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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 128

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Hokitika, 23rd November, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given that the licenses over the under-mentioned pastoral runs will be offered for sale by public auction at this office on Wednesday, the 24th day of February, 1915, at 11 o’clock a.m., under the provisions of Part VI of the Land Act, 1908, and its amendments.

SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Class A.
(Term: Twenty-one Years.)

| 57 | Mariner’s Peak | Westland | 7,500 | £ s. d. 7 10 0 |
| 59 | Cascade Valley | " | 8,400 | 10 0 0 |
| 63 | Little Man River | " | 8,100 | 6 0 0 |
| 67 | Cascade | " | 6,700 | 10 0 0 |
| 78 | Gorge River and Macfarlane | " | 10,000 | 10 0 0 |
| 81 | Matakitaki | " | 7,000 | 7 0 0 |
| 85 | Browning’s Pass | " | 8,000 | 8 0 0 |
| 86 | Toaroha | " | 11,000 | 11 0 0 |
| 90 | Bald Hill Range | " | 5,500 | 5 10 0 |
| 92 | Miserable Ridge | " | 4,400 | 5 0 0 |
| 93 | Mount Meta Range | " | 10,000 | 10 0 0 |
| 94 | Bannockbrae | " | 9,500 | 10 0 0 |
| 97 | Fox Range | " | 5,500 | 5 0 0 |
| 99 | Whitcombe Pass | " | 5,000 | 5 0 0 |
| 101 | Dickie’s Spur | " | 5,000 | 5 0 0 |
| 428 | Upper Arahura | " | 35,500 | 18 0 0 |
| 430 | Upper Mikonui | " | 15,400 | 8 0 0 |
| 431 | Whitcombe Valley | " | 34,400 | 17 0 0 |
| 435 | Mount Adams | " | 26,100 | 20 0 0 |
| 436 | Price Range | " | 34,000 | 12 0 0 |
| 445 | Upper Cook Valley | " | 20,000 | 10 0 0 |
| 447 | Wills Valley | " | 31,600 | 16 0 0 |
| 449 | Cascade Bay | " | 11,000 | 11 0 0 |
| 450 | Gorge River | " | 31,500 | 16 0 0 |
| 451 | Big Bay | " | 32,500 | 16 0 0 |
| 629 | Robinson Valley | Grey | 32,500 | 20 0 0 |
| 633 | Perth River | Westland | 31,560 | 5 0 0 |

Class B.
(Term: Twenty-one Years.)

| 16 | Omoeroa River | Westland | 10,950 | 5 0 0 |
| 22 | Matakitaki | " | 21,000 | 21 0 0 |
| 27A | Cook River | " | 5,400 | 20 0 0 |
| 49 | Happy Valley | " | 14,700 | 15 0 0 |
| 50 | Paringa and Abbey Rocks | " | 10,000 | 10 0 0 |
| 80 | Mount Argentine | " | 6,000 | 6 0 0 |
| 103† | Mount Graham | " | 3,250 | 3 0 0 |
| 119 | Makawhio River | " | 5,000 | 5 0 0 |
| 432† | Mount Rangitoto | " | 8,000 | 10 0 0 |
| 433 | Upper Waitaha | " | 22,000 | 15 0 0 |
| 434† | Lake Ianthe | " | 13,700 | 15 10 0 |
| 438† | Saltwater Lagoon | " | 13,900 | 12 0 0 |
| 439† | Okarito Lagoon | " | 16,000 | 9 0 0 |
| 441† | Mapourika Lake | " | 11,700 | 10 0 0 |
| 443 | Waikupakupa | " | 15,000 | 10 0 0 |
| 444† | Clearwater | " | 9,700 | 8 0 0 |
| 452 | Upper Cascade | " | 13,700 | 7 0 0 |

*Part national endowment. † National endowment.

LOCALITY AND DESCRIPTION.

Class A.

Run 57.—Mariner’s Peak; grass country on open hilltops, good summer country for sheep, snow falls during winter months; easy access.

Run 59.—Cascade Valley; open plateau, sheep-country.

Run 63.—Situated in Wataroa Valley; bush-clad terraces and hillsides, cattle-feed only; access by main South Road.

Run 67.—Cascade River and Carmichael’s Creek; average altitude, 1,200 ft.; scrub and grass, sheep-country.

Run 78.—Gorge River Plateau; average altitude, 3,000 ft.; open grass lands, sheep-country, mountain-tops.

Run 81.—Thomas Range; hilltops, open grass lands; average altitude, 4,000 ft.; summer sheep-country.

Run 85.—Mounts Sale and Julius; summer and autumn sheep-country, tops and side mountain-slopes; average altitude, 4,000 ft.

Run 86.—Mounts Reeves and Chamberlain; summer and autumn sheep-country, tops and sides mountain-slopes; average altitude, 4,000 ft.

Run 90.—Bald Hill Range; grass country on open hilltops, good summer country for sheep, snow falls during winter months; easy access.

Run 92.—Miserable Ridge; open tops on Miserable Ridge and Mikonui Spur, running southwards to Remarkable Peak, between Mikonui and Hokitika Rivers, about five miles above the Hokitika Gorge and two miles west of Whitcombe Valley Road.

Run 93.—Meta Range, Upper Hokitika Valley; easiest access via Matthias Valley, Canterbury; open hilltops, sheep-country, summer and autumn only.

Run 94.—Situated on Bannockbrae Range; includes all the open tussock country above bush-level; rough summer feed for sheep only; access from Mahitahi River bed.

Run 97.—Occupies the open hilltop of Fox Range; summer feed for sheep only; distant about four miles from Weheka Post and Telephone Office by road, river-bed, and rough bush track.

Run 99.—Covers the open mountain-faces of the main range in Upper Whitcombe Valley; summer feed only for sheep, very rough; access by bush track from Hokitika Valley, and via Louper Stream from Rakaia Valley.

Run 101.—Dickie’s Spur; average altitude, about 3,000 ft.; grass lands on sides and tops of spur, sheep-country; accessible from Waitaha and Gordon River beds.

Run 428.—Situated in Arahura and Taipo Valleys, occupying the ranges between these rivers; very wild, rough country, lower flanks covered with cattle-feed bush, upper portions bare and snow-clad, with a fringe of grass; summer feed for sheep; access by both valleys, but mainly from Arahura Horse-track.

Run 430.—Very rough hillsides, all cattle-country; comprises bulk of Tuki River watershed; access from Upper Mikonui River bed.

Run 431.—Occupies the greater portion of Whitcombe Valley; very rugged mountainous country, comprising shaggy bush, rough tussock ridges, and barren, snow-clad tops; access via Hokitika Valley Bridle-road to junction with Whitcombe River, thence by river-bed.

Run 435.—Includes the lower southern faces and the open tussock tops of the Adams Range; bush feed for cattle and mountain summer feed for sheep; access from main South Road and Wataroa River bed.

Run 436.—Consists of the whole of the open country of the Price Range, together with the bush-clad slopes into the Wataroa and Perth Rivers; snow-covered tops and rocky ridges bordered with a varying width of grasses and alpine vegetation; summer feed for sheep only; access from Wataroa and Waitangi River beds.

Run 445.—Includes the whole of the upper watersheds of Cook and Balfour Rivers; very wild country, mostly bush, with small areas of alpine grassed lands; access by Cook River bed, six miles from main road.

Run 447.—Takes in the whole of the Wills River Valley, with grass tops of the Bealey Range; good open well-grassed river-flats, only fit for sheep; reported to have rabbits; access from Haast Valley via Bealey Range.

Run 449.—Situated on coast watershed at Cascade Bay, south of Hope River; bush-clad country, sloping to the sea-beach; cattle-feed only; access by bridle-road from Hope River along coast.

Run 450.—This comprises all the bush country in the valleys of the Gorge and Jerry Rivers; all cattle-country; access by sea-beach from Barn Bay difficult, also by Cascade Bridle-road now in bad repair.

Run 451.—High, broken, forest lands immediately north of Big Bay, only suitable for cattle; access difficult, and via steamer, landing at Big Bay.

Run 629.—Robinson; comprises the valley of the Robinson River from a point about a mile and a half above its junction with the Grey River, together with a considerable area of open hilltops between the Robinson and Grey Rivers; there is some good sheep-feed on the hilltops, the greatest altitude of which is about 5,800 ft.; the area in the valley of the Robinson River is all heavily timbered. Accessible by dray-road twenty miles, and thence by horse-track thirty-six miles, from Reefton; or by dray-road nine miles, and thence by horse-track twenty-six miles, from Ikamatua.

Run 633.—Comprises bush-clad land between the Wataroa and Perth Rivers; cattle-feed only; access is by bridle-track up the Wataroa River, about four miles from Wataroa Bridge.