Land and Road Notices




Tenders to be indorsed “Roads and Works, Tender for Contract No. 537, 538, 539, or 540,” as the case may be.

The Government does not undertake to accept the lowest or any tender.

D. Renn,
Secretary for Land and Works.
Dunedin, Sep., 27, 1870.


DEBORAH BAY ROAD DISTRICT.—Tenders will be received by the undersigned till noon of Saturday, the first October, for Clearing Bush from roads in the above district:—

No. 1, 50 chains, more or less
No. 2, 50 " "
No. 3, 20 " "

Intending contractors, by meeting at my house on Thursday, the 29th September, at 9 o’clock a.m., will be shown the work. Specifications to be seen at same place.

The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

Geo. C. Hitchcock, Clerk to Board. 16th September, 1870.


WASTE LAND BOARD ADVERTISEMENTS.

CATLIN’S DISTRICT, 3000 ACRES, MORE OR LESS.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, THAT
Sections 1 to 22, Block I
Sections 1 to 7, Block II
Sections 1 to 15, Block IV,
Catlin’s District, on the Owake River, have now been Surveyed, and will be open for application as Surveyed Land, on Monday, the 24th October, 1870, at £1 per acre.

The Sections contain about 50 acres each of good agricultural Land.

J. T. Thomson,
Chief Commissioner.

20th September, 1870.


NOTICE is hereby given, that the following allotments of rural land, with the buildings and improvements thereon, will be offered for sale by auction, as land of special value, in the Land Office, Dunedin, on Tuesday, the 1st day of November next, at noon.

Block 3, Kuriwao District.

Section 2, containing 4a. 3r. 11p., upset price £300
" 1, " 26a. 1r. 24p. " £60

The hotel, occupied by Mr. Pollock, is situated on section 2, and consists of bar, dining room, parlor, private room, four bedrooms on the ground-floor, and eight on the upper-floor. The out-buildings connected with the hotel consist of 9-stall stable, cooking-house, blacksmith’s shop, barn, and stockyard.

Section 1 is partly fenced, and is now used as an accommodation paddock attached to the hotel.

Terms, 10 per cent. cash, balance within a month.

J. T. Thomson,
Chief Commissioner.

Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, 27th September, 1870.


on a scale of 80 chains to an inch are Awamoko, Papakaio, Oamaru, Kauroo, Otepopo, and Moeraki—price 5s. each.

AND open for sale on 18th May, 1870.—See Gazette published 19th May, 1870, which may be had at the various Survey and Police Stations throughout the Province, and at the Land Office, Dunedin.


NOTICE is hereby given, that Sections 60, 63 to 78, Block V, Dunedin and East Taieri District (previously a Bush Reserve on the Water of Leith), will be offered for sale by public auction, as land of special value, at the Land Office, Dunedin, on Monday the 3rd day of October, at noon, at an upset price of £1 per acre.


NOTICE is hereby given, that the following Rural Allotments will be offered for sale by auction, at the Land Office, Dunedin, on Friday, 7th October next, at noon, at the upset prices annexed:—

Section 20, Block II, Pomahaka district, 46a. 3r. 31p., 20s. per acre.
Section 1 of 13, Block II, Dunedin and East Taieri District, 34a. 1r. 34p., 10s. per acre.
Section 2 of 39, Block I, Otokia District, 107a. 3r. 14p., 10s. per acre.


SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER, 1870.

NOTICE is hereby given, that certain unsold Allotments in the undermentioned Townships will be offered for sale by public auction at the places, and on the dates undermentioned. The upset prices of Townships for the future will be uniformly £5 for sections fronting main streets, and £3 for back sections:—

Waipori—At the Survey Office, Lawrence, on Thursday, the 29th September next, at noon.
Oamaru—At the Auction Rooms of Mr. S. Shrimski, on Monday, the 10th of October next, at noon.
Maheno—On the ground on Tuesday, the 11th day of October next, at noon.
Herbert—On the ground on Wednesday, the 12th day of October next, at noon.
Hampden—At Murcott’s Hotel, Hampden, on Wednesday, the 12th October next, at 4 p.m.
Moeraki—At Murcott’s Hotel on Wednesday, the 12th October next, at 4 p.m.


Sale of Crown Lands.

THE Reserve over the following Sections having been withdrawn, notice is hereby given that they will be offered for Sale by Public Auction in the Land Office, Dunedin, on the 3rd day of October next at noon, at the upset price of £1 per acre.

Section Block District Acreage
5 XVII Waihola 52 2 0
8 52 2 0
9 52 2 0
1 XXIII 56 1 16
2 51 2 4
4 of 7 XXVII Tokomairiro 27 2 0
pt. of 5 XXIX Clutha 27 2 0
1 of 5 XVIII 17 2 0
2 of 7 I Akatore 66 0 4
8 90 0 17
9 155 0 32
10 136 0 2
1 of 11 118 2 3

LITHOGRAPH MAPS of the Province of Otago, and of the surveyed Towns, Blocks, and Districts therein, may be obtained at the Land Office, Dunedin; at Mr. Livingston’s, bookseller, Princes street; and at the agencies of Mr. Livingston, Oamaru; Mr. Smith, Waikouaiti; Mr. Stoddart, Hampden; Messrs. B. Hibbard and Co., Tokomairiro; and at the Survey Offices at Queenstown, Clyde, Naseby, and Lawrence, so far as relates to the Districts, &c., adjacent to them; but any map not on hand at any of the Survey Offices may be ordered through them.

All the surveyed Towns and Blocks have been lithographed—price 1s. each. The Districts now lithographed...



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VUW Te Waharoa PDF Otago Provincial Gazette 1870, No 690





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