June 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2123

Situated on Boar Road. Access from Tongaporutu about fifteen miles and a half distant by unmetalled dray-road. The section comprises hilly and broken country, covered with a fairly heavy forest of birch, tawa, rimu, hinau, rata, &c., with a medium undergrowth. The soil is fair to good, formation chiefly papa, with a little sandstone; well watered. Elevation, from 100 ft. to 900 ft. above sea-level, the ridges averaging about 400 ft. above the valleys.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Hawera and Patea County.—Opaku Survey District.

Section 7, Block II: Area, 1,120 acres. Capital value, £560. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £14. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £11 4s.

Situated across the Patea River from Maben Road. Access from Patea about twenty-five miles distant—by dray-road fifteen miles, balance 6 ft. track. The Patea River runs between the section and the 6 ft. track. Access also from Hawera, about twenty-one miles distant—about thirteen miles metalled road, about two miles unmetalled dray-road, about two miles good 6 ft. track, about three miles partly formed rough horse-track, and about one mile along ridge. Ball Road Railway-station is about six miles nearer than Patea. The section comprises broken country rising steep from the Patea River to high birch ridges at the back. There is a small building-site on the north-western corner. The forest varies from light to heavy, comprising rimu, tawa, tawhero, rata, birch, &c., with a dense undergrowth of mahoe, supplejacks, tree-ferns, raurekau, &c. The soil is of indifferent quality, resting on sandstone and papa formation; and the section is well watered. Elevation ranges from 150 ft. to 1,517 ft. above sea-level.

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

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

Land temporarily reserved as a Site for Public Buildings of the General Government in Ohura Township, Taranaki 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 Taranaki Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, as a site for public buildings of the General Government.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Taranaki Land District, containing by admeasurement 2 acres 0 roods 12·95 perches, more or less, being Sections Nos. 1 to 8, Block VII, Ohura Township. Bounded towards the north-west by part of Ohura Road, 59·96 links; towards the north-east by Crown land, 894·78 links; towards the south-east by Tui Street, 460·28 links; and towards the south-west by Ohura Road, 800·34 links; be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. VI/7 (5), 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 twenty-first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

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

Regulations made under the Census and Statistics Act, 1910.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Census and Statistics Act, 1910, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby make the following regulations prescribing additional matter in regard to which the Statistician shall collect statistics.

REGULATIONS.

1. In addition to the matters specified in paragraphs (a) to (j) of section 21 of the Census and Statistics Act, 1910, and in previous regulations thereunder, the Statistician shall, subject to that section, collect statistics in regard to stocks of wheat, flour, and oats.

2. Every person carrying on business as a farmer, grain-merchant, or grain-miller, or any other person holding stocks of wheat, flour, or oats, shall on request, within such time or times as he may be required by the Statistician so to do, furnish particulars as to stocks of wheat, flour, and oats held by him on a date or dates to be specified by the Statistician.

3. In order to comply with the last preceding regulation every such person shall fill up and supply to the Statistician, or to any officer authorized by him in writing, the particulars specified in the form set out in the Schedule hereto, in accordance with the instructions accompanying that form, and shall sign the form certifying to the correctness of the particulars entered therein.

4. These regulations shall apply to all managers and others who may for the time being be in charge of the farm, warehouse, or mill in the owner’s absence.

SCHEDULE.

The Census and Statistics Act, 1910.

Stocks of Wheat, Flour, and Oats.

Name of Farmer, Merchant, or Miller:
[Cross out designations not applicable.]

Postal Address:

PARTICULARS REQUIRED AS AT [Date].

I. Quantity of wheat held:—
(1.) Milling-wheat in grain,—
(a.) New Zealand.. bushels.
(b.) Australian imported .. bushels.
(c.) Canadian imported .. bushels.
(2.) Wheat in grain other than milling bushels.
(3.) Wheat in stack (approximate quantity) .. bushels.

II. Quantity of flour held .. tons (of 2,000 lb.).

III. Quantity of oats held:—
(1.) In grain .. bushels.
(2.) In stack (approximate quantity).. bushels.

I declare that the information contained in this Schedule is complete and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

[Signature of person furnishing the information.]

Date: 1915.

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

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Agriculture.

Declaring Manukau Oyster-fishery.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

WHEREAS by Warrant dated the eleventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 42, of the thirteenth day of that month, the bays, estuaries, and tidal waters of Manukau Harbour, situated inside a straight line drawn from the summit of Paratutu on the North Head to the lighthouse on the South Head of that harbour, were declared to be a fishery under the name of “The Manukau Oyster-fishery”:

And whereas by section forty of the Fisheries Act, 1908, it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, by notice in the Gazette, declare that any oyster-fishery shall be set apart for the purposes of the said section—that is, that it shall be set apart as an oyster-fishery in which the Minister may employ persons for the purpose of taking oysters:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, G.C.M.G., M.V.O., the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the hereinafore-recited power and authority, do hereby declare and set apart the Manukau Oyster-fishery to be an oyster-fishery for the purposes of section forty of the Fisheries Act, 1908.

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

W. H. HERRIES,
Minister of Marine.