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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 22

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

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 selection on and after the seventh day of May, 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.”

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—THAMES COUNTY.

Unsurveyed Second-class Land.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, situate in Blocks V., VI., VIII., and IX., Thames Survey District, containing by admeasurement 2,400 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the north-east by the Hihi and Piraunui Timber Lease; towards the south-east by the Taparahi No. 2 Block, by Crown land formerly known as the Taparahi No. 2A Block, and by the Ipuwhakatara and Tupanaki No. 2 Blocks; towards the south-west generally by the Ahuroa No. 1A, Tarukinikini, and Taparahi No. 3C Blocks; and towards the north-west by the Ngaputaka, Kohuroa, Pakaraka, Te Reureu, and Kahe Blocks to the point of commencement.

Description of land: Broken land, well watered; half forest and half open. Situated from four to six miles from Kopu Railway-station and wharf.

Annual rental: Lease in perpetuity, 4·8d. per acre.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this sixth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and two.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Female Official Visitor appointed.

Department of Justice (Prisons Branch),
Wellington, 6th March, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

MABEL ERNESTINE COWLEY

to be an Official Visitor of H.M. prison at Dunedin.

JAMES McGOWAN.

Clerk of Court, &c., appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 12th March, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WALTER YARWOOD PURCHASE

to be Clerk of the Magistrate’s Court at Waimate, and Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of Waimaki, from the 3rd instant, vice Constable A. Christie.

JAMES McGOWAN.

Justice of the Peace appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 12th March, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

MARTIN NAGLE, Esq.,

of Penrhyn Island, to be a Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.

JAMES McGOWAN.

Assistant Lecturer and Instructor, Thames School of Mines, appointed.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 27th February, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ARTHUR HERBERT VIVIAN MORGAN, Esq., M.A.,

to be Assistant Lecturer and Instructor at the Thames School of Mines, as from the 10th March, 1902.

JAMES McGOWAN,
Minister of Mines.

Chief Draughtsman, Wellington Office, Lands and Survey Department, appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 10th March, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

LLEWELLYN SMITH

to be Chief Draughtsman in the Wellington office of the Lands and Survey Department.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Chief Draughtsman, Hokitika Office, Lands and Survey Department, appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 10th March, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

THOMAS MUIR GRANT

to be Chief Draughtsman in the Hokitika Office of the Lands and Survey Department.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Chief Draughtsman, New Plymouth Office, Lands and Survey Department, appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 10th March, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN LANGMUIR

to be Chief Draughtsman in the New Plymouth Office of the Lands and Survey Department.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Chief Draughtsman, Auckland Office, Lands and Survey Department, appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 10th March, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

CHARLES ROBERT POLLEN

to be Chief Draughtsman in the Auckland Office of the Lands and Survey Department.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Inspector of Factories appointed.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 12th March, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable ALEXANDER McGILP,

of Cambridge, to be an Inspector under “The Factories Act, 1901.”

WM. HALL-JONES.
For Minister of Labour.

Volunteer Officer transferred to Unattached Active List.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 6th March, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the undermentioned transfer:—

Captain ALEX. MALCOLM McINTYRE

to be transferred from N Battery, New Zealand Regiment Field Artillery Volunteers, to the Active Unattached List, New Zealand Volunteers. To date from 1st March, 1902.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.