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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

[No. 17]

is a regular launch service from Shortland and Thames to
all wharves on the Piako and Waihou Rivers, in addition
to which steamers regularly trade between the Hauraki
Plains and Auckland. The quarters of the oil-launches
are at Shortland Wharf, from where they run daily.

Intending selectors will not have the slightest difficulty
in locating the various sections, as they are conveniently
reached by formed roads. The various roads, main
drains, and subdivisional drains indicated upon the plan
are either formed or in course of construction. All sub-
divisional drains are to be maintained by the successful
applicants.

The sections are not permanently watered, but the De-
partment will sink artesian bores for settlers at cost price
upon satisfactory arrangements with regard to payment
being made with the Land Drainage Engineer, Thames.
All artesian water obtained so far is mineralized, but is
particularly good for all classes of stock.

The areas of all sections are subject to slight alteration.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this nineteenth day of February, one thousand
nine hundred and twelve.

D. BUDDO,
For Minister of Lands.

Notifying Lands in Nelson Land District for Sale by
Public Auction.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon
me by the one-hundred-and-twenty-sixth section of the
Land Act, 1908, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron
Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand,
do hereby appoint Tuesday, the twelfth day of March, one
thousand nine hundred and twelve, as the time at which the
lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by
public auction; and I do hereby fix the prices at which
the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said
Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN OF BLACK’S POINT.
Town Land.

DESCRIPTION.

Black’s Point is situated on the eastern bank of the
Inangahua River, about a mile and a half from Reefton
and forty-eight miles from Greymouth by coach-road.
It contains a hotel and stores, and is connected with Reefton
by telephone. Several quartz batteries are at work in the
locality.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this fourteenth day of February, one thousand
nine hundred and twelve.

D. BUDDO,
For Minister of Lands.

Rules under Part III of the Infants Act, 1908 (relating
to the Adoption of Children).

ISLINGTON, Governor.

WHEREAS by the twenty-fifth section of the Infants
Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”),
it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time make
such rules as he thinks fit, inter alia, prescribing the forms
and mode of procedure to be used in exercising the jurisdiction conferred by Part III of the said Act (relating to the
adoption of children), and prescribing the fees to be paid in
respect of such procedure: And whereas it is expedient to
make such rules accordingly:

Now, therefore, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron
Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in
pursuance and exercise of the power conferred upon me by
the said twenty-fifth section, do hereby make the following
rules for the purposes aforesaid.

RULES.

1. Every application under section 16 or section 17 of the said
   Act shall be in the form No. 1 in the First Schedule hereto,
   or as near thereto as circumstances will permit, and shall be
   signed by the applicant or the applicants in the presence of
   and shall be attested by a Stipendiary Magistrate, Justice of
   the Peace, Clerk of Court, or solicitor. Every application
   under section 24 of the said Act shall be in the form No. 2
   in the said Schedule, or to the effect thereof, and shall be
   signed and attested as aforesaid.

2. Every such application and every other application
   made to a Magistrate under Part III of the said Act shall be
   filed in the Court, and the Clerk of the Court shall keep a
   register in the form No. 3 in the First Schedule hereto,
   wherein particulars of all documents filed in each application
   for an adoption order shall be entered in numerical order.

3. On the filing of an application under these rules the
   Magistrate shall appoint some convenient place and time for