Nov. 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3083

Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.-Declaration by the Registrar dissolving a Society.

I ROBERT EDWARD HAYES, Registrar of Incorporated Societies, do hereby declare that, as it has been made to appear to me that the Wellington Scandinavian Society is no longer carrying on its operations and has no assets, the aforesaid society is hereby dissolved, in pursuance of section 28 of the Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.

Dated at Wellington this 4th day of November, 1920.

R. E. HAYES, Registrar of Incorporated Societies.

Officiating Ministers for 1920.-Notice No. 34.

Registrar-General's Office, Wellington, 9th November, 1920.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908, the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information :-

Methodist Church of New Zealand. Mr. John Hodgson Edmondson. Mr. Harry Vowell.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Land in the Hawke's Bay Land District for Sale or Lease to Discharged Soldiers.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 8th November, 1920.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands will be offered for sale or lease under the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915, and the regulations thereunder; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, up to 11.30 o'clock a.m. on Saturday, the 18th day of December, 1920.

The lands may be purchased for cash or on deferred payments, or selected on lease for a term of thirty-three years, with right of renewal for further terms of thirty-three 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, Napier, on Monday, the 20th day of December, 1920, at 10 o'clock a.m.

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

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE'S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND. Crownthorpe Settlement.—Hawke's Bay County.—Matapiro Survey District.

• Buildings. + Half-yearly instalment of interest and sinking fund on buildings.

NOTE.-The deferred-payment instalment on Section Is includes repayment for buildings.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

Distant about twenty-one miles from Napier and sixteen miles from Hastings by well-formed metalled roads. Country varies from flat to low undulating hills, mostly ploughable. Soil is from fair to good, resting generally on a good rubbly clay subsoil, and carrying for the most part a good swarth of English and native grasses. A large area has been ploughed and grassed. The block as a whole is well watered by streams and springs, and has a good rainfall. Fences and gates are all in first-class order, and have been utilized for boundary purposes wherever possible.

DESCRIPTION OF SECTIONS.

Section 1s.-About 250 acres undulating country; fair to medium soil; ploughed and grassed in 1918. Homestead-flats comprise about 125 acres light soil on rubbly clay subsoil, in fair pasture; balance hilly country with steep faces to the north-west. Mostly felled manuka; medium soil, rather poor pasture; well watered.

Section 2s.-About 126 acres flat. Poor land, all in manuka. About 220 acres varying from light soil on shingle to fair soil on stiff clay, with fair pasture; balance undulating country, has been ploughed, and is in good pasture.

Section 3s.-About 36 acres of poor flat land in standing manuka; balance of section has been ploughed, and is partly light soil, fair pasture, and partly undulating and good soil, well grassed.

Section 4s.-About 362 acres flat land; balance undulating country, clay subsoil. Has been ploughed, and is well grassed.

Section 5s.-Low easy hills, mostly ploughable. Good soil, on clay formation, well grassed.

Section 6s.-About 80 acres ploughed and put down in grass; fair soil, on clay. Balance of section mostly ploughable undulating country. Good soil, well grassed, and a portion carrying a good crop of rape.

Section 7s.-About 100 acres good soil on clay formation, now carrying good crop of rape; balance of section flat to easy undulating country. Good soil, has been ploughed and grassed, and is now in good pasture.

Section 8s.-About 284 acres undulating hilly country, fair soil; has been in heavy scrub, is now well grassed excepting a little second growth of scrub in patches. About 215 acres easy undulating country, good soil and well grassed; has been ploughed and grassed. About 62 acres light soil, in grass and manuka.

Section 9s.-About 84 acres have been ploughed and grassed; balance of section partly in standing scrub with grass through it, and partly in felled manuka; flat to undulating easy country, wet in places. Fair to medium soil.

Section 10s.-Easy undulating country, mostly ploughable; fair soil, fair pasture, with a little second growth of scrub in places. About 100 acres have been ploughed.

Section 11s.-Eastern portion easy undulating country; good soil, well grassed, all ploughable. Balance low hills and undulating country; fair soil, poor pasture. Second growth of scrub coming badly in places.

Section 12s.-Easy undulating country; good soil, and well grassed; mostly ploughable.

Section 13s.-Southern portion good soil, and in good pasture; northern portion is lighter soil, but is in good pasture; practically all ploughable; well watered.

Section 14s.-Southern portion good soil, and in good pasture; northern portion is lighter soil, but is in good pasture; practically all ploughable; well watered.

Section 15s.-Easy and undulating country; good soil, and in good clean pasture; practically all ploughable.

Section 16s.-Southern portion flat to easy undulating country, wet in places; good soil, and fair pasture. Northern portion is fair land with good pasture, but intersected with deep gorges.

Section 17s.-Flat to easy undulating country; good soil, and good clean pasture.

Section 18s.-Low hills, flat undulating country; fair soil, on conglomerate and clay formation; good clean pasture.

IMPROVEMENTS.

The permanent improvements not included in the capital value, but which have to be paid for separately, comprise the homestead of a practically new residence of eleven rooms, two bathrooms, pantry, scullery, washhouse, &c., and is partly furnished, having good sideboards, wardrobes, cupboards, &c., built in; three-roomed cottage, bathroom and scullery, hot and cold water, one brick chimney, wool-shed and engine-room; implement-shed, and engine-shed at windmill; all on Section 1s, of a total value of £3,445. .Payable in cash or by thirty-six half-yearly payments of £147 8s. 4d.; total half-yearly payment on lease, £359 11s. 10d.

The following buildings are to be sold for removal : Store-room, 14 ft. by 10 ft. ; old implement-shed; men's cottage, four rooms, brick chimney, bathroom, veranda, and W.C.; shearer's cottage, five rooms, brick chimney, range, hot and cold water; killing-shed, 8 ft. by 9 ft.

The improvements included in Crown valuation of sections are as follows:-

Section Is.-Half share of boundary fence, road and subdivisional fences, £535; cattle fence, two wires, £48 15s.; sheep and stock yards, £30; five tanks and stand, three troughs, windmill pipe-line, and half share of one trough, £125.