May 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1187

Withdrawing Lands from Selection as Village-homestead Allotments.

(l.s.) PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the sixth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” and of every other power and authority enabling me in that behalf, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby declare that from and after the day of the date hereof the sections of land enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be and are hereby withdrawn from selection as village-homestead allotments.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Sections Nos. 11 and 12 (Te Kuiti Village Settlement), Block III., Otanake Survey District, containing by admeasurement 4 acres, more or less.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable William Lee, Baron Plunket, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twentieth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Appointing Members of Assessment Courts under “The Government Valuation of Land Act Amendment Act, 1900.”

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-second day of May, 1905.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him by “The Government Valuation of Land Act Amendment Act, 1900,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby appoint, as from the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and five, the persons named in the Schedule hereto to be members of the Assessment Court for the special districts set opposite the name of each respectively.

SCHEDULE.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

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 land enumerated in the Schedule hereto is hereby set apart for disposal by way of sale or selection on and after the twelfth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and five, at the respective prices specified in the said Schedule.

2. The said land may be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase, or on lease in perpetuity: provided that in the case of land containing or supposed to contain any metal, mineral, or valuable stone, it shall be selected on lease in perpetuity only and shall not be purchased for cash.

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

4. No general rate shall be levied or collected by any local authority from the said land for a period of two years from the date from which such land is disposed of, and no local authority shall have power to levy or collect any such rate from such land 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 two years 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.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Second-class Scrub Land.

Altitude, from 100 ft. to 250 ft. above sea-level. About 10 acres level land, balance hilly and undulating; covered with fern and tea-tree; soil, clay and loam of medium quality; well watered by creek. No formed road to section at present; about fourteen miles from Marsden Point by surveyed road.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.