CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Lands in Taranaki Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, 9th March, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections having been forfeited by resolution of the Taranaki Land Board, the said lands have thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands

Land in Southland Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 10th March, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land will be offered for sale by public auction for cash at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, at 11 a.m. on Friday, 17th April, 1914, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.-SOUTHLAND COUNTY.-Town of LUMSDEN.

Suburban Land.

Flat land, subject to floods. Soil on shingle interspersed with some old flood channels.

Terms of Sale.

One-fifth of the purchase-money to be paid on the fall of the hammer, and the balance, with Crown grant fee (£1), within thirty days thereafter; otherwise the part of the purchase-money paid by way of deposit shall be forfeited and the contract for the sale of the land be null and void. Title will be subject to Part XIII of the Land Act, 1908.

G. H. M. McCCLURE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Run in Southland Land District for License by Public Auction.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Invercargill, 4th March, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral run will be offered for license by public auction at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, the 29th day of April, 1914, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SUBDIVISIONS A and B, being part of Section 132, Blocks III and IV, Forest Hill Hundred, and Section 5, Blocks VI and VII, Lindhurst Hundred, Southland County, Class B (Otago University Endowment). Area, 5,847 acres; term, fourteen years from 1st April, 1915; upset annual rental, £65; possession 1st April, 1915.

The following provisional valuation of improvements is published for the information of intending purchasers, but must be taken as approximate only, as the final valuation has to be made in accordance with Section 244 of the Land Act, 1908, at least three months before the expiry of the present license.

New dwellinghouse, shed, wool-shed, subdivisional and boundary fences, all valued at £800.

Description of Run.

The total area of the run is 5,847 acres, of which 1,150 acres are undrained swamp land abutting on the Hedgehope, College, and Titipua Streams; this is capable of improvement by draining; 1,050 acres are undulating, ploughable downs in tussock, and the balance of the area, some 3,647 acres, consists of gravelly downs in fern and stunted manuka.

There is ample access, but most of the streams are unbridged, and the homestead is situated four miles from Hedgehope Railway-station, mostly by gravelled road.

Full particulars may be ascertained and plans obtained at this office.

G. H. M. McCCLURE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Runs in Otago Land District for License by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 10th March, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral runs will be offered for license by public auction at the District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin, at 11 o'clock a.m., on Wednesday, the 29th day of April, 1914, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and its amendments.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 7, Block I, Kaitangata Survey District, Bruce County (Class B); area, 139 acres 3 roods 30 perches; term, twenty-one years; upset annual rental, £2 10s.

Run 424B, Southland County (Class B); area, 2,780 acres; term, five years; upset annual rental, £25; valuation for improvements, £272.

Run 515, Tuapeka County (Class A); area, 4,550 acres; term, fourteen years; upset annual rental, £140; valuation for improvements, £223 4s.

Possession will be given on day of sale.

Locality and Description of Runs.

Section 7, Block I, Kaitangata District. -Situated about four miles from the Town of Milton. Land mostly in poor bush, somewhat steep and broken, and with a southerly aspect.

Run 424B.-Situated about twenty miles from Waikaia, near the head of the Waikaia River. Access partly by road and partly by unformed track. Formerly bush country, now well grassed, but unsafe in winter. General elevation about 2,000 ft.

Run 515.-Situated near Coal Creek, about five miles from the Town of Roxburgh, from which place the run has access by the main road and also by an unformed stock-road. The country is mostly summer country, the greater part being at an altitude of 800 ft. to 4,500 ft. above sea-level, and is well grassed and watered. The run has a good easterly aspect, and is sheltered from the south-west wind. Fenced as shown on plan.

E. H. WILMOT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.