JULY 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1679

Level section of good quality. No permanent water, but water might probably be obtained by sinking. Situated on well-formed metal road within a mile of Middlemarch Railway-station.

Improvements.—Improvements included in the capital value consist of fencing on east and south boundaries valued at £5 5s.

Tuapeka County.—Greenvale Survey District.

Kelso Settlement.

Section 3s : Area, 143 acres 1 rood 24 perches. Capital value, £1,820. Renewable lease : Half-yearly rent, £40 19s. Weighted with £35, valuation for improvements.

Situated about three miles from Kelso Railway-station and school and about same distance from Heriot. All flat, and more or less in natural state. Soil, black loam on clay subsoil. 100 acres pasture, balance swampy. Subject to flood, consequently risky to crop.

Improvements.—The improvements included in the capital value of the section consist of boundary and subdivisional fences, valued at £66 8s. The improvements not included in the capital value but which have to be paid for separately are yards and dip, £10 ; hut on sledge now on Allotment 5s, £25 ; total £35. Hut must be removed by successful applicant to Section 3s at his own expense.

Clutha County.—Glenkenich Survey District.—Second-class Land.

Conical Hills Settlement.

Sections 2A and 3A : Total area, 301 acres 1 rood 30 perches. Capital value, £1,990. Renewable lease : Half-yearly rent, £44 15s. 6d.

Weighted with £464 11s., valuation for improvements, consisting of fencing, boundary and subdivisional, £274 11s. ; and three-roomed dwelling and other buildings, £190.

Situated two miles and a half from Pomahaka Railway-station by good road. Undulating land, all ploughable, excepting 15 to 20 acres of gullies which provide good shelter and grazing. Free-working soil on clay formation. Well watered by streams and springs.

Improvements.—The improvements included in the capital value of the land consist of boundary and subdivisional fencing, valued at £27 16s. 6d.

Clutha County.—Waipahi Survey District.

Conical Hills Settlement.

Section 35A : Area, 337 acres 0 roods 20 perches. Capital value, £870. Renewable lease : Half-yearly rent, £19 11s. 6d. Weighted with £900 9s., valuation for improvements, comprising buildings valued at £760 and boundary and subdivisional fencing, &c., valued at £140 9s.

Situated half a mile from Conical Hills Railway-station and ten miles from Waipahi on Main South line. Comprises ridges leading from road, fairly steep. Soil principally light, on rock and clay. Quality poor. Watered by running streams.

Improvements.—The improvements included in the capital value of the section comprise a little fencing and three gates, valued at £11 11s.

Clutha County.—Waipahi Survey District.

Wairuna Settlement.

Section 1s : Area, 703 acres. Capital value, £2,630. Renewable lease : Half-yearly rent, £59 3s. 6d.

Weighted with £406 18s., valuation for improvements.

Situated about three miles from Waipahi Railway-junction on Southern Trunk Railway. Access by well-formed road. Land of very fair quality; produces good grass, oat and turnip crops ; well watered.

Improvements.—The improvements included in the capital value of the section consist of boundary and subdivisional fencing, valued at £70 2s. The improvements not included in the capital value, but which must be paid for in cash, comprises—cottage, £140 ; stable and chaff-house, £120 ; and boundary and subdivisional fencing, £146 18s. ; total £406 18s.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General this 14th day of July, 1924.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Land temporarily reserved in the Otago Land District as a Site for Public Buildings of the General Government.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-twenty-first section of the Land Act, 1908, it is enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned :

Now, therefore, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the land in the Otago Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, as a site for public buildings of the General Government.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 2 perches, more or less, being Section 4, Block 44, Town of Dunedin. Bounded towards the north-west by High Street, 50·47 links ; towards the north-east by Customhouse Reserve, Gazette 1874, page 6, 45 links ; towards the south-east by Crown land, 12·93 links ; again towards the north-west and north-east by Section 1, aforesaid Block, 7 links and 60·5 links respectively : be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 6/3/300, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red. As a site for public buildings of the General Government.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 8th day of July, 1924.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Vesting the Control of a Scenic Reserve in the Whangarei Borough Council.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as “ the said Act ”), His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby vest the control of the scenic reserve described in the Schedule hereto (being land reserved under the said Act) in the Whangarei Borough Council, subject to the conditions hereinafter contained, that is to say :—

1. The period for which the control of the reserve is hereby vested shall be three years from the date hereof, unless the reservation is previously altered or revoked under the said Act.

2. The said Council shall prepare a report each year ending on the thirty-first day of March, together with a statement of receipts and expenditure in connection with the said reserve. Such report and statement shall be sent to the Minister charged with the administration of the said Act as soon as possible after the close of the year.

3. The said Council shall control the said reserve in accordance with the provisions of the said Act and of the regulations made thereunder.

SCHEDULE.

CORONATION SCENIC RESERVE.—NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

PART of Horahora No. 2 Block, part of Te Wharowharo No. 1 Block, and Kirikiri No. 5 Block, Block XII, Purua Survey District : Area, 117 acres 1 rood 39 perches.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 8th day of July, 1924.

A. D. McLEOD,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

Vesting the Control of a Scenic Reserve in the Levin Borough Council.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as “ the said Act ”), His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby vest the control of the scenic reserve described in the Schedule hereto (being land reserved under the said Act) in the Levin Borough Council, subject to the conditions hereinafter contained, that is to say :—

1. The period for which the control of the reserve is hereby vested shall be three years from the date hereof, unless the reservation is previously altered or revoked under the said Act.