June 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1457

Branding Registration Districts of Napier and Wairarapa abolished, and Branding Registration Districts of Hawke's Bay, Woodville, Pahiatua, Akitio, Eketa huna, Mauriceville, Castlepoint, Masterton, Carterton, and Martinborough constituted; also Registrars and Registration Offices appointed.—Notice No. 967.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS it is expedient that the Napier and Wairarapa Branding Registration Districts should be abolished, and that new branding registration districts, to be known as the Hawke's Bay, Woodville, Pahiatua, Akitio, Eketa huna, Mauriceville, Castlepoint, Masterton, Carterton, and Martinborough Branding Registration Districts, should be constituted:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by “The Stock Act, 1893,” do hereby abolish the Napier and Wairarapa Branding Registration Districts, and do hereby constitute the Hawke's Bay, Woodville, Pahiatua, Akitio, Eketa huna, Mauriceville, Castlepoint, Masterton, Carterton, and Martinborough Branding Registration Districts, and declare that the said districts shall hereafter be comprised as described in the Schedule hereto, and also do hereby appoint the persons and places named in the said Schedule to be the Registrars and registration offices of the said districts respectively.

SCHEDULE.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.

Rural Lands 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 lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto are hereby set apart for disposal by way of sale or selection on and after the ninth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and five, at the respective prices specified in the said Schedule.

2. The said lands 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, they 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 lands enumerated in the said Schedule hereto shall be deemed to be “heavy-bush land.”

4. No general rate shall be levied or collected by any local authority from the said lands for a period of four years 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 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.