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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 17

5. Regulation 438 is hereby amended by inserting the word “personally” before the word “responsible.”
6. The following new regulation is added after Regulation 438:—
   “438A. Every member of the Permanent or Volunteer Force shall sign duplicate receipts on the prescribed form for all arms, accoutrements, and other appointments intrusted to his care, one of such receipts being for transmission to the Director of Stores, Wellington, and the other to be retained by the officer commanding the company.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this sixteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and seven.
ROBERT McNAB,
Acting Minister of Defence.

[D.07/446.]

Notifying Lands in Otago 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 Wednesday, the twenty-fourth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and seven; 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.
OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

TOWN LAND.
Town of Macrae’s.

| 78 | .. | 1 0 10 | 5 0 0 |

SUBURBAN LAND.
Town of Papatowai.

| 7 to 17 | VII | 2 3 10 | 20 0 0 |

Town of Waitaki Bridge.

RURAL LAND.
Maniototo Survey District.

| 8 | XVI | 7 1 4 | 15 0 0 |
| 61 | " | 0 2 4 | 1 5 0 |
| 62 | " | 0 2 31 | 1 10 0 |
| 63 | " | 3 2 16 | 7 5 0 |

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fifteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and seven.
ROBERT McNAB,
Minister of Lands.

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

PLUNKET, Governor.

By his Deputy,
JAMES PRENDERGAST.

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 twenty-fourth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and seven, 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 “heavy-bush land.”
4. No general rate shall be levied or collected by any local authority from the said land for a period of four 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 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.
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.
First-class Heavy-bush Land.

Situated in the Marton No. 3 Block. Accessible from Raetihi, about eleven miles distant via Raetihi–Ohura and Pukekata Roads, which are formed for dray traffic to within four miles and a half of the section, thence by formed bridle-track to within about a mile; the remainder is not formed. Comprises hilly and broken land with very little flat; well watered; soil of good quality, on papa formation; covered with bush consisting of tawa, rata, rimu, matai, kahikatea, &c., with the usual undergrowth.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this ninth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and seven,
ROBERT McNAB,
Minister of Lands,