Feb. 19. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 613

IMPROVEMENTS.

The improvements which go with the sections comprise: Section 1—plantations and boundary and internal fences, valued at £385; Section 2—plantation and boundary and internal fences, valued at £151 10s.; Section 3—plantation and boundary and internal fences, valued at £130 15s.; Section 4—plantation and boundary and internal fencing, valued at £217 15s.; Section 5—plantation and boundary and internal fencing, valued at £217 10s.; Section 6—plantation and fencing, valued at £161; Section 7—plantation and fencing, valued at £291 10s.; Section 8—plantations and fencing, valued at £348; Section 9—plantation and fencing, valued at £170 10s.; Section 10—plantation and fencing, valued at £325 10s.; Section 11—plantations and fencing, valued at £294 10s.; Section 12—plantation and fencing, valued at £95 10s.; Sections 13 and 13A—boundary and internal fencing, valued at £446 15s.; Section 14—fencing, valued at £8 10s.; Section 15—fencing, valued at £62; Section 16—plantation and fencing, valued at £225 15s.; Section 17—plantation and boundary and internal fencing, valued at £456 15s.; Section 18—plantation and boundary and internal fencing, valued at £368 15s.; Section 19—plantation and fencing, valued at £292 3s.; Section 20—plantation and fencing, valued at £328 10s.; Section 21—plantation and fencing, valued at £200 10s.; Section 22—plantation, yards, and fencing, the whole valued at £324 5s.; Section 23—plantations and fencing, valued at £364 10s.; Section 24—plantations and fencing, valued at £417 15s.; Section 25—boundary and subdivisional fencing, valued at £111 10s.; Sections 26 and 26A—boundary and subdivisional fencing, valued at £210 11s.; Section 27—plantations and fencing, valued at £425 10s.; Section 28—plantation and fencing, valued at £505; Section 29—plantation and fencing, valued at £342 15s.; Section 30—fencing, valued at £159 5s.; Section 31—fencing, yards, and plantations, the whole valued at £198 10s.; Section 32—plantation and fencing, valued at £408 5s.; Section 33—plantation and fencing, valued at £185 2s.; Section 34—plantations and fencing, valued at £563; Section 35—plantations, fencing, yards, and dip, the whole valued at £1,100; Section 36—fencing, yards, and hut, the whole valued at £319 5s.; Section 37—fencing and small yards, together valued at £158 5s.; Section 38—fencing, valued at £71 4s.; Section 39—fencing, valued at £18 3s.; Section 40—fencing, valued at £101 15s.; Section 41—fencing, yards, and whare, together valued at £365 5s.; Section 42—fencing and yards, valued at £304; Section 43—fencing and yards, valued at £365 10s.

The improvements which do not go with the sections, but which must be paid for separately, comprise: Section 2—cottage containing four rooms and lean-to, valued at £120; Section 3—cottage and stable, the whole valued at £60—the other buildings on this section will be sold by auction for removal; Section 22—cottage and outbuildings valued at £120, whare at £60, and wool-shed and stable at £200—total, £380. Section 35—One-story house built of wood and cob, and roofed with iron, containing twelve rooms and six fireplaces, valued at £350; motor-shed, £35; blacksmith’s shop, £10; fowlhouse and yards, £8; stables, loose-boxes, and stockyard, £220; men’s cottage, £50; woolshed (less the west wing, which is to be sold for removal), £225; and reservoir and water-service, £40—total, £938. The other buildings on this section will be sold by auction for removal. The boarding-up of west end of woolshed is to be done at the expense of the incoming tenant. Section 42—homestead, built partly of wood and partly of cob, valued at £130; and woolshed (wood with iron roof), valued at £200—total, £330.

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

H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Opening Settlement Lands in Southland Land District for Selection.

LIVERPOOL, 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, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, 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 Thursday, the nineteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, 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.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SOUTHLAND COUNTY.—TUTURAU SURVEY DISTRICT.—WAIARIKIKI SETTLEMENT

Mixed Agricultural and Pastoral Land.

• Interest and sinking fund on buildings, valued at £50, payable in cash, or in fourteen years by half-yearly instalments of £2 10s. 6d. Total half-yearly payment, £40 6s. 6d.

† Interest and sinking fund on buildings, valued at £550, payable in cash, or in twenty-one years by half-yearly instalments of £21 9s. Total half-yearly payment, £73 13s.

IMPROVEMENTS.

The improvements which go with the sections are as follows: Section 2—282 chains boundary and subdivisional fencing, plantation, and sheep-dip, valued at £174 10s. Sections 3 and 4—470 chains boundary and subdivisional fencing and plantations, valued at £150 15s. 6d. Section 5 — 496 chains boundary and subdivisional fencing, valued at £67 3s. Section 6—343 chains boundary and subdivisional fencing, valued at £55 10s. 6d. Section 7—273 chains boundary and subdivisional fencing, valued at £27 15s. 6d. Section 8—358 chains boundary and subdivisional fencing, valued at £54 6s. Section 9—229 chains boundary-fencing, valued at £30 12s. 6d. Section 10—287 chains boundary and subdivisional fencing, valued at £43 5s. 6d.

The improvements which do not go with the land, but which must be paid for separately, comprise: Section 2—five-roomed cottage, valued at £50. Sections 3 and 4—eight-roomed house, men’s hut, woolshed, and stable, cowshed, and implement and buggy shed, of a total value of £550.

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

H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Postmasters 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, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that the persons set out in the Schedule hereto, being persons holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at the places set opposite their names in the said Schedule, are authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the two hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

JAMES KENT SILBY .. .. Awatuna East.
MRS. JOSEPHINE THORBURN.. .. .. Komata.
MRS. ELLEN DESORMEAUX STEWART .. .. Maharahara West.
MISS RITA PHYLLIS STEWART .. .. Mangawai.
ARTHUR OWEN .. .. Poroti.
GEORGE HAROLD CHAMBERS .. .. Sefton.

As witness my hand, this twelfth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

LIVERPOOL, Governor,