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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 44

And whereas the Tairawhiti District Maori Land Board has recommended that such consent be granted, and it seems expedient so to do:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby, pursuant to section three hundred and thirty-five of the Native Land Act, 1909, and all other powers him enabling, grant precedent consent to the Proprietors of Tapuaeroa 1A Block, on the security of a mortgage or charge of the land vested in it, to borrow money from a State Loan Department or from any person or body corporate for any of the purposes mentioned in the said section three hundred and thirty-five, the sum of three thousand three hundred pounds for the purpose of investment in the dairy industry, including the acquirement or purchase of shares or debentures of any dairy company (now or hereafter to be formed); and, pursuant to section three hundred and thirty-three of the said Act, consent is hereby given to the payment of any money so borrowed to the committee of management of the said body corporate, to be expended for the purposes aforesaid through or under the supervision of the Tairawhiti District Maori Land Board.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Opening Lands in the 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 lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on Monday, the twenty-fifth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four; and also that the lands 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 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.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Waitomo County.—Whareorino Survey District.

SECTION 7, Block X: Area, 467 acres. Capital value, £300. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £7 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £6.

Weighted with £85 10s. valuation for improvements, comprising 60 acres bush-felling, 15 acres grassing, and 24 chains of fencing.

Situated on the Waikawau Road, about twenty-two miles from Awakino Township; about twenty miles of the road has been metalled, the remainder being full-width cart-road. There is a post-office at Whareorino, three miles distant, the nearest school and store being at Awakino. The section comprises very broken steep country with about ten acres of flat land on the road-frontage. With the exception of about 60 acres of clearing of which 10 acres is in grass, the section is in heavy bush, comprising tawa, rimu, kohekohe, miro, and a few totara, with a heavy undergrowth of supplejack, kiekie, and ferns. The soil is of fairly heavy nature, poor to medium in quality, resting on a rubble and slate formation; fairly well watered by creeks and gullies. Altitude, 60 ft. to 800 ft. above sea-level.

Section 10, Block V: Area, 419 acres 3 roods. Capital value, £600. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £15. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £12.

Weighted with £37, valuation for improvements, comprising 20 acres bush-felling and 12 acres grassing.

Situated on the Kiritehere-Mangatoa Road, about forty-three miles from Te Kuiti and nine miles and a half from Marakopa, by metalled roads to within two miles of the section, the balance being full-width cart-road. There is a school at Moeatoa one mile and a half, a post-office at Kiritehere five miles, a store at Marokopa nine miles and a half, and sale-yards at Te Anga twenty miles distant. A cream-collecting route for dairy-factory passes about a mile and a half away. There is a clearing of about 20 acres partly grassed land on the road-frontage, containing a sufficient area of flat land to provide a good building-site and a paddock; the balance of the section is broken country in heavy bush, comprising tawa,

rata, miro, kohekohe, and mangeoa, with a heavy undergrowth of supplejack, kiekie, hangihangi, and ferns. The soil is fair to medium quality, resting on rubble formation; well watered by permanent streams. The section would make good grazing country for sheep or cattle. Altitude, 100 ft. to 600 ft. above sea-level.

Tauranga County.—Katikati Survey District.

Section 26, Block IV: Area, 412 acres. Capital value, £820. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £20 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £16 8s.

Situated about six miles by partly formed road from Katikati and about ten miles from Waihi. There is a post-office and school at Katikati, and also a school at Taupiro, about three miles distant. The section comprises about 50 acres of open fern land, the balance being hilly to broken country in bush, comprising principally tawa and rata, also a small amount of rimu and puriri and an undergrowth of supplejack. The soil is light sandy loam on a pumice clay formation, well watered by streams and springs. Altitude, 200 ft. to 600 ft. above sea-level.

Otorohanga County.—Mangaorongo Survey District.

Section 3, Block VI: Area, 123 acres 1 rood 26 perches. Capital value, £620. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £15 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £12 8s.

Section 4, Block VI: Area, 191 acres 2 roods. Capital value, £900. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £22 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £18.

These sections are situated about seven miles and a half by road from Otorohanga, of which six miles and a half have been metalled, thence by formed road to Section 3, the completion of the formation to Section 4 having been arranged for. Section 3 comprises about 15 acres of good swamp, 30 acres of fairly flat land, the remainder (with the exception of about 5 acres of hilly unploughable land) being undulating. Section 4 comprises about 6 acres of swamp, 60 acres of easy undulating land, the remainder being undulating to hilly, all ploughable, with the exception of about 8 acres. Both sections are covered with manuka, tutu, and fern, and are fairly well watered by swamps and a running stream. The soil is of medium to good quality resting on rhyolite and clay formation. Altitude 170 ft. to 220 ft. above sea-level.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 20th day of June, 1924.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Trustees for the Hunterville Public Cemetery appointed.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by section four of the Cemeteries Act, 1908, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby revoke a certain Warrant dated the fifth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and nine, appointing trustees for the Hunterville Public Cemeteries, and in lieu thereof do hereby appoint

Alexander Grant Simpson,
Thomas Andrew Duncan,
Robert Gardner Dalziell,
Sydney Arthur Robert Mair,
Henry Joseph Dalton McManaway,
Thomas George Taylor, and
William Henry Bowick

to be trustees to have the maintenance and care of the Hunterville Cemetery as described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

HUNTERVILLE PUBLIC CEMETERY.—WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

SUBDIVISION 2A of Otairi No. 3 Block, Block III, Ongo Survey District: Area 2 acres.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 20th day of June, 1924.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Officer of the Crown authorized to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by section two hundred and eighty-eight of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908, and section sixteen of the Justices of the Peace Amendment Act, 1923, I, John Rushworth,