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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.-SETTLEMENT LAND.
Wairuna Settlement.-Clutha County.-Pomahaka and Waipahi Survey Districts.

Section. Area. Capital Value. Renewable Lease: Half-yearly Rent.
A. R. P. £ £ s. d.
9s 526 0 0 2,140 48 3 0
10s 804 0 0 2,720 61 4 0
11s 796 0 0 2,980 67 1 0
13s 507 2 0 3,130 70 8 6

The improvements included in the capital value of the sections consist of boundary and subdivisional fencing valued as follows: Section 9s, £36 12s.; Section 10s, £105 14s.; Section 11s, £93 10s.; Section 13s, £87 10s.

Wairuna Settlement is situated about three miles from Waipahi Railway Junction on the southern Trunk Railway, access from which is by a well-formed road. The land is of very fair quality, and produces good grass and good oat and turnip crops. The country is of an easy rolling nature, and there is comparatively very little waste through broken gullies. Sections 9s, 10s, and 11s have a frontage to the Pomahaka River, and the Wairuna Stream and its branches supply water to the remaining sections. The general aspect is northerly and easterly.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 18th day of August, 1921.
D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Vesting the Control of Lake Rotoiti Scenic Reserves in a Scenic Board.
JELLICOE, Governor-General.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section thirty-three of the Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1919, and section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby vest the control of the reserves described in the Schedule hereto (being land subject to the last-mentioned Act), for the period of three years from the date hereof (unless previously altered or revoked under that Act), in the undermentioned persons, namely,-
Te Reiwhati Vercoe (Chairman),
Morehu Te Kirikau,
Wirihana Tamati,
Wiremu Ereatara,
Tieri te Tikao, and
The Government Tourist Agent at Rotorua (ex officio),
who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Lake Rotoiti Scenic Board (herein referred to as "the Board"), in trust, for the preservation of scenery, and with the powers and subject to the conditions hereinafter contained, that is to say,-

1. The first meeting of the Board shall be held on Monday, the twelfth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, at Otaramarae, Rotoiti, and thereafter the Board shall meet for the transaction of business on the first Monday in each month at the place aforesaid, or at such time or place as may from time to time be fixed by the Board.
2. The Chairman shall have an original as well as a casting vote, and shall hold office until the election of his successor.
3. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman, provided that two days' notice of such meeting be given to each member, specifying the business to be transacted at such special meeting; and no other business than that so specified shall be transacted at such meeting.
4. Any three members of the Board shall form a quorum. Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.
5. All questions shall be determined by the majority of votes of the members of the Board present at a meeting.
6. If at any meeting the Chairman is not present at the time appointed for holding the same, the members present shall choose one of their number to be chairman of such meeting.
7. If by resignation, death, incapacity, or otherwise the seat of any member shall be or become vacant, or if any member absents himself, without reasonable cause, from three consecutive meetings of the Board, the Governor-General shall have power to appoint any other person to be a member of the Board in his stead.
8. The Board shall prepare and submit at an annual meeting to be held in the month of April in each year a report of the proceedings of the Board for the previous year ending on the thirty-first day of March, together with a statement of the receipts and expenditure of the Board for such year. A copy of every such report and statement, certified by the Chairman to be correct, shall be sent to the Minister charged with the administration of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, as soon as possible after each annual meeting.
9. The Board shall control the said reserve in accordance with the provisions of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, and of the regulations made thereunder.

SCHEDULE.
LAKE ROTOITI SCENIC RESERVES.-AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.
A. R. P.
0 1 30 Portion of Rotoiti No. 4 Block.
0 1 32 " No. 4 Block.
3 1 32 " No. 5A Block.
9 0 0 " No. 5A Block.
0 1 32 " No. 5B Block.
3 1 24 " No. 5B Block.
13 3 10 " No. 5B Block.
304 0 0 " No. 5B Block.
2 0 0 Oremu Urupa.
1 3 10 Portion of Kuharua Block.
1 2 20 "
0 1 0 "
0 3 0 "
0 1 24 "
0 2 16 Portion of Rotoiti No. 1 Block.
0 1 24 " No. 1 Block.
1 2 30 " No. 1 Block.
0 1 0 " No. 1 Block.
2 2 10 " No. 1 Block.
0 0 10 " No. 1 Block.
1 1 10 " No. 1 Block.
1 2 0 " No. 1 Block.
2 2 0 " No. 2 Block.
0 0 24 " No. 2 Block.
0 0 6 " No. 2 Block.
0 1 0 " No. 3r Block.
0 0 4 " No. 3a Block.
5 0 0 " No. 3j Block.
2 3 24 " No. 3w Block.
3 0 24 " No. 3w Block.
4 0 32 " No. 3w Block.
3 0 0 " No. 4 Block.
3 2 16 " No. 4 Block.
0 1 0 Tihiranga Urupa.
12 2 0 Portion of Taheke No. 2B Block.
37 1 14 Portion of Paehinahina No. 3 Block.
8 1 16 " No. 2 Block.
5 2 0 " No. 2 Block.
2 1 10 " No. 1 Block.
1 0 0 Portion of Waione No. 3B Block.
0 2 0 Pateko Island.
0 0 30 Motumauri Island.
2 0 0 Rotoiti No. 3H Block.
57 0 0 Portion of Lot 2, Rotoiti Nos. 6 and 7c.
0 3 0 "
342 3 24 "
27 1 4 "
78 0 16 "
81 3 0 Portion of Rotoiti Nos. 6 and 7A.
1 0 0 "
1 2 20 "
Situated in Blocks V and IX, Rotoma Survey District, and Blocks VII, VIII, XI, and XII, Rotoiti Survey District, Auckland Land District.
As the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 4/215, and deposited under No. 1891 in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 23rd day of August, 1921.
D. H. GUTHRIE,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

Ranger under the Animals Protection Act and Officers under Part II of the Fisheries Act appointed.
Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 23rd August, 1921.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint
CHARLES EVERARD GRACE
as Ranger under the Animals Protection Act, 1908, for the Auckland Acclimatization District, and Officer under Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908; and
ROBERT H. SHEPPARD
Officer under Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908.
WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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