Mar. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 621

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

JAMES PRENDERGAST, Administrator of the Government.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one hundred and thirty-sixth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government 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 described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on and after the twenty-eighth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven; and also that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase, or on lease in perpetuity, or, in respect of any land containing or supposed to contain any metal, mineral, or valuable stone, be selected on lease in perpetuity only; and I do hereby also fix the price at which the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Waikato .. | Hautapu* .. | 145 | .. | 24 2 0 | 1 10 0 | 37 10 0 | 1 6 | 0 18 9 | 1 2·4 | 0 15 0
Open land on Waikato River; seven miles below Cambridge.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Whangarei | Hukerenui.. | 2 | XV. | 236 0 0 | 0 10 0 | 118 0 0 | 0 6 | 2 19 0 | 0 4·8 | 2 7 3
" | " .. | 2A | " | 73 1 8 | 0 10 0 | 36 10 0 | 0 6 | 0 18 3 | 0 4·8 | 0 14 8
Section 2, about 80 acres swamp, 35 acres kahikatea forest, balance open land; flat and undulating, of good quality. Section 2A, undulating to broken land, about 5 acres forest, balance open; soil of good quality. Both lots front the main Wairua Road, about four miles from Hikurangi.

Whangarei | Waipu* .. | 344 | .. | 71 0 0 | 0 7 6 | 26 12 6 | 0 4·5 | 0 13 4 | 0 3·6 | 0 10 8
About 30 acres mixed forest, balance open and undulating, on road Waipu to Mangawai; about three miles from Waipu Cove.

Mangonui | Mangonui .. | 68 | .. | 256 0 0 | 0 7 6 | 96 0 0 | 0 4·5 | 2 8 0 | 0 3·6 | 1 18 5
Undulating land, half mixed forest, half open land; situated about nine miles from Mangonui Township.

Rodney .. | Tauhoa* .. | 120A | .. | 21 0 0 | 0 5 0 | 5 5 0 | 0 3 | 0 2 8 | 0 2·4 | 0 2 2
Broken land, forest-clad; five miles from Tauhoa.

Manukau | Waipipi* .. | 96 & 100 | .. | 21 3 36 | 0 10 0 | 11 0 0 | 0 6 | 0 5 6 | 0 4·8 | 0 4 5
Open land; situated about three miles and a half in direct line from Waiuku.

Whangaroa | Matawerohia* | 26 | .. | 527 0 0 | 0 7 6 | 197 12 6 | 0 4·5 | 4 18 10 | 0 3·6 | 3 19 1
Broken forest land, containing some kauri and totara trees of no commercial value; situated about four miles from Kaeo.

• Parish.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, this twenty-fifth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 25th February, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned gentlemen to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz.:

Name. District.
AUGUSTUS EDWARD BRAITHWAITE .. Mongonui.
WALTER ERNEST BURKE .. Rangiora.

W. C. WALKER,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Ranger under the Animals Protection Acts, Marlborough, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 25th February, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to appoint

ISAAC AROA

to be a Ranger under “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, for the District of Marlborough.

W. C. WALKER,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Inspector of Weights and Measures, District of Timaru, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th February, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to appoint

Sergeant CHARLES FRASER
to be an Inspector of Weights and Measures, under “The Weights and Measures Act, 1868,” and the Acts amending the same, for the District of Timaru.

J. CARROLL,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Public Vaccinator, Hokianga District, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th February, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to appoint

GEORGE THOMAS HUMPHREY DE CLIVE-LOWE, Esq., L.R.C.P., Edin., &c.,
to be a Public Vaccinator, under “The Public Health Act, 1876,” for the District of Hokianga.

J. CARROLL,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Inspector of Weights and Measures, County of Westland and Borough of Hokitika, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 2nd March, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to appoint

Sergeant ALEXANDER McDONALD
to be an Inspector of Weights and Measures, under “The Weights and Measures Act, 1868,” and the Acts amending the same, for the County of Westland and the Borough of Hokitika.

J. CARROLL,
Acting Colonial Secretary.