hilly limestone land; about 230 acres have been ploughed, and are now in English grass; balance tussock and English grass; 15 acres good flat at southern end; all very good soil; well watered by springs and creeks. Situated seventeen miles and a quarter from Timaru by well-formed road. The improvements which are included in the price of the section consist of 194 chains of fencing, valued at £62 10s.

T. N. BRODRICK,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Auckland Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

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

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that the undermentioned land will be offered for sale by public auction at this office at 11 o’clock a.m. on Friday, the 31st day of May, 1912.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—EDEN COUNTY.—SUBURBS OF AUCKLAND.

Weighted with £60, valuation for improvements consisting of shed and fencing.

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.