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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 31

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies' Registry Office,
Wellington, 11th April, 1900.

THE Myrtle Rebekah Lodge No. 4, situated at Auckland,
is registered as a branch of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows of New Zealand Friendly Society, under
“ The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 11th day of April,
1900.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Governors of the Auckland Grammar School elected.

Education Board,
Auckland, 5th April, 1900.

IN accordance with “The Auckland Grammar School
Act, 1899,” and with the regulations thereunder for the
election of Governors by the Education Board of the Dis-
trict of Auckland, I hereby notify that, at a meeting of the
said Board held this day,

SAMUEL LUKE, Esq., and
LEMUEL JOHN BAGNALL

were duly elected Governors of the Board of Governors con-
stituted by the said Act, to fill the vacancies caused by the
retirement of Samuel Luke, Esq., and by the resignation of
Richard Hobbs, Esq.

L. J. BAGNALL,
Chairman of Meeting.

Crown Lands Notices.

Land in Elsthorpe Village, Hawke's Bay, open for Selection
on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 18th April, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned
Crown lands will be open for selection upon lease in
perpetuity on Wednesday, the 6th June, 1900.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—PATANGATA COUNTY.—ELS-
THORPE VILLAGE.

First-class Land.

This section is situated on the main road from Kaikora to
the coast, is a good residence-site, and is about fourteen
miles from the former place.

ERIC C. GOLD SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Blind River Estate, Marlborough, open for Application on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 18th April, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned
Crown land will be open for selection on lease in
perpetuity at the District Lands and Survey Office, Blen-
heim, on Monday, the 4th June, 1900, under the provisions
of “ The Land Act, 1892,” and “ The Land for Settlements
Act, 1894,” and its amendments.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—MARLBOROUGH COUNTY.—
CLIFFORD BAY SURVEY DISTRICT.—BLIND RIVER ESTATE.

First-class Land.

Weighted with £75, value for improvements.
Description of section: Twenty-five miles from Blenheim
by good road. The land consists of flats and easy slopes,
nearly the whole of the section being ploughable, but the
soil on the upper flats and slopes is light; the lower flat, of
about 15 acres, is good agricultural land.

C. W. ADAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Kauri Timber, Auckland, for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 18th April, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned
green and dead kauri timber, standing upon Blocks
IV. and VIII., Hukerenui Survey District, in the Puhipuhi
State Forest, Bay of Islands and Whangarei Counties, will
be offered for sale by public auction, at this office, on Friday,
the 8th day of June, 1900, at 11 o’clock a.m.:

Lot No. 1.—1,957 green kauri-trees, containing 6,163,407
superficial feet; 3,184 singed kauri-trees, containing 5,610,920
superficial feet; and 56 totara trees. Upset price, £5,944.

Conditions of Sale.—One-third of the purchase-money to
be paid in cash or by marked cheque on the fall of the
hammer, one-third within two years, and the remaining
third within four years from date of sale.

The timber to be removed within seven years from date
of sale.

All timber to be shipped by railway at the Whakapara
booms.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Rural Land in the Hawke's Bay Land District open for Sale or Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, 18th April, 1900.

THE under-mentioned Crown land will be open for sale or selection, in terms of section 136 of “ The Land Act,
1892,” either for cash, for occupation with right of purchase, or for lease in perpetuity, at the option of the
selector, on and after Wednesday, the 6th June, 1900.

If more than one application be received on the same day, then the order of selection shall be decided by ballot on
the following day, at 11 a.m., at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.

First-class Land.

Broken land, with deep gullies; about 25 acres clear land; fair soil; timber chiefly rimu and matai, with dense under-
scrub. About two miles from Pohui.

ERIC C. GOLD SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.