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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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(4.) Each member of the Board who is not otherwise employed in any Department of the Public Service shall also be paid such fee as the Minister may from time to time authorize for each paper set by him.

4. Regulation 135 of the said regulations is hereby amended by inserting the following further paragraph after paragraph (5):—

(5A.) Every candidate for a certificate as Battery Superintendent shall furnish to the Board a certificate from the Director of a School of Mines, or from a Battery Superintendent or other competent person, that he has a practical knowledge of the assaying of gold and silver ores and bullion. Such certificate shall specify with exactness the nature and extent of the candidate’s experience and the place or places where it has been gained.

5. Paragraph (6), Subject IV, of the said regulation 135 is hereby amended by deleting the following words at the end of such subject “(written questions will be set, and there will be no oral examination).”

6. Regulation 137 of the said regulations is hereby revoked, and the following substituted therefor:—

7. (1.) (a.) Every Examiner so appointed by the Board who is not otherwise employed in any Department of the Public Service shall receive by way of travelling-expenses the sum of £1 11s. for each day of twenty-four hours he is absent from his place of abode for the purpose of conducting the examinations.

(b.) For any portion of a day he shall receive one twenty-fourth of the full daily rate for each hour’s absence.

(c.) In computing the time of absence, a fraction of an hour if less than half an hour shall not be taken into account, but half an hour or more shall be reckoned as one hour.

(2.) Every Examiner so appointed by the Board who is not otherwise employed in any Department of the Public Service shall also be paid such fee as the Minister may from time to time authorize for each paper set by him.

7. Regulation 172 of the said regulations is hereby amended by substituting the amount of “£1” for the amount of “5s.”

8. Regulation 177 of the said regulations is hereby revoked, and the following substituted therefor:—

9. An incorporated bank shall apply in writing to the Minister for a general gold-dealer’s license, and on receipt of a fee of £5, together with £1 in addition for each branch at which gold-dealing is to be carried on, such license may be granted in the form No. 110 in the Ninth Schedule hereto.

10. Regulation 185 of the said regulations is hereby amended by substituting the amount of “£1” for the amount of “5s.”

11. The Ninth Schedule to the said regulations is hereby further amended as follows:—

Form 108 (Reg. 172): By deleting the words “with a fee of 5s.,” and substituting therefor the words “with a fee of £1.”

Form 114 (Reg. 185): By deleting the words “with a fee of five shillings,” and substituting therefor the words “with a fee of £1.”

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SCHEDULE.

Form 63 (Reg. 103).

Under the Mining Act, 1908.

BANK’S OR OTHER GOLD-BUYER’S YEARLY RETURN OF GOLD PURCHASED, HANDLED ON COMMISSION, AND RECEIVED FOR SAFE CUSTODY.

YEARLY return of gold purchased, handled on commission, and received for safe custody by [Naming the bank or other gold-buyer] at for the year ending 31st day of December, 192 :—

Dated at this day of January, 192 .

[Signature of bank officer or gold-buyer.]

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 23rd day of September, 1921.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Mines.

[No. 1, 1920/76; No. 2, N 23/2/21; Nos. 3–6, 7/10/3; Nos. 7–10, 1909/1545.]

Opening Lands in Nelson Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

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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 shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Monday, the fifth day of December, 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 section one hundred and thirty-five of the said Act, as they contain, or are supposed to contain, metal, mineral, or valuable stone.

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SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.—NATIONAL ENDOWMENT.

Westland Mining District.—Inangahua County.—Inangahua Survey District.

SECTION 25, Block V: Area, 486 acres; capital value, £500; half-yearly rent, £10.

Weighted with £300, valuation for improvements consisting of four-roomed cottage in poor condition, whare, four-bail cow-shed and feed-room, 40 acres felled and grassed and 2½ acres stumped, and fifty chains of fencing.

The section is situated with a frontage on to the Reefton-Westport Road, about half a mile from Inangahua Junction Post-office and railway-station, and one mile and a half from a school. The access is from Reefton, twenty miles distant by a very good metalled road and railway. The section has a good homestead-site on a road frontage of about 10 acres of flat land, the remainder of the section being hillside and broken land. The whole of the section is bushclad, with the exception of 40 acres which have been felled and grassed. The soil is good on the flat, and from good to poor on hillside, resting on limestone and sandstone formation. The forest is medium to heavy, comprising mixed birch, miro, rimu, with a little matai and white-pine in gullies, with a fair undergrowth of horopito, broadleaf, and birch. Well watered. Altitude, 250 ft. to 1,700 ft. above sea-level.

Karamea Mining District.—Takaka County.—Waitapu Survey District.

Sections 8, 9, 11, and 12, Block IX: Area, 385 acres 1 rood 16 perches; capital value, £200; half-yearly rent, £4.

Situate five miles from Takaka by good road to within one mile of the section, thence by track suitable for wheeled traffic. All fern land, with the exception of about 10 acres of birch bush in the gullies. Poor soil, on granite formation; well watered. Altitude, 200 ft. to 600 ft. above sea-level.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 21st day of September, 1921.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

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Punaruku Stream and Tributaries, North Auckland Land District, notified under the Timber-floating Act, 1908.

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JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the second section of the Timber-floating Act, 1908, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify that the undermentioned stream and its tributaries may be used under license for the purposes of the said Act.

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SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

THE Punaruku Stream and its tributaries situated within the Bay of Islands County.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 20th day of September, 1921.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

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Opening National-endowment Land in Nelson Land District for Selection.

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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 and provide as follows, that is to say:—