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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 20

is plentiful. The bush has no value for sawmilling. The soil is fair. Situated on the south side of a rather steep ridge. Two miles from Purekireki School and telephone-office, and about sixteen miles from Owaka Railway-station. Formed road to within a mile of the section.

Clutha County.—Woodland Survey District.

Section 7, Block VIII ; Area, 225 acres. Rent per acre per annum (approximate), 6d. Capital value, £115. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £2 17s. 6d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £2 6s.

Situated about four miles and a half from Ratanui School, post-office, and dairy factory, and about six miles from Catlin’s Railway-siding. Access by formed road. Bush land, rough and broken; the bush is heavy, and consists principally of kamai of no commercial value; well watered. The soil is of very fair quality.

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

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands.

Warrant vesting Control of Otangae Stream Bridge and Approaches in the Pahiatua County Council, and apportioning the Cost of maintaining the Same.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and twenty of the Public Works Act, 1908 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), it is, inter alia, enacted that the Governor may, by Warrant under his hand publicly notified and gazetted, direct that any bridge already constructed, or which may hereafter be constructed, over or across any river or arm of the sea respectively shall, from and after the date to be fixed in such Warrant, be under the exclusive care, control, and management of such local authority as shall be mentioned in that behalf in such Warrant; and may by any such Warrant as aforesaid fix and determine whether all or any, and, if so, what part, of the cost, whether theretofore incurred or thereafter to be incurred, of maintaining, repairing, improving, or reconstructing any such bridge is to be provided and paid by the local authority or local authorities, and, if so, by what local authority or local authorities; and may by any such Warrant as aforesaid direct how, when, and to whom any such payment is to be made:

And whereas it is considered expedient to make provision under the said Act for the purposes and in the manner hereinafter set forth:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby direct that the bridge and approaches known as the Otangae Stream Bridge and approaches, as described in the Schedule hereto, shall, from and after the date of the gazetting hereof, be under the exclusive care, control, and management of the Pahiatua County Council; and, in further pursuance and in exercise of the aforesaid powers and authorities, I do hereby fix and determine that the cost of maintaining, repairing, improving, or reconstructing the said bridge and approaches shall be borne by the Pahiatua County Council.

SCHEDULE.

That bridge over the Otangae Stream, in the Wellington Land District, Pahiatua County, and known as the Otangae Stream Bridge, situated opposite Section 10, Block XIII, Mangahao Survey District, together with the approaches thereto; the northern approach commencing at a point marked “O” on the Kopikopiko Road, about 5 chains from the southern boundary of Section 10 and 3 chains distant from the left bank of the Mangahao River, and proceeding in a northerly direction generally and terminating at the south end of the said bridge; the southern approach commencing at the north end of the said bridge and running in a northerly direction to a point marked 8 chains 70 links on the said road. As the site of the said bridge and approaches is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 39342, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured red.

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

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

Postmasters 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 the persons set out in the Schedule hereto, being persons holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at the places set opposite their names in the said Schedule, are authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

PRICE, FRANCIS REUBEN .. .. Takaka.
BLAKLEY, ROMULUS .. .. Te Kuiti.

As witness my hand, this sixteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

Postmasters 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 the persons set out in the Schedule hereto, being persons holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at the places set opposite their names in the said Schedule, are authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

Holdsworth, Frederick Dunn .. .. Auckland.
Whelan, Charles .. .. Blenheim.
Ward, William Thomas .. .. Christchurch.
McHutcheson, William .. .. Dunedin.
Pickett, John Joseph .. .. Gisborne.
St. George, Douglas .. .. Greymouth.
Empson, George Augustus .. .. Hokitika.
King, Thomas Theodore .. .. Invercargill.
Northcroft, Ernest .. .. Napier.
Gee, William .. .. Nelson.
Burton, Charles Hebert .. .. New Plymouth.
Hill, Charles .. .. Oamaru.
White, Percy Paget .. .. Thames.
Kissel, Henry .. .. Timaru.
Sampson, George William .. .. Wanganui.
Dryden, Alfred Ponsford .. .. Wellington.
Mann, Arnold William .. .. Westport.

As witness my hand this sixteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

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: