Oct. 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1927

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 fourth day of December, 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.—WAITEMATA COUNTY.—WAIONEKE PARISH.

Unsurveyed Second-class Land.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, situate in the Parish of Waioneke, containing by admeasurement 485 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the north by a public road; towards the north-east generally by the Koharatahi Block; towards the east by Section No. 12 of the Parish of Waioneke; towards the south by a public road; and towards the west by Section No. 30 of the Parish of Waioneke to the point of commencement.

Description of land: Open land, fern and tea-tree, broken; situated close to Kaipara Harbour, about six miles from South Head and twenty miles from Helensville.

Cash price, 7s. 6d. per acre per annum; 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-eighth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and one.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Amending the Timber Regulations under “The Land Act, 1892.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by “The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby revoke the Schedule to the Warrant of the twenty-first day of September, one thousand nine hundred and one, fixing the scale for the royalties to be paid by purchasers of timber in forests, and published in Gazette No. 86, of the twenty-sixth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and one, and in lieu thereof do hereby make the regulation set forth in the Schedule hereto, which shall take the place of the Schedule in the aforesaid Warrant of the twenty-first day of September, one thousand nine hundred and one, and do further declare that this amended regulation shall come into force from and after the day of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

ORDINARY royalty shall be paid by the purchasers of timber in forests according to the following classification:—

Class I.—
Totara, matai, puriri, maire-raunui, silver-pine, and pohutukawa, not less than .. .. 2 0
Class II.—
Kauri, not less than .. .. .. .. 1 0
Class III.—
Totara and matai less than 25 ft. in length, rata, tangeao, tooth- and entire-leaved beeches, manuka (tea-tree), manao, tanekaha, kawaka, kaikawaka, not less than .. .. 1 0
Class IV.—
Rewarewa, mapau, toro, hinau, taraire, miro, not less than .. .. .. .. 0 6
Class V.—
Mountain- and silver-beech, not less than .. 0 6

Class VI.—
Rimu (red-pine), kahikatea (white-pine), kamai, pukatea, tawa, not less than .. .. 0 6
Class VII.—
Puriri, totara, kauri, silver-pine, and matai posts and sleepers to be charged under Classes I. to III.

Other posts, rails, and sleepers .. .. 8 0
Fencing-stakes .. .. .. .. 4 0
Firewood, not less than .. .. .. 1 0

No standing totara or black-pine, and no timber required or suitable for milling purposes, to be permitted to be cut under this class.

The royalty to be paid under this Schedule is subject to the right of the Land Board to cause any timber to be sold by appraisement or by auction.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Registrar of Electors, Grey Electoral District, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 25th September, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

BENJAMIN HARPER

to be Registrar of Electors, under “The Electoral Act, 1893,” for the Electoral District of Grey, vice C. J. Berry. Appointment to date from the 1st October, 1901.

J. G. WARD.

Officer under “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,” Wellington District, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th September, 1901.

IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section 9 of “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,”

COLIN EDMOND MACDONALD, of Masterton,

has been appointed an officer for the purposes of that Act for the Wellington Acclimatisation District, as defined by notification under “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 22nd June, 1899.

J. G. WARD.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 27th September, 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.
PARR, JAMES .. .. .. .. Kurow.
MCKENZIE, JOHN .. .. .. Hawera.
LAURIE, ROBERT .. .. .. Mount Grey.

J. G. WARD.

Ranger under the Animals Protection Acts, Wellington District, appointed.

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

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

COLIN EDMOND MACDONALD

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

J. G. WARD.

Inspectors of Weights and Measures, Counties of Waitaki, Tuapeka, and Southland, &c., appointed.

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

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned persons to be Inspectors of Weights and Measures under “The Weights and