APRIL 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1443

Land in Taranaki Land District to be disposed of under Section 131 of the Land Act, 1908.

District Lands Office,
New Plymouth, 11th March, 1912.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that part of Section 23, Block IX, Ohura Survey District, containing 3 roods 8·9 perches, will be disposed of, under section 131 of the said Act, to the holder of adjoining land on or after Friday, the 14th day of June, 1912.

G. H. BULLARD,
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.

Education Reserves for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 16th April, 1912.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands will be offered for lease by public auction for a term of twenty-one years, with perpetual right of renewal for further successive terms of twenty-one years, at 11 o’clock a.m. on Wednesday, the 19th day of June, 1912, under the provisions of the Education Reserves Act, 1908, and amendments.

The auction in the case of the land in the First Schedule will be held at this office, and in the case of the land in the Second Schedule at the local Lands Office, Gisborne.

SCHEDULES.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—EDUCATION RESERVES.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Woodville County.—Suburbs of Woodville.

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Situated about a quarter of a mile from the Woodville Post-office. Flat land, all in grass; inclined to be wet in winter.

Hawke’s Bay County.—Town of Clive.

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Situated about a mile and a quarter from Clive Post-office. Flat land, all in grass and roughly ring-fenced.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Cook County.—Town of Ormond.

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Weighted with £33, valuation for three-roomed cottage and fencing.

Situated on the corner of the Gisborne-Karaka and Whitmore Roads, about 12 chains from the Ormond School.

C. R. POLLEN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in Elderslie Settlement No. 2, Otago Land District, open for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands Office,
Dunedin, 26th March, 1912.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands are open for selection on renewable lease; and applications will be received at this office and the Courthouse, Oamaru, on Monday, the 29th day of April, 1912, up to 4 o’clock p.m., under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—WAITAKI COUNTY.—AWAMOKO AND OAMARU SURVEY DISTRICTS.

First-class Land.

The improvements which are included in the capital value of the allotments consist of boundary and internal fences valued as follows: Allotment 1A, £4 7s. 6d.; Allotment 2A, £6 17s. 6d.; Allotment 3A, £25 13s. 4d.; Allotment 4A, £39 2s. 6d.; Allotment 5A, £64 7s. 2d.; Allotment 7A, £45; Allotment 8A, £49 12s. 6d.; Allotment 9A, £25 14s. 2d.; Allotment 10A, £39 18s. 4d.; Allotment 11A, £43 3s. 10d.; Allotment 12A, £58 3s. 6d.; Allotment 13A, £46 10s. 6d.; Allotment 14A, £26 10s.; Allotment 15A, £32 12s. 6d.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

The settlement forms part of the well-known and highly improved Elderslie Homestead Block, situated in the fertile Waiareka Valley, and distant about nine miles from the Town of Oamaru by rail or first-class gravelled and metalled main road.

The railway-siding of Elderslie adjoins the centre of the property, and at Enfield, about two miles nearer Oamaru, there is also a railway-station, school, creamery, and post and telegraph office.

The country varies in altitude from 160 ft. to 450 ft. above sea-level, being partly level and partly low undulating hills, and practically all ploughable. The soil throughout is rich, and particularly adapted for the growth of all cereals and root crops, and the climate is dry and healthy. The allotments are nearly all ring-fenced, and the existing and proposed road frontages are particularly good.

There is a valuable and permanent water-supply, which has been properly conserved, and is available for irrigation or stock-watering purposes on those allotments which are connected with the service by means of existing water-pipes.

The growing crops of mangels and turnips on the settlement must be taken and paid for by the lessees of the respective allotments—viz., 2A, 8A, and 15A—upon which such crops are growing, at a valuation to be made and declared immediately before the ballot. Payment to be made by the successful applicant immediately he is declared.

SPECIAL CONDITIONS FOR WATER-SUPPLY.

1. No lessee shall construct a water-closet or pig-stye, or bury nightsoil, or construct any drain within 500 ft. of the land reserved for water-supply purposes, or within 500 ft. of any creek-bed or depression along which water may at any time flow or drain on to the said land so reserved for water-supply purposes, or do or permit any other act or thing to be done on the land leased to him which will foul or contaminate the water stored on the said reserved lands or otherwise render it unfit for the purposes aforesaid.

2. The lessee of any allotment now connected by means of pipe-lines with the storage reservoir shall have the privi-