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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 31

Rural Land 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 land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on and after the twenty-ninth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and one; and also that the land 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 land shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT. — WHANGAREI AND OTAMATEA COUNTIES.

Unsurveyed Second-class Land.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, situated in Blocks IX., X., and XI., Waipu Survey District, and containing by admeasurement 4,050 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the north by the southern boundary of Blocks V. and VI., Waipu Survey District; towards the north-east by a public road and by Sections Nos. 350 and 349 of the Parish of Waipu; towards the south-east by Section No. 235 of the Parish of Waipu and Section No. 131 of the Parish of Kaiwaka; towards the south-west generally by a public road, by Section No. 152 of the Parish of Kaiwaka, by Section No. 1 of Block X., Waipu Survey District, and by the Piroa River; and towards the north-west generally by Sections Nos. 311, 254, and 316A of the Parish of Waipu, and by a public road to the point of commencement.

Description of land: Broken forest land, situated from seven to eleven miles from Waipu.

Cash price, 7s. 6d. per acre; occupation with right of purchase, 4·5d. per acre per annum; lease in perpetuity, 3·6d. per acre per annum.

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

C. H. MILLS,
For Minister of Lands.

Trustee for the Waimate Public Cemetery appointed.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the sixth section of “The Cemeteries Act, 1882,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

EDWARD COSGRAVE

to be a Trustee, in the place of Nicholas Wall, deceased, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Waimate Public Cemetery, in conjunction with the other persons previously appointed by His Excellency the Governor.

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

C. H. MILLS,
For Minister of Lands.

Trustee for the Ngaruawahia Public Cemetery appointed.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the sixth section of “The Cemeteries Act, 1882,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

RICHARD RATHBORNE

to be a Trustee, in the place of James Lindsay, resigned, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Ngaruawahia Public Cemetery, in conjunction with the other persons previously appointed by His Excellency the Governor.

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

C. H. MILLS,
For Minister of Lands.

Trustees for the Matamau Cemetery appointed.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the sixth section of “The Cemeteries Act, 1882,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

WILLIAM HALIBURTON,
BORTHWICK HALIBURTON,
JOHN PEACOCK LEIGHTON, and
BENJAMIN HALL

to be Trustees, in the place of Peter Anders Olssen, Charles Nicholls, Henry Schaar, and William West, who have left the district, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Matamau Cemetery, in conjunction with the other persons previously appointed by His Excellency the Governor.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Appointing Trustees for the Upper Motueka Public Cemetery.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the sixth section of “The Cemeteries Act, 1882,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

GEORGE KIDSON and
ROBERT COLEMAN

to be Trustees, in the place of James Creighton, resigned, and William Thomson, who has left the district, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Upper Motueka Public Cemetery, in conjunction with the other persons previously appointed by His Excellency the Governor.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 23rd March, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor 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.
JOSEPH CHARLES STEVENS WILLIS .. Lyell.
HUGH WILSON .. .. Naseby.

J. G. WARD.

Member of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 27th March, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JAMES BLYTH

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Geraldine, vice D. N. Inwood, resigned.

W. C. WALKER,
For Minister of Justice.

Clerks of Courts, &c., appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 27th March, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable WALLACE ABERCROMBIE BROOKES

to be Clerk of the Magistrate’s and Warden’s Courts, Receiver of Gold Revenue, and Mining Registrar at Ross, from the 5th day of March, 1901, vice Sergeant W. Folley, transferred; and

Constable WILLIAM ARTHUR MATTHEWS

to be Clerk of the Magistrate’s Court at Black’s, from the 28th day of February, 1901, vice Constable W. A. Brookes, transferred.

W. C. WALKER,
For Minister of Justice.