Oct. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2605

Notifying Lands in Southland Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-thirteenth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Tuesday, the twentieth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and six, as the time at which the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction; and I do hereby fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto opposite the description of such lands respectively.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTH LAND LAND DISTRICT.—TOKANUI VILLAGE.

Village Lands.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-eighth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and six.

ROBERT McNAB,
Minister of Lands

Notifying Lands in Wellington Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-thirteenth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Thursday, the fifteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and six, as the time at which the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction; and I do hereby fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto opposite the description of such lands respectively.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—RANGITIKEI COUNTY.—TOWN OF TAIHAPE.

Town Lands.

Taihape is situated on the North Island Main Trunk Railway and road, about forty-four miles and a half from Marton. It is a rising township, being the present terminus of the railway traffic from the south, and contains a public school, police-station, stores, accommodation-houses, hotels, post and telegraph offices. &c. The surrounding country is in an advanced state of settlement.

The three sections offered for sale are situated close to the railway-station, and are the only Crown lands in the township now available for disposal.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-eighth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and six.

ROBERT McNAB,
Minister of Lands

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 28th September, 1906.

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.
THOMAS CHARLES DUNCKLEY Shannon.
PHILIP JOHN BOND Oxford.

ALBERT PITT,
Colonial Secretary.

Arrangements for First Election, &c., Makerua Drainage Board.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 29th September, 1906.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

EDWARD JAMES ARMSTRONG, of Palmerston North,

to be Returning Officer for the purpose of conducting the first election of five members of the Board of Trustees of the Makerua Drainage District, as constituted under “The Land Drainage Act, 1904”; also to appoint Monday, the 29th day of October, 1906, to be the date, and the office of the said Edward James Armstrong, Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North, to be the place, for holding such first election; and also to appoint Thursday, the 1st day of November, 1906, at 12 o’clock noon, to be the time, and the said office to be the place, at which the first meeting of Trustees shall be held.

ALBERT PITT,
Colonial Secretary.

Consul for Germany, at Dunedin, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 1st October, 1906.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that he has been informed by His Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies that the King’s Exequatur empowering

WILLI FELS, Esq.,

to act as Consul for Germany, at Dunedin, has received His Majesty’s signature.

ALBERT PITT,
Colonial Secretary.