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Section 7.—Easy ridges and flat terrace, mostly ploughable, in native and English grasses, with patches of manuka scrub and some mixed bush on the Mangamauka Stream; permanent water. Altitude, from 900 ft. to 1,300 ft. About seventeen miles from Waipawa.

Section 8.—All flat terraces, almost all ploughable, in fair pasture. Altitude, from 800 ft. to 900 ft. About sixteen miles from Waipawa.

Section 9.—All flat terrace, nearly all ploughable, in fair pasture. Altitude, about 800 ft. About sixteen miles from Waipawa.

Block XIII, Maraekakaho Survey District.

Section 43.—Flat terraces, nearly all ploughable, in fair pasture. Altitude, from about 800 ft. About fifteen miles from Waipawa. Has good belt of well-grown shelter plantation along its western boundary, which gives protection from west and north-west winds.

Section 44.—Flat terrace, nearly all ploughable, in fair pasture. Altitude, about 800 ft. About fifteen miles from Waipawa.

Section 45.—Flat terrace, almost all ploughable, in fair pasture, with a little manuka scrub. About fourteen miles from Waipawa. Altitude, about 800 ft.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

Gwavas Settlement is situated on the Kēreru-Waipawa Road, the nearest part of the estate being about a mile and a half from Tikokino, and about fourteen miles from Waipawa Railway-station, by a good metalled road. All the sections are accessible by motor-car.

The settlement consists mostly of easy ridges, portions of which are ploughable, and small flats. Sections 8 and 9, Block XII, Waka-ara Survey District, and Sections 43, 44, and 45, Maraekakaho Survey District, are all flat terrace land, nearly all ploughable. The soil is light, but is in fair pasture at present, and will grow good root crops when cultivated.

The altitude ranges from 800 ft. to 1,600 ft. above sea-level; there is permanent water on most of the sections, and it can be obtained by sinking in the stream-beds if necessary. There is a little fencing-timber on Sections 3, 5, 6, and 7.

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

H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands

Opening Settlement Lands in Otago 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, and amendments, 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 Tuesday, the ninth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, 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.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—CLUTHA COUNTY.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Glenkenich Survey District.—Conical Hills Settlement.

SECTION 17A: Area, 56 acres 1 rood 35 perches; rent per acre per annum (approximate), 6s. 5d.; half-yearly rent, £9. Weighted with £20, valuation for small house.

Situated about two miles and three-quarters from Pomahaka Railway-station, on the Tapanui Branch line. Access by good gravelled road. The school is about half a mile away. Practically level land, nearly all ploughable. The soil is dark loam, on clay formation; watered by Pomahaka River.

The improvements included in the capital value of the land consist of half value of 13 chains of gorse fencing on the east boundary, valued at £1 6s.

Clutha Survey District.—Otanomomo Settlement.

Section 9A: Area, 85 acres 2 roods 30 perches; rent per acre per annum (approximate), 16s. 9d.; half-yearly rent, £36. Weighted with £133 4s., valuation for improvements consisting of cow-byre, fencing, clearing, and cultivation.

Situated on Clutha River flats, about four miles downstream from Balclutha. There is a formed road past the section, and a school and a dairy factory within half a mile. The soil is rich black loam, on river-silt formation, and is capable of producing excellent root crops and grass. There is some sunken timber through the section. The section is not well watered.

The improvements included in the capital value of the land consist of 28¾ chains of fencing on the east boundary, 17 chains of internal fencing, and 27 chains of ditching, of a total value of £38 6s.

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

H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Portion of a Primary Education Endowment in Block III, New River Hundred, Southland Land District, set apart as a Site for a Public School.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

WHEREAS by section five of the Education Reserves Amendment Act, 1911, it is enacted that the Governor may, on the recommendation of the Land Board of the district in which are situated any reserves or endowments vested in the Crown by or in pursuance of section two of the Education Reserves Amendment Act, 1910, set apart as sites for public schools, secondary schools, or technical schools any part of such reserves or endowments:

And whereas the Land Board of the Southland Land District has duly passed a resolution recommending that the portion of the primary-education endowment described in the Schedule hereto should be set apart as a site for a public school, and it is expedient to give effect to such recommendation:

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 conferred by the Acts aforesaid, do hereby set apart the portion of the primary education endowment described in the Schedule hereto as a site for a public school.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Southland Land District, containing by admeasurement 5 acres, more or less, being part of Section 48, Block III, New River Hundred. Bounded towards the north by Section 47, Block III, New River Hundred, 975 links; towards the east by a road, 100 links; again towards the north, 103·7 links; and again towards the east, 373·1 links, by the said road; towards the south by other part of Section 48 aforesaid, 1078·7 links; and towards the west by other part of said Section 48, 473·1 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. VI/6 (25), 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 December, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Changing the Purpose of a Reserve in Kaponga Village, Taranaki Land District.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

WHEREAS the provisions and requirements of the seventh section of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, have been duly complied with in respect of the land described in the Schedule hereto: And whereas notices in the Gazette have been duly published for four consecutive weeks, and laid before Parliament, as provided by the said section of the said Act: And whereas no resolution of either House of Parliament has been passed that such House does not concur in the intention declared in any such notice:

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 Act aforesaid, do hereby change the specific purpose of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto from a site for a post-office to a site for a police-station.