Feb. 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 237

Rural Land in the Auckland Land District open for Sale or Selection.

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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-sixth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and two; 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.”

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SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—ROTORUA COUNTY.

Unsurveyed Second-class Land.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, situate in Blocks XVI., Otane-Wainuku Survey District, XIII., Maketu Survey District, IV., Rotorua Survey District, and I., Rotoiti Survey District, containing by admeasurement 10,700 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the north-east by the Ngatipahiko B No. 3c Block; towards the south-east and south by the Mangorewa River; and towards the north-west generally by the Taumata No. 3a No. 2 Section B Block, the Taumata No. 3c East Block, by the Rerenga Stream, by the Ngatipahiko B No. 2b Block, and again by the Rerenga Stream to the point of commencement.

Description of land: Broken forest land, situated from eleven to sixteen miles from Ngongotaha Railway-station, and about the same distance from Te Puke.

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-seventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred and two.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

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Rural Land in the Auckland Land District open for Sale or Selection.

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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-sixth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and two; 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.”

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SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WHAKATANE COUNTY.

Unsurveyed Second-class Land.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, situate in the Parish of Rangitaiki, containing by admeasurement 500 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the north-east by the Putere Native Reserve (Section No. 37 of the Parish of Rangitaiki) to a point in line with the north-western boundary of Section No. 44 of the same parish; thence towards the south-east by a right line to and by the said section; towards the south-west by a road 100 links wide running along the northern bank of the Rangitaiki River to a point in line with the north-western boundary of Section No. 37 aforesaid; and towards the north-west by a right line to the westernmost angle of the last-mentioned section, the point of commencement.

Description of land: Open and swampland of fair quality, fronting Rangitaiki River; from four to six miles from Matata. 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-ninth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and two.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

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Rural Land in the Auckland Land District open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

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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 enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on and after the twenty-sixth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and two; and that the land mentioned in the said Schedule may be selected on lease in perpetuity only, in accordance with the provisions of section one hundred and twenty-one of the said Act, as it contains, or is supposed to contain, metals, minerals, or valuable stone; and I do hereby also fix the price at which the said land shall be leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said land shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

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SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—THAMES COUNTY.

Unsurveyed Second-class Land.

ALL that parcel of land in the Land District of Auckland, situate in Blocks V., VI., VIII., and IX., Thames Survey District, Thames County, containing by admeasurement 2,284 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the north-east by timber lease; towards the east by the Taparahi No. 2 and lines; towards the south-east by the Warehoe Stream and the Tapunaki No. 2 Block; towards the south-west generally by the Ahuroa No. 1a Block, the Tarukinikini Block, and the Taparahi No. 3c No. 2 Block; and towards the north-west by the Ngaputaka, Kohuroa, Pakaraka, Te Reureu, and Kahe Blocks to the point of commencement.

Description of land: Broken forest, fern, and tea-tree land; well watered.

Lease in perpetuity: Rental, 3·6d. per acre per annum.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-seventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred and two.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

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District constituted under “The Old-age Pensions Act, 1898.”

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RANFURLY, Governor.

PURSUANT to and in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon him by “The Old-age Pensions Act, 1898,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand doth hereby abolish the existing old-age pension district known as the Onehunga District, and in lieu thereof doth hereby constitute an old-age pension district with the name and boundaries as follows:—

OTAHUHU DISTRICT.

Comprising the County of Manukau.

The person for the time being holding the office of Clerk of the Magistrate’s Court held at Otahuhu shall be the Deputy Registrar of the said district.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-ninth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and two.

C. H. MILLS.