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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 15

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

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-second day of April, one thousand nine hundred and three; 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.”

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—HOKIANGA COUNTY.

Unsurveyed Second-class Land.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, situate in Block XIV., Waoku Survey District, containing by admeasurement 2,348 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the north by a right line running due east, 9100 links, and by Section No. 8 of Block XIV., Waoku Survey District, 2454 links; towards the east by a right line running due south, 2750 links; again towards the north by a right line running due east, 2900 links; again towards the east by Section No. 9 of Block XIV. aforesaid. 4150 links; again towards the north by said Section No. 9 and Section No. 6 of the same block, 6800 links; again towards the east by a right line running due south, 7500 links; towards the south by part of the northern boundary of Block II., Waipoua Survey District, 6150 links; towards the west by a right line running due north, 2900 links; again towards the south by a right line running due west, 5000 links; and again towards the west by a right line running due north, 11400 links, to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.

Description of Land.—Altitude varying from about 900 ft. to 1,650 ft. above sea-level; broken and undulating country, a great part of it easy slopes, with some flat land along Wairau Stream; soil fair to good, covered with mixed forest containing totara, rata, rimu, and taraire, the taraire predominating in some parts of the block. Situated from ten to fourteen miles from Hokianga Heads, and four to eight miles from Waimamaku Post-office.

Cash price, 15s. per acre; occupation with right of purchase, 9d. per acre per annum; lease in perpetuity, 7·2d. per acre per annum.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fourteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and three.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Officers under “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,” Southland District, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 14th February, 1903.

IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section 9 of “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,”

GEORGE BIGGAR, of Croydon, Gore, and
WILLIAM HENRY ISITT, of Gore,

have been appointed officers for the purposes of that Act for the County of Southland west of the Mataura River, and for the Counties of Wallace, Fiord, and Stewart Island.

JAS. McGOWAN,
For Colonial Secretary.

Inspectors of Weights and Measures, Counties of Inangahua and Westland and Borough of Hokitika, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 17th February, 1903.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned persons to be Inspectors of Weights and Measures, under ‘The Weights and Measures Act, 1868,” and the Acts amending the same, for the districts set opposite their names respectively—viz. :

Name. District.
Sergeant EUGENE EGAN County of Inangahua.
Sergeant WILLIAM FOLLEY County of Westland and Borough of Hokitika.

JAS. McGOWAN,
For Colonial Secretary.

Rangers under the Animals Protection Acts, Southland District, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office.
Wellington, 17th February, 1903.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

GEORGE BIGGAR and
WILLIAM HENRY ISITT

to be Rangers, under “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, for the District of Southland.

JAS. McGOWAN,
For Colonial Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office.
Wellington, 17th February, 1903.

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.
JOHN BUSHELL Mount Benger.
WILLIAM MCKEE Cambridge.
ALBERT EDWARD COWLEY Waiapu.
EDWARD FREDERIC HENRY HEMINGWAY Stratford.

JAS. McGOWAN,
For Colonial Secretary.

Commissioners under “The Reprint of Statutes Act, 1895,” appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 16th February, 1903.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

His Honour Sir ROBERT STOUT, K.C.M.G., Chief Justice,
FREDERICK FITCHETT, Esq., M.A., LL.D., Solicitor-General, and
WALTER SCOTT REID, Esq.,

to be Commissioners under “The Reprint of Statutes Act, 1895”; and also to appoint

WILLIAM JOLIFFE, Esq.,

to be Secretary to such Commissioners.

JAS. McGOWAN.

Clerk of Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 16th February, 1903.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable EDMOND CHARLES TREHEY

to be Clerk in the Magistrate’s Court at Denniston, from the 9th instant, vice Constable T. Fairhall.

JAS. McGOWAN.

Native Assessor elected.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 25th February, 1903.

NOTICE has been received at this office, under the hand of the Returning Officer, that

REWETI TE RAKAHEREA

has been elected to be the Assessor for the Native Licensing District of Taupo.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Under-Secretary.