2092
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 94

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 thirtieth 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.—TAURANGA COUNTY.

Unsurveyed Second-class Land.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, situate in Block XV., Tauranga Survey District, Block III., Te Tumu Survey District, and Block IV., Otane Wainuku Survey District, containing by admeasurement 2,500 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the east generally by Sections Nos. 6 and 9 of Block III., Te Tumu Survey District, and by the Hikutawatawa and Te Karamuramu Blocks; towards the south generally by Sections Nos. 18 and 17 of Block III. aforesaid, by a public road, by Section No. 20 of the same block, again by Section No. 17 aforesaid, and by Section No. 2 of Block XV., Tauranga Survey District; again towards the east generally by a public road, by Sections Nos. 1, 2, 4, and 3, of Block IV., Otane Wainuku Survey District, and by the Otawa No. 1c Block: towards the west generally by the Waitao Stream; and towards the north-west generally by Section No. 1 of Block XV., Tauranga Survey District, and by the Papamoa No. 2, Sections Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, Block III., Te Tumu Survey District, to the point of commencement.

Description of land: Mostly open land, with a few clumps of bush; undulating to broken; situated about eight miles from Te Puke and nine miles from Tauranga.

Cash price, 10s. per acre; occupation with right of purchase, 6d. per acre per annum; lease in perpetuity, 4·8d. per acre per annum.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Land taken for a Native School in Waihou Survey District.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this tenth day of October, 1901.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken, under “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and “The Public Works Acts Amendment Act, 1900,” for a certain public work, to wit, a Native school:

And whereas it has been made a condition of the establishment of the said Native school that the site required therefor shall be a free gift from the Native owners to His Majesty the King, and the Native owners have agreed to such condition, and it has been made to appear that such agreement is sufficient for the purposes intended to be effected thereby:

And whereas by an order of the Native Land Court, made under the provisions of “The Native Land Court Act, 1886,” and its amendments, bearing date the nineteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, certain aboriginal natives, as in the said order mentioned, were declared to be the owners of the portion of the Tiritiri Block within which the said land is situated:

And whereas a map has been prepared in duplicate showing accurately the position and extent of the said land, and such map has been duly signed by the Surveyor-General and is hereto attached, and the Minister for Public Works has recommended that this Order in Council should be issued:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred by “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order and declare that the lands shown upon the said map and mentioned in the Schedule hereto are hereby taken for the purposes of the said Native school: And it is hereby declared that this Order in Council shall take effect on the first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and one.

SCHEDULE.

KERIPEHI NATIVE-SCHOOL SITE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 3 acres, more or less, situated in Block VI., Waihou Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by a right line bearing south 21° 15′ east, 600 links, from a point distant 231865·6 links south and 342110·6 links east from Mount Eden; thence towards the south-east by a right line bearing west 21° 15′ south, 500 links; thence towards the south-west by a right line bearing north 21° 15′ west, 600 links; and thence towards the north-west by a right line bearing east 21° 15′ north, 500 links, to the place of commencement: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked 1900/1267, deposited in the office of the Minister of Education, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Rangers under the Animals Protection Acts, Canterbury District, appointed.

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

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

THOMAS HARLEY PRICE,
WILLIAM ALEXANDER GRAY,
ORTON BRADLEY, and
RALPH COE

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

J. G. WARD.

Officers under “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,” Canterbury District, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 25th October, 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,”

THOMAS HARLEY PRICE, of Birdling’s Flat, Ataahua;
ORTON BRADLEY, of Lyttelton;
WILLIAM ALEXANDER GRAY, of Gebbie’s Flat; and
RALPH COE, of Irwell,

have been appointed officers for the purposes of that Act for that part of the Provincial District of Canterbury to the north of and including the Rakaia River, and for the waters of the Clarence River which are within the County of Marlborough.

J. G. WARD.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 29th October, 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.
WILLIAM NOSWORTHY .. .. Wairau.
GEORGE ILLINGWORTH .. .. Kaitangata.
SAMUEL JAMES WILLIAMS .. Cheviot.
FREDERICK WILLIAM MANSFIELD.. Christchurch.

J. G. WARD.