Feb. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 553

being Section No. 4, Pukeroa Village, Block XII, Mangawhero Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Section No. 3, Pukeroa Village; towards the east by the Turakina Valley Road; towards the south by a public road; and towards the west by Section No. 1, Block XII, Mangawhero Survey District. For a stock reserve.

All that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 19 acres and 22 perches, more or less, being Section No. 5, Pukeroa Village, Block XII, Mangawhero Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east and towards the north-west by Section No. 10, Pukeroa Village; towards the south-east generally by a road reserve along the right bank of the Turakina River; towards the south-west by Section No. 6, Pukeroa Village, and by a public road; and towards the north-west by the Turakina Valley Road. For a scenic reserve.

All that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 acre 1 rood 27 perches, more or less, being Section No. 6, Pukeroa Village, Block XII, Mangawhero Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by Section No. 5, Pukeroa Village; towards the east by a road reserve along the right bank of the Turakina River; towards the south-west by a stream; and towards the north-west by Section No. 11, Pukeroa Village, and by the abutment of a public road. For a gravel reserve.

All that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 11 acres and 38 perches, more or less, being Section No. 7, Pukeroa Village, Block XII, Mangawhero Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west by Section No. 11, Pukeroa Village; towards the north-east by a stream and by the road reserve along the right bank of the Turakina River; towards the south by Section No. 1, Block XII, Mangawhero Survey District; and towards the west by the Turakina Valley Road. For a scenic reserve.

All that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 2 acres 1 rood 2 perches, more or less, being Section No. 11, Pukeroa Village, Block XII, Mangawhero Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by a public road; towards the south-east by Sections Nos. 6 and 7, Pukeroa Village; towards the south-west and towards the north-west by the Turakina Valley Road. For roadmen's huts reserve.

As the same are delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 54847/1, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this sixth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and six.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Rural Land in Southland 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 third day of April, one thousand nine hundred and six; 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 price at which the said land shall be leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said land shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT. — SOUTHLAND COUNTY. — OTARA SURVEY DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

Weighted with £16 13s. 4d., cost of survey.

Undulating pastoral land; sandy soil; well watered. Altitude, from 5 ft. to 100 ft. About 3 acres of scrub and 25 acres of sandhills; the balance fairly good summer grazing-land, cut up by old mining claims. Distant eleven miles by road and beach from Fortrose and twelve miles from Waikawa.

The section is offered subject to existing mining rights.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this sixth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and six.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Declaring Additional Road-lines through Land in the Eden-dale Settlement to be closed.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS a report has been received from the Surveyor-General from which it appears that the roads described in the Schedule hereto are unformed and unused, and that they intersect land acquired under “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” and are not suitable for the subdivision of such land:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of section sixty-nine of the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do by this notice hereby close the roads hereinafter described, and I do hereby declare that they shall thereupon become subject to the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

In the Southland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked as above mentioned, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above noted.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this sixth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and six.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Amended Regulation for the Use and Conservation of the Rotorua Sanatorium, Thermal Springs, and Grounds.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section two hundred and forty-two of “The Land Act, 1892,” and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do by this notification hereby revoke paragraph (f) of number 7 of the Regulations for the Use and Conservation of the Rotorua Sanatorium, Thermal Springs, and Grounds, made on the eleventh day of December, one thousand nine hundred and three, and published in the Gazette of the twenty-eighth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and four, and do hereby substitute the following paragraph in lieu thereof, that is to say:—

REGULATION 7, PARAGRAPH (f).

The residence of each patient shall be limited to two months, but the Superintendent may, at his discretion, further extend the duration of such residence.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this sixth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and six.

J. G. WARD,
Minister in Charge of Department of Tourist and Health Resorts.