JULY 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2613

Situated on a good road, about two miles from the Town of Naseby. Undulating land of fair quality, the soil being a light loam on a gravel formation. Altitude, 1,600 ft. to 1,700 ft. above sea-level.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, at Wellington, this sixth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

D. H. GUTHRIE,
Minister of Lands

Opening Lands in Otago Land District for Sale or Selection.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, having received the report of the Under-Secretary in this behalf, as provided by section one hundred and fifty-four of the said Act, do hereby declare that the lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on Tuesday, the tenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen; and also that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase, or on renewable lease; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and amendments.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Tuapeka County.—Benger Survey District.

SECTION 82, Block I: Area, 95 acres 2 roods 36 perches. Capital value, £120. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £3. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £2 8s.

Section 83, Block I: Area, 93 acres 3 roods 18 perches. Capital value, £165. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £4 2s. 6d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £3 6s.

Section 84, Block I: Area, 92 acres 2 roods. Capital value, £140. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £3 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £2 16s.

Section 41,* Block VI: Area, 35 acres 2 roods 10 perches. Capital value, £65. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £1 12s. 6d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £1 6s.

• Weighted with £15 12s. 6d. valuation for fencing.

These sections are on Moa Flat, close to Ettrick Post-office, and eighteen to twenty miles from Beaumont Railway-station. Access is by a good formed and gravelled road. There is a daily motor-coach service to Beaumont, which is seventy-two miles from Dunedin. The land is level, and the soil is a light shallow loam on an open gravel formation. The school and post-office are within half a mile of Section 41, and about a mile from the other sections.

Bruce County.—Table Hill Survey District.

Section 36, Block III: Area, 44 acres 0 roods 17 perches. Capital value, £100. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £2 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £2.

Situated on the Lawrence branch railway between Mount Stewart and Manuka Creek. The access is from Milton, which is about eight miles away, or from Glenore, which is about three miles distant. There is a school and a post and telephone office at Glenore. The section comprises open undulating land, somewhat broken, and lying to the south-west. There is some fern in the gullies. Watered in the main gully. The soil is a light loam on a clay formation. Altitude, 300 ft. to 400 ft. above sea-level.

Clutha County.—Warepa Survey District.

Section 31, Block X: Area, 128 acres 1 rood 39 perches. Capital value, £115. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £2 17s. 6d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £2 6s.

Situated at the head of Glenomaru Valley. There is formed-road access to within a mile of the eastern boundary, and thence a good dray-track. Glenomaru Railway-siding is four miles and a half to five miles away, and the school is about six miles distant. The section consists of rolling ridges, with a southerly to south-westerly aspect. Part of the area is covered with scrub. The soil is a light loam, on a clay formation. Altitude, 1,200 ft. to 1,300 ft. above sea-level. Watered by various gullies.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this ninth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

D. H. GUTHRIE,
Minister of Lands.

Warrant vesting Control of the Matau Bridge in the Bruce County Council, and apportioning Cost of Maintenance.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

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-General 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 a date 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 may by any such Warrant as aforesaid direct, how, when, and to whom any such payment is to be made:

And whereas by the said section one hundred and twenty it is, inter alia, provided that the Governor-General may, with a view of determining what proportion (if any) of the cost of maintaining any work should be borne by any local authority or local authorities, direct any Magistrate or other person to be a Commissioner to inquire into and report to him upon any matter which he shall deem necessary to enable him to determine any such question aforesaid:

And whereas a Commissioner was appointed for the purpose as aforesaid, and an inquiry duly held:

And whereas such Commissioner did report to the Governor-General, after due inquiry, his opinion thereon:

And whereas the Governor-General is of opinion that it is equitable that the cost of maintaining, repairing, improving, or reconstructing the bridge mentioned in the Schedule hereto should be provided and paid in the manner and in the proportions hereinafter respectively set forth:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the said Act, and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby direct that the bridge described in the Schedule hereto, and known as Matau Bridge (hereinafter called “the said bridge”), shall, from and after the date of gazetting hereof, be under the exclusive care, control, and management of the Bruce County Council; and, in further pursuance and exercise of the powers aforesaid, I do hereby fix and determine that the cost of maintaining, repairing, improving, or reconstructing the said bridge shall be provided and paid by the local authorities hereinafter mentioned in the following proportions—viz., the Bruce County Council to pay two-thirds of such cost, and the Kaitangata Borough Council to pay one-third of such cost.

And I do hereby direct that the contributions hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Kaitangata Borough Council towards the cost of maintaining, repairing, improving, or reconstructing the said bridge shall be paid from time to time, in the proportion hereinbefore described, out of the funds of the Kaitangata Borough Council, within a period of one month after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the Council of the Bruce County; and the payments so required to be made shall be made from time to time to the Clerk of the Bruce County Council for and on behalf of the Council of the Borough of Kaitangata.

SCHEDULE.

THAT bridge over the Matau River, situated in the Otago Land District, Bruce County, between Section 6, Block IV, North Molyneaux District, and Section 3, Block IV, Clutha District. As the site of the said bridge is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 42251, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon shown by a red cross.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this tenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.