JAN. 25. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 321

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

District Lands Office,
New Plymouth, 7th December, 1911.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that Section 11, Block IX, Waro Survey District, Taranaki Land District, containing 3 roods 14 perches, will be disposed of under section 129 of the said Act on or after Thursday, the 14th day of March, 1912.

WILLIAM ARMSTRONG,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Otago Land District for Disposal under Section 138 of the Land Act, 1908.

District Lands Office,
Dunedin, 6th November, 1911.

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 the adjoining land, under section 138 of the said Act, on or after Friday, the 9th day of February, 1912.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 22, Block III, Tautuku Survey District, containing 149 acres 3 roods 4 perches.

E. H. WILMOT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands

Small Grazing-runs in Otago Land District for Lease on Application.

District Lands Office,
Dunedin, 3rd January, 1912.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned small grazing-runs are open for lease for a term of twenty-one years, with right of renewal; and applications will be received at the District Lands Office, Dunedin, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, 13th February, 1912, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

Applicants will have to appear personally before the Land Board at the District Lands Office, Dunedin, at 10 o’clock a.m. on Wednesday, 14th February, 1912, to answer any questions the Land Board may ask.

The ballot, if necessary, will be held at the conclusion of the examination.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—TAIERI AND WAIKOUAITI COUNTIES.

Second-class Pastoral Land.

Possession will be given on 1st March, 1912.

DESCRIPTION OF RUNS.

Run 121.—Undulating tussock country, partly cultivable; well watered. Access from railway at Middlemarch; distance, twelve miles. Height above sea-level, 900 ft. to 1,500 ft. The improvements comprise 339½ chains of boundary-fencing, of a total value of £110 3s. 9d.

Run 121J.—Undulating tussock country, partly cultivable; well watered. Access from railway at Middlemarch (distance, seventeen miles) or from Dunback (distance, nineteen miles) by formed roads. School and post-office at Moonlight, distance about five miles and a half. Height above sea-level, 1,000 ft. to 1,700 ft. The improvements comprise 319 chains of boundary-fencing valued at £116 5s. 6d., and sheep-yards valued at £4 10s.

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.