SEPT. 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3177

Lands permanently reserved.

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:

And whereas by the three-hundred-and-twenty-second section of the said Act it is provided that land temporarily reserved under the said three-hundred-and-twenty-first section may, at the expiration of one month but not later than six months after the publication in the Gazette of notice of such temporary reservation, be permanently reserved, and that notice of such permanent reservation shall be published in the Gazette:

And whereas by the sixty-ninth section of the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, it is further provided that the Governor may from time to time, as he thinks fit, set aside reserves for any specified public purpose out of land acquired under the last-mentioned Act, provided that no land so acquired shall be set aside for endowments:

And whereas the lands specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto were, by the Warrants the dates of which are specified in the third column of the said Schedule, and the notifications of which were published in the Gazettes specified in the fourth column, temporarily reserved under the authority of the said Acts for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule:

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 Acts, do hereby permanently reserve the lands so temporarily reserved as aforesaid, and enumerated in the first column of the Schedule hereto, for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule, being the same purposes for which the said lands were so temporarily reserved as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

• Survey District.

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

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Opening Lands in Hawke’s Bay 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 Wednesday, the tenth day of November, 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.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—DANNEVIRKE COUNTY.—TAHORAITE SURVEY DISTRICT.

First-class Land.

SECTION 55, Block I: Area, 95 acres 3 roods 24 perches; capital value, £1,470. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £36 15s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £29 8s.

Undulating and level country, suitable for dairying and mixed farming. Good soil, on clay and shingle formation; fairly well watered. Distant five miles from Dannevirke by good metalled dray-road, through a well-established dairying district. Altitude, 600 ft. to 700 ft. above sea-level. Most of the area was originally bush country, now felled, cleared, and grassed, and all ploughable. Included in the price of the land is boundary and subdivisional fencing valued at £32 15s.

Section 2, Block V: Area, 175 acres 0 roods 27 perches; capital value, £2,360. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £59. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £47 4s.

Flat land, all ploughable. Light alluvial soil, on shingle formation; was originally mostly open Native clearing, now in native and exotic grasses; well watered by streams. Suitable for dairying. A little firewood bush along margin of stream on south boundary. Distant five miles and a half from Dannevirke by good metalled road. Altitude, 575 ft. to 600 ft. above sea-level. Included in the price of the land is boundary and subdivisional fencing valued at £28 10s.

Section 3, Block V: Area, 81 acres 2 roods 15 perches; capital value, £1,350. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £33 15s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £27.

Situated on the Oringi-Kiritaki Road, three-quarters of a mile from Oringi Railway-station and six miles from Dannevirke by good metalled dray-roads. First-class dairying land, all ploughable; well watered by streams. Originally bush land, now in grass, with a little firewood bush along the stream-bed. Good alluvial soil, on clay and shingle formation. Altitude, about 580 ft. to 600 ft. above sea-level. Included in the price of the section are the following improvements: Four-roomed dwelling, cow-shed and stable, all in advanced state of decay, and valued at £60; boundary and subdivisional fences, valued at £19; total, £79.