Feb. 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 423

Opening Settlement Land in Otago 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 land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Monday, the tenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, at the rental mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said land shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Clutha County.—Waipahi Survey District.—Wairuna Settlement.

SECTION 8s: Area, 495 acres; capital value, £3,040; half-yearly rent, £68 8s.

The improvements included in the capital value consist of fencing valued at £52 14s.

Wairuna Settlement is situated about three miles from Waipahi Railway-junction on the Southern Trunk Railway, access from which is by a well-formed road. The land is of very fair quality, and produces good grass and good oat and turnip crops.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 2nd day of February, 1922.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Opening Lands in North Auckland Land District for Sale or Selection.

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, having received the report of the Under-Secretary in this behalf, as provided by section one hundred and fifty-four of the said Act, do hereby declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on Monday, the twentieth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two; and also that the land mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase, or on renewable lease; and I do hereby also fix the price at which the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 7, Block VI, Maungataniwha Survey District, Mangonui County: Area, 470 acres. Capital value, £850. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £21 5s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £17.

Altitude, 800 ft. to 1,820 ft. above sea-level. Steep to broken land in bush, except for 40 acres fern land. Soil is of rather poor clay, resting on rotten-rock and sandstone formation. The forest is mixed light bush comprising rimu, puripuri, taraire, miro, and two large kauris, with a medium undergrowth of supplejack, karamu, taikiwi, nikau, &c.

Section is well watered by numerous streams, and is situated about eighteen miles from Mangonui—five miles and a half by formed 12 ft. road, and twelve miles and a half by Main North Road.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 2nd day of February, 1922.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Opening Land in Otago Land District for Sale or Selection.

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, having received the report of the Under-Secretary in this behalf, as provided by section one hundred and fifty-four of the said Act, do hereby declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on Monday, the tenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two; and also that the land mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase, or on renewable lease; and I do hereby also fix the price at which the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Clutha County.—Tautuku Survey District.

SECTION 27, Block XII: Area, 110 acres 2 roods 22 perches. Capital value, £70. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £1 15s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £1 8s.

Special Condition.—The Crown shall not at any time be liable for making the unformed portion of the road.

Situated about sixteen miles from Maclennan Railway-siding on the Catlin’s Branch Railway. The section lies on the point of a ridge. It is fairly flat on top, but falls away steeply to the north, south, and east. The soil is fair, and the section is well watered. There is a formed road to within about forty chains of the south-east corner.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 2nd day of February, 1922.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Warrant apportioning the Annual Payment in respect of a Loan of £4,400 between the Egmont County Council and the Waimate West County Council.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section seventy-three of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, it is, inter alia, provided that where part only of any area over which a special rate is made as security for a loan is merged or included within the district of a local authority other than the local authority that made the rate, then the whole of the liability in respect of the loan shall continue to be a liability of the local authority that raised the loan, but the Governor-General may, upon the written application of that local authority, by Warrant under his hand, direct that any local authority in whose district part of such area has been merged or included shall pay annually to the first-mentioned local authority during the currency of the loan, on such date as is specified, such amount as he considers a duly proportionate part of the interest and other charges payable in respect of the loan:

And whereas part of the area over which a special loan of four thousand four hundred pounds (in respect of which the inscribed amount is four thousand four hundred and eighty-seven pounds seventeen shillings) was raised by the Egmont County Council for the purpose of rebuilding various bridges, has been merged or included in the County of Waimate West:

And whereas the Egmont County Council has duly made written application for a direction that the amount of fourteen pounds eighteen shillings and threepence shall be paid annually by the Waimate West County Council to the Egmont County Council as its duly proportionate part of the interest and other charges payable in respect of the said loan, and no objection has been received to the proposed apportionment:

Now, therefore, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on me by section seventy-three of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, do hereby direct that the Waimate West County Council shall, in respect of the loan above mentioned, pay annually to the Egmont County Council, on the first day of February in each and every year during the currency of the said loan, the above-mentioned amount of fourteen pounds eighteen shillings and threepence as its duly proportionate part of the interest and other charges payable in respect of the said loan.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 1st day of February, 1922.

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.

Prison proclaimed.

[L.S.] JELLICOE, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled the Prisons Act, 1908, it is provided that the Governor-General may, by Proclamation published in the Gazette, declare any house, building, enclosure, or place to be a prison, and from and after the gazetting of any such Proclamation, or from any time later specified in the Proclamation, such house, building, enclosure, or place shall be deemed a prison :