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Department of Lands, Wellington, 22nd April, 1908. Commissioner of Croxvn Lands, Napier. Re Small Grazing-run No. 45Kefehrino to your 2459, of the 6th instant, the Hon. the Minister of Lands has approved of the proposal to purchase 119 acres or thereabouts from Messrs. Bloomfield Bros., lying between 45 ami the road : hut, as this area will have to be purchased under the Land for Settlements Act, please send me a tracing on a 20-chain scale showing the boundaries of the run and the road-line, and the area proposed lo he purchased; and the names of the owners should be written clearly on the tracing, so that the Chairman of tin' Land Purchase Board may be requested to at once enter into negotiations with Messrs. Bloomfield Bros, for ihe purchase of the area in question. Wm. C. Kensington, Under-Secretary.

Department of Lands, Napier, 4th May, 1908. The Under-Secretary for Lauds, Wellington. Re Small Graziny-run No. 45. In compliance with request, as contained in your memo. 57766, of the 22nd ultimo, I have obtained from the District Office at Cisborne the enclosed tracing (on a scale of 20 chains to 1 in.), showing .he boundary of the above run and the road-line, and the areas proposed to be purchased from Messrs. Bloomfield Bros., and giving the names of the owners. It will be noticed that the area has been slightly reduced, and the total is calculated to be 117J acres. Henry Trent, Enclosure: Tracing. Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCR. 24/10. Run 45, Waingaromia S.D. Department of Lands and Survey, District Office, Napier, Bth May, 1908. Mr. Julius Adolph Albert Csesar, c/o Land Officer, Gisborne. Re Small Graziny-run No. 45, Blocks VII, X, and XI, Wainyaromia Survey District. REFERRING to my memo, to you of the 18th February last, I have to inform you that the Hon. the Minister of Lands has approved of the recommendation of the Land Board that the above holding. containing .'1,358 acres 1 rood 20 perches be not renexx'ed for a further term of lease under small-grazing-run conditions, but that it be subdivided for closer settlement and offered for selection under the provisions of " The Land Act, 1892," and its amendments. Due notice fixing the date of opening the same for selection, areas, prices, rentals, Sec., xvill be sent you. You an- required to give up possession of the property on the 28th February, 1909. The value of the improvements which you are entitled to is fixed at £8,825. Henry Trent, Commissioner of Crown Lands.

2459/141, Small Grazing-runs. Department of Lands, Wellington, 4th June, 1908. The Commissioner of Crown Lands, Napier. Subdivision of Small Grazing-ruu No. 45, W aingaromia Survey District. With reference to your memo. No. 2459/136, of the 4th ultimo, I have to inform you that the Chairman of the Board of Land Purchase Commissioners has been requested to enter into negotiations for the purchase of the 117£ acres owned by Messrs. Bloomfield Bros, lying between this run and the road. Will you therefore please make arrangements for the subdivision of the run with the road frontage added thereto, provided of course the Messrs. Bloomfield offer no objection. Wm. C. Kensington, Under-Secretary.

Department of Lands, Wellington, 4th June, 1908. The Chairman, Board of Land Purchase Commissioners, Wellington. Purchase of 117\ Acres from Bloomfield Bros., Block VII, Waingaromia Survey District. I have to inform you that, as it is proposed to subdivide Small Grazing-run No. 45, Waingaromia Survey District, for the purpose of closer settlement, the Hon. the Minister of Lands has approved the purchase of a strip of land (shown on attached tracing) lying betxveen the run and the road so as to enable the run to have better road frontages. Will you therefore please enter into negotiations with the owners of the land, the Messrs Bloomfield Bros., with a view to purchasing the land at an early date. The Commissioner of Crown Lands, Napier, has been instructed to make arrangements to subdivide the run on the understanding that the road frontage xvill be secured. Wm. C. Kensington, Under-Secretary.

Still. 24/10 (Gisborne). Department of Lands and Survey, Gisborne, 10th June, 1908. The Chairman of the Board of Land Purchase Commissioners, Wellington. In reply to your letter of the 6th instant, asking my opinion of the value of 1 t 7.V acres erf Bloomtields' land lying between the road and Small Grazing-run 45, I am aware that Mr. Simson, Crown