APRIL 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1343

Bush land having been worked by sawmills, the remaining timber having no commercial value. Soil good and capable of improvement by clearing and draining. The sections are well situated, being accessible by good summer road, and distant from two miles and a half to three miles from Winton.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fifteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

D. BUDDO,
Acting Minister of Lands.

Opening Settlement Lands in Canterbury Land District for Selection.

ISLINGTON, 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, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, 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 Wednesday, the thirty-first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, 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.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—WAIMAIRI COUNTY.—CHRISTCHURCH SURVEY DISTRICT.—BUDDO SETTLEMENT.

First-class Land.

Section 3 is situated about a mile and Section 8 nearly a mile and a half north-eastward from the Belfast Railway-station, which is nine miles from Christchurch on the northern trunk railway-line. The land is practically level, and consists of alluvial deposit on a substratum of shingle. Suitable for homes for workers employed in the industries established at Belfast.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fifteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

D. BUDDO,
Acting Minister of Lands.

Notifying the Proposed Exchange of Crown Land in the Wellington Land District for other Land.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and forty-two of the Land Act, 1908, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, whenever he deems it expedient in the public interest, to grant in fee-simple any area of Crown land which is subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, in exchange for the fee-simple of any other land which in his opinion is of approximately equal value, and that all land acquired by the Crown by any such exchange shall become Crown land, and be subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1908:

And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient to exchange the Crown land described in the first column of the Schedule hereto for the areas of land described in the second column of the said Schedule, and the owner of the areas of land described in the second column of the said Schedule has agreed to such exchange:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by the said section one hundred and forty-two, doth hereby declare that it is his intention to grant in fee-simple the area of Crown land described in the first column of the Schedule hereto in exchange for the fee-simple of the areas of land described in the second column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

D. BUDDO,
Acting Minister of Lands.

Land temporarily reserved for a Site for a Public School in the Township of Russell, Auckland Land District.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-twenty-first section of the Land Act, 1908, 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, notwithstanding 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, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, 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 Auckland Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, for a site for a public school.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 34 perches, more or less, being Section 12, Block I, Township of Russell. Bounded towards the north-east by Wellington Street and Section 3, Block I, Township of Russell, 100 and 115·6 links respectively; towards the south-east by Kent Street, 85 links; towards the south-west by the Strand (along the Bay of Islands Harbour), 300 links; and towards the north by a creek: