Aug. 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 2507

Member of the Public Trust Office (Native Reserves) Board appointed.

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 1st August, 1911.

IT is hereby notified for general information that

Mr. Teo Tipene

(also known as Paratene te Raro), of Wellington, has been duly appointed a member of the Public Trust Office (Native Reserves) Board under the provisions of sections 2 of the Native Reserves Act, 1882, and the Westland and Nelson Native Reserves Act, 1887, vice Mr. Aporo Hare Kumeroa, deceased.

FRED. FITCHETT,
Public Trustee.

Officiating Ministers for 1911.—Notice No. 25.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 9th August, 1911.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand passed in the eighth year of the reign of His late Majesty King Edward VII, and intituled the Marriage Act, 1908, the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information :—

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.

Mr. Herbert Eustace Maxwell Gordon.
The Reverend John Lothian.
Mr. R. D. McEwan.

W. W. COOK,
Deputy Registrar-General.

Officiating Ministers for 1911.—Notice No. 26.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 9th August, 1911.

AT the request of the Ecclesiastical Head of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand the name of the undermentioned has been withdrawn from the list of Officiating Ministers under the Marriage Act, 1908, for the year 1911 :—

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.

Mr. Ebenezer Bishop.

W. W. COOK,
Deputy Registrar-General.

Part of Post-office Reserve, Koponga, for Lease by Public Tender.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 1st August, 1911.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders will be received at this office up to 5 o’clock p.m. on Monday, the 28th day of August, 1911, for a lease of the undermentioned land under Part I of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Taranaki Land District, being Section 26, and the unoccupied portion of Section 24, Block XI, Village of Kaponga. Bounded towards the north by Eltham Road; towards the east and again towards the north by Section No. 25; again towards the east by Section No. 27; towards the south by Section No. 34; and towards the west by Manaiā Road.

Term: Three years.

Conditions: Fences to be kept in good repair and land to be kept clear of noxious weeds.

D. ROBERTSON,
Secretary.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Lands in Town of Mina South, Cheviot Estate, Canterbury Land District, for Sale by Public Auction.

Department of Lands,
Wellington, 8th August, 1911.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 287 of the Land Act, 1908, that the undermentioned lands will be offered for sale by public auction, for cash, at the Courthouse, Mackenzie, Cheviot, at 3 o’clock p.m. on Monday, the 2nd day of October, 1911.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—CHEVIOT ESTATE. —TOWN OF MINA SOUTH.

Town Land.

Situated close to Mina Railway-station, at present the southern terminus of the Waipara-Blenheim Railway, distant seventy-six miles northward from Christchurch, and about two miles from the Town of Mackenzie, the business centre of the Cheviot Estate. Open, generally level land, with good soil.

TERMS OF SALE.

One-fifth of the purchase-money to be paid on the fall of the hammer, and the balance, with Crown grant fee (£1), within thirty days thereafter; otherwise the part of the purchase-money paid by way of deposit shall be forfeited, and the contract for the sale of the land be null and void. Title will be subject to Part XIII of the Land Act, 1908.

D. BUDDO,
Acting Minister of Lands.

Pastoral Lands in the Nelson Land District open for License.

District Lands Office,
Nelson, 7th August, 1911.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands are open for license under the Regulations for the Occupation of Pastoral Lands within the Karamea Mining District; and applications will be received at the District Land Office, Nelson, and at the local Land Offices at Reefton and Westport, on Wednesday, 13th September, 1911, up to 4 p.m.

SCHEDULE.

BULLER County, 9,484 acres, more or less, situated in Blocks V, IX, X, and XIV, Brighton Survey District.

DESCRIPTION AND LOCALITY.

This land is situated about thirty miles south of Westport and twenty-six miles north of Greymouth. The Town of Brighton is about two miles from the northern end of the block. There is a good dray-road from Westport to Brighton, with the exception of about a mile near White Horse Creek that is not yet completed. From Brighton there is a good pack-track along the coast, past the southern end of the block, towards Greymouth. A good pack-track, connecting with the main road from Greymouth, crosses the middle of the block.

The land consists of flats and terraces and low hills ranging to 1,700 ft. The formation is to a great extent limestone, and is well watered throughout. The whole area is covered with mixed bush, consisting, inter alia, of birch, rimu, tawa, matai, tawhero, and white-pine.

R. T. SADD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.