Oct. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2785

Notifying Lands in Auckland Land District for Sale by Public
Auction for Cash or on Deferred Payments.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon
me by section one hundred and twenty-six of the Land
Act, 1908, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-
General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint
Tuesday, the fifth day of December, one thousand nine
hundred and twenty-two, as the time at which the lands de-
scribed in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction
for cash or on deferred payments; and I do hereby fix the
prices at which the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned
in the said Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Otorohanga County.-Orahiri Survey District.
SECTION 16A, Block IV : Area, 5 acres; upset price, £40.
Situated about three miles from Otorohanga by metalled
road. Level to undulating land in fern and gorse. Soil of
good quality, resting on gravel ; watered by swampy stream.
Altitude, 600 ft.
The right to remove fencing at present on the section is
reserved to the former tenant.

Waitomo County.-Otanake Survey District.
Section 9, Block X : Area, 10 acres; upset price, £100.
Weighted with £25, valuation for clearing and grassing ;
to be paid for in cash.
Level land in grass, situated about three miles from Piopio
and eight miles from Te Kuiti, on the Awakino-Te Kuiti Road.
The right is reserved to the former tenant to remove any
fencing erected by him.

Waitomo County.-Maungamangero Survey District.
Section 9, Block III : Area, 15 acres 1 rood; upset price,
£120.
Weighted with £70, valuation for improvements com-
prising bushfelling, stumping, fencing, and grassing.
Situated about eighteen miles from Mahoenui, on the
Mahoenui-Kawhia Road. Level land in rough grasses, all
ploughable when stumped. Light soil of good quality, well
watered.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Otorohanga County.-Pirongia Survey District.
Section 19, Block VII : Area, 18 acres 3 roods 19 perches;
upset price, £48.
Section 20, Block VII : Area, 19 acres 2 roods 21 perches ;
upset price, £50.
Section 18, Block VIII : Area, 5 acres 2 roods 19 perches;
upset price, £12.
Section 19, Block VIII : Area, 8 acres 3 roods 12 perches ;
upset price, £45.
Distant from four to six miles from Pirongia by formed
road.
Sections 19 and 20, Block VII, comprise undulating to
broken land in fern and light manuka. Light soil of poor to
fair quality.
Section 18, Block VIII, is fern land, with light soil of in-
ferior quality.
Section 19, Block VIII, comprises undulating land in fern ;
all ploughable. Light soil of fair quality; watered by small
stream.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 13th day of October, 1922.
D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Notice declaring certain Unalienated Crown Lands open for
Sale under Section 39 of the Mining Act, 1908.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
WHEREAS by section thirty-nine of the Mining Act,
1908, it is provided that the Governor-General may
from time to time declare any unalienated Crown lands
within any district to be opened for sale or lease on such
dates and in areas of such size and form as he determines:
And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto has
been reported on as prescribed by the Warden exercising
jurisdiction within the mining district in which the said
lands are situate :
Now, therefore, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe,
Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pur-
suance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred
on me by section thirty-nine of the Mining Act, 1908, and
of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me
in this behalf, do hereby declare that the said land is open
for sale in the areas of the size and form marked upon the

plan hereinafter mentioned, as from the twenty-third day
of October, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two,
provided that the following reservation is made on any title
or titles that may be granted to the purchasers of such land
or any part thereof :-
Except and reserving all gas, coal, and other minerals
under the said land, and reserving to His Majesty the
King and any person authorized by him in that behalf,
and any person to whom a lease may be granted
under the authority of the Coal-mines Act, 1908, or
any other Act in that behalf, full liberty by them-
selves, their agents and servants, to search for, extract,
and carry away any such gas, coal, or mineral, and
to sink all necessary pits and shafts and to make
and erect all necessary erections, machinery, and roads
and other conveniences and things for this purpose
without liability for resulting subsidence of the surface
or any loss or damage caused thereby.
And provided also that all lands within sixty-six feet from
the bank and along the entire course of any watercourse (as
defined in the Mining Act, 1908) shall be and be deemed to
be excluded from any such sale.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Otago Land District, containing by
admeasurement 6 acres 3 roods, more or less, being part of
Section 116, Block IX, Leaning Rock Survey District, and
bounded as follows: Commencing at the southern corner of
Section 84 of said block, and thence generally towards the
north by said Section 84, 284.1 links; by Section 71A, 371.3
links, 498.2 links, and 407.6 links; towards the south-east
by said Section 71A, 337.4 links, and by Section 80, 154.7
links ; towards the south-west by a public road, 201.6 links,
750.3 links, 353.5 links, 798.4 links, and again generally
towards the north by said Section 84, 154.7 links and 674.3
links, to the point of commencement : be all the aforesaid
linkages more or less : and excepting from the above-described
land two intersecting water-races 15 links wide, a deduction
for which has been made from the area.
Also all that area in the Otago Land District, containing
by admeasurement 5 acres 2 roods 38 poles, more or less,
being the other part of Section 116, Block IX, Leaning Rock
Survey District, and bounded as follows : Commencing at
the northern corner of Section 22 of said block, and thence
towards the south-east by said Section 22, 239 links; towards
the south-west by Crown land, 295.4 links, 459.6 links, 670.9
links, and 438.8 links; towards the north-west by Crown land,
291.7 links ; towards the north-east by Crown land, 818 links,
354 links, and 786.1 links; and towards the south-east by
Section 80, 66.8 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or
less: and excepting from the above-described land one
intersecting water-race 15 links wide, a deduction for which
has been made from the area.
Both the said areas are delineated on the plan marked
" Mines N. 6/11/1,' deposited in the Head Office, Mines
Department, at Wellington, and thereon outlined in red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 12th day of October, 1922.
G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Mines.
(Mines N. 6/11/1.)

Representative of the Local Authority on the Levin Fire
Board appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 16th October, 1922.
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council has
been pleased to appoint
FRANK ERNEST PARKER, Esq.,
as a representative of the local authority on the Levin Fire
Board.
WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Visiting Justices appointed.
Prisons Department,
Wellington, 13th October, 1922.
His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint
HENRY WILFRED BUNDLE, Esq., S.M.,
to be a Visiting Justice to His Majesty's Prison at Dunedin.
ERNEST CHARLES LEVVEY, Esq., S.M.,
to be a Visiting Justice to His Majesty's Prison at Gisborne.
E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice.