May 28.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1529

particular description, and whether the same has been
surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwith-
standing that the same may be then held under pastoral
license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required
for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned :
Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the
Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise
and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me
by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale
the land in the Canterbury Land District described in the
Schedule hereunder written, for a site for public hall and
library.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, contain-
ing by admeasurement 1 rood 24 perches, more or less,
being Reserve No. 3754 (in red), and formerly Section No. 1,
Block IV, Town of Orari. Bounded towards the north by
Orari Street, 251 links ; towards the east by the Main South
Road, 46·4 and 138·8 links ; towards the south by Section
No. 2, 250 links ; and towards the west by the railway re-
serve, 136·7 links : as the same is delineated on the plan
marked S.G. 58176/9, deposited in the Head Office, Depart-
ment of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this twenty-first day of May, one thousand nine
hundred and eight.

ROBERT McNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Land temporarily reserved for a Rifle Range in the Canter-
bury Land District.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by the two-hundred-and-thirty-fifth sec-
tion of “The Land Act, 1892,” it is enacted that
the Governor may from time to time, either by general or
particular description, and whether the same has been
surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwith-
standing that the same may be then held under pastoral
license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required
for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned :
Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the
Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise
and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me
by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale
the land in the Canterbury Land District described in the
Schedule hereunder written, for a rifle range.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing
by admeasurement 17 acres, more or less, being Lot No. 10
of Reserve No. 641, Block XVI, Otaio Survey District.
Bounded towards the north-east and east by the Otaio River ;
towards the south-west by Reserve No. 2556 and Lot No. 3
of said Reserve No. 641 ; and towards the north-west by
Reserve No. 631 : as the same is delineated on the plan
marked S.G. 58409/4, deposited in the Head Office, Depart-
ment of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon bordered pink.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this twenty-first day of May, one thousand nine
hundred and eight.

ROBERT McNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Notifying Land in Taranaki 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 Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby
appoint Wednesday, the tenth day of June, one thousand nine
hundred and eight, as the time at which the land de-
scribed in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public
auction ; and I do hereby fix the price at which the said
land shall be sold as that mentioned in the said Schedule
hereto.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—WAIMATE SURVEY DISTRICT.

Rural Land.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this twenty-first day of May, one thousand nine
hundred and eight.

ROBERT McNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Opening National Endowment Lands in Nelson Land Dis-
trict for Selection.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon me by “The Land Act, 1892,” and its
amendments, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor
of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that
the national endowment lands described in the Schedule
hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on
Wednesday, the twenty-second day of July, one thousand
nine hundred and eight, at the rentals mentioned in the
said Schedule ; and I do also declare that the said lands
shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of
“The Land Act, 1892,” and the National Endowment Act,
1907.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—WAIMEA COUNTY.—DART BLOCK.

Third-class Unsurveyed Land.

This block is situated in the valley of the Dart River, a
tributary of the Wangapeka River. The confluence of the
two rivers is nine miles from Tadmor Railway-station by a
formed dray-road, partly metalled ; the road from the conflu-
ence to the boundary of the block consists of one mile un-
formed and three-quarters of a mile formed dray-road.
The area to be opened extends along both banks of the
Dart River for a distance of four miles. It comprises princi-
pally forest-clad hills of granite-and-sandstone formation ;
soil ranges from inferior to medium, with small flats along
the banks of the Dart River—fair agricultural soil on flats,
hills suitable for pastoral purposes. Altitude ranges from
800 ft. to 3,000 ft. above sea-level. The forest consists chiefly
of brown and red birch with some rimu and mountain-rata,
with a little kahikatea on the flats and lower slopes ; under-
scrub—birch scrub on spurs, houhou, horopito, and papauma
on slopes and in gullies. The block is well watered, and the
climate not severe. The country when cleared and grassed
will carry one sheep to the acre. Six hundred acres of the
north-east block of 1,137 acres consists of burnt forest.
The nearest school is at Sherry, seven miles from the conflu-
ence of the Dart River with the Wangapeka River ; but a
new school is to be erected on the Wangapeka Settlement
which will lessen that distance by two miles.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this twenty-first day of May, one thousand nine
hundred and eight.

ROBERT McNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Opening National Endowment Lands in Nelson Land
District for Selection.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon me by “The Land Act, 1892,” and its
amendments, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor