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the subdivision of the Pukititiri forest into sections must, however, be deferred until the question respecting the boundaries of the Native Reserve have been settled.

Sections are being staked out on each side of the line of road from Pukikura to Blackhead. The maps will probably be laid before your Honor in a fortnight's time.

I purpose deferring the survey of the Arapawanui and Moeangiangi blocks until all the arrears of survey are completed.

Unless the Government are likely soon to acquire more land, I feel it imperative on me to advise that the Survey Staff be reduced to three Surveyors and one Draughtsman, and, indeed, if the system is continued of allowing accredited private Surveyors to execute surveys in Section IV, Clause XV, of Land Regulations, March 4th, 1853, two Surveyors would be sufficient.

After the end of this quarter the office work in this Department could be performed by one Draughtsman, as already there are 953 Crown Grants prepared, and several of the maps required for the Registration Office are completed.

H. S. TIFFEN,
Chief Provincial Surveyor.

PROCLAMATION.

By Thomas Henry FitzGerald, Esq., Superintendent of the Province of Hawke's Bay, in the Islands of New Zealand.

I, THOMAS HENRY FITZGERALD, Esq., Superintendent of the Province of Hawke's Bay, do hereby Proclaim that a sale of Crown Lands will take place at the Land Office, Napier, on Friday, 31st May, 1861, at noon precisely, when the allotments of land specified in the Schedule hereunto annexed, and which have been duly certified by the Commissioner of Crown Lands, on the application of intending purchasers as not being worth 10s. per acre, will be put up to Public Auction at the upset price of 5s. per acre, in accordance with the Land Regulations of the 4th March, 1853, and the additional Regulations for the amendment and extension of the said Regulations, recommended by the Superintendent and the Council for the Province of Wellington (Session 2) to the Governor.

Dated this sixteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty one.

T. H. FITZGERALD,
Superintendent.

Schedule of Unagricultural Land,
TO BE
SOLD BY AUCTION AT THE CROWN LAND
OFFICE, AT NAPIER.
On Friday the 31st day of May, 1861,
AT NOON.

| Name of Applicant, and Situation of the Land. | No. of Application. | No. of Lot. | Contents. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | |
| | | | A R P |
| John Knight, on F. S. Abbott's Run | 849 | 1 | 300 0 0 |
| | | | 300 0 0 |
| Alfred Newman, on his Run | 801 | 2 | 250 0 0 |
| " | | 3 | 250 0 0 |
| " | | 4 | 250 0 0 |
| " | | 5 | 250 0 0 |
| " | | 6 | 250 0 0 |
| " | | 7 | 250 0 0 |
| " | | 8 | 250 0 0 |
| " | | 9 | 250 0 0 |
| " | | 10 | 250 0 0 |
| " | | 11 | 250 0 0 |
| " | | 12 | 300 0 0 |
| " | | 13 | 300 0 0 |
| " | | 14 | 300 0 0 |
| " | | 15 | 300 0 0 |
| " | | 16 | 300 0 0 |
| " | | 17 | 300 0 0 |
| " | | 18 | 300 0 0 |
| " | | 19 | 300 0 0 |
| " | | 20 | 300 0 0 |
| " | | 21 | 300 0 0 |
| " | | 22 | 300 0 0 |
| " | | 23 | 300 0 0 |
| " | | 24 | 300 0 0 |
| " | | 25 | 300 0 0 |
| " | | 26 | 300 0 0 |
| | | | 7000 0 0 |
| G. G. Carlyon, on his Run | 856 | 31 | 300 0 0 |
| | | | 300 0 0 |
| Wm. Lyon, on his Run | 877 | 32 | 250 0 0 |
| " | | 33 | 250 0 0 |
| " | | 34 | 250 0 0 |
| " | | 35 | 250 0 0 |
| " | | 36 | 250 0 0 |
| " | | 37 | 250 0 0 |
| " | | 38 | 250 0 0 |
| " | | 39 | 250 0 0 |
| | | | 2000 0 0 |
| James N. Williams on his Run | 929 | 40 | 200 0 0 |
| " | | 41 | 200 0 0 |
| | | | 400 0 0 |
| J. D. Ormond, on his Run | 845 | 42 | 320 0 0 |
| " | | 43 | 320 0 0 |
| " | | 44 | 320 0 0 |
| " | | 45 | 320 0 0 |
| | | | 1280 0 0 |
| J. D. Ormond, on his Run | 846 | 46 | 250 0 0 |
| " | | 47 | 250 0 0 |
| " | | 48 | 250 0 0 |
| " | | 49 | 250 0 0 |
| | | | 1000 0 0 |
| William Couper, on his Run | 898 | 50 | 240 0 0 |
| " | | 51 | 240 0 0 |
| " | | 52 | 240 0 0 |
| " | | 53 | 180 0 0 |
| " | | 54 | 100 0 0 |
| | | | 1000 0 0 |
| Thomas Lowry, on his Run | 936 | 55 | 320 0 0 |
| " | | 56 | 320 0 0 |
| " | | 57 | 320 0 0 |
| " | | 58 | 320 0 0 |
| " | | 59 | 320 0 0 |
| " | | 60 | 200 0 0 |
| " | | 61 | 200 0 0 |
| | | | 2000 0 0 |
| | | | 15280 0 0 |

H. S. TIFFEN,
Commissioner Crown Lands.
Crown Land Office,
Napier, March 16, 1861.