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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Licensed Distributor of Duty Stamps appointed.

Office of the Commissioner of Stamp Duties,
Wellington, 11th March, 1874.

IT is notified for public information, that
Mr. JOSEPH ALDER SMITH,
Stationer, of Patea, has been appointed a Licensed
Distributor of Duty Stamps.

By order.
E. BRANDON.

Spirits distilled in New Zealand.

Customs Department (Distilleries Branch),
Wellington, 9th March, 1874.

ANNUAL Return of Spirits distilled in New Zea-
land, published as required by section 93 of
"The Distillation Act, 1868."

Number of Imperial gallons of Spirits
distilled in New Zealand received into
all Bonded Warehouses during the
year ended 31st December, 1873 ... 53,940.2
Number of Imperial gallons of such
Spirits cleared and taken out of
Bonded Warehouses during the same
period—
For home consumption 60,395.6
For exportation ... 82.8
60,478.4

Number of Imperial gallons of such
Spirits remaining in all Bonded Ware-
houses on the 31st December, 1873 68,622.9
(This includes balance in stock from
previous year.)

WILLIAM SEED,
Chief Inspector of Distilleries.

Crown Distillery, Auckland, not working from 1st
January to 17th March, and New Zealand Distillery,
Dunedin, from 1st January to 18th April, 1873.

Notification of Road taken and laid down on lands
specified in a certain Crown Grant.

IT is hereby notified for public information, that
His Excellency the Governor, in pursuance and in
exercise of all powers and authorities in that behalf
enabling him, hath caused the road described in the
First Schedule hereto to be taken and laid down on
the lands specified in the grant mentioned in the
Second Schedule hereto.

Dated at Wellington, this 12th day of March, 1874.

G. MAURICE O'RORKE,
Secretary for Crown Lands.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

A ROAD, one chain wide, commencing at a point on
the north-western boundary of the Moiki Block, in
the Wairarapa District, Province of Wellington, and
extending thence through the said block to a point
called Whakaterengawai on the Ruamahanga River,
as the same road is delineated upon the plan of the
said Moiki Block, authenticated by the signature of
the Secretary for Crown Lands, Wellington, and
deposited in the office of the Secretary for Crown
Lands, Wellington.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

GRANT through which the surveyed line of road, 100
links wide, runs.

Reserve for a Recreation Ground.

WHEREAS by the Regulations for the sale and
disposal of lands taken under the authority
of "The New Zealand Settlements Act, 1863," and
"The New Zealand Settlements Amendment and
Continuance Act, 1865," contained in the Schedule
to an Order in Council made and issued, bearing
date the 11th May, 1871, it is provided that reserves
for roads, and all other public purposes whatever,
and for education, and the sites for churches and
chapels or other places of worship for different
religious denominations, may be made by Govern-
ment out of any confiscated lands, and that notices
of all such reserves shall be published in the New
Zealand Gazette : It is hereby notified, that the
lands specified in the Schedule hereunder written
shall be reserved for the purposes therein mentioned
and set opposite the description of the said parcel of
land.

G. MAURICE O'RORKE,
Secretary for Crown Lands.

11th March, 1874.

SCHEDULE.

vince of Wellington, containing by ad-
measurement fifty-six acres two roods,
more or less, situated in the Okotuku
District, and being Section numbered
one hundred and forty.

Bounded towards the North by Sec-
tion No. 337, 368.5 links, 54° 14' 20",
by Section No. 41, 670 links, 269° 54'
30", and by a swamp; towards the
East by Section No. 136, 3165 links,
180°; towards the South by a public
road one chain wide, 681 links, 277°
41'30", and 1877.5 links, 303° 17' 10";
and towards the West by Section No.
338, 1735 links, 359° 54' 30". | As a Recreation
Ground. |

Reserve for a Cemetery.

PURSUANT to the Regulations for the sale, dis-
posal, and occupation of lands taken under the
provisions of "The New Zealand Settlements Act,
1863," and "The New Zealand Settlements Amend-
ment and Continuance Act, 1865," and which said
Regulations are contained in the Schedule to an
Order in Council made and issued on the 11th day
of May, 1871, and published in the New Zealand
Gazette of the 1st of June in the same year, it is
hereby notified that the parcel of land specified in
the Schedule hereto, and which land was, on the
3rd day of August, 1871, reserved for the purpose
therein mentioned, will, on the expiration of three
calendar months from the publication of this notice,
be changed from such purpose to that of a Cemetery.

G. MAURICE O'RORKE,
Secretary for Crown Lands.

Dated this 11th day of March, 1874.