1892
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 73

Rural Lands 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 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 described in the Schedule hereto are hereby set apart for disposal by way of selection on and after the twenty-seventh day of September, one thousand nine hundred and five, at the rentals specified in the said Schedule.

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 described 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 the 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.

SCHEDULE.
WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.
Second-class Surveyed Heavy-bush Land.

WESTLAND COUNTY.—WAIHO SURVEY DISTRICT.
A. R. P. s. d. £ s. d.
2419 | X. | 177 3 0 | 0 3·6 | 1 6 8
About 700 ft. above sea-level. Partly level river-bottom lands, the rest gently sloping hillsides. Light mixed bush and scrub along river, heavy forest on sidelongs; soil consists of sandy loam on gravel on flats, and thin sour soil on hillsides; well and permanently watered. Situated on the Main South Road, twenty-five miles from Port of Okarito, seventeen miles of this being a metalled dray-road to Waiho Diggings, and a metalled bridle-road for remaining eight miles.

GREY COUNTY.—HOHONU SURVEY DISTRICT.
2422 | XVI. | 296 0 0 | 0 7·2 | 4 8 10
Consists of about equal parts of level dense scrub land and broken heavily timbered terrace land. The soil is chiefly good on the flat land, suitable for agriculture; soil on terraces poor. Forest consists of mixed timbers. Area well watered by Bruce’s Creek. Altitude, 400 ft. to 700 ft. above sea-level. Access by unformed dray-road three miles and a half, and half-mile of formed road, from Inchbonnie Railway-station; rail thence to Greymouth.

2399 | XVI. | 200 0 0 | 0 3·2 | 1 6 8
Area consists of about 140 acres of terraced land and 60 acres of flat, similar to Section 2422, except that the land is heavily covered with fallen timber. For access see Section 2422.

2400 | XVI. | 314 0 0 | 0 6 | 3 18 6
About 100 acres of terrace, remainder flat, similar to Section 2399, except that there is a narrow belt or two of fair timber, kahikatea and matai chiefly; two miles and a half distant from Inchbonnie Railway-station. For access see Section 2422.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-ninth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and five.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Arrangements for First Election, &c., Waitomo County.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 25th July, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN ORMSBY

to be the person to make up electors’ rolls for the Ridings of Te Rauamoa, Otorohanga, Hangatiki, Waitomo, Mairoa, Paemako, and Te Kuiti, in the County of Waitomo, as constituted by “The Counties Act, 1886,” and “The Waitomo County Act, 1904”; also to be Returning Officer to conduct the first election of members of the Council of the said county, and to be the Clerk of the Council of the said county for the purpose of presiding at the first meeting thereof.

J. G. WARD.

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 27th July, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JAMES HENRY WOODHOUSE

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Helensville, vice David Aitken Wright, resigned, on and from the 4th August, 1905.

J. G. WARD.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 2nd August, 1905.

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

Name. District.
GEORGE THOMAS .. Wanganui.
HENRY DEWEY LOWRY .. Ellesmere.
FREDRICK MCALLUM .. Martinborough.

J. G. WARD.

Deputy Official Assignee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 26th July, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

THOMAS ROBERT SAYWELL

to be Deputy Official Assignee at Greymouth, from the 20th day of July, 1905, vice G. S. Smith, deceased.

JAS. McGOWAN.

Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 27th July, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM CRAWLEY,
CHARLES JAMES GORE,
CHARLES STEPHEN HODGE,
WILLIAM M. INNES, and
JOHN MILL

to be the Licensing Committee for the District of Chalmers; and also to appoint

HOWELL YOUNG WIDDOWSON, Esq.,
Stipendiary Magistrate at Dunedin, to be Chairman of such Committee.

JAS. McGOWAN.

Shorthand Reporter appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 28th July, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ETHEL HART

to be a Shorthand Reporter, under “The Shorthand Reporters Act, 1900.”

JAS. McGOWAN.