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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 58

Rural Lands in the Otago 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 lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on and after the seventh day of September, 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 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 lands 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.
OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.
Second-class Land.

Weighted with £25 valuation for improvements.
Broken, rough bush section of rather inferior quality; well watered. Situated about seven miles from Glenomaru Railway-station.

Weighted with £24 valuation for improvements.
A bush section of good quality; good aspect; well watered; timber, black- and red-pine, birch, and broadleaf. Situated about ten miles from proposed new railway terminus, and within half a mile of a school and post-office.

Dry, shingly land. Situated about one mile from Wakefield.

Weighted with £16 valuation for improvements.
About 15 acres may be cultivated, the remainder being grazing land. Situated about two miles and a half from Glenorchy.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Paradise Ducks not to be taken or killed within the County of Rotorua.

RANFURLY, Governor.

PURSUANT to the powers conferred upon him 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 paradise duck (Casarca variegata) shall not be taken or killed within the County of Rotorua.

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

J. G. WARD,
Colonial Secretary.

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office.
Wellington, 13th July, 1903.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned gentlemen to be Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts respectively opposite their names, viz.:

J. G. WARD.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office.
Wellington, 13th July, 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.:

J. G. WARD.

Registrar of Electors, Marsden Electoral District, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 13th July, 1903.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

DAVID WILLIAM MASON

to be Registrar of Electors, under “The Electoral Act, 1902,” for the Electoral District of Marsden, vice J. FitzGerald. Appointment to date from the 13th July, 1903.

J. G. WARD.

Inspectors of Weights and Measures, Counties of Lake, Sounds, and Marlborough, and Boroughs of Queenstown, Picton, and Blenheim, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 13th July, 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.:

J. G. WARD.