JAN. 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 75

Member of House of Representatives elected, Wellington South Electoral District.

Clerk of the Writs’ Office,
Wellington, 23rd December, 1918.

THE Clerk of the Writs has received a return to the writ issued on the 6th day of December, 1918, for the election of a member of Parliament to serve in the House of Representatives for the Electoral District of Wellington South, and by the endorsement on such writ it appears that

ROBERT SEMPLE, Esq.,

has been duly elected to serve as a member of the said district.

JAMES HISLOP,
Clerk of the Writs.

Member of House of Representatives elected, Palmerston Electoral District.

Clerk of the Writs’ Office,
Wellington, 30th December, 1918.

THE Clerk of the Writs has received a return to the writ issued on the 6th day of December, 1918, for the election of a member of Parliament to serve in the House of

Representatives for the Electoral District of Palmerston, and by the endorsement on such writ it appears that

JAMES ALFRED NASH, Esq.,

has been duly elected to serve as a member for the said district.

JAMES HISLOP,
Clerk of the Writs.

Naval Officers on Leave in New Zealand.

Parliament Buildings,
Wellington, 6th January, 1919.

ALL officers, whether belonging to the Royal Navy, the Royal Naval Reserve, or the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, who are at present on leave in New Zealand and have not reported themselves to the Naval Department of the New Zealand Government are hereby required to do so forthwith.

The reports should be by letter, and should be accompanied by the original correspondence authorizing their leave; the correspondence will be returned to them in due course.

P. H. HALL-THOMPSON, Captain, R.N.,
Naval Adviser.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Lands in the Auckland Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, 6th January, 1919.

NOTICE is hereby given that the leases and licenses of the undermentioned lands having been declared forfeited by resolution of the Auckland Land Board, the said lands have thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Lands in Westland Land District for License by Discharged Soldiers.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Hokitika, 6th January, 1919.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands are open for license by discharged soldiers under the regulations for the occupation of pastoral lands in the Karamea and Westland Mining Districts and the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Hokitika, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, the 19th March, 1919.

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Hokitika, on Thursday, the 20th March, 1919, at 10.30 o’clock a.m.

The ballot will be held at the conclusion of the examination of applicants.

SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT. — KARAMEA AND WESTLAND MINING DISTRICTS.—NATIONAL ENDOWMENT LAND.

Westland County.—Waimea Survey District.

SECTION 2537A, Block VII: Area, 69 acres; capital value, £70; half-yearly rent, £1 8s.

Soil of fair quality, resting on gravel; well watered. The section comprises flat land, covered with thick bush of rimu, birch, &c., which has been worked by a sawmill. It is situated on the east side of Kumara-Greymouth Road. Access from Kumara Railway-station, three-quarters of a mile distant, by good metalled road.

Section 3184, Block VII: Area, 200 acres; capital value, £100; half-yearly rent, £2.

Soil of poor quality, resting on gravel; well watered by creeks. The land is level and swampy, covered with birch, rimu, &c., and second growth. Timber of commercial value has been milled. Situated two miles from Kumara Junction by good metalled dray-road.

Section 3217, Block VII: Area, 192 acres 2 roods; capital value, £130; half-yearly rent, £2 12s.

Comprises about 12 acres good river-bed scrub land, remainder carrying bush consisting of rimu, rata, white-pine, &c., from which the timber of commercial value has been removed. Soil on river-flat of good, light, sandy nature; remainder of poor, wet, clayey formation on hard subsoil. Altitude, 20 ft. to 150 ft. above sea-level. Well watered. Access by Greymouth-Kumara Road from Kumara Railway-station, a distance of a mile and a half, thence by unformed road about thirty chains.

Grey County.—Mawheranui Survey District.

Section 2723, Block XIII: Area, 425 acres; capital value, £220; half-yearly rent, £4 8s.

All open, burnt silver-pine country, with an undergrowth of manuka and mixed scrub. Soil on section is generally inferior, of a wet peaty nature, with some fair land along Piper’s Creek, all resting on gravel; well watered. Access from Stillwater Junction Railway-station (where there is a post and telephone office) by main Grey-Reefton Road, one mile; thence by Grey-Kotuku Road, two miles.

Sale plans and full particulars may be obtained from this office.

THOS. BROOK,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.