APRIL 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 977

consecutive months fails to attend any meeting of the
managers without obtaining leave of absence, or is
absent from the colony for a period of six consecutive
months, he shall cease to be a manager, and the
vacancy thereby occurring shall be deemed to be a
casual vacancy. Every casual vacancy shall be filled
within twenty-one days after the occurring thereof,
and the manager filling the same shall hold office only
for the unexpired residue of the term of the vacating
manager. Every vacancy shall be filled up by the
same electing body as in the case of the vacating
manager. The name of the manager elected shall be
forwarded to the Minister in the manner provided
by clauses 49 and 50 of these regulations.
Clause 55 is hereby revoked, and the following
clause substituted in lieu thereof:—
The Minister may make grants for the purchase of
furniture, fittings, and apparatus of a permanent
character—i.e., not requiring to be replaced from year
to year—for the use of special, associated, or college
classes, or of school classes other than those referred
to in clauses 15 (c) and 27 (c) of these regulations.
No grants will be made to repair or replace apparatus
broken.
Clause 59 is hereby amended by the addition, after
the words “established by a Board of Education,” of
the words “or by the Board of Governors of a
secondary school established under section 6 of 'The
Secondary Schools Act, 1903.'”
Clause 75 is hereby revoked, and the following
clause substituted in lieu thereof:—
Claims for subsidies on voluntary contributions
under section 17, subsection (2), of the Act must be
accompanied by a declaration in the following form:—

“Manual and Technical Instruction Act, 1900,”
section 17, as amended by section 2 of “The
Manual and Technical Instruction Act,
1902.”

DECLARATION ACCOMPANYING CLAIM FOR SUBSIDY
ON VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.

I, , of ,* of the control-
ling authority [managers]† within the meaning
of the above-recited Acts of the classes known as
, do solemnly and sincerely declare,—
(1.) That hereto attached is a statement,
marked “A,” setting forth the names of the
several donors and the value of their contribu-
tions. The contributions, of which the total value
is £ , have been received by the aforesaid
body between , 19 , and , 19 ,
for the purposes of the aforesaid classes.
(2.) That each of the contributions set forth in
the statement “A,” has been given for the pur-
pose of encouraging the formation or increasing
the efficiency of the aforesaid classes, and that the
whole of the contributions will be applied by the
aforesaid body for the purposes of the aforesaid
classes.
(3.) That none of the contributions nor any
part thereof have been included with any con-
tributions on account of which subsidy has already
been paid, or a grant in aid of buildings has been
made.
And I make this solemn declaration conscien-
tiously believing the same to be true, and by
virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of New
Zealand intituled “The Justices of the Peace Act,
1882.”

Signature:

Declared at , this day of
, 19 , before me—
, Justice of the Peace.

Clause 77 (c) is hereby amended by the deletion of
the words “recognised under the Act,” after the
words “He must receive the instruction referred to
in (i.) and (ii.) at classes,” and by the substitution of
the words “established by the controlling authority.”
Clause 77 (d) is hereby amended by the insertion,
after the words “if the holder thereof fails,” of the
words “to make in either year of his tenure the
minimum number of hour-attendances at each of the
classes prescribed in clause 77 (c) hereof, or.”
Clause 77 (e) is hereby amended by the insertion of
the word “technical” before the words “instruction
of a more advanced character.”

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

• “Secretary,” or other official designation.
  † Delete what is not applicable.

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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 parti-
cular 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 a site for a public school.

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by
admeasurement 3 acres, more or less, being part of Section
No. 6a, Block XI., Rotorua Survey District. Bounded
towards the north-east by a line bearing 114° 47′, 500 links ;
towards the south-east by a line bearing 204° 47′, 600 links ;
towards the south-west by a public road, 500 links ; and
towards the north-west by a line bearing 24° 47′, 600 links,
to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages
more or less : as the same is delineated on the plan marked
S.G. 53543, deposited in the Head Office, Department of
Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured
purple.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this fourth day of April, one thousand nine
hundred and five.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Rural Land in Westland Land District open for Selection
on Lease in Perpetuity.

PLUNKET, 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, William Lee,
Baron Plunket, 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 selection on and after the
seventh day of June, one thousand nine hundred and five ;
and also that the land 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 it contains, or is supposed to contain,
metals, minerals, or valuable stone ; and I do hereby also fix
the prices at which the said land shall be leased, as men-
tioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the
said land shall be leased under and subject to the provi-
sions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT. — WESTLAND COUNTY. — POERUA
SURVEY DISTRICT.

First-class Land.

Weighted with £50 valuation for 50 acres cleared.
Mostly totara with high fern. Very good land with a few
patches of stony strips. Water is scarce in dry weather,
but there are occasional water-holes, and water is obtainable
by shallow sinking. Soil light, with gravel subsoil. About
50 acres cleared. Area fenced, but fence out of repair.
Access by Robertson Road, which is roughly formed, and
by river-bed.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this fourth day of April, one thousand nine
hundred and five.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.