Feb. 24.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Declaring Road-line through Land in Ohuka Settlement,
Hawke's Bay Land District, to be closed.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
WHEREAS a report has been received from the Surveyor-General, from which it appears that the road described in the Schedule hereto is unformed and unused, and that the said road intersects or is adjacent to land acquired under the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, and is not suitable to the subdivision of such land:
Now, therefore, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of section eighty of the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, as amended by section twenty-eight of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1920, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do by this notice hereby close the road hereinafter described; and I do hereby declare that the said road shall thereupon become subject to the Land for Settlements Act, 1908.
SCHEDULE.
OHUKA SETTLEMENT.
APPROXIMATE area of the piece of road to be closed: 14 acres O roods 1.5 perches.
Intersecting or adjacent to Section 2, Block VI, Taramarama Survey District (Ohuka Settlement).
In the Hawke's Bay Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 21/223, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey. at Wellington, and thereon coloured green.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 13th day of February, 1921.
D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Declaring Land in the Auckland Land District to be subject to the Land for Settlements Act, 1908.
JELLICOE, Governor-General.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section seventy-nine of the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare the area of Crown land described in the Schedule hereto shall be subject to the provisions of the Land for Settlements Act, 1908,'and shall hereafter form part of the Kopuku No. 2 Settlement.
SCHEDULE.
ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing 5 acres 1 rood 22.5 perches, more or less, being the land described in a Proclamation dated 8th November, 1920, published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 92, page 3043, and comprising the stopped Government roads adjoining or passing through Sections 8 and 16, Mamarua Parish, Block IV, Mamarua Survey District.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 13th day of February, 1921.
D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Declaring Land in the Wellington Land District to be subject to the Land for Settlements Act, 1908.
JELLICOE, Governor-General.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section seventy-nine of the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the area of Crown land described in the Schedule hereto shall be subject to the provisions of the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, and shall hereafter form part of the Arawhata Settlement.
SCHEDULE.
ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 acre 2 roods 25.9 perches, more or less, being the land described in a Proclamation dated 9th November, 1920, published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 92, page 3043, and comprising the stopped Government road adjoining or passing through Sections 11 and 23, situated in Block X, Mangahao Survey District.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 18th day of February, 1921.
D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Notice under Section 48 of the Housing Act, 1919.
JELLICOE, Governor-General.
WHEREAS under the provisions of section forty-five of the Housing Act, 1919, any employer in an industry to which Part III of the said Act applies may at any time apply to the Minister of Finance for financial assistance towards the provision of dwellinghouses for any workers permanently employed by him in connection with that industry:
And whereas under the provisions of section forty-eight of the said Act it is enacted that the said Part III shall not apply to any industry unless and until the Governor-General, by notice published in the Gazette, declares that it shall so apply:
And whereas an application has been received from an employer in the engineering industry for assistance as aforesaid under the provisions of the said Act :
Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of every power and authority enabling me in this behalf, and for the purposes of the aforesaid Act, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that Part III of the Housing Act, 1919, shall and does apply to the engineering industry.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 13th day of February, 1921.
W. H. HERRIES, Minister of Labour.

Opening Lands in Taranaki Land District for Selection by Discharged Soldiers on Renewable Lease.
JELLICOE, Governor-General.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1908, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, 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-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, 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.
Waitomo County.-Totoro Survey District.

DESCRIPTION OF SECTIONS.
Section 11, Block V.-The access is from Kopaki Railway-station, distant about eleven miles and a half, of which ten miles are good dray-road; the remainder is unformed. The section comprises easy to steep slopes; about one-third is open fern and manuka country, mostly ploughable, the remainder of the section is heavy-bush land. Elevation, 500 ft. to 1,200 ft. above sea-level.
Section 12, Block V.-The ground consists of easy slopes covered with fern and manuka scrub, and is mostly ploughable. The soil is of fair quality, on papa and sandstone formation. Elevation, 475 ft. to 600 ft. above sea-level.
Section 13, Block V.-Similar to Section 12.
Section 14, Block V.-About nine miles from Piopio and about twelve miles from Kopaki. The land along the Mapiu Stream is easy country. It rises rather steeply at first from the stream, but has good country with easy slopes on top, covered with fairly heavy forest. The soil is of good quality, on papa. The elevation ranges from 460 ft. to 1,200 ft. above sea-level.
Section 15, Block V.-Distant from Piopio about nine miles, eight of which are dray-road, the remainder pack-track. The section comprises open fern and scrub country,