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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 124

on the 1st day of April, 1917, and ending on the 31st day
of March, 1918, and that such rate shall be payable in one sum
on the 1st day of August, 1917.

As witness my hand this 30th day of July, 1917.

B. M. WILSON,
General Manager.

Witness—W. H. Frethey.

Town of Rotorua.—Order levying a Fire-prevention Rate,
1917–18.

WHEREAS by the Rotorua Town Act, 1907, provision
is made for the management of the Town of Rotorua
by the Department of Tourist and Health Resorts, and the
said Department is, in respect of the said town, created a
body corporate :

And whereas by section 5 of the said Act it is enacted that,
for the purposes of any Act relating to local authorities, the
said Department shall, in respect of the said town, be deemed
to be a local authority, and that the provisions of any such
Act shall (subject to such modifications or exceptions as the
Governor by Order in Council directs) extend and apply as
if the said town were a borough :

And whereas the said Department has become the con-
tributory local authority to the Rotorua Fire Board, con-
stituted under the provisions of the Fire Brigades Act, 1908 :

And whereas on the 11th day of April, 1908, His Excel-
lency the Governor, in exercise of the powers conferred in
that behalf by the Rotorua Town Act, 1907, did by Order in
Council make certain regulations for the effectual carrying-
out of that Act, which regulations appear in the New Zealand
Gazette of the 16th day of April, 1908 :

And whereas by clause 3 of the said regulations it is pro-
vided that an order or direction in writing, signed by the

General Manager of the said Department, shall be sufficient
in all cases in which (amongst other things) a resolution or
special order of a Council is necessary in a borough :

Now, therefore, I, the undersigned, Benjamin Marcus
Wilson, the General Manager of the said Department, in
exercise of the powers and authorities given by the Rotorua
Town Act, 1907, and the said regulations, and also by section
24 of the Fire Brigades Act, 1908, do hereby order, direct,
and declare that a separate rate of seven-sixteenths of a penny
in the pound on the value of the buildings in the Rotorua
Fire District, exclusive of the value of the sites on which such
buildings are erected, is hereby made and levied for the year
commencing on the 1st day of July, 1917, and ending on the
30th day of June, 1918, and that such rate shall be payable
in one sum on the 1st day of August, 1917.

As witness my hand this 30th day of July, 1917.

B. M. WILSON,
General Manager.

Witness—W. H. Frethey.

Surveyor licensed.

Surveyors’ Board of New Zealand,
Wellington, 30th July, 1917.

I is hereby notified for general information that a license
under the Surveyors’ Institute and Board of Examiners
Act, 1908, has been issued by the Surveyors’ Board to the
following surveyor :—

Surveyor. Address.
MARTIN HERBERT BRAITHWAITE BURRELL .. Auckland.

M. CROMPTON-SMITH,
Secretary, Surveyors’ Board.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Lands in Nelson Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, 1st August, 1917.

NOTICE is hereby given that the leases and licenses of the undermentioned lands having been declared forfeited
by resolution of the Nelson Land Board, the said lands have thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions
of the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

• P.L. Regulations.

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

Lands in Canterbury Land District for Sale or Lease to
Discharged Soldiers.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 31st July, 1917.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land
is open for sale or lease to discharged soldiers under
the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915, and the regu-
lations thereunder; and applications will be received at the
District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, up to 4 o’clock
p.m. on Tuesday, 4th September, 1917.

The lands may be purchased for cash or on deferred pay-
ments, or selected on lease for sixty-six years, with right of
renewal for further successive terms of sixty-six years and a
right to acquire the freehold.

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board
for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office,

Christchurch, on Thursday, 6th September, 1917, at 10
o’clock a.m.

The ballot will be held at the conclusion of the examina-
tion of applicants.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Malvern County.—Rolleston Survey District.

SECTIONS 36811, 36812, and 36813, Block IX: Area, 252
acres 1 rood 27 perches; capital value, £1,770; annual in-
stalment on deferred payment (excluding interest), £88 10s.;
half-yearly rent, £35 8s.

All open, flat, agricultural land; light shingly soil, watered
by water-races; 394 ft. above the sea-level. Access by good