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destroyed either by reason of age, deformity, or other physical imperfection.

2. Such deer may be destroyed as aforesaid from the date hereof to 31st December, 1920.

3. A return shall be furnished to the Minister of Internal Affairs by the said Secretary within one calendar month after the expiry of the aforesaid period, and such return shall state the number and sexes of all red deer so destroyed as aforesaid, the dates, and name of person by whom and the locality in which the deer were destroyed.

4. The said Secretary may, with the authority of the said society, authorize the sale, either by auction or otherwise, during the currency of these regulations, of deer destroyed pursuant to these regulations, and of the meat and skins of such deer; provided that the proceeds derived from such sale shall be devoted to patriotic purposes.

4A. The said Secretary shall, on or before the 31st day of January, 1921, furnish a statement of the moneys received from such sale and of the patriotic purposes or purpose to which they were devoted.

5. Any person who commits a breach of any of the provisions of these regulations shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £20.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this twenty-second day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Internal Affairs

Opening Lands in Taranaki Land District for Selection by Discharged Soldiers on Renewable Lease.

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, do hereby declare that the lands described in the Schedule hereto, which have been set apart for selection by discharged soldiers, shall be open for selection by discharged soldiers on renewable lease on Monday, the twenty-second day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, at the rentals mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915, and section one hundred and thirty-five of the Land Act, 1908, as they contain, or are supposed to contain, metal, mineral, or valuable stone.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT.

Ohura County.—Tangitu Survey District.—Tarewa Block.

SECTION 7, Block V: Area, 200 acres 2 roods; capital value, £710; half-yearly rent, £14 4s.

Situated on the Upper Ohura Road, within about six miles and a half of Ongarue Railway-station. Access is from Ongarue by formed dray-road. The section comprises level to easy hilly country. The soil is of very good to fair quality, resting on papa formation. The forest is mixed and very heavy, comprising kahikatea, rimu, matai, totara, tawa, rata, hinau, tawhero, and high manuka, with a very dense undergrowth of supplejack, mahoe, ponga, raurekau, &c. The section is well watered by the Ohura and small streams.

CROWN LAND.

Waitomo County.—Totoro Survey District.

Section 1, Block VI: Area, 230 acres 2 roods; capital value, £930; half-yearly rent, £18 12s.

Situated on the Wairere Road, within about one mile and a quarter of Aria Township, where there is a school, dairy factory, post-office, stores, &c. Access is from the railway, which is about twenty-one miles distant via Piopio by a good metalled road. The section comprises open fern and tutu land of easy undulating and round-topped hills to very steep hillside along the banks of the Mokau River. About two-thirds of the section is ploughable country, and is fairly well watered by springs. The general quality of the section is good, the soil varying from very fair to good, resting on clay and limestone. It can be easily worked, and should give an early return.

Section 2, Block VI: Area, 165 acres 0 roods 23 perches; capital value, £620; half-yearly rent, £12 8s.

Situated on the south side of Wairere Road, within one mile and a half of Aria Township. About one-half of the section comprises easy undulating land, balance all good hilly grazing-country with no very steep country whatever. The land is covered with fern, tutu, and a few patches of mahoe scrub along the frontage, and a small area of mixed bush (mostly tawa) and high scrub towards the back boundary. About one-fourth of the section contains ploughable land. A good deal of the land is spoilt for ploughing by the small choppy gullies and outcrops of limestone which frequently occur throughout the section. The general quality of the section is good, and is well watered by springs. The soil varies from fair along the frontage to very good elsewhere, resting on clay and limestone formation.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this twenty-fourth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty.

D. H. GUTHRIE,
Minister of Lands.

Lands temporarily reserved in the North Auckland, Auckland, and Wellington Land Districts.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-twenty-first section of the Land Act, 1908, it is enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:

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 conferred upon me by the said Acts, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the lands in the North Auckland, Auckland, and Wellington Land Districts described in the Schedule hereunder written, for the purposes in the said Schedule specified at the end of the respective descriptions of the lands so intended to be temporarily reserved.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 54 acres 2 roods 30 perches, more or less, and being Section 4, Block I, Rangaunu Survey District. Bounded towards the east and south generally by Rangaunu Bay; towards the west generally by a swamp and the Otaia Kauri-gum Reserve Extension No. 2, 450, 883·2, 750·3, and 1468·3 links; and towards the north-west by the said kauri-gum reserve, 1950·6 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: save and except a road which intersects the hereinbefore-described area. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 1/617, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red. (North Auckland plan 20294, blue.) For public-recreation purposes.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 4 acres 1 rood 8 perches, more or less, being Section 4, Block VIII, Waihi South Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by a public road, 52·6 and 190 links; towards the east generally by the Pikowai Stream; towards the south by part of Reserve No. 2, part of Section 63p, Matata Parish, 361·2 links; towards the west and north-west by a public road, 282·9, 917·7, and 473·7 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 6/1/244, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red. For a site for a roadman’s cottage.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

All that area in the Wellington Land District, containing 1 acre 0 roods 29 perches, more or less, being Section 1, Block XV, Te Kawaui Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west, north-east, and south-east by the Palmers-ton North—Foxton main road, 207·2, 903·6, and 55·7 links; and towards the south-west by part of Section 334, Township of Carnarvon, 431·2 links, and by the Bainesse School site, 472·8 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on a plan marked L. and S. 6/6/164, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red. For an addition to a site for a public school.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this twenty-fourth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty.

D. H. GUTHRIE,
Minister of Lands.