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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 21

comprises small flats along creek frontage and in gullies,
remainder hillside steep in places. About 40½ acres burnt
bush now in fern, remainder bushclad, consisting of red
and brown birch. Soil fair on flats and in gullies, running
to inferior on hillside. Well watered. Altitude, 900 ft. to
2,000 ft. above sea-level.

Waimea County.—Mount Arthur Survey District.

Karamea Mining District.—Crown Land.

Section 8, Block XI: Area, 591 acres; capital value,
£300; half-yearly rent, £6.

The section is situated in the headwaters of the Pearce
River. Access is from the main Motueka River road six to
seven miles distant by three miles of pack-track, two miles
and a half unformed track, balance good formed road. Heavy
bush land throughout, consisting of mixed bush principally
birch, with a few scattered rimu and matai, and heavy under-
growth of supplejack, ferns, fuchsia, whitewood, horopito, &c.
The section is poorly watered. Soil of fair quality, resting on
sandstone and granite formation. The elevation rises to
3,000 ft. above sea-level.

Buller County.—Steeple Survey District.

Karamea Mining District.—National Endowment.

Sections 5 and 9 of 10, Block I: Area, 8 acres 3 roods 20
perches; capital value, £45; half-yearly rent, 18s.

Weighted with £65, valuation for improvements consisting
of old cottage and fencing valued at £65.

Situated near Cape Foulwind, seven miles from Westport
by road and railway. Flat to undulating semi pakihi land,
carrying rushes, fern, and scrub. Poor quality soil, no water
on sections. Altitude, 50 ft. above sea-level.

Section 8 of 10, Block I: Area, 5 acres 2 roods 15 perches;
capital value, £30; half-yearly rent, 12s.

Situated near Cape Foulwind, eight miles from Westport
by rail and road. All flat land of a pakihi nature, covered
with scrub and rushes, and carrying very little grass. Sec-
tion has no water. Altitude, 100 ft. above sea-level. General
quality poor.

Murchison County.—Rahu Survey District.

Westland Mining District.—National Endowment.

Section 3, Block XII: Area, 626 acres; capital value,
£380; half-yearly rent, £7 12s.

Situated in South Maruia Valley, thirty-two miles from
Reefton, nine miles from Warwick Junction Post-office and
store, one mile from telephone, and four miles from a school.
Access from Reefton by twenty-eight miles formed road and
four miles dray-track. Section comprises 20 acres of swampy
land, 12 acres have been felled but not sown, remainder of
section undulating to easy slopes and terraces, all bushclad.
Fair soil in gullies and in flats, fair to poor on hillside. Alti-
tude, 1,260 ft. to 1,800 ft. above sea-level. There is an old
roofless hut on this section, dilapidated and valueless.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General of the Dominion of New Zealand; and issued
under the Seal of that Dominion, at the Government
House at Wellington, this 18th day of March, 1922.

W. FRASER, for Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Proclaiming Road-lines laid out through Puketarata No. 4g 2d 2b 2b 1b and No. 4g 2d 2b 2b 2 Blocks to be Public Roads.

[l.s.] JELLICOE, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the parcels of land described in the Schedule
hereto were, by orders of the Native Land Court
made on the fourth day of March, one thousand nine hundred
and nineteen, and the second day of August, one thousand
nine hundred and fifteen, duly laid off as road-lines, in pursu-
ance of sections forty-eight, forty-nine, and fifty of the Native
Land Amendment Act, 1913:

And whereas the said Court is of the opinion that in the
public interest the said road-lines should be proclaimed as
public roads, and a notification to that effect has been for-
warded to the Minister of Lands, in terms of section fifty-one
of the said Act:

And whereas one month’s notice in writing of the intention
to proclaim the said road-lines as public roads has been given
by the Surveyor-General to the local authority of the district
concerned, in terms of section fifteen of the Native Land
Amendment Act, 1914:

And whereas it is now expedient that the said road-lines
should be proclaimed as public roads:

Now, therefore, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe,
Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pur-
suance and exercise of the powers conferred by sections forty-
eight, forty-nine, and fifty of the Native Land Amendment
Act, 1913, and in so far as each of these sections is applicable,
do hereby proclaim as public roads the road-lines described
in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land proclaimed as
roads:—

A. R. P. Being Portion of
3 0 30 Puketarata No. 4g 2d 2b 2b 1b Block; coloured
blue on plan.
4 1 1 Puketarata No. 4g 2d 2b 2b 2 Block; coloured
yellow on plan.

Situated in Block XIII, Puniu Survey District.

In the Auckland Land District; as the same are more
particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 16/946,
deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and
Survey, at Wellington, under No. 1951, and thereon coloured
as above mentioned.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General of the Dominion of New Zealand; and issued
under the Seal of that Dominion, at the Government
House at Wellington, this 18th day of March, 1922.

W. FRASER, for Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Land in Nelson Land District declared to be subject to Section 127 of the Land Act, 1908.

[l.s.] JELLICOE, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the Land Board of the Nelson Land Dis-
trict has recommended that the Crown tenant of
the land enumerated in the Schedule hereto should be afforded
relief, owing to exceptional circumstances over which he has
no control preventing the profitable occupation of such land:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the power
and authority conferred upon me by section twenty-five of
the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies
Empowering Act, 1911, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe,
Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby
proclaim and declare the land enumerated in the Schedule
hereto to be subject to the provisions of section one hundred
and twenty-seven of the Land Act, 1908; and I do further
fix four years from the date mentioned in the said Schedule
as the period for which the said land shall be exempt from
payment of rent.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 14, Block IV, Takaka Survey District: 1st January,
1922.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General of the Dominion of New Zealand; and issued
under the Seal of that Dominion, at the Government
House at Wellington, this 18th day of March, 1922.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Revoking the Setting-apart of Land for Selection by Discharged Soldiers, under Special Tenures, in the Auckland Land District.

[l.s.] JELLICOE, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon me by the Discharged Soldiers Settle-
ment Act, 1915, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe,
Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do
hereby revoke the Proclamation made on the eighth day of
May, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, and published
in the Gazette of the eleventh day of May then instant,
setting apart settlement lands for selection by discharged
soldiers, under the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915,
in so far as it relates to the area shown in the Schedule
hereto.

SCHEDULE

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SETTLEMENT LAND.

Part Reynolds Settlement.

A. R. P.
Lot 2 of Sections 14 and 15 .. .. Area, 107 2 28
Section 16 .. .. .. ,, 51 3 15

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General of the Dominion of New Zealand; and issued
under the Seal of that Dominion, at the Government
House at Wellington, this 18th day of March, 1922.

W. FRASER, for Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE KING!