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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 33

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 twelfth day of May, 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.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.-SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Waimea County.-Wai-iti Survey District.

SECTIONS 14, 15, and 16, Block X : Area, 248 acres 2 roods 11 perches. Cash purchase : Total price, £320. Occupation with right of purchase : Half-yearly rent, £8. Renewable lease : Half-yearly rent, £6 8s.

All low hills ; about 120 acres have been burnt and grassed ; balance green bush, milling-timber recently cut out. Land suitable for pastoral purposes. Situated about fifteen miles from Wakefield Railway-station by dray-road, and a mile and a half by unformed road.

Waimea County.-Tadmor Survey District.

Section 23, Block VIII : Area, 314 acres. Cash purchase : Total price, £200. Occupation with right of purchase : Half-yearly rent, £5. Renewable lease : Half-yearly rent, £4. Weighted with £12, valuation for fencing, bushfalling, and grassing.

About 80 acres open fern spurs ; remainder inferior brown-birch bush and scrub. Accessible by metalled road, about six miles from Motupiko Railway-station.

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

H. D. BELL,

For Minister of Lands.

Part of Taieri River and Section 9, Block 22, Strath-Taieri Survey District, to be Sanctuaries for Imported and Native Game.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

Pursuant to the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare the areas described in the Schedule hereto to be sanctuaries for the purposes of the said Animals Protection Act, and that no imported or native game shall be taken or killed in the said area

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Otago Land District being that part of the Taieri River from the suspension bridge at Middlemarch to the bridge at Ngapuna, and the area included in lines running parallel to and 3 chains distant from the said part of the Taieri River on both sides of that river.

Also all that area in the said district being Section No. 9, Block 22, Strath-Taieri Survey District.

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

H. D. BELL,

Minister of Internal Affairs.

Postmaster 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 WILLIAM SAMUEL THOMPSON, being a person holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at Fordell, is authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

As witness my hand this twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

Regulations for the Conduct of Elections of Members of the Council of Education.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by Part II of the Education Act, 1914, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby make the following regulations prescribing the method of conducting the election of elective members of the General Council of Education constituted under the said Act.

REGULATIONS.

1. For the purpose of the elections of members of the General Council of Education (hereinafter called "the Council") the Minister of Education shall, by notice in the New Zealand Gazette, appoint some person to be the Returning Officer, and name the address at which the business of the elections shall be conducted.

2. The eight classes of electors specified in section 8 of the Education Act, 1914, shall be entered on separate rolls, which shall be called respectively-

The North Island Education Boards Roll;

The South Island Education Boards Roll;

The North Island Public School Male Teachers Roll;

The South Island Public School Male Teachers Roll;

The Secondary and Technical Male Teachers Roll;

The North Island Public School Women Teachers Roll;

The South Island Public School Women Teachers Roll;

The Secondary and Technical Women Teachers Roll;

and such rolls shall be open to public inspection at the office of the Returning Officer at all reasonable times.