AUCKLAND CROWN LANDS AVAILABLE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 292, 3 September 1908, Page 3

AUCKLAND CROWN LANDS AVAILABLE.

A BUSY MONTH. Several areas of rural Crown lands in the Auckland province are open for application )ti optional tenure this month, and one latgo pastoral run will be put up .for license by )iiblic auction.'•"Following aro' details':—/ Waikato and neighbouring counties. 6235 teres.' second-class land, in 14 sections—abdications close 4 p.m., Wednesday, Septem)er 16. ~ Whangarei.,, County (10 sections) and (Vaiteinata .County. (3 sections), 963 acres lec'ond-class land—September 16. Hobson, Hokianga, -Mangonui, Otamatea, itodneyj Whangarei, and Wbangaroa Counties, and' Great Barri&r Island, 727 acres second-class land in 16 sections—September Bay of Islands, Hokianga,- Hobson. arid Vlangonui Counties, 2630 acres second,-class and in 21 sections—September 16.'' r *'' Pastoral run of 16,920 acres, • near Atiamuri, for 21 years' license; by public auction it the Auckland Crown ..Lands office, at 11 i.m. on Friday, September 18. It is weighted with £157 valuation for three small bouses, four acres grassing, and 80 chains fencing. The following is tho.-offifcial description of the run:—"Altitude, from 1200 reet to 1500 feet above sea-level. About 600 icres mixed forest, comprising tawa,,rata, matai, hinau, with 'dense undergrowth of mahoe, supplejack, and matapo; balance undulating country, covered with fern and teatree. Soil inferior sand and pumice; well watered by Waikato River and tributary streams. The run has over sis miles frontage to Waikato River, and is distant about six miles from Atiamuri Post Office and hotel by good buggy and cart road. The - Tatipo Totara Timber Company's railway line from Putaruru passes witliin one mile of the run. All hot springs, fumaroles, ngawas, geysers, mud volcanoes, and other centres of thermal action with right of way thereto are specially excluded - from ■ the area offered." •