APRIL 17.]

Grey County.—Waiwhero Survey District.

Section 3144, Block XV : Area, 99 acres 2 roods 29 perches ;
capital value, £50 ; half-yearly rent, £1.

Situate north side of Ahaura River. Comprises old work-
ings and bush land of poor quality covered with beech of
no commercial value. Well watered by Baxter's Creek,
which runs through centre of section. Access by good
metalled road from Blackball some seven miles distant, and
by road and river-bed from Ahaura some three miles distant.

CROWN LAND.

Grey County.—Hohonu Survey District.

Section 2351, Block XIII : Area, 81 acres 0 roods 38 per-
ches ; capital value, £65; half-yearly rent, £1 6s.

Situate across Taramakau River near settlement. Com-
prises good land along river-bank, but liable to floods, re-
mainder partly swamp and partly terrace land, with heavy
bush of mixed description; soil poor. Access by road some
five miles from Kumara and two miles by river-bed, bad
crossing.

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 9th day of April,
1924.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Declaring Crown Land in the Karamea-Westland Mining
Districts, Westland Land District, open for Disposal on
Renewable Lease.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and thirty-three of
the Land Act, 1908, it is enacted that the Governor-
General, by Proclamation, may from time to time declare any
Crown lands within any mining district not held under lease
or license, or for which a lease or license has been cancelled,
to be open for disposal, as provided in section one hundred
and thirty-five of the said Act :

Now, therefore, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe,
Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in
exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by
section one hundred and thirty-three of the said Act, and of
every other power and authority in anyway enabling me in
this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the section
of land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open on
Monday, the sixteenth day of June, one thousand nine
hundred and twenty-four, for disposal on renewable lease, as
provided in section one hundred and thirty-five of the said
Act ; and I do also declare that, for the purposes of section
one hundred and twenty-seven of the said Act, the section
of land described in the said Schedule hereto shall be deemed
to be “light-bush land.”

And I do hereby provide that, after the first half-year’s
rent has been paid by the selector, the further instalments of
rent payable by him for a period of three years shall not be
demanded ; provided that if at any time during the first
five years of his occupancy the selector disposes of his
interest in the land the rent so conceded shall be paid by
him in full, and thereupon the Land Board may remit such
instalments of rent payable by the incoming tenant, not
exceeding in the aggregate the amount of rent previously
conceded to the selector, as the Board thinks fit.

SCHEDULE.

KARAMEA-WESTLAND MINING DISTRICT.—NATIONAL ENDOW-
MENT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Exempt from Rent for Three Years.

Westland County.—Okuru Survey District.

SECTION 2466, Block X : Area, 240 acres 1 rood 20 perches ;
capital value, £120 ; half-yearly rent, £2 8s.

Comprises 140 acres mixed bush, consisting of rimu, kamahi,
and stunted silver-pine, remainder open swamp, easily
drained into Okuru River. Soil of inferior sandy nature,
but when drained would be fair pastoral land. Well watered.
Altitude, 80 ft. above sea-level. Access by road and river
from Okuru, two miles, and distant from Hokitika one hun-
dred and twenty miles.

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 9th day of April,
1924.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Land proclaimed as a Road, and Road closed, in Matakoh
Survey District, North Auckland Land District.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by
section eleven of the Land Act, 1908, I, John Rush-
worth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion
of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim as a road the land
described in the First Schedule hereto ; and also do hereby
proclaim as closed the road described in the Second Schedule
hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

LAND PROCLAIMED AS A ROAD.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land proclaimed as a
road :-

A B. P.
0 0 10 Allotment S.W. 170, Okahu Parish, coloured yellow.
1 2 5 Allotments N.E. 170 and S.W. 171, Okahu Parish,
coloured red.
0 0 0-01 Allotment 166, Omaru Parish ; coloured blue.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

ROAD CLOSED.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of road closed : 1 acre 1 rood
14 perches.

Adjoining Allotments N.E. 170 and S.W. 171, Okahu Parish,
and Allotment 166, Omaru Parish ; coloured green.

All situated in Block I, Matakohe Survey District.

All in the North Auckland Land District ; as the same are
more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and
S. 16/1162, deposited in the Head Office, Department of
Lands and Survey, at Wellington, under No. 2066, and
thereon coloured as above mentioned.

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 29th day of March,
1924.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Land taken for the Purposes of a Post-office in Block I,
Maramarua Survey District.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
vested in me by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of
every other power and authority in anyway enabling me in
this behalf, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-
General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim
and declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto is
hereby taken for the purposes of a post-office ; and I do also
declare that this Proclamation shall take effect on and after
the twenty-sixth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and
twenty-four.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land taken :-

A. R. P.
0 0 16 Lots 4 and 5, Section 24; coloured blue.
0 0 20 " 6 and 7 " yellow.
0 0 36 " 8, 9, and 10 " red.

Situated in Township of Pokeno, Block I, Maramarua
Survey District. (S.O. 22871.)

In the North Auckland Land District; as the same are
more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D.
59366, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public
Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and
thereon coloured as above mentioned.

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 14th day of April,
1924.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works

GOD SAVE THE KING!