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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 72

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 sixth day of November, 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.—ASHBURTON COUNTY.—WAKANUI SURVEY DISTRICT.—VALVERDE SETTLEMENT.

First-class Land.

IMPROVEMENTS.

The improvements which are included in the prices of the sections consist of : Section 10—238 chains of fencing, valued at £70; Section 11—240 chains of fencing, valued at £70.

DESCRIPTION OF SETTLEMENT.

Valverde Settlement is situated about eight miles from Ashburton Township and Railway-station. It is all good agricultural, cropping land, about 50 ft. above sea-level, which has produced fine crops of cereals and roots. The settlement is well watered by water-races.

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

H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

It consists of first-class agricultural, level and undulating land of good quality, on a clay subsoil, and is practically all ploughable.

Section 1 is stony in places along the Scargill Creek, and about 30 acres of the highest part is still in tussock. Watered by the Scargill Creek and small streams.

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

H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Regulation under Section 283 of the Licensing Act, 1908, relating to the Cook Islands.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on me by section two hundred and eighty-three of the Licensing Act, 1908, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby make the following regulation in order to secure the proper administration of Part XI of the said Act.

REGULATION.

The Resident Commissioner, if satisfied that there is reasonable ground to believe that any liquor is sold, or exposed or kept for sale, or manufactured for sale or consumption, at any place in the Cook Islands, whether a building or not, contrary to the provisions of Part XI of the Licensing Act, 1908, may by Warrant under his hand authorize any Collector of Customs or other person named therein, at any time or times within one month from the date thereof, to enter, and if need be by force, the place named in the Warrant, and every part thereof, and examine the same, and search for liquor therein, and seize and remove any liquor found therein which there is reasonable ground to suppose is in such place for the purpose of unlawful sale at that or any other place, or has been unlawfully manufactured, and the vessels containing any such liquor.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-seventh day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

M. POMARE.

Opening Settlement Land 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 land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Wednesday, the sixth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, at the rental mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said land shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—WAIPARA COUNTY.—WAIKARI SURVEY DISTRICT.—SCARGILL SETTLEMENT.

First-class Land.

IMPROVEMENTS.

The improvements which are included in the capital value of the section consists of 159 chains of boundary and subdivisional fencing, and a plantation, valued at £71 5s.

DESCRIPTION.

Scargill Settlement is situated within a mile of the Scargill Railway-station, on the Christchurch-Cheviot Railway, fifty-five miles from Christchurch, and is approached from Scargill by a good level road.

Postmaster appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that

WILLIAM CARL BESKY,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at Alton, is authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

As witness my hand, this fifth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

ISLINGTON. Governor.

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 7th September, 1912.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned persons to be Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz. :

Name. District.
ALBERT GEORGE SEELEN .. Methven.
ANNIE THOMPSON Maungaturoto.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.