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                    [0] => Schedules of land sold or runs leased, by auction, with names of purchasers, legal descriptions, and prices paid for land in the Otago Region.
                )

            [id] => 9396
            [idSort] => 9396
            [name] => Otago Sales Lists for Land Sold or Leased by Auction (including Pastoral Runs)
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                    [custom5] => Bound volumes (some are guard books), and some volumes include indexes by town, survey district and run number.
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                            [0] => 18431
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            [authenticityNote] => These records were transferred by the Department of Lands and Survey, Dunedin District Office, DAAK, to the Hocken Library between 1976 and 1983. The grouping of these records into series was done by Hocken Library. Hocken Library was the approved repository for Archives New Zealand until 1993. The end date for series relationship with DAAK is taken to be 1983. This series description was compiled as part of a project to capture the finding aids created prior to 1987 into the GAIMS system.
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            [history] => 
The lists show the successful bidder and the amount paid. Some lists include newspaper advertisements offering the land for sale, maps of the land and correspondence from potential purchasers.
If there were two or more applicants for the same piece of land,  the Waste Lands Act 1858, Otago Waste Lands Acts of 1863  and subsequent Land Acts allowed for auctions of the land. Auctions were preferred over ballots because there was certainty of ownership by the person who had the means to buy the land and also, the real market value of the land was obtained. The auctions were managed by the Waste Land Board (later Land Board).
Accession D84 contains the Runs Register for Otago.
Former archives reference:
The arrangement of these records into series was done by the Hocken Library, using the 'record group' finding aid system. These records were assigned series number AG220/67 by Hocken Library.
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                                    [type] => YearStartHoldings
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                                    [normalizedValue] => 1952-01-01T00:00:00.0Z
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                            [name] => Dunedin repository
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            [ricClassificationDescription] => None. (Various arrangements - by survey district and auction date, chronological by date of auction and chronological by date of agreement to take on pastoral leases for runs.)
            [seriesRestrictionReason] => No Restrictions
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