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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 5

Lands permanently reserved.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-twenty-first section of the Land Act, 1908, it is enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:

And whereas by the three-hundred-and-twenty-second section of the said Act it is provided that land temporarily reserved under the said three-hundred-and-twenty-first section may, at the expiration of one month but not later than six months after the publication in the Gazette of notice of such temporary reservation, be permanently reserved, and that notice of such permanent reservation shall be published in the Gazette:

And whereas by the sixty-ninth section of the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, it is further provided that the Governor-General may from time to time, as he thinks fit, set aside reserves for any specified public purpose out of lands acquired under the last-mentioned Act, provided that no land so acquired shall be set aside for endowments:

And whereas the lands specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto were, by the Warrants the dates of which are specified in the third column of the said Schedule, and the notifications of which were published in the Gazettes specified in the fourth column, temporarily reserved under the authority of the said Acts for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule:

Now, therefore, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the said Acts, do hereby permanently reserve the lands so temporarily reserved as aforesaid, and enumerated in the first column of the Schedule hereto, for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule, being the same purposes for which the said lands were so temporarily reserved as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

• Survey District.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 27th day of January, 1922.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Opening Settlement Lands in Auckland Land District for Selection.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1908, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, and amendments, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the settlement lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Monday, the twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, at the rentals mentioned in the said Schedule: and I do also declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SETTLEMENT LAND.

Reporoa Settlement is situated about twenty-five miles from Rotorua on the Rotorua-Taupo Road. Adjoining the settlement there is a school, also a post and telephone office. The district has a daily mail-service from Rotorua during the summer months, and three times weekly during the winter months. The portion of the estate which is now being offered is generally level to undulating, the soil on the higher land being of pumice formation. Most sections contain a proportion of pasture as well as of partially drained swamp-land of good quality, which is capable of improvement by further drainage. Water is provided either by streams or by drains running through the sections.

The improvements which are not included in the capital values, but are to be paid for separately in cash, are: Section 44—iron shed, fencing, two wells, and shelter-belt; value, £226.

The improvements which are included in the capital value, are for half share of fencing valued as follows: Section 26, 130 chains boundary fence and 55 chains internal fence, £240; Section 27, 60 chains boundary fence and 20 chains internal fence, £100; Section 32, 92 chains boundary fence and