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 in Charge
   of Scenery Preservation as soon as possible after each annual
   meeting.

9. The Board shall control the said reserve in accordance
   with the provisions of the said Act and of the regulations
   made thereunder.

SCHEDULE.

NORTHCOTE SCENIC RESERVE.-NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 8, Block XII, Waitemata Survey District (Parish of Takapuna) : Area, 23 acres 3 roods 39 perches.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 29th day of March, 1922.

D. H. GUTHRIE,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation

Declaring Land in the Otago 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 Earnscleugh Settlement.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Otago Land District, containing 40 acres 0 roods 6 perches, more or less, being parts of Sections 112/114, and 146, Block X, Leaning Rock Survey District. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 8/9/51, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 30th day of March, 1922.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands

Notifying Lands in the North Auckland Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-twenty-sixth section of the Land Act, 1908, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Monday, the 10th day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, as the time at which the lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction; and I do hereby fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.-RURAL LAND.

Whangarei County.-Mangakahia Survey District.

SECTION 20, Block XI : Area, 12 acres 2 roods ; upset price, £63.

Section 21, Block XI : Area, 2 acres 2 roods 4 perches ; upset price, £13.

Undulating land, nearly all grass, with a few nice native trees growing thereon. Soil, fair quality clay; badly watered. Situated on the Titoki-Wauto Road, about twenty-one miles from Whangarei and twenty-eight miles from Dargaville.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 29th day of March, 1922.

J. G. COATES, for Minister of Lands.

Notifying Lands in the Otago Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section one hundred and ten of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1919, and the one-hundred-and-twenty-sixth section of the Land Act, 1908, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Tuesday, the twenty-third day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, as the time at which the lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction; and I do hereby fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

TOWN LAND.

Town of Kaitangata.

SECTION 8, Block LXIX : Area, 1 rood ; upset price, £5.
Fair building-site.

Town of Komako.

Section 125 : Area, 1 rood ; upset price, £10.

Section 126 : Area, 3 roods 5 perches ; upset price, £30.

Section 128 : Area, 3 roods 27 perches ; upset price, £25.

Good building-sites.

Town of Pembroke.

Area. Upset Price.

A. R. P. £ s. d.

Section 2, Block XIII .. 1 0 0 20 0 0
" 11 " XXV .. 0 2 0 10 0 0
" 22 " I .. 0 0 8 2 10 0
" 23 " I .. 0 0 8 2 10 0
" 11 " II .. 0 0 8 2 10 0
" 12 " II .. 0 0 8 2 10 0
" 13 " II .. 0 0 8 2 10 0
" 14 " II .. 0 0 8 2 10 0

The owners of fencing may be granted permission to remove same within one month from date of sale.

SUBURBAN LAND.

Town of Alexandra.

Section 1, Block XIX : Area, 6 acres 3 roods 35 perches ; upset price, £17 10s.

Weighted with £15, valuation for improvements, being £10 fencing and £5 cultivation. Very light soil, liable to sand-drift.

Section 3, Block XVIII : Area, 2 acres 0 roods 15 perches ; upset price, £4 10s.

Weighted with £630, valuation for improvements comprising six-roomed house, £425 ; 140 fruit-trees, £125 ; &c.

Section 4, Block XVIII : Area, 1 rood 15 perches ; upset price, £1 10s.

Weighted with £58, valuation for improvements comprising fruit-trees, &c.

Section 5, Block XVIII : Area, 1 rood 6 perches ; upset price, £1 10s.

Weighted with £l 10s., valuation for fencing.

Section 6. Block XXVII : Area, 1 acre 0 roods 27 perches ; upset price, £7 10s.

Weighted with £316, valuation for improvements comprising buildings, £210 ; fruit-trees, £50 ; water-pipes, £50 ; and fencing, £6.

Area. Upset Price.

A. R. P. £ s. d.

Section 8, Block XLI .. 0 2 32 5 0 0
" 9 " XLI .. 0 2 0 5 0 0
" 10 " XLI .. 0 2 0 5 0 0
" 11 " XLI .. 0 2 0 5 0 0
" 12 " XLI .. 0 2 0 5 0 0
" 13 " XLI .. 0 2 0 5 0 0
" 14 " XLI .. 0 1 38 5 0 0
" 15 " XLI .. 0 1 16 5 0 0
" 5 " XXXIV .. 2 0 23 6 0 0

Level sections ; fair building-sites ; light soil on a shingle subsoil.

Block II, Town of Macraes.

Sections 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, and 14 : Area of each section, 1 rood ; upset price of each section, £1.

The owner of fence through Sections 9 and 11 and along road frontage of Section 9 may be granted permission to remove fence within one month from date of sale.