1424 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 70

structed by the Masterton Road Board: And whereas the
said land is Native land, and the title to same is not derived
from the Crown:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
vested in him by "The Public Works Acts Amendment Act,
1887," and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in
this behalf, His Excellency Sir William Francis Drummond
Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and
with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
said colony, doth hereby order that a public road, as shown
on the plan mentioned below, may be constructed on or
through the parcel of land more particularly mentioned in
the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

The parcel of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

| Approximate Area | Being Portion of | | Situated in | Situated in |
| of the Parcel | Section No. | | Block No. | the Survey |
| of Land | | | | District of |
| required to be | | | | |
| taken. | | | | |
| A. R. P. | | | | |
| 3 0 6 | 60 (Native | Native land | IX. | Kopuaranga. |
| | reserve) | | | |

In the Provincial District of Wellington; as the same is
more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D.
15983, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works,
at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and
thereon coloured red.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Rural Lands in the Taranaki and Westland Land Dis-
tricts open for Sale or Selection.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon me by the third section of "The Land
Act Amendment Act, 1887" (hereinafter termed "the said
Act"), I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor
of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report of
the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said section is
provided, do hereby declare that the rural lands enumerated
in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection,
after the lapse of a period of forty-five days from the date of
the first public notification hereof, in the manner and upon
the conditions mentioned in the said Act, and at the price
per acre respectively set opposite such land in the said
Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

| Section. | Block. | Area. | Cash Price per |
| | | | Acre. |

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

TARANAKI.

Kaupokonui Survey District.

| | | A. R. P. | £ s. d. |
| 46 | XI. | 3 3 16 | |
| 61 | " | 18 0 0 | |
| 62 | " | 5 3 12 | 3 0 0 |
| 71 | " | 3 1 28 | |
| 72 | " | 5 0 0 | |

Sections 46, 61, and 62 abut on the Eltham Road, at the
crossing of the Kaupokonui River near Kaponga.

WESTLAND.

Arawata Survey District.

| 746 | X. | 50 0 0 | 1 0 0 |

Situate on Jackson's Flat, Arawata River. Soil good, but
light; partly grassed and partly covered with scrub.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this twenty-first day of December, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-eight.

GEO. FISHER,
(For the Minister of Lands.)

Increasing the Representation of Masterton Riding, County
of Wairarapa North.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

WHEREAS by a Proclamation dated the sixteenth day
of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-
eight, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the
nineteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-eight, the entire Pahiatua Riding of the County of
Wairarapa North was severed from that county and con-
stituted a new county, to be called the County of Pahiatua,
and it is therefore expedient that the number of Councillors
to represent one of the remaining ridings of the said County
of Wairarapa North should be increased so as to make up
the full number of the County Council:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of
the powers vested in me by the said "Counties Act, 1886," do hereby increase the number of Councillors for the Mas-
terton Riding of the County of Wairarapa North, and do
hereby declare that the number of Councillors representing
the said riding shall be three.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this twentieth day of December, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-eight.

T. W. HISLOP.

Public Vaccinator, Mount Benger District, appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 20th December, 1888.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point

JAMES GRAHAM JEFFREYS, Esq., L.S.A.,
to be a Public Vaccinator, under "The Public Health Act,
1876," for the District of Mount Benger.

T. W. HISLOP.

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 21st December, 1888.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point

SAMUEL MEADE DALGLIESH
to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths, and
also to be Vaccination Inspector, for the District of Crom-
well, vice A. D. Thomson, transferred.
This appointment takes effect on and from the 29th
October, 1888.

T. W. HISLOP.

Trustee of Awatere Rabbit District appointed.

The Minister's Office (Live Stock Branch),
Wellington, 17th December, 1888.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point

THOMAS CARTER
to be a Trustee of the Awatere Rabbit District, vice G. H.
Chrisp, resigned.

GEO. FISHER,
(In the absence of the Minister of Lands.)

Native Interpreters authorised.

Native Office,
Wellington, 24th December, 1888.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
authorise the under-mentioned persons to act as In-
terpreters under the Native Land Court Acts, viz.:—

William Australia Graham, Hamilton.
Edward Swartz Maunsell, Greytown.
Henry Samuel Hadfield, Wellington.
Thomas McDonnell, Wellington.
James West Stack, Christchurch.
James Stevenson Clendon, Auckland.
Joseph John Freeth, Masterton.
Edward Hammond, Auckland.
Ebenezer Baker, Wellington.
George Kelly, Napier.
Frederick John William Gascoyne, Auckland.
Henry Dunbar Johnson, Te Aroha.
B. F. J. Edwards, Rotorua.
Richard Monk, Auckland.
John Stevens, Feilding.
Charles James Freeth, Masterton.
Wellington Carrington, New Plymouth.
James Hamlyn Greenway, Russell.
Richard Thomas Blake, Hastings.
Josiah Pratt Hamlin, Napier.
Wilfred Rennell, New Plymouth.
John White, Wellington.
Ebenezer Hamlin, Waiuku.
Frederick Schwartz Hamlin, Waiuku.
Alexander Shand, Chatham Islands.
R. R. S. Shand, Chatham Islands.
Charles Marshall, Port Waikato.