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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 51

Situated at the junction of the Waitiri and Ratanui Roads, about twelves miles from Douglas Railway-station. Section comprises undulating to very steep country, with good flats along the Ratanui Road. Soil is of good quality resting on papa and shell-rock formation. Bush is very dense, with a thick undergrowth. Well watered by streams.

Section 13, Block VII: Area, 1,752 acres 2 roods 1 perch. Capital value, £1,320. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £33. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £26 8s.

Weighted with £450, valuation for improvements, comprising 200 acres felling and grassing.

Situated about twelve miles from Douglas Railway-station and three miles and a quarter from Puniwhakau Post-office and school. Comprises steep broken country with a fair area of terrace land and easy hills. The soil is of fair quality, resting on sandstone and papa formation; about 1,550 acres still in bush, comprising rimu, rata, puketea, with a thick undergrowth. Well watered by streams.

Clifton County.—Waro Survey District.

Section 7, Block XIII: Area, 905 acres. Capital value, £460. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £11 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £9 4s.

Weighted with £90, valuation for improvements, comprising 60 acres felling and grassing.

Situated at Okau on the Boar Road. Access is from Waitara Railway-station, which is about thirty-five miles distant. Comprises hilly to steep country. Soil is of fair quality resting on papa and sandstone formation. Heavy bush with a dense undergrowth. Well watered by streams. Altitude, 100 ft. to 1,000 ft.

Waitomo County.—Totoro Survey District.

Section 2, Block XII: Area, 155 acres 1 rood 21 perches. Capital value, £280. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £7. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £5 12s.

Weighted with £105, valuation for improvements, comprising 7 acres stumped and cultivated, and 60 chains of fencing.

Situated on the Mokauiti Road, about six miles from the Township of Aria. The road is unmetalled. The access is from Aria, which is about twenty-five miles distant from the Te Kuiti Railway-station by metalled road. Comprises about 40 acres of ploughable land, the balance hilly and broken by gullies. At present the section is covered with fern and light manuka and a little tutu. The soil is of a light loam resting on sandstone formation. The section is fairly well watered by springs.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 23rd day of July, 1924.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Inspector of Scenic Reserve appointed.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section four of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

Herbert Vincent Mathias

to be an Inspector under the said Act in respect to the scenic reserve described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—PORARARI RIVER-BANK SCENIC RESERVE.

SECTIONS 6 and 7, Block IX, Brighton Survey District: Area, 799 acres.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 22nd day of July, 1924.

A. D. McLEOD,

Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

Trustees for the Waipu Public Cemetery appointed.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the fourth section of the Cemeteries Act, 1908, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the several persons whose names are specified in Part I of the Schedule hereto to have the control and management of the public cemetery specified in Part II of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

Part I.—Names of Trustees.

John Alexander Morrison,

Angus John McKay,

Daniel McKay,

William Eneas Morrison McKay, and

Donald Hector McKenzie.

Part II.—Name of Cemetery and Description of Land.

WAIPU.

ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 4 acres 2 roods 5 perches, more or less, being part of Allotment 27, Parish of Waipu. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 2/466, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor General, this 22nd day of July, 1924.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Trustees for the Oamaru 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 sixteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, appointing trustees for the Oamaru Public Cemetery, and in lieu thereof do hereby appoint

Richard Penfold,

Andrew Fraser,

Samuel Michael Harding Grenfell,

Percy Cecil Hjorring,

John Vernor, and

John Prior Puttick

to be trustees to have the maintenance and care of the said cemetery as described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

OAMARU PUBLIC CEMETERY.

ALL that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 12 acres 2 roods 21 perches, more or less, being Section 23, Block 76, Town of Oamaru. Bounded towards the north-east by Test Street, 1700 links; towards the south-east by Greta Street, 1100 links; towards the south-west by Tamar Street, 370 links, and a public road, 1600 links; and towards the north-west by Mersey Street, 170 links.

Also all that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 11 acres 3 roods 25 perches, more or less, being Allotments 18 and 19, Awamoa Estate. Bounded towards the north-west by Allotments 21 and 17 aforesaid estate, 1477·1 links; towards the east by Jessop Street, 1164·8 links; towards the south by Allotment 20 aforesaid estate, 1361·9 links; and towards the west by Allotment 22 aforesaid estate, 593 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.

As the same are delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 2/19, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 28th day of July, 1924.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Returning Officer for the Harapepe Rabbit District appointed. Notice No. Ag. 2398.

Department of Agriculture,

Wellington, 22nd July, 1924.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint, in terms of section 71 of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1908,

Thomas Mahoney

to be Returning Officer to hold the first election of trustees for the Harapepe Rabbit District, constituted under Part III of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1908.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.