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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 131

Opening Lands in Wellington Land District for Sale or Selection.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, having received the report of the Under-Secretary in this behalf, as provided by section one hundred and fifty-four of the said Act, do hereby declare that the lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on Tuesday, the ninth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen; and also that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase, or on renewable lease; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—WAIMARINO COUNTY.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Karioi Survey District.

SECTION 1, Block X: Area, 77 acres 1 rood 31 perches. Cash purchase: Total price, £155. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £3 17s. 6d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £3 2s.

Weighted with £35, valuation for improvements.

Situated to the south of main coach-road and trunk railway between Waiouru and Ninia, the distance from latter place being about two miles and a half. Flat and undulating tussock land, with soil of semi-volcanic character resting on pumiceous formation. The improvements comprise ten-roomed boardinghouse, dining-room and kitchen, billiard-room, potaka; two-roomed house, loose-box, and billiard-room. These buildings are in poor repair.

Section 16, Block V: Area, 100 acres 0 roods 5 perches. Cash purchase: Total price, £400. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £10. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £8.

Weighted with £50 10s., valuation for improvements.

Makotuku Survey District.

Section 27, Block VIII: Area, 91 acres 2 roods 32 perches. Cash purchase: Total price, £370. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £9 5s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £7 8s.

Situated in the Wanganui United East Block, the access being from Ohakune and Rangataua Railway-stations, which are distant about five miles and four miles respectively by formed dray-road partly metalled. Flat and undulating land. Soil is of volcanic loam, on sandstone formation. The forest has been milled, and most of the large trees removed; but there is sufficient left for fencing purposes, comprising matai, rimu, and kahikatea. Watered by streams. Elevation is about 2,000 ft. above sea-level.

The improvements on Section 16 comprise 10 acres felled and grassed, and 34 chains of fencing.

Section 4, Block XIV: Area, 441 acres 2 roods 20 perches. Cash purchase: Total price, £885. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £22 2s. 6d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £17 14s.

Weighted with £7 10s., half value of 30 chains of boundary fence.

Situated on the Mangawhero River, about half a mile from the Raetihi-Parapara Road. The access is from Raetihi, which is about six miles and a half distant—six miles by dray-road and half a mile by surveyed road. Hilly forest country, with soil of good quality on papa formation. The forest comprises rimu, matai, maire, tawa, tawhero, &c., with dense undergrowth of usual kind. Well watered by numerous streams. Elevation ranges from 1,000 ft. to 1,800 ft. above sea-level.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Whirinaki Survey District.

Section 5, Block XI: Area, 1,576 acres. Cash purchase: Total price, £1,970. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £49 5s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £39 8s.

Section 6, Block XI: Area, 745 acres. Cash purchase: Total price, £940. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £23 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £18 16s.

Situated in the South Waimarino (Mangatiti) Block, the access being from Raetihi, which is about twenty-four miles distant, via the Raetihi, Ohura, Mangatiti, Pehu, and Murumuru Roads, which are formed for dray traffic for about twenty miles; the balance is formed bridle-track. Hilly and rough land, with a few patches of easy ground. Soil is of fairly good quality, on sandstone and papa formation. The forest is fairly heavy, and comprises tawa, rimu, rata, miro, hinau, and a few matais and kahikateas, with thick undergrowth of usual kind. Watered by streams. Elevation ranges from about 1,000 ft. to 2,000 ft. above sea-level.

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

H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands:

Trustees for the Matapouri Public Cemetery appointed.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the fourth section of the Cemeteries Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

EDMUND HAROLD GREGOR and
EDGAR JOHN CHESSWAS

to be Trustees, in the place of Charles James and Edward Francis Liffiton, left the district, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Matapouri Public Cemetery, in conjunction with Joseph Robert Annabell, Andrew Smith, and Frederick Browne, previously appointed.

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

H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Exempting Crown Land from the Operation of the Mining Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers conferred on me by the Mining Act, 1908, and of all other powers on that behalf, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby exempt from the operations of the aforesaid Act and its amendments the Crown land described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

KNOWSLEY PARK SETTLEMENT.

ALL those areas of land in the Southland Land District, containing together by admeasurement 4,942 acres 2 roods 2 perches, more or less, situated in Blocks VI, VII, and IX, Tuturau Survey District, being Sections 1 to 11, both inclusive, on the plan of Knowsley Park Settlement; as the said sections are delineated on the plan marked Mines 1914/1324, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Mines, at Wellington, and thereon edged with green.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-fourth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Mines.

Members of the Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 1st December, 1914.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

CHARLES ALFRED EWEN, Esq., and
ALEXANDER HORSBURGH TURNBULL, Esq.,

to be members of the Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute, as constituted by the New Zealand Institute Act, 1908.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.