May 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1719

And whereas, to enable confirmation of a sale by the owner (Wiri Warihi) of Kakepuku No. 4b Block, the Wai-kato-Maniapoto District Maori Land Board recommends that such consent shall be given: And whereas it is expedient so to do:

Now, therefore, 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 consent to the confirmation of the aforesaid sale, notwithstanding the fact that the Natives may thereby become landless within the meaning of the said Act. 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 proceedings hereby authorized.

J. HISLOP,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Shooting Season for Imported Game, License Fee, &c., South Canterbury Acclimatization District.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection Act, 1908, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify that the following imported game—viz., opossums—may be killed within the South Canterbury Acclimatization District, comprising the Counties of Geraldine and Levels, and that portion of the County of Mackenzie lying to the east of a line commencing at Mount Cook and proceeding by a right line over the Ball Hut to the Tasman Glacier, thence along the western boundary of the Tasman Glacier to the Tasman River, thence by a line along the middle of that river, and the middle of Lake Pukaki, and the middle of Pukaki River to the Waitaki River, together with the Boroughs of Geraldine, Timaru, and Temuka (except in the areas mentioned in the Schedule hereto), from the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, both days inclusive. And I do further notify that licenses to kill such imported game within the said district shall be issued to any person on payment of the sum of twenty shillings each; and the Chief Postmaster at Timaru, and the Postmaster, Temuka, are hereby appointed to sign and issue the said licenses to kill imported game.

SCHEDULE.

AREAS WHEREIN IMPORTED GAME SHALL NOT BE KILLED.

ALL lands notified or set apart as sanctuaries or reserves for the preservation of imported or native game.

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

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Notifying Lands in Auckland 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 Friday, the thirtieth day of August, 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.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

TOWN LAND.

Town of Paeroa.

Paeroa is situated on the Thames-Te Aroha Railway, seventy miles from Auckland, via Thames, and one hundred and thirty miles by direct rail from Auckland.

VILLAGE LAND.

Village of Te Kauri.

Te Kauri Village is situated on Tauranga Harbour, near Katikati entrance, and is distant about eighteen miles from Tauranga by water and about seventeen miles from Waihi by road.

RURAL LAND.

Waikato County, Parish of Taupiri.

476 .. 60 0 0 150 0 0

Situated near Te Hoe Post-office, about eleven miles from Ohinewai; soil, rich swamp on clay formation; contains few small cabbage-trees, flax, and tui-grass; subject to floods.

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

THOS. MACKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.