Oct. 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2181

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

The whole of the above land is situated in the Ohura and Mangaroa Valleys, in the northern part of the Clifton County, in the Taranaki Land District. It is distant from 18½ to 33½ miles from the Ongarue Station on the North Island Main Trunk Railway, which station is 161 miles from Auckland City.

From Stratford by the Ohura Road, which is the main road inland, the land is distant from seventy-six to ninety-one miles, of which fifty-seven miles are a dray-road, although a portion is very rough at the Tangarakau River, and until this portion is completed the access can only be from Ongarue.

The main road is formed and bridged for 30½ miles from Ongarue Railway-station with easy grades. The Prentice Road, which is a branch of the main road, is formed as a dray-road to the Waitewhena Stream. The other roads are surveyed only, and will be of easy construction; on many of them there are rough horse-tracks already, and a horse can be taken to the sections which are open land. The Ohura River running through the block is navigable for canoes.

The land comprises undulating forest and fern country, with streams, terraces, slopes, and spurs, all of fair to good quality.

The ridges in the larger sections are more broken. The soil is fair to good throughout, resting on a papa formation. The altitude varies from 500 ft. on the river flats to 1,800 ft. on the highest points, the bulk of the land being below 1,000 ft.

The forest, which is heavy, consists of rata, rimu, kahikatea, puketea, tawa, hinau, mahoe, with the smaller growth of karamu, hoho, and other light woods, and a thick undergrowth of kiekie, ferns, &c. Birch is found on some of the highest ridges. The open land is, generally speaking, covered with fern, tutu, and scrub, and in the swamps are flax, raupo, &c.

All the sections are well watered by permanent running streams.

The climate is bracing and healthy, the rainfall being equable and plentiful throughout the year.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Appointing Commissioners to classify Pastoral Runs in Canterbury Land District.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the one-hundred-and-eighty-ninth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

THOMAS HUMPHRIES,
DAVID McMILLAN, and
ALEXANDER CAMPBELL PRINGLE

Commissioners to classify and report to me upon the rural lands in the Canterbury Land District known as Runs Nos. 142, 141, 144, 175, 174, 121, 122, 149, 173, 171, 221, 100, 102, 104, 108, 109, 210, 8, 15, 208, 209, 27, 28, 41, 44, 47, 50, 64, 62A, 62, 61, 61A, and 66, as provided by section one hundred and eighty-nine of “The Land Act, 1892,” aforesaid.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Appointing Commissioners to classify Pastoral Runs in Southland Land District.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the one-hundred-and-eighty-ninth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

JOHN HAY,
ALFRED BALDEY, and
DUNCAN KING

Commissioners to classify and report to me upon the rural lands in the Southland Land District known as Runs Nos. 352A, 415C, 5, 6, and 420A, as provided by section one hundred and eighty-nine of “The Land Act, 1892.”

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Postmaster appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the eighth section of “The Justices of the Peace Act Amendment Act, 1888,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that

FRANCIS HENRY WATTS,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster, under “The Post Office Act, 1881,” at Mangatoki, is authorised to take and receive statutory declarations under the two-hundred-and-thirty-fourth section of “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

As witness my hand, this thirtieth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and two.

RANFURLY, Governor.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th September, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned 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.
FREDERICK WILLIAM SANDERSON Whangaroa.
JOHN WATERS Tapanui.

JAS. McGOWAN,
For Colonial Secretary.

Member of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 1st October, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN MCQUILKIN

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Ashburton, vice H. Friedlander, J.P., whose office has become vacant.

JAS. McGOWAN.

Cadet appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 1st October, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

HENRY MORGAN

to be a cadet in the Supreme Court Office at Christchurch from the 24th September, 1902.

JAS. McGOWAN.

Public Vaccinators appointed.

Department of Public Health,
Wellington, 26th September, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned gentlemen to be Public Vaccinators under “The Public Health Act, 1900,” for the districts set opposite their names respectively, viz. :—

Name. District.
JOHN CECIL TOSSWILL, Esq., M.B. &c. 1890 Hastings.
GEORGE ALFRED HARRISON, Esq., M.R.C.S. &c. 1893 Eltham.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Public Health.

Vaccination Inspectors appointed.

Department of Public Health,
Wellington, 29th September, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned persons to be Vaccination Inspectors under “The Public Health Act, 1900,” viz. :—

DAVID GORDON, Esq.,

for the District of Granity, as from the 15th day of September, 1902 ;

ANDREW CRAIG, Esq.,

for the District of Mataura, as from the 25th day of August, 1902 ;

JOSEPH FRANCIS FABIAN, Esq.,

for the District of Awitu, as from the 29th day of August 1902 ;