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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 71

SCHEDULE.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Southland County.—Mokoreta Survey District.

A. R. P. £ s. d. £ s. d. s. d.
7 | XIII. | 254 3 15 | 1 5 0 | 1 11 3 | 1 3

Description of Land: Situated eight miles from Waikawa Township; open land, covered with tussock, fern, flax, and small scrub; undulating, soil good; lying on east bank of Waikawa River.

1 | XIV. | 280 2 0 | 1 0 0 | 1 5 0 | 1 0
2 | " | 315 2 0 | 1 2 6 | 1 8 1½ | 1 1½
6 | " | 91 0 0 | 1 5 0 | 1 11 3 | 1 3
7 | " | 320 0 0 | 1 0 0 | 1 5 0 | 1 0

Description of Land: Situated some ten miles from Waikawa Township, on east side of Waikawa River; land chiefly open and undulating, soil good, and covered with flax, fern, and small scrub in places; sections averaging some two miles from formed road.

Southland County.—Waikawa Survey District.

4 | V. | 211 3 34 | 1 0 0 | 1 5 0 | 1 0

Description of Land: Situated on east bank of Waikawa River, about seven miles from Waikawa Harbour and half a mile from formed road; land partly river flat, portion swamp and peat, remainder chiefly open ridges of medium quality.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Southland County.—Mokoreta Survey District.

3 | XIV. | 317 3 0 | 0 15 0 | 0 18 9 | 0 9
4 | " | 187 1 0 | 0 17 6 | 1 1 10½ | 0 10½
5 | " | 243 0 0 | 0 10 0 | 0 12 6 | 0 6
8 | " | 226 2 0 | 0 15 0 | 0 18 9 | 0 9
9 | " | 238 0 0 | 0 10 0 | 0 12 6 | 0 6

Description of Land: Situated some eleven miles from Waikawa Township; land partially bush-clad, undulating; quality ranging from pastoral to fair agricultural, averaging some three miles from formed road.

Southland County.—Waikawa Survey District.

3 | V. | 268 0 0 | 0 10 0 | 0 12 6 | 0 6
5 | " | 238 0 16 | 0 10 0 | 0 12 6 | 0 6
6 | " | 324 1 37 | 0 10 0 | 0 12 6 | 0 6
7 | " | 317 2 26 | 0 10 0 | 0 12 6 | 0 6
8 | " | 227 0 11 | 0 12 6 | 0 15 7½ | 0 7½

Description of Land: Situated on or near east bank of Waikawa River, averaging seven miles from Waikawa Harbour and three-quarters of a mile from formed road; sections largely covered with light birch and manuka, and red-pine in places. Portions of Sections 6, 7, and 8 are river-flat land, remainder of sections consisting of ridges ranging from flattish to steep.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eighth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety.

FRED. WHITAKER,
(For the Minister of Lands.)

Rural Lands in the Wellington Land District open for Sale or Selection.

ONSLow, 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 Hillier, Earl of Onslow, 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 not less than 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 stated in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

UNSURVEYED LAND.—FIRST AND SECOND CLASS.

North Puketoi Block.

ALL that parcel of land containing about 13,000 acres, called or known by the name of the North Puketoi Block, situated in the Pahiatua County, in Blocks II., III., V., VI., and XVI., Makuri Survey District. Bounded towards the north by the Hawke’s Bay Land District; towards the east by Crown lands; towards the south by the Woodville-Aohanga and the Waewaepa Roads; and towards the west by the Woodville-Tiraumea Special-settlement Block.

Cash price, 17s. 6d. to £2 per acre; deferred-payment price (one-fourth more than the cash price), £1 1s. 10½d. to £2 10s. per acre; and perpetual-lease rental (5 per cent. on the cash price), 10½d. to 2s. per acre.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eighth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety.

FRED. WHITAKER,
(For the Minister of Lands.)

Black Swans to cease to be Game.

ONSLow, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby declare that, from and after the date hereof, black swans (Cygnus atratus) shall cease to be within the operation of the said Acts within the Colony of New Zealand.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eighth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety.

FRED. WHITAKER,
(In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 8th December, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

FREDERICK THOMAS DUKE JEFFERY

to be Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Dunstan.

FRED. WHITAKER,
(In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

Public Vaccinators, Whangarei, Drury, and Masterton Districts, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 8th December, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

THOMAS WATT BELL, Esq., M.B. M.S. Univ. Edin.,

to be a Public Vaccinator, under “The Public Health Act, 1876,” for the District of Whangarei; also to appoint

EDWARD AUSTIS BEWES, Esq., M.R.C.S.E.,

to be a Public Vaccinator, under the said Act, for the District of Drury; and also to appoint

SPENCER FRANCIS BEARD, Esq., M.R.C.S.E.,

to be an additional Public Vaccinator, under the said Act for the District of Masterton.

FRED. WHITAKER,
(In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

Member of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 8th December, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

GEORGE TALBOT, J.P.,

to be a Member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Stoke, vice A. Mills, resigned.

W. R. RUSSELL.

Member of Southland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board appointed.

Education Department,
Wellington, 10th December, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in terms of section 7 of “The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1885,” been pleased to appoint

JAMES WALKER BAIN, Esq.,

to represent the Borough Councils of Riverton, Winton, Campbelltown, and Gore on the Southland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board.

FRED. WHITAKER,
(For the Minister of Education.)