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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 5

Rural Lands in the Taranaki Land District open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

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 described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on and after the ninth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and four; and also that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may be selected on lease in perpetuity only, in accordance with the provisions of section one hundred and twenty-one of the said Act, as they contain, or are supposed to contain, metals, minerals, or valuable stone; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said lands shall be leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—CLIFTON COUNTY.

First-class Land.

OHURA SURVEY DISTRICT.

A. R. P. s. d. £ s. d.
14 | XIV. | 286 0 0 | 1 0 | 7 3 0
Situated on Aorangi Road. Access is from Ongarue, distant by dray-road thirty-one miles, and by horse-track nine miles. This section comprises level, hilly, and undulating fern land, with small patches of tawa, rimu, rata, &c. The soil is good, on sandstone formation; well watered. Elevation varies from 420 ft. to 800 ft. above sea-level.

17 | XIV. | 307 0 0 | 1 0 | 7 13 6
18 | " | 310 0 0 | 1 0 | 7 15 0
19 | " | 300 0 0 | 1 0 | 7 10 0
Situated on Tokirima Road. Access is from Ongarue, distant by dray-road thirty-one miles, and by a horse-track (mostly across country) eight and a half to ten and a half miles. Level, hilly, and undulating land; fern and light scrub, koromiko, manuka, tutu, &c.; forest of tawa, rimu, hinau, &c. Soil good, on sandstone-and-papa formation; well watered. Elevation varies from 400 ft. to 900 ft. above sea-level.

TOTORO SURVEY DISTRICT.

1 | IX. | 246 0 0 | 1 2·4 | 7 7 8
Situated on Wairere Road. Access is from Te Kuiti, distant sixteen miles by dray-road, four miles pack-track, and two miles and a half by surveyed road. There is also a pack-track across country to section. The land is low and undulating, covered with fern and a little manuka. Fair soil, on limestone formation; well watered. Elevation varies from 200 ft. to 500 ft. above sea-level.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eighteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and four.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 8th January, 1904.

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

Name. District.
JOSEPH FRANCIS FABIAN .. .. Awitu.
ROBERT FELLOWES WEBSTER .. .. Pukekohe.
FREDERICK WOOD .. .. Rangiriri.

Appointments to date on and from the 1st February, 1904.

C. H. MILLS,
For Colonial Secretary.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 12th January, 1904.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

PERCY BISHOP

to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Waitara.

C. H. MILLS,
For Colonial Secretary.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 16th January, 1904.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

DONALD KENNEDY

to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of East Taieri.

ALBERT PITT,
For Colonial Secretary.

Officer under the Fisheries Conservation Acts appointed, Stratford.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 15th January, 1904.

IT is hereby notified that

COURTENAY DOTSON SOLE,

of Stratford, has been appointed to be an Officer for the purposes of “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,” and the Acts amending the same.

ALBERT PITT,
For Colonial Secretary.

Police Gaoler appointed.

Department of Justice (Prisons Branch),
Wellington, 16th January, 1904.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable FRANK PIDGEON

to be Gaoler of H.M. Police Gaol at Raetihi, vice Constable Patrick Duddy, transferred.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Justice.

Police Gaoler appointed.

Department of Justice (Prisons Branch),
Wellington, 16th January, 1904.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable WILLIAM DUNCAN LUKE

to be Gaoler of H.M. Police Gaol at Wairoa, vice Constable John Kennedy, transferred.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Justice.

Member of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 18th January, 1904.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ERNEST E. TRASK

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of City of Nelson, vice W. Akersten, resigned.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Justice.

Clerk of Courts appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 20th January, 1904.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable EDWARD BROPHY

to be Clerk of the Magistrate’s and Warden’s Courts and Receiver of Gold Revenue and Mining Registrar at Charleston, from the 24th December, 1903, vice Constable R. McGlone.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Justice.