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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 19

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

RANFURLY, Governor.

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, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, 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 on and after the eighteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred; 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 prices 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.
Second-class Land.

Sections 9 and 10, Block IX., all heavy tawa forest; rough and undulating; fair to medium soil; well watered; adjoins Kawhia Road. Section 11, all heavy mixed forest; very broken in parts; well watered. Section 12, all heavy mixed forest; undulating land; fair soil; adjoins formed road.

| Kawhia | Pirongia | 1 | XIII. | 372 0 0 | 0 10 6 195 6 0 | 0 6·3 4 17 8 | 0 5·04 3 18 0 |
| " | " | 2 | " | 511 0 0 | 0 10 6 268 5 6 | 0 6·3 6 14 2 | 0 5·04 5 7 0 |
| " | " | 3 | " | 571 0 0 | 0 10 6 299 15 6 | 0 6·3 7 9 11 | 0 5·04 6 0 0 |
| " | " | 4 | " | 638 0 0 | 0 9 0 287 2 0 | 0 5·4 7 3 6 | 0 4·32 5 14 9 |
| " | " | 6 | " | 1,452 0 0 | 0 9 0 653 8 0 | 0 5·4 16 6 9 | 0 4·32 13 1 6 |

Sections 1, 2, and 3, all heavy mixed forest; undulating land; fair soil; well watered; adjoins formed road. Sections 4 and 6, all heavy mixed forest; rough land; fair soil; well watered.

| Kawhia | Kawhia N. | 2 | XII. | 450 0 0 | 0 10 6 236 5 0 | 0 6·3 5 18 2 | 0 5·04 4 14 6 |

All heavy mixed forest; rough land; fair soil; well watered; and adjoins Kauri River.

| Kawhia | Kawhia N. | 1 | XV. | 784 0 0 | 0 10 6 411 12 0 | 0 6·3 10 5 10 | 0 5·04 8 4 8 |

All heavy mixed forest; broken to undulating; fair soil; well watered.

| Kawhia | Kawhia N. | 1 | XVI. | 1,254 0 0 | 0 9 0 564 6 0 | 0 5·4 14 2 2 | 0 4·32 11 5 9 |

All heavy mixed forest; rough land; well watered; and a good substantial paling whare on this section.

| Kawhia | Kawhia S. | 1 | III. | 1,002 0 0 | 0 10 6 526 1 0 | 0 6·3 13 3 0 | 0 5·04 10 10 6 |
| " | " | 2 | " | 983 0 0 | 0 10 6 516 1 6 | 0 6·3 12 18 3 | 0 5·04 10 6 6 |
| " | " | 3 | " | 1,223 0 0 | 0 10 6 642 1 6 | 0 6·3 16 1 0 | 0 5·04 12 16 9 |
| " | " | 3 | IV. | 761 0 0 | 0 9 0 342 9 0 | 0 5·4 8 11 3 | 0 4·32 6 17 0 |
| " | " | 4 | " | 1,273 0 0 | 0 9 0 572 17 0 | 0 5·4 14 6 6 | 0 4·32 11 9 3 |
| " | " | 5 | " | 1,177 0 0 | 0 9 0 529 13 0 | 0 5·4 13 4 9 | 0 4·32 10 11 9 |

All mixed forest; broken to undulating; fair to good soil; well watered.

The above sections are all sixteen to twenty miles from Pirongia Township and eight miles from Kawhia Harbour.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this second day of March, one thousand nine hundred.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Members of the New Zealand Institute appointed.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS by “The New Zealand Institute Act, 1867,” provision is made for the appointment of members of a Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute, and it is enacted that on the first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and on the first day of November in each succeeding year, three members of the said Board of Governors shall retire from office, but shall be eligible for reappointment: And whereas William Thomas Locke Travers, Esquire, Thomas Mason, Esquire, and Sir James Hector, K.C.M.G., three of the members of the said Board of Governors, have retired from office under the provisions of the said Act: And whereas by the said Act it is also provided that on the annual retirement of three members as aforesaid the successors of such retiring members shall be appointed by the Governor:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority in that behalf vested in me by the said Act, do hereby appoint

WILLIAM THOMAS LOCKE TRAVERS, Esquire,
THOMAS MASON, Esquire, and
SIR JAMES HECTOR, K.C.M.G.,

to be Governors of the institution called the New Zealand Institute.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this third day of March, one thousand nine hundred.

W. C. WALKER.