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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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with a dense undergrowth of kiekie. The yellow-pine sleepers
have been worked out, but there is still yellow-pine suitable
for fencing and house piles. The section might be suitable for
orchard purposes in the future. The terrace is what might
be termed dry country.

Section 79, Block XV: Area, 301 acres; capital value,
£230; half-yearly rent, £4 12s.

Situated about twenty chains from the Umere-Karamea
dray-road, thence a further mile and a quarter from the
Umere School, and about four miles and a quarter from the
butter-factory at Karamea. The forest consists of rimu,
mixed birch, a few miro, punga, kiekie, supplejack, horopito,
fuchsia, broadleaf, &c., on the slopes; on the terrace top
there are rimu, birch, and yellow-pine, dense undergrowth
of kiekie, and a few supplejacks. The yellow-pine has been
worked out for sleepers. The section will probably be suitable
for orchards in the future. The soil varies from fair to inferior;
the terrace is dry.

Section 80, Block XV: Area, 244 acres; capital value,
£180; half-yearly rent, £3 12s.

This section fronts on the Umere-Karamea dray-road,
and is distant a mile and a quarter from the Umere School,
and four miles and a half from the Karamea Butter-factory.
The forest consists of rimu, mixed birch, a few miro,
punga, kiekie, supplejack, horopito, fuchsia, and broadleaf;
while on the high-level terrace there are rimu, birch, dense
kiekie, a few supplejack, and mapou. The soil on the
slopes is fair, the terrace-top is inferior; will probably make
fruit land in the future.

Section 87, Block IX: Area, 602 acres; capital value,
£480; half-yearly rent, £9 12s.

Situated about three miles and three-quarters from Kara-
mea Post-office, and two miles and three-quarters from the
butter-factory. Altitude, from 60 ft. to 870 ft. above sea-
level. The area varies from broken and steep to gentle slopes.
There is a small flat along Baker’s Creek. The forest comprises
rimu, mixed birch, supplejack, kiekie, punga, horopito,
fuchsia, and broadleaf. The soil is fair. The south-west
portion lies rather badly to the sun. The formation is papa
and limestone.

Section 82, Block XIV: Area, 243 acres; capital value,
£180; half-yearly rent, £3 12s.

Situated about thirty chains from the main Umere Road,
fifty-five chains from the Umere School and post-office, and
about three miles and a quarter from the butter-factory at
Karamea. The forest consists of rimu, mixed birch, a few
miro, supplejack, kiekie, punga, horopito, fuchsia, broad-
leaf, &c. On the terrace top there are rimu, birch, and yellow-
pine, with a dense undergrowth of kiekie. The yellow-pine
sleepers have been worked out, but there is still yellow-pine
suitable for fencing and house-piles. The section might be
suitable for orchard purposes in the future. The terrace is
what might be termed dry country.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right
Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile,
Earl of Liverpool, Member of His Majesty’s
Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint
Michael and Saint George, Member of the
Royal Victorian Order, Governor-General and
Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s
Dominion of New Zealand and its Depend-
encies; and issued under the Seal of the said
Dominion, at the Government House at Wel-
ington, this thirteenth day of June, in the year of
our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

D. H. GUTHRIE,
Minister of Lands

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Crown Lands set apart for Disposal by Way of Sale or
Lease to Discharged Soldiers, under Special Tenures, in
the Hawke’s Bay Land District.

[l.s.] LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon
me by section four of the Discharged Soldiers Settle-
ment Act, 1915, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of
Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New
Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that the areas of
Crown lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be and
the same are hereby set apart and declared open for disposal
by way of sale or lease to discharged soldiers, under special
tenures, in the manner provided in the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—CROWN LAND.

A. R. P.
3 0 2} adjoining or passing through Section 4, Block VI.
7 2 16}

Situated in Moeangiangi Survey District (Hawke’s Bay
R.D.).

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right
Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile,
Earl of Liverpool, Member of His Majesty’s
Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint
Michael and Saint George, Member of the
Royal Victorian Order, Governor-General and
Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s
Dominion of New Zealand and its Depend-
encies; and issued under the Seal of the said
Dominion, at the Government House at Wel-
ington, this thirteenth day of June, in the year of
our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

D. H. GUTHRIE,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Setting apart Pieces of Closed Road in Kawakawa Parish as
Endowments for Education.

[l.s.] LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon me by subsection two of section one
hundred and seven of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal
and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1917, I Arthur William
de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of
the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and de-
clare that, from and after the date hereof, the lands described
in the First Schedule hereto are hereby set apart as an endow-
ment for primary education, and the lands described in the
Second Schedule hereto are hereby set apart as an endow-
ment for secondary education, the said lands being the
pieces of road closed by the said subsection two of section
one hundred and seven.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

A. R. P.
Section 225, Kawakawa Parish .. .. Area, 1 2 14·2
,, 226 ,, .. .. 0 0 0·14

SECOND SCHEDULE.

A. R. P.
Section 227, Kawakawa Parish .. .. Area, 0 3 6
,, 228 ,, .. .. ,, 1 1 13

All in the Auckland Land District; as the same are deline-
ated upon the plan marked L and S. 16/527A, deposited in the
Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington,
and thereon coloured green.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right
Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile,
Earl of Liverpool, Member of His Majesty’s
Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint
Michael and Saint George, Member of the
Royal Victorian Order, Governor-General and
Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s
Dominion of New Zealand and its Depend-
encies; and issued under the Seal of the said
Dominion, at the Government House at Wel-
ington, this thirteenth day of June, in the year of
our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

D. H. GUTHRIE,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Allocating Land reserved and taken for a Railway to the
Purposes of a Road at Paeroa.

[l.s.] LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto
forms part of land taken for the purposes of the
Waikato-Thames Railway, and it is considered desirable to
allocate such land to the purposes of a road:

And whereas it has been certified by the Minister of
Railways that such land is not required for railway pur-