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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 25

Open land in Dacre Township; situated four miles and a half from Woodlands Railway-station. Limit of holding, 100 acres.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

1. THE lands enumerated above are first-class lands, and are village-homestead allotments, open for selection on lease in perpetuity under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892” (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”).

2. The day on which the lands shall be open for selection shall be Wednesday, the 24th day of April, 1901.

3. The rentals stated above shall be the price at which the lands shall be open for selection.

4. Applications for leases shall be made in manner as provided in Part I. of the said Act, and all such applications shall be made to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Invercargill; and leases will be issued in accordance with the provisions of Part I. aforesaid.

5. Each applicant shall state his or her residence, occupation, and condition in life (namely, whether married or single), and will be required to make the declaration prescribed in Schedule C of the said Act.

6. Each applicant shall pay the first half-year’s rent, together with the lease- and registration-fee, immediately the application has been approved or declared successful at the ballot.

7. All rents must be paid half-yearly, in advance, on the 1st days of January and July in each year, as provided in section 157 of the said Act; and the first half-year’s rent is payable as before provided.

8. Improvements and residence on the land comprised in each lease shall be as provided in Part III. of the said Act. The provisions of section 144, and all other provisions of the said Act with respect to substantial improvements, shall apply accordingly to lessees under these regulations. The provisions of section 141, and all other provisions of the said Act in respect of compulsory residence, shall apply accordingly to lessees under these regulations.

9. No lessee shall subdivide, sublet, or transfer the land held by him under these regulations, except under and subject to the provisions of Part I. of the said Act.

10. No lessee shall hold more than 100 acres, including that already held, and all allotments shall be held for his or her sole use and benefit, and not for the use or benefit of any other person whomsoever. No married woman shall be eligible as a selector; but this provision shall not apply to any married woman who may become a transferee under a will or by virtue of an intestacy.

11. All the provisions of the said Act, so far as applicable, shall extend and apply to the lands affected by these regulations, and to the applications and leases to be made and issued thereunder, and generally to the interests created, and the persons whose rights, liabilities, or interests are thereby affected; and the mention of any particular provision of the said Act shall not be deemed to exclude any other provision of the said Act applicable to the particular case.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Notice defining the Purpose of a Portion of a Reserve in the Taranaki Land District.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS by the fifth section of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” it is, amongst other things, enacted that, if there shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be any doubt or uncertainty as to the purpose for which a reserve was set apart, he may by notice gazetted define such purpose or purposes as to either the whole or any part of such reserve, subject to the action of the General Assembly, as provided in the seventh section of the said Act:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” aforesaid, define the specific purpose of the portion of the reserve described in the second column of the Schedule hereto from that named in the first column of the said Schedule to that named in the third column of the said Schedule respectively.

SCHEDULE.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-first day of February, one thousand nine hundred and one.

C. H. MILLS,
For Minister of Lands.

Under-Secretary of Industries and Commerce and Superintendent of Government Tourist and Health Resorts appointed.

Department of Industries and Commerce,
Wellington, 4th March, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

THOMAS EDWARD DONNE, Esq.,

to be Under-Secretary of the Department of Industries and Commerce, and also to be Superintendent of Government Tourist and Health Resorts. Both appointments to date from the 1st February, 1901.

J. G. WARD,
Minister for Industries and Commerce.

Members of Waipawa and Hawke’s Bay United Charitable Aid Board appointed.

Charitable Department,
Wellington, 6th March, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance of subsection (2) of section 7 of “The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1885,” been pleased to appoint

SAMUEL CARNELL,
ALBERT WILLIAM COOK,
ALBERT ROOD, and
HENRY WILLIAMS

to represent the Waipawa County Council on the Waipawa and Hawke’s Bay United Charitable Aid Board.

W. C. WALKER.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Waipa County.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 27th February, 1901.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Waipa County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886.”

J. G. WARD.

WAIPA COUNTY.

THE following is the result of a poll of the ratepayers of the Pukekura Riding, Waipa County, taken on the 19th day of February, 1901, on a proposal to raise a loan of £600, under “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,” and its amendments, for the purpose of erecting culverts on the Ohaupo–Cambridge Road:—

For the proposal, number of votes, 78; against the proposal, number of votes, nil.

I therefore declare the proposal to be carried.

JOHN FISHER,
Chairman.

21st February, 1901.