June 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1739

selected for occupation with right of purchase, or on renewable lease; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND

Hawke’s Bay County.—Moeangiangi Survey District.

SECTION 1, Block XIV: Area, 517 acres. Capital value, £4,070. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £101 15s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £81 8s. Altitude, from 15 ft. to 760 ft. Open pastoral country, with bush in gullies, comprising steep sunny faces and spurs, with good flat along the river to the north, and generally unimproved steep faces and spurs, with fern, manuka scrub, and roughly 40 acres of light bush to the south; thick blackberry along the river-flats and terraces, and in the Ruatoitoi Stream; generally well grassed and watered. Good soil, on clay. Distant about twenty-five miles from Napier by coach road.

Weighted with £171 5s., valuation for improvements including 137 chains of fencing. This amount must be paid in cash, or, in the event of a discharged soldier being the successful applicant, may be treated as an advance under the Discharged Soldiers’ Settlement Act, in which case a mortgage to the Crown must be executed.

Hawke’s Bay County.—Maungaharuru Survey District.

Section 3, Block XV: Area, 1,002 acres. Capital value, £7,100. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £177 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £142. Pastoral country, well grassed, comprising steep to easy slopes and terraces from a limestone ridge to the Esk River, with fern, scrub, and light bush in gullies, and some blackberry at the south end. Good homestead on top of ridge, with about 100 acres of easy country about it. Good soil on clay, with a little pumice; limestone outcrops; very well watered. About twenty-two miles from Napier by formed road, of which about 11 acres are metalled.

Weighted with £1,000, valuation for improvements including house of three rooms and conveniences, two 600-gallon tanks, sheep-yards, and 250 chains of boundary and subdivisional fencing. This amount must be paid in cash, or, in the event of a discharged soldier being the successful applicant, may be treated as an advance under the Discharged Soldiers’ Settlement Act, in which case a mortgage to the Crown must be executed.

Special Condition.—The right is reserved to take all land required for the East Coast Railway line without payment of compensation.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 18th day of June, 1923.

W. NOSWORTHY, for Minister of Lands.

Opening Land in Nelson 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 Tuesday, the seventh day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three; 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.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Waimea County.—Wai-iti Survey District.

SECTIONS 3, 14, and 15, Block III: Area, 287 acres. Capital value, £290. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £7 5s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £5 16s.

Situated at the head of Win’s Valley. Access from Awa by three miles of good formed road, thence one mile of track. Comprises broken spurs and gullies with no flats. Covered with fern and a little bush in gullies. Soil of poor quality, on clay formation; poorly watered by small creeks. Altitude, 1,200 ft. above sea-level.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 16th day of June, 1923.

W. NOSWORTHY, for Minister of Lands.

Opening Settlement Land in Hawke’s Bay 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 Tuesday, the seventh day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, 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.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—SETTLEMENT LAND.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Dannevirke County.—Norsewood Survey District.—Glengarry Settlement.

SECTION 18s: Area, 69 acres 2 roods; capital value, £3,000; half-yearly rent, £67 10s.

About 45 acres of good flat land, of which 30 acres have been stumped, ploughed, and cropped; balance low hills, mostly ploughable when stumped; well grassed. Good soil, on clay formation; well watered.

Weighted with £630, valuation for improvements including house of four rooms and conveniences, milking-shed, and sixty chains boundary and subdivisional fencing. This amount must be paid in cash, or, in the event of a discharged soldier being the successful applicant, may be treated as an advance under the Discharged Soldiers’ Settlement Act, in which case a mortgage to the Crown must be executed.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 18th day of June, 1923.

W. NOSWORTHY, for Minister of Lands.

Warrant vesting the Control of the Bridge over the Wanganui River at Taumarunui in the Taumarunui Borough Council, and apportioning Cost of Maintenance.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by section one hundred and twenty of the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby direct that the bridge over the Wanganui River at Taumarunui (as more particularly described in the Schedule hereto) shall, on and after the date of the gazetting hereof, be under the exclusive care, control, and management of the Taumarunui Borough Council.

And I do hereby fix and determine that the cost of maintaining, repairing, and improving the said bridge shall be borne by the Taumarunui Borough Council and the Kaitieke County Council in the following proportions—viz., the Taumarunui Borough Council shall pay half and the Kaitieke County Council shall pay half of such cost respectively; and I do also further direct that any contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Kaitieke County Council shall be paid from time to time, in the proportion hereinbefore prescribed, to the Taumarunui Borough Council out of the funds of the said County Council, within a period of one month after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the Taumarunui Borough Council, and such payment shall be made to the Town Clerk, Taumarunui, for and on behalf of the Kaitieke County Council.

SCHEDULE.

THAT bridge situated in the Auckland and Wellington Land Districts, and extending across the Wanganui River from the southern end of Morero Terrace in the Borough of Taumarunui to the Wanganui Valley Road in the Kaitieke County. As the site of the said bridge is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 57162, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 16th day of June, 1923.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.