Aug. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2947

REGULATIONS.

1. NOTWITHSTANDING anything contained in the regulations made under the Animals Protection Act, 1908, dated 3rd March, 1915, the Secretary of the Hawke's Bay Acclimatization Society at Napier, or any person or persons duly authorized in writing by such Secretary, may, during the period hereinafter mentioned, kill red and black tail Virginian deer of either sex and of any age which, in the opinion of the said Secretary or of the said authorized persons, should be destroyed either by reason of age, deformity, or other physical imperfection.

2. Such deer may be destroyed as aforesaid during the period from the date hereof to the 30th September, 1915.

3. A return shall be furnished to the Minister of Internal Affairs by the said Secretary within one calendar month after the expiry of the aforesaid period, and such return shall state the number and sexes of all red and black tail Virginian deer so destroyed as aforesaid, the dates, and name of person by whom and the locality in which the deer were destroyed.

4. Nothing herein contained shall extend to authorizing any person to sell any deer or any portion thereof.

5. Any person who commits a breach of any of the provisions of these regulations shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £20.

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

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Declaring Road-lines through Land in the Waihau Settlement, Hawke's Bay Land District, to be closed.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

WHEREAS a report has been received from the Surveyor-General, from which it appears that the roads described in the Schedule hereto are unformed and unused, and that the said roads intersect land acquired under the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, and are not suitable to the subdivision of such land:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of section eighty of the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities in anyway enabling me in this behalf, do by this notice hereby close the roads hereinafter described; and I do hereby declare that the said roads shall thereupon become subject to the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

WAIHAU SETTLEMENT.

Approximate Areas of the Pieces of Road required to be closed.

Adjoining or passing through Blocks

Situated in Block

Shown on Plan

A. R. P.

0 3 39·3 118 X L. & S. 19441/87A.

8 3 11 118, 52, 102, 50 XI

0 1 32·5 50, 102 “ L. & S. 19441/87B.

0 0 37·4 102 “

0 0 0·02 102 “

0 0 26·6 102 “

0 0 2·3 49 “

1 3 34·9 49, 102 “

0 0 25 102 “

0 0 15·7 102 “

(Patoka Crown-grant District)

Situated in the Patoka Survey District.

In the Hawke's Bay Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plans marked as above mentioned, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured green.

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

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands.

Lands temporarily reserved in the 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:

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:

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 temporarily reserve from sale the lands in the Auckland Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written for the purposes in the said Schedule specified at the end of the respective descriptions of the lands so intended to be temporarily reserved.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing two acres, more or less, being Section 1B, Tautari Settlement (Block X, Maungatautari Survey District). Bounded towards the south-west and north-west by Section 1, Tautari Settlement, 400 and 518·3 links respectively; towards the south-east and north-east by the Maunga Road, 92·1, 240·2, and 90·3 links; and again towards the south-east by Maungatautari No. 4c Section 3 Block, 549·2 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 2/281, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red. (Auckland Plan 14694/2, blue). For a public cemetery.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing 5 acres 3 roods 14 perches, more or less, being Section 1, Block VIII, Purua Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by Sections 3 and 4, Block VIII, Purua Survey District, 1023·1 links; towards the south-east and south-west by Section 4 aforesaid and the abutment of a public road, 62·3, 177·3, 109·3, and 1060·3 links; and towards the north-west by Whauwhaupounamu Block, 699·1 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 1913/1553, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red. (Auckland Plan 15957, blue.) For water-conservation purposes.

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

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands.

Opening Settlement Land in Auckland 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 land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Tuesday, the twenty-eighth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, at the rental mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said land shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—OTAMATEA COUNTY.—OTAMATEA SURVEY DISTRICT.—BICKERSTAFFE SETTLEMENT.

Second-class Land.

SECTION 46, Block I: Area, 249 acres 1 rood 20 perches; capital value, £500; half-yearly rent, £11 5s.

Weighted with £90, valuation for improvements consisting of 90 chains fencing.

Altitude, 25 ft. to 100 ft. above sea level. Easy undulating country; about 30 acres manuka forest, balance manuka scrub. Good heavy black soil, on limestone formation, on about half the section; brown loam and clay of inferior quality on balance; badly watered, supply disappearing in summer time. Distant five miles from Batley by cart-road.

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

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands.