Feb. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 519

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

RANFURLY, Governor.

I N 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 lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on and after the fifteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and three; and also that the lands 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 lands 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 lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

East Taupo County.—Unsurveyed Second-class Land.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, situate in Blocks XI. and XII., Tatura Survey District, containing by admeasurement 3,768 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the north and nor h-east by the Tahorakuri Block; towards the south generally by a road 100 links wide running along the northern bank of the Waikato River, by the Tahorakuri No. 2 Block, and again by a road 100 links wide running along the northern bank of the Waikato River; and towards the west by Small Grazing run No. 19 to the point of commencement.

Description of land: Open land, covered with short fern and tea-tree; light pumice soil; situated on Rotorua-Waiotapu-Taupo Road, which intersects the block; about nine to twelve miles from Taupo and three to six miles from Wai-rakei.

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.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, situate in Blocks V. and IX., Tatura Survey District, containing by admeasurement 190 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the north by the Te Tihiotonga Block; towards the south-east generally by the Taupo-Atiamuri Road; towards the south-west by the Oruanui Native Reserve; towards the north-west and again towards the south-west by the Oruanui C Block; and again towards the north-west by the Otuho-unga Block to the point of commencement.

Description of land: Open land, covered with fern and manuka; light pumice soil; fronts Taupo-Atiamuri Road, about ten miles from Taupo.

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

All that area in the Auckland Land District, situate in Blocks II, III, VI., a d VII., Tauhara Survey District, containing by admeasurement 8,236 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the north by Section No. 4 of Block II., Tauhara Survey District, and by a right line from the south-eastern angle of that section to the north-western angle of the Tauhara Middle No. 4a Block; towards the east and south-east generally by the Tauhara Middle No. 4a Block aforesaid; and towards the west generally by a road 100 links wide running along the shore of Taupo Lake, by Section No. 1 of Block VI., Tauhara Survey District, by the Taupo-Napier Road, by Sections No. 7, 6, 11, and again by Section No. 7, all of Block II., Tauhara Survey District, by the Waipahihi Native Reserve, by Section No. 2 of Block II. aforesaid, again by the Taupo-Napier Road, by the rifle range, by Sections No. 9 and 8 of Block II. aforesaid, and by a public road to the point of commencement.

Description of land: Open land, level and undulating; light pumice soil; adjoining Taupo Township, and extending for four miles along the Taupo-Napier Road. Part of the block has frontage to Taupo Lake.

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 thirteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and three. T. Y. DUNCAN, Minister of Lands.

Animals Protection Acts. Declaring Reserve for Native and Imported Game, Wellington.

RANFURLY. Governor.

P URSUANT to the powers conferred on him by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand doth hereby notify that neither imported nor native game, and no native birds of any kind whatsoever, shall be taken or killed within that portion of the Wellington Acclimatisation District being the Wainui Forest Reserve, near Paraparaumu, and more particularly described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 13,800 acres, more or less, situated in Paikakariki and Akatarawa Survey Districts. Bounded towards the north-east by the abutment of a road fronting Section No. 12, Block I., Akatarawa Survey District, from the Maungakatukutuku Stream to the south-western boundary-line of the said Section No. 12; thence by the said Section No. 12 and Section No. 13 to the northernmost corner of Section No. 15, Block I. aforesaid: thence towards the south-east by the said Section No. 15, the abutment of a road, Sections Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, Block V., and Sections Nos. 13, 12, and 1, Block IX., Akatarawa Survey District, to Section No. 2, Block IX. aforesaid: thence towards the south by the said Section No. 2, Block IX., Akatarawa Survey District, and Sections Nos. 6, 5, 4, 3, and 2, Block VII., Paikakariki Survey District, to the south-eastern corner of Section No. 64: thence towards the west generally by Sections Nos. 64 and 66, Block VII. aforesaid, to the north-eastern corner of the last-mentioned section; thence by the Manawatu Railway Company’s land to the southern boundary-line of Section No. 100, Block IV., Paikakariki Survey District aforesaid; thence by Sections Nos. 100, 99, 98, 97, and 96 to the Maungakatukutuku Stream; and thence by the said Maungakatukutuku Stream to the place of commencement.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eleventh day of February, one thousand nine hundred and three. J. G. WARD.

Fixing Shooting Season for Fallow Deer, License Fee, &c., Wanganui District.

RANFURLY, Governor.

I N exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that fallow deer (bucks only, of not less than four points) may be taken or killed within the Wanganui District, comprising the Counties of Wanganui and Waitotara, from the second day of March, one thousand nine hundred and three, to the fifteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and three, both inclusive (subject, nevertheless, to the restrictions in the said Acts mentioned); and I do further notify that licenses not exceeding twenty in number to take or kill such game within the said district shall be issued on payment of the sum of twenty shillings each (not more than one such license to be issued to any one individual), and that no licensee shall be allowed to kill more than two bucks; and the Chief Postmaster at Wanganui is hereby appointed to issue the said licenses.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eleventh day of February, one thousand nine hundred and three. J. G. WARD, Colonial Secretary.

Regulations for Deer-shooting, Otago.

RANFURLY, Governor.

I N pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that deer (bucks or stags only) may be shot and killed within the boundaries of the Otago Acclimatisation Society’s district, subject to the following regulations and restrictions, namely:—

REGULATIONS.

1. Licenses to shoot and kill deer (bucks or stags only) in the Otago Acclimatisation Society’s district, except within the area hereinafter described, will be issued under the hand of the Chief Postmaster at Dunedin, on the recommendation of the Secretary of the Otago Acclimatisation Society.