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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 60

Land temporarily reserved in the Auckland Land District.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by the two-hundred-and-thirty-fifth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the land in the Auckland Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, for the purpose in the said Schedule specified at the end of the description of the land so intended to be temporarily reserved.

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 48 acres 2 roods, more or less, being Section No. 181, Parish of Taupiri. Bounded towards the north by Section No. 180 of the Parish of Taupiri; towards the east by Section No. 179 of the same parish; towards the south by a public road; and towards the west by a public road: as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 52283, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red. For a reserve for the purposes of the Agricultural and Pastoral Association.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Trustee for the Alford Forest Public Cemetery appointed.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the sixth section of “The Cemeteries Act, 1882,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

JOSEPH THOMAS HUTT

to be a Trustee, in the place of Hugh Muirhead, resigned, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Alford Forest Public Cemetery, in conjunction with the other persons previously appointed by His Excellency the Governor.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Trustee for the Matapouri Public Cemetery appointed.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the sixth section of “The Cemeteries Act, 1882,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

GEORGE BRAITHWAITE

to be a Trustee, in the place of Benjamin Proude, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Matapouri Public Cemetery, in conjunction with the other persons previously appointed by His Excellency the Governor.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Notifying Lands in Marlborough Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-thirteenth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Wednesday, the twenty-fourth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and four, as the time at which the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction at Kaikoura; and I do hereby fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto opposite the description of such lands respectively.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—MOUNT FYFFE SURVEY DISTRICT.

Section 7 is weighted with £19 5s., valuation for improvements, comprising reclamation, shed, garden, hedge, and fencing.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

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

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section one hundred and thirty-six of “The Land Act, 1892,” and section two of “The Bush and Swamp Crown Lands Settlement Act, 1903,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby declare and provide as follows, that is to say:—

1. The rural lands enumerated in the Schedules hereto are hereby set apart for disposal by way of selection on and after the seventh day of September, one thousand nine hundred and four, at the rentals specified in the said Schedules.

2. The said lands may be selected on lease in perpetuity only, as provided by section one hundred and twenty-one of “The Land Act, 1892,” as they contain, or are supposed to contain, metal, mineral, or valuable stone, and shall not be purchased for cash.

3. For the purposes of “The Bush and Swamp Crown Lands Settlement Act, 1903,” the lands enumerated in the First Schedule hereto shall be deemed to be “heavy-bush land,” and the lands in the Second Schedule shall be deemed to be “scrub land.”

4. No general rate shall be levied or collected by any local authority from the said lands for the period of four years in the case of heavy-bush land, and two years in the case of scrub land, from the date from which in each case respectively such lands are disposed of, and no local authority shall have power to levy or collect any such rate from such lands during such period.

5. After the first half-year’s rent has been paid by the selector the further instalments of rent payable by him for a period of four years in the case of heavy-bush land, and two years in the case of scrub land, shall not be demanded; provided that if at any time during the first five years of his occupancy the selector disposes of his interest in the land the rent so conceded shall be paid by him in full, and thereupon the Land Board may remit such instalments of rent payable by the incoming tenant, not exceeding in the aggregate the amount of rent previously conceded to the selector, as the Board shall think fit.