APRIL 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1129

Locality and Description.

These sections comprise part of an extension to the south of Raetihi Township, which is situated on the main road between Pipiriki and Ohakune Townships, about eight miles from the latter. Raetihi is the proposed terminus of a branch railway-line from Ohakune now under construction, and is the centre of an extensive and thriving district, with which it is connected by roads in all directions.

Most of the sections are flat, with good soil. The elevation is about 1,700 ft. above sea-level.

Sections 2, 3, 18, 20, Block XXI, are offered subject to an easement granted to the Ohakune Borough Council, 15 ft. wide, through them for construction and maintenance of a water fluming or conduit for electric-lighting purposes.

Locality and Description.

Situated near Ohakune Railway-station on the North Island Main Trunk Railway, nearly midway between Auckland and Wellington. The main township, distant rather more than a mile, contains post and telegraph office, school, town hall, numerous stores, &c. It is the outlet of a splendid sawmilling and dairying district. The railway to Raetihi now under construction branches off from Ohakune Station.

The sections offered comprise for the most part flat and undulating land covered with bush. Some are wet in places, but easily drained. Soil is light, partly on clay and partly on grit formation.

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

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands.

Opening Settlement Land in Wellington 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, 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 Wednesday, the twenty-fourth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, 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.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT. — MASTER TON COUNTY. — OTAHOUA SURVEY DISTRICT.—POROPORO SETTLEMENT.

First-class Land.

SECTION 13, Block XV: Area, 539 acres 1 rood; rent per acre (approximate), 10s. 4½d.; half-yearly rent, £140 3s. 6d. Weighted with £343, valuation for improvements.

Situated in Poroporo Settlement; the access being from Masterton, which is about eighteen miles distant via Weraiti and Westmore Roads—twelve miles metalled and six miles clay dray-road. Flat and easy hilly land in grass, intersected by Wainui-oru River and a small stream, and fenced on boundaries. Manuka scrub and small patches of native bush appear in places. Soil is of fair quality, on papa formation; well watered. A side cutting road of access has been formed down bank of Wainui-oru River to ford and up the opposite bank, so as to facilitate working of land. The improvements which are included in capital value of section are 152 chains of boundary and internal fencing, valued at £110. The improvements with which the section is loaded, and which must be paid for in cash, comprise the following: Felling scrub, 140 acres; 15 chains of fencing; stumping, logging, draining, and road-making; underground water-tank and pump; iron shed, 24 ft. by 30 ft. by 10 ft.—the whole valued at £343.

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

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands

Notice of Intention to change the Purpose of a Reserve in the Town of Foxton, Wellington Land District.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

WHEREAS by the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, it is, amongst other things, enacted that the Governor may declare his intention to change, exchange, or alter the dedication of any public reserve now or hereafter vested in His Majesty or the Governor for any of the purposes named in Class II of the Second Schedule to the said Act, whether the same be granted or not; and in the case of any reserve made under the authority of section three hundred and twenty-one of the Land Act, 1908, if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to change the purpose for which such reserve was set apart to any other purpose, or if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to exchange any of the land comprised in such reserve for other land of equal value, to be dedicated to one or more of the purposes named in the said Class II, the Governor may, by notice gazetted, make such change, exchange, or dedication, as the case may be, and in such notice declare the manner and terms in which the same is intended to be so made:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, aforesaid, declare my intention to change the specific purpose of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto from a site for a post-office and telegraph-station to a reserve for railway purposes.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 rood, more or less, being Section 583, Town of Foxton. Bounded towards the north by Government reserve, 200 links; towards the east by Main Street, 125 links; towards the south by a closed street, 200 links; and towards the west by Government reserve, 125 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. VI/3 (35), 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 eighth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands.

Amendments to the Regulations under the Public Service Act, 1912.

IN pursuance and exercise of the authority conferred on him by the Public Service Act, 1912 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), the Commissioner, with the approval of the Governor in Council, doth hereby, in respect of the regulations made under the said Act on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and the amendments thereof, amend the regulations now in force in the manner and to the extent also set forth in the Schedule hereto. Such amendment shall have effect from and after the date of publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

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