Mar. 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 827

Crown Land set apart for Disposal by way of Sale or Lease
to Discharged Soldiers, under Special Tenures, in the
Wellington Land District.

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

IN pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon
me by section four of the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that the area of Crown land described in the Schedule hereto shall be and the same is hereby set apart and declared open for disposal by way of sale or lease to discharged soldiers, under special tenures, in the manner provided in the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—CROWN LAND.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 10 acres 3 roods 37 perches, be the same a little more or less, being part Section 4, Block VI, Hunua Survey District. As the same is more particularly shown on the plan numbered 216/31, deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 22nd day of March, 1923.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Lands in Auckland 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 Auckland Land District has recommended that the Crown tenants of the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto should be afforded relief, owing to exceptional circumstances over which they have 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 lands 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 one year from the dates mentioned in the said Schedule as the period for which the said lands shall be exempt from payment of rent.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—NATIONAL ENDOWMENT.

Block III, Piopiotea Survey District.

1st July, 1923.

SECTION 3 .. Area, 273 1 14
" 4 .. " 254 2 0
" 5 .. " 196 1 8

1st August, 1922.

Section 6 .. Area, 194 3 1
" 7 .. " 160 2 11
" 8 .. " 237 0 8
" 9 .. " 196 0 16

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 21st day of March, 1923.

W. FRASER, for Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Land proclaimed as ceasing to be set apart as National-endowment Land.

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

WHEREAS by section eleven of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1920, as amended by section five of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1922, it is enacted that the Governor-General may, by Proclamation approved in Executive Council, declare that any national-endowment land within the Hauraki Mining District held under a renewable lease issued under the Land Act, 1908, or held under a license issued under regulations made under the Land Act, 1892, or the corresponding regulations made under the Land Act, 1908, for the occupation of pastoral lands within the said mining district, shall cease to be national-endowment land:

And whereas it is deemed expedient that the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto, which is held under a renewable lease as aforesaid, should cease to be national-endowment land:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities so conferred upon me by the aforesaid section eleven, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby proclaim and declare that from and after the date hereof the land described in the Schedule hereto, which was set apart as national-endowment land under the provisions of section two hundred and fifty-eight of the Land Act, 1908, shall cease to be national-endowment land.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—NATIONAL ENDOWMENT.—
HAURAKI MINING DISTRICT.

SECTION 26, Block XIII, Ohinemuri Survey District; Area, 17 acres 0 roods 5·2 perches.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 19th day of March, 1923.

W. FRASER, for Minister of Lands.

Approved in Council.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Altering the Boundaries of the Springs-Ellesmere Electric-power District.

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

WHEREAS it is provided by section three of the Electric-power Boards Act, 1918, that the Governor-General may alter the boundaries of a district so as to include any defined area within such district:

And whereas a petition, praying that the area described in the Schedule hereto be added to the Springs-Ellesmere Electric-power District, being an electric-power district duly constituted under the said Act by Proclamation published in Gazette No. 65, of the eighth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, was presented to the Governor-General on the thirtieth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three:

And whereas such petition was publicly notified in the Press of the twentieth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, being a newspaper circulating in the said area and electric-power district:

And whereas, after due inquiry, the Governor-General is of opinion that the petition should be granted:

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 upon me by section three of the Electric-power Boards Act, 1918, do hereby alter the boundaries of the Springs-Ellesmere Electric-power District so as to include the area described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, comprising part of the Selwyn and Leeston Survey Districts, and being part of the Selwyn County, bounded commencing at the point of intersection of the middle-line of the Dunedin—Christchurch Railway and the centre of the Selwyn River, and proceeding thence in a south-westerly direction along the said railway-line to the centre of the road lying to the south-western boundary of Rural Sections 9281 and 2287; thence in a north-westerly direction along the centre of the said last-mentioned road to the middle of the Great South Road; thence in a north-easterly direction along the middle of the Great South Road to its point of intersection with Wright's Road; thence in a north-westerly direction along the middle-line of the said Wright's Road to its point of intersection with the two-chain road on the western boundary of Section 37007; thence in a northerly direction along