JUNE 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1211

Instructor and Lecturer, School of Mines, Thames.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 2nd June, 1902.

WRITTEN applications, addressed to the Under-Secretary for Mines, stating qualifications and accompanied by testimonials, will be received at this office up to Saturday, the 21st instant, for the position of Instructor and Lecturer to the School of Mines at the Thames, at a salary of £350 a year and an allowance of 10s. a day while travelling in the district. Applicants must be qualified to impart instruction upon the following subjects: Mineralogy, metallurgy of gold and silver, mining, explosives and ventilation, chemistry, elementary mechanics, assaying, land and mine surveying, laboratory practice in assaying and practical chemistry, geology.

JAS. McGOWAN,
Minister of Mines.

Transfer of Officers from the Department of Lands and Survey to the Department of Roads.

Department of Roads,
Wellington, 23rd May, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to transfer the following officers from the Department of Lands and Survey to the Department of Roads as from the 1st April, 1901, and, as all these officers are already on the permanent staff of the Civil Service, to appoint them as from the same date to the Department of Roads in the positions mentioned against their names:—

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Notifying Land in the Auckland Land District subject to “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900.”

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 30th May, 1902.

PURSUANT to the provisions of “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” I hereby notify that the undermentioned Crown land, being the land known as the Kitchener Hamlet, which has been acquired under the said Act, is subject to the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 26 acres 3 roods 35 perches, more or less, being allotments numbered 64 and 65 of sections numbered 7 and 14, in the Parish of Titirangi. Bounded towards the north by Allotment 59, 374 links, and the Waitemata River; towards the east by Allotments 68, 67, and 66, of Section 14, 1625 links; towards the south by Victoria Road, 553 and 552 links respectively; and towards the west by Allotment 63 of Section 7, 2252 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.

As the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 19247, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Land District of Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Notifying Land in the Auckland Land District subject to “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900.”

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 30th May, 1902.

PURSUANT to the provisions of “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” I hereby notify that the undermentioned Crown land, being the land known as the Plumer Hamlet, which has been acquired under the said Act, is subject to the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Plumer Hamlet.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 74 acres, more or less, being Allotment No. 29, being part of Section No. 7 of the Parish of Waipareira. Bounded towards the north by Allotment No. 28 of Allotment 7, 495 links, 572 links, 938 links, and 1601 links respectively; towards the east by a road, 1689 links; towards the south-west by Allotments Nos. 30 and 31 of Allotment No. 7, 1663 links and 1653 links respectively; and towards the west by the Opanuku Stream: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.

As the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 19244, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Land District of Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Notifying Reserves in the Township of Ohotu.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 30th May, 1902.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the undermentioned lands, having been shown upon the deposited plan of the Native Township of Ohotu as reserves for the purposes specified at the end of each of the descriptions in the Schedule hereto, are vested in Her Majesty in pursuance of subsection (2) of section 12 of “The Native Townships Act, 1895,” and will be dealt with as reserves under “The Public Reserves Act, 1881.”

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 2 acres and 2 perches, more or less, being Section No. 1, Block III., Town of Ohotu, Ngamatea Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by Part No. 1 of Ohotu Block; towards the south-east by Part No. 1 of Ohotu Block; towards the south-west by Section No. 2 of the Town of Ohotu; and towards the north-west by Parapara-Raetibi Road. For a site for a public pound.

All that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 2 acres 2 roods 36 perches, more or less, being Section No. 6, Block IV., Town of Ohotu, Ngamatea Survey District. Bounded towards the north and north-east by Matahiwi Road; towards the south-east by Section No. 7, Town of Ohotu; and towards the south-west by road reserve along the Mangawhero River. For a public cemetery.

All that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 5 acres 3 roods 7 perches, more or less, being Section No. 3a, Block IV., Town of Ohotu, Ngamatea Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east, east, and south by Section No. 3, Town of Ohotu; and towards the west generally by road reserve along the Mangawhero River. For the preservation of forest and scenery.

All that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 9 acres 2 roods 17 perches, more or less, being Section No. 2, Block IV., Town of Ohotu, Ngamatea Survey District. Bounded towards the north by road reserve along the Mangawhero River; towards the east by road reserve along the Mangawhero River and public road; towards the south by Matahiwi Road; towards the south-west by road reserve along the Mangawhero River; and towards the west by Section No. 1, Town of Ohotu. For public recreation.