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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 24

Land in Wellington Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 9th February, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land is open for selection on renewable lease under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, and amendments; and applications will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, 25th March, 1914.

The ballot for the section, if there is more than one applicant, will be held at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, at 2.30 o’clock p.m., on Thursday, 26th March, 1914.

Preference will be given to landless applicants who have children dependent on them, or who have within the preceding two years applied for land at least twice unsuccessfully.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—MAKARA COUNTY.—BELMONT SURVEY DISTRICT.—PAPARANGI SETTLEMENT.

First-class Land.

Weighted with £231 for improvements, consisting of a four-roomed house with two brick chimneys, washhouse, stable, fowlhouses, about 36 chains of fencing, excavations, and tracks.

Situated on the Aurora Road, the access being from the Johnsonville Railway-station, which is about one mile distant by good metalled dray-road. Easy undulating land in grass, with good homestead-site near road-frontage. Soil is of good quality on rotten-rock formation. Elevation ranges from about 600 ft. to 800 ft. above sea-level.

The value of the improvements must be paid immediately the applicant has been declared successful.

Full particulars may be ascertained and terms of lease seen at this office.

T. N. BRODRICK,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Small Grazing-runs in Hawke’s Bay Land District for Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 14th January, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned small grazing-runs are open for lease under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908; and applications will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m., on Thursday, 2nd April, 1914.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—WAIBOA COUNTY.—MAUNGAHARURU AND PUKETAPU SURVEY DISTRICTS.

Second-class Pastoral Land.

DESCRIPTION OF RUNS.

Run 102. Altitude from about 700 ft. to 1,800 ft. Hilly and undulating pastoral country with big flats along the Esk River, growing manuka scrub, fern, and tutu, with some improved bush along the western boundary; intersected by deep gorgey streams; generally light soil; well watered; plenty of dry totara on the ground for fencing, &c.; about 220 acres of burnt areas sown in grass this season. Distant thirty-four miles from Napier—twenty-nine miles by dray-road, remainder by unformed road. The right to take timber required for bridges, &c., is reserved by the Crown.

Run 103. Altitude about 600 ft. to 1,700 ft. Comprises a sandstone ridge known as the Gorge Range running from west to east, and breaking off to the north in cliffs with fair flats at the foot, and ridges and undulating land to the south, and big flats along the Esk River; about 100 acres of improved country suitable for a homestead-site in the north-west corner, growing manuka scrub and fern; generally light pumicy soil; fairly well watered; the north and south boundaries are stock-proof streams; about 310 acres of burnt areas sown down in grass this season. Distant thirty-two miles from Napier—twenty-nine miles by dray-road, remainder unformed road.

Run 104. Altitude from 800 ft to 1,600 ft.; broken and undulating pastoral country growing manuka scrub, fern, and tutu; generally light pumicy soil; well watered; intersected by deep gorgey streams; fenced on the north boundary to the Ohurakura Stream; about 300 acres of the burnt area has been sown down in grass this season. Distant twenty-eight miles from Napier by coach-road.

Run 105. Altitude from 400 ft. to 1,300 ft.; hilly and undulating pastoral country with flats along the Esk River, Ohurakura Stream, and old Taupo Road, growing manuka scrub, fern, and tutu, with a few small patches of light bush; the northern portion of the run is cut off from the southern portion on the road, where there is a good homestead-site, by a deep gorge, stock being able to cross only near the west boundary and about half a mile up from the Esk River; generally light pumicy soil; fairly well watered; about 12 acres sown down in grass this season. There is a small whare on the ground to the north-east of Trig P. Distant twenty-one miles from Napier, via the Esk River—eighteen miles by dray-road, remainder by pack-road till the new road is formed.

Run 106. Altitude from 150 ft. to 1,000 ft.; broken, hilly pastoral country with good flat for homestead-site on the north boundary road; growing manuka scrub both dwarf and tall variety, fern, and tutu, with native grass in patches; fair soil; fairly well watered. Distant eighteen miles from Napier by dray-road, via the Esk River.

R. T. SADD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

National Endowment Land in Horopito West Township, Wellington Land District, for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 9th February, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land is open for selection on renewable lease under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and applications will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, 25th March, 1914.

The ballot for the section, if there is more than one applicant, will be held at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, at 2.30 o’clock p.m., on Thursday, 26th March, 1914.

Preference will be given to landless applicants who have children dependent on them, or who have within the preceding two years applied for land at least twice unsuccessfully.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—WAIMARINO COUNTY.—HOROPITO WEST TOWNSHIP.

Town Land.

Weighted with £10 10s. for improvements.

Situated in the Horopito West Township, the access being from the Horopito Station on the Main Trunk Railway, which is about a quarter of a mile distant by a formed and metalled road. All flat land, felled and in grass. Soil is of a fairly good volcanic nature, on shingle and grit formation. Elevation about 2,460 ft. above sea-level. The improvements comprise clearing and stumping and a shed.

The value of the improvements must be paid immediately the applicant has been declared successful.

Full particulars may be ascertained and terms of lease seen at this office.

T. N. BRODRICK,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.