Feb. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 825

Variation of an Order in Council prohibiting all Private Alienation of certain Native Lands.

ISLINGTON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this ninth day of February, 1912.

Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, BART., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

ON the recommendation of the Native Land Purchase Board, referred to in section three hundred and sixty-three of the Native Land Act, 1909, and in exercise of the power in this behalf conferred upon him by that section, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, doth hereby vary an Order in Council dated the twenty-fifth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, and published in the New Zealand Gazette dated the twenty-eighth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, in so far as to and to permit the owners of the land set out in the Schedule hereto to alienate their interests:

And it is hereby declared that this Order in Council is made under the provisions in that behalf of the Native Land Act, 1909, and shall operate accordingly as a consent of the Governor in Council to the variation hereby authorized.

SCHEDULE.
ALL that piece or parcel of land situated in the Oero Survey District, containing 210 acres, more or less, and known as Rangatiramata Block.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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 twentieth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, 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.—MACKENZIE COUNTY.—SHERWOOD DOWNS SETTLEMENT.

Second-class Land.

• Section 19 includes a stone hut, valued at £50, to be paid for in cash. Section 1A includes a stone hut, valued at £30, to be paid for in cash. Section 13A includes a stone hut, valued at £30, to be paid for in cash. Section 17A includes a stone hut, valued at £50, to be paid for in cash.

† Interest and sinking fund on buildings on Section 15, valued at £1,305, payable in cash, or in twenty-one years by half-yearly instalments of £50 17s. 11d. Total half-yearly payments, £167 17s. 11d.

DESCRIPTION OF SECTIONS.

First-class Land.

Section 2.—Altitude, 1,600 ft. to 1,800 ft. above sea-level. Consists of flat and undulating agricultural land of good quality; about 350 acres have been ploughed and are now in grass; balance good tussock slopes; watered by Deep Creek. Small plantation of pines in south-west corner. Situated on Butler’s Road, about 13¾ miles from Fairlie by good roads. The improvements which are included in the price of the section consist of 144 chains of fencing, valued at £36.

Section 3.—Altitude, 1,600 ft. to 1,700 ft. above sea-level. Consists of flat and undulating agricultural land of good quality; about 350 acres have been ploughed and are now in grass; balance good tussock slopes; watered by Deep Creek. Situated on Butler’s and Plantation Roads, about thirteen miles from Fairlie by good road. The improvements included in the price of the land consist of 136 chains fencing, valued at £39.