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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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Government representative (who shall be Chairman), and such other persons as he may from time to time decide to hold office during his pleasure. At any meeting of such Committee three shall form a quorum. All communications intended for this Committee shall be addressed to the Chairman, New Zealand Wool Committee, P.O. Box 374, Wellington.

4. The Board of Trade may, on the recommendation of the Wool Committee, and with the approval of the Minister, by resolution fix minimum prices for the various kinds and grades of wool; and by notice in the Gazette may, with the like recommendation and approval, fix minimum average prices for all or any kinds or grades of wool; and may, on like recommendation and with like approval, in like manner as aforesaid, from time to time alter and amend such prices.

5. It shall not be lawful for any person to sell, or agree or offer to sell, whether by auction or otherwise, any wool at prices less than the relative minimum prices or average minimum prices fixed for the time being in accordance with clause 4 hereof.

6. No person shall sell or agree to sell any wool otherwise than by public auction, unless he shall prior to such sale or agreement to sell have ascertained from the Wool Committee or a person holding a permit under clause 9 hereof the minimum price fixed for the wool proposed to be sold, and all references in these regulations to minimum price shall with respect to that particular wool be references to the price so ascertained.

7. No person shall purchase or agree to purchase otherwise than by public auction any wool at prices less than the minimum prices ascertained in accordance with clause 6 hereof for the particular wool proposed to be purchased. The production by the purchaser to the Wool Committee of a statement in writing signed by the seller or his authorized agent that the prices proposed to be given and accepted are not less than the minimum prices so fixed shall relieve the purchaser from any liability to penalties under these regulations.

8. With the approval of the Minister the Wool Committee may from time to time determine the maximum aggregate quantities of wool that may be offered for sale by private treaty and or by public auction in any period, and may with respect to any specified sale by private treaty or by public auction fix the maximum quantity of wool that may be offered. Any person offering by private treaty or at any auction sale wool in excess of the maximum quantity so specified shall be guilty of an offence against these regulations and shall be liable accordingly.

9. It shall not be lawful for any person holding a license under the Auctioneers Act to offer wool for sale by public auction, nor for any person to sell wool on commission otherwise than by auction, except subject to the following conditions, viz.: That he shall have obtained a permit issued by the Wool Committee on behalf of the Board of Trade, and shall have deposited with the Wool Committee an undertaking (in such form and subject to such guarantee as the Wool Committee may require) that he will faithfully adhere to such directions as the Wool Committee may give him in writing from time to time as to the maximum quantities of wool that he may offer at any specified auction sale or for sale by private treaty.

10. It shall not be lawful for any person to export wool from New Zealand unless and until he shall have deposited with the Collector of Customs at the port of shipment (a) a certificate signed by the Chairman of the Wool Committee or by a person holding a permit under clause 9 hereof that such wool has been purchased at prices not less than the relative minimum prices fixed at the date of such purchase in accordance with clause 4 hereof, or (b) evidence that he has deposited with the Wool Committee an undertaking (in such form and subject to such guarantee as the Wool Committee may require) that he will not sell any wool exported by him, or offer it for sale, or permit it to be sold or offered for sale, in any country at prices less than the relative minimum prices fixed for the time being in accordance with clause 4 hereof, with the addition to such prices of the actual and reasonable amount of freight, insurance, and other costs incurred in placing such wool at the point at which delivery in respect to such wool is given or is proposed to be given.

11. Nothing in these regulations shall apply to any sale of wool in New Zealand by private treaty of a quantity not exceeding 800 lb. in weight, save that two or more sales made between the same parties at or substantially at the same time shall be deemed to be one sale for the purpose of this clause.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Opening Lands in Auckland Land District for Sale or Selection.

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, having received the report of the Under-Secretary in this behalf, as provided by section one hundred and fifty-four of the said Act, do hereby declare that the lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on Monday, the twenty-second day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one; and also that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase, or on renewable lease; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Hauraki Plains County.—Hapuakohe Survey District.

SECTION 4, Block IV: Area, 500 acres. Capital value, £1,320. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £3 3. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £26 8s.

Altitude, 700 ft. to 900 ft. above sea-level. Situated about seven miles and a half from Patetonga and twenty-four miles from Morrinsville by road, all except sixty chains of which has been formed. Undulating to broken land of fairly good quality, covered with mixed bush comprising mostly birch and tawa, with mixed undergrowth; well watered by streams.

Tauranga County.—Katikati Survey District.

Section 74, Block VIII: Area, 268 acres 0 roods 37 perches. Capital value, £500. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £12 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £10.

Altitude, 200 ft. to 900 ft. above sea-level. Undulating to broken land; about 50 acres in fern, balance mostly covered with heavy mixed forest comprising tawa, miro, rata, &c. Clay soil, of fair quality; well watered by streams. Situated about four miles from Katikati by road formed to within about twenty chains of section.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Hauraki Plains County.—Thames Survey District.

Section 3, Block XII: Area, 15 acres 1 rood. Capital value, £700. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £17 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £14.

Situated on western bank of the Waihou River fronting the Turua—Orongo Road, two miles distant from Turua Township and post-office. Level, open land of first-class quality, in rough feed, flax, &c. Soil a loamy clay. About 5 ft. to 10 ft. above sea-level. No water on section, but supply can be obtained by boring.

Hauraki Plains County.—Waihou Survey District.

Section 46, Block I: Area, 122 acres 1 rood 37 perches. Capital value, £1,840. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £46. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £36 16s.

Access from Ngatea Township and landing, four miles distant by formed road. Section carries a proportion of rough feed; poorly watered by drains. Soil of a peaty nature; resting on good alluvial clay deposit.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 17th day of June, 1921.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.