2860
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 68

Appointing a Member of the Otago Harbour Board.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

WHEREAS it is provided by section seventeen of the Harbours Amendment Act, 1910, that the office of any member of a Harbour Board shall become vacant if, inter alia, he resigns his office by writing under his hand delivered to the Secretary or Chairman of the Board :

And whereas it is provided by subsection two of section eighteen of the said Act that when an elective member other than a representative of a constituent district vacates his office on the Board through the operation of the said section seventeen the Governor may, by Warrant under his hand, appoint some qualified person in his place :

And whereas George Barkentin Bullock, an elective member of the Otago Harbour Board, being a representative of the payers of harbour dues on ships, has resigned his office as a member of the Board, and it is desirable to appoint a qualified person as a representative of such payers of harbour dues in his place :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the hereinbefore-recited power and authority, doth hereby appoint

GEORGE ROBERT RITCHIE

to be a member of the Otago Harbour Board as a representative of the payers of harbour dues on ships, in the place of George Barkentin Bullock, resigned.

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

F. M. B. FISHER.

Land temporarily reserved as a Site for a Post-office in the Town of Mawaihakona, Wellington Land District.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-twenty-first section of the Land Act, 1908, it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned :

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the land in the Wellington Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, as a site for a post-office.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 2 roods 11 perches, more or less, being Section 12, Town of Mawaihakona. Bounded towards the north-west by Hutt Road, 194·5 links and 9·3 links; towards the north-east by Tawai Road, 357·3 links; towards the south-east by Section 28, Town of Mawaihakona, 121·7 links; and towards the south-west by Section 11 of said town, 350 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. VI/3 (14), deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

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

H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Land temporarily reserved as a Site for a Public School in Paremoremo Parish, Auckland Land District.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-twenty-first section of the Land Act, 1908, it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned :

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the land in the Auckland Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, as a site for a public school.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing 7 acres 2 roods 1 perch, more or less, being Allotment 94, Paremoremo Parish. Bounded towards the north-west by Allotment 94A, Paremoremo Parish, 1318·5 links; towards the east and south-east by a public road, 497 and 973·6 links respectively; and towards the south-west by a public road along the Oteha Stream, 619·6 and 451·2 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. VI/6 (17), deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged purple. (Auckland Plan 17719, blue.)

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

H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Opening National Endowment Lands in Wellington Land District for 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, do hereby declare that the national endowment lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Wednesday, the twenty-third day of September, 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 Act.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Waimarino County.—Whirinaki Survey District.—Ruatiti Block.

SECTION 5, Block XII: Area, 910 acres; capital value, £1,780; half-yearly rental, £35 12s.

Situated in the Ruatiti Block, the access being from Raetihi, which is about twenty miles distant by dray-road and bridle-track. The section comprises hilly and rough land, with a few small flats or patches of easy ground. Soil is of fairly good quality, on papa and sandstone formation. The forest is fairly heavy, and comprises tawhero on ridges, tawa, rimu, rata, miro, hinau, a few matai and kahikatea, with dense undergrowth of usual kind. Watered by streams. The elevation ranges from about 1,100 ft. to 2,000 ft. above sea-level.

Patea County.—Taumata mahoe Survey District.—Whakaihuwaka Block.

Section 6, Block I: Area, 843 acres; capital value, £2,470; half-yearly rental, £49 8s.

Situated on Taunoka Road, in Whakaihuwaka Block, the access being by proposed bridle-track from the Wanganui River, about seven miles distant. Access also from Waitotara, about thirty-nine miles distant. There is a formed and partly metalled dray-road to within about four miles from the Whakaihuwaka Block. The section comprises about 200 acres of good easy country, with small flats and undulations; the remainder broken spurs with gorges between. Soil is of good quality, resting on papa formation. The forest is heavy, chiefly tawa; with mahoe, rewarewa, rata, a few pines, and a little tawhero and birch on ridges; with usual dense undergrowth. Well watered. Elevation ranges from 800 ft. to 2,000 ft. above sea-level.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this sixteenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen

H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Opening Town Lands in Wellington Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

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