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Otago Witness, Issue 2924, 30 March 1910, Page 41

AUCTIONS. An Unrivalled Opportunity to Dairymen, Farmers, Graziers, and Others to Secure tii..' BEST GRAZING and AGRICULTURAL j ' FARMS On the Taieri Plain for Lease. Mr WILLIAM SHAND'S KEITH HALL and MEADOWBANK FARMS. WRIGHT, STEPHENSON, & CO. (LIMITED) are instructed by Mr William Shand to call " for SEPARATE TENDERS for the Lease of the above Properties for a term of 14 years from Ist June, 1910. Tenders will Close at their Office, High street, Dunedin, at Noon on 16th APRIL. The highest or any tender will not necessarily Be accepted. PARTICULARS. I The*Property is situated two miles from ; jOwhiro Railway Siding and four miles from j Mosgiel. Allanton Post and. Telegraph i Office is distant only one mile. ! 1. KEITH HALL FARM consists of 615 acres 0 rood 08 poles, of which 90 acres arc hill land, the balance being ! about the richest alluvial land on the Taieri Plain. The flat, land is subdivided into ; six or more small paddocks, and one large paddock. All in permanent .pasture except some 24 acres in stubble and 11 acres in . mangels. . The' 90 acres on the hill are in grass. This block is divided into three paddocks, one of which is th&ts'known as ; Quarry Hill, containing about 20 acres. , The fences are hawthorn, gorse, posts and wire. The buildings are insured for £1585. and consist of a seven-roomed ! Dwelling-house, a splendid large stable (said to be the best on the Taieri Plain), with loft and granary combined, byre for 23 cows, large piggery?'men's hut in brick ; (originally built for a dairy), and a barn. The place is also provided with sheep yards. a_ sheep dip, and an orchard. [ County rates amount to £44 8s 7d. | 2. MEADOWBANK FARM comprises i 415 acres 1 rood 03 poles; to be let either j as a whole or in the following subdivisions : —■ \ (a) Top Meadowbank, containing about 104 acres, in' one paddock, divided by a ditch into two portions of 50 acres roughly each. This land is watered by perpetual springs. The fences are of posts and wire, and gorse. (b) Gamble's Block, containing about 70 acres, is let on a tenancy terminating on 9th September, 1910. On' this block is the Meadowbank Cottage, insured for £250, and a byre insured for £IOO. (c) Wilson's Flat, about 150 acres, in three 50-acre paddocks, intersected by the railway line. On this block is the Woolshed Hill of 10 acres, and the tenant of '• Keith Hall Farm will have the right to use the wools'}) ed and yards erected I thereon. . This block, also, is splendidly I watered by springs. I (d) Meadowbank proper contains about 100 acres, and of this about 22 acres are in I mangels and 5 acres in turnips, rest being in grass. County rates on the whole of I the Meadowbank Farms amount to £25 : os' lOd. Conditions of lease may be ascertained from | WRIGHT, STEPHENSON, & CO., - ■ High street, Dunedin, 19m ■ Or any of their Branches.