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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 92

Opening Settlement Lands in Auckland Land District for Selection.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by “The Land Act, 1908,” and “The Land for Settlements Act, 1908,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the settlement lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Monday, the twenty-first day of December, 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 said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WEST TAUPŌ COUNTY.—BLOCKS X, XI, XII, AND XV, MAUNGATAUTARI SURVEY DISTRICT.—TAUTARI SETTLEMENT.

First-class Land.

| 1 | 94 1 25 | 650 0 0 | 14 12 6 |
| 2 | 129 1 6 | 1,020 0 0 | 22 19 0 |
| 3 | 107 0 10 | 975 0 0 | 21 18 9 |
| 4 | 90 0 38 | 875 0 0 | 19 13 9 |
| 5 | 183 1 9 | 1,180 0 0 | 26 11 0 |
| 6 | 200 1 36 | 1,375 0 0 | 30 18 9 |
| 7 | 195 0 37 | 1,405 0 0 | 31 12 3 |
| | | | 35 7 0 * |
| 8 | 158 1 27 | 1,010 0 0 | 22 14 6 |
| 9 | 153 0 12 | 895 0 0 | 20 2 9 |
| 10 | 260 3 22 | 1,510 0 0 | 33 19 6 |
| | | | 17 18 6 † |
| 11 | 198 0 27 | 730 0 0 | 16 8 6 |
| 12 | 337 1 33 | 1,085 0 0 | 24 8 3 |
| 13 | 294 1 14 | 1,570 0 0 | 35 6 6 |
| 14 | 239 0 18 | 960 0 0 | 21 12 0 |
| 15 | 247 1 13 | 1,780 0 0 | 40 1 0 |
| 16 | 231 1 0 | 1,925 0 0 | 43 6 3 |
| 17 | 157 3 28 | 920 0 0 | 20 14 0 |
| 18 | 182 1 23 | 1,160 0 0 | 26 2 0 |
| 19 | 196 1 0 | 1,365 0 0 | 30 14 3 |
| 20 | 154 1 13 | 1,075 0 0 | 24 3 9 |
| 21 | 359 1 38 | 1,345 0 0 | 30 5 3 |
| 22 | 322 0 30 | 2,245 0 0 | 50 10 3 |
| 23 | 475 0 7 | 1,395 0 0 | 31 7 9 |
| 24 | 298 0 26 | 960 0 0 | 21 12 0 |

Second-class Land.

| 25 | 438 0 17 | 900 0 0 | 20 5 0 |
| 26 | 432 1 37 | 895 0 0 | 20 2 9 |
| 27 | 274 1 0 | 715 0 0 | 16 1 9 |
| 28 | 275 0 28 | 680 0 0 | 15 6 0 |
| 29 | 374 3 29 | 1,075 0 0 | 24 3 9 |
| 30 | 232 2 4 | 600 0 0 | 13 10 0 |

Third-class Land.

| 7A | 940 3 27 | 500 0 0 | 11 5 0 |
| 10A | 1,004 0 36 | 405 0 0 | 9 2 3 |
| 27A | 887 1 0 | 235 0 0 | 5 5 9 |

• Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £700, payable in cash or in fourteen years by half-yearly instalments of £35 7s. Total half-yearly payment, £66 19s. 3d.

† Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £355, payable in cash or in fourteen years by half-yearly instalments of £17 18s. 6d. Total half-yearly payment, £51 18s.

Locality and Description.

Tautari Settlement is situated in a S.S.E. direction from Auckland, distant ninety-three miles as the crow flies. Access by the Auckland—Wellington Main Trunk Railway to Te Awamutu, 101 miles from Auckland, thence by road through Kihikihi and a rich and well-settled district beyond for about seventeen miles to a central part of the settlement. The road for the most part is good and fairly level.

The soil is good, being sandy loam on clay formation, and is well suited for sheep or dairy farming. Most of the settlement is under grass, though parts are somewhat overgrown. Generally speaking, the country is undulating to hilly, and very little is at all broken.

The climate is exceedingly bracing and healthy, the elevation above sea-level averaging nearly 1,000 ft. Rainfall about the average.

The improvements not included in the capital values of the sections are as follows: Section 7, dwellinghouse, large woolshed, stable, and outbuildings, all valued at £700; Section 10, two cottages, stable and outbuildings, and subdivisional fences, all valued at £355.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this seventeenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Consul-General for Commonwealth of Australia and Dominion of New Zealand appointed.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 14th November, 1908.

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

Mr. MATHIEU HEDENSTRÖM,
of Melbourne, State of Victoria, has been appointed Consul-General of Russia for the Commonwealth of Australia and the Dominion of New Zealand.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Officers under “The Fisheries Act, 1908,” appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 17th November, 1908.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by section 79 of “The Fisheries Act, 1908,” appointed

David Edward O’Neill, of Ohuka;
Walter Torr, of Frasertown;
David Dickie Pryde, of Whakaki;
Farquharson McRae, of Springhill, Frasertown;
Alexander Mills, of Ruakituri, Napier;
Fred Vaughan, of Tahaenui;
Alfred Warbrick, of Rotorua;
Alexander Balfour, of Ohuka;
William Augustus Neale, of Frasertown;
John Robertson, of Inaha; and
William James Bell, of Hawera,

to be Officers for the purposes of Part II of that Act.

J. A. MILLAR

Officer under “The Fisheries Act, 1908,” appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 18th November, 1908.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by section 79 of “The Fisheries Act, 1908,” appointed

FRANK PERCY MOREN,
of Takapuna, to be an Officer for the purposes of Part II of that Act.

J. A. MILLAR.

Inspector of Machinery appointed.

Inspection of Machinery Department,
Wellington, 12th November, 1908.

IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance of the power and authority vested by “The Inspection of Machinery Act, 1908,”

PETER MACKENZIE

has been appointed Inspector of Machinery and Examiner of candidates for certificates of competency as engineers and engine-drivers for the purposes of the said Act, for the Auckland, Taranaki, Wellington, Hawke’s Bay, Marlborough, Nelson North, Nelson South, Canterbury, Otago, and Westland Districts, as from the 5th November, 1908.

J. A. MILLAR,
Minister in Charge of the Inspection of Machinery Department.