Nov. 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3559

Sections 16 to 18 all flat, cleared, and in grass; but owing to neglect covered with rushes. Situated on main road, adjoining Mokihinui-Seddonville Railway, about two miles from Mokihinui.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Member of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty's Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies: and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Government House at Wellington, this ninth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

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

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Declaring Crown Lands in the Karamea Mining District, Nelson Land District, open for Disposal on Renewable Lease.

[L.S.] LIVERPOOL, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and thirty-three of the Land Act, 1908, it is enacted that the Governor, by Proclamation, may from time to time declare any Crown lands within any mining district not held under lease or license, or for which a lease or license has been cancelled, to be open for disposal, as provided in section one hundred and thirty-five of the said Act:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by section one hundred and thirty-three of the said Act, and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the section of land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open on Wednesday, the tenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, for disposal on renewable lease, as provided in section one hundred and thirty-five of the said Act; and I do also declare that for the purposes of section one hundred and twenty-seven of the said Act the section of land described in the Schedule hereto shall be deemed to be light-bush land.

And I do hereby provide that, after the first half-year's rent has been paid by the selector, the further instalments of rent payable by him for a period of one year shall not be demanded; provided that if at any time during the first five years of his occupancy the selector disposes of his interest in the land the rent so conceded shall be paid by him in full, and thereupon the Land Board may remit such instalments of rent payable by the incoming tenant, not exceeding in the aggregate the amount of rent previously conceded to the selector, as the Board thinks fit.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—WAIMEA COUNTY.—KARAMEA MINING DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LIGHT-BUSH LAND.

(Exempt from Rent for One Year.)

Kaiteriteri Survey District.

SECTIONS 1, 34, and 101, Block XII: Area, 264 acres; capital value, £130; half-yearly rent, £2 12s.

Nealy all steep hillside pastoral country, with the exception of several small areas of from 2 to 5 acres, which can be cultivated for fruit. The land is covered with manuka scrub, fern, with a few small clumps of birch bush. About five miles from Riwaka Post-office, three miles and a half being by good dray-road, balance unformed road along tidal mud-flat.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Member of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty's Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Government House at Wellington, this ninth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

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

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Declaring Crown Lands in Westland and Karamea Mining Districts, Nelson Land District, open for Disposal to Discharged Soldiers.

[L.S.] LIVERPOOL, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and thirty-three of the Land Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor, by Proclamation, may from time to time declare any Crown lands within any mining district not held under lease or license, or for which a lease or license has been cancelled, to be open for disposal, as provided in section one hundred and thirty-five of the said Act:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by section one hundred and thirty-three of the said Act, and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the sections of land as described in the Schedules hereto, which have been set apart for selection by discharged soldiers under the said Act, shall be open on Wednesday, the tenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, for disposal on renewable lease, as provided in section one hundred and thirty-five of the said Act.

And I do also declare that for the purposes of section one hundred and twenty-seven of the said Act the sections of land described in the Second Schedule shall be deemed to be “heavy-bush land,” and the sections described in the Third Schedule shall be deemed to be “light-bush land,” and the section in the Fourth Schedule shall be deemed to be “scrub land.”

And I do hereby provide that, after the first half-year's rent has been paid by the selector, the further instalments of rent payable by him for a period of four years in the case of “heavy-bush land,” two years in the case of “light-bush land,” and one year in the case of “scrub land” shall not be demanded; provided that if at any time during the first five years of his occupancy the selector disposes of his interest in the land the rent so conceded shall be paid by him in full, and thereupon the Land Board may remit such instalments of rent payable by the incoming tenant, not exceeding in the aggregate the amount of rent previously conceded to the selector, as the Board thinks fit.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

(No Exemption from Rent.)

Buller County.—Mokihinui Survey District.—Karamea Mining District.

SECTIONS 20 and 26, Block XI: Area, 23 acres 0 roods 16 perches; capital value, £37 10s.; half-yearly rent, 15s.

About 3 acres low-lying and swampy, difficult to drain; balance hillside, all bush, consisting of brown and silver birch, few rimu and white-pine, with undergrowth of supple-jack and kiekie. Access by road now being formed alongside railway-line, about two miles from Mokihinui.

Sections 22 and 27, Block XI: Area, 20 acres 3 roods 24 perches; capital value, £35; half-yearly rent, 14s.

About 3 acres low-lying and swampy, but can be drained when road-drain is formed; balance hillside, poorly watered, all bush, consisting of mixed birch and rimu. Access by road now being formed alongside railway-line, about two miles from Mokihinui.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

HEAVY-BUSH LAND.

(Exempt from Rent for Four Years.)

Murchison County.—Burnett Survey District.—Westland Mining District.

SECTION 5, Block III: Area, 482 acres; capital value, £340; half-yearly rent, £6 16s.

About 50 acres good flat land along river frontage and creeks, balance ranges from easy spurs to fairly steep country. All bush, principally red and brown birch, with a few pines on lower flats; mixed underscrub, consisting of horopito, broadleaf, five-finger, &c. Generally fair cattle-feed throughout. Good soil on flats, hillsides very fair to poor on highest slopes. About twenty-five miles to Murchison—about nineteen miles by formed road, balance by horse-track which is being gradually widened into cart-road.