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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 59

Weighted with £115, valuation for improvements, being 50 acres felling, grassing, and 20 chains fencing.
Part Section 137: Area, 114 acres 2 roods. Capital value, £114. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £2 17s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £2 5s. 7d.
Weighted with £190, valuation for improvements, consisting of 80 acres felling and grassing, and 40 chains fencing.
Section 136: Elevation from 100 ft. to 400 ft. above sea-level. Land is broken, whole area was chopped and sown in grass, but fern is growing through now. The soil is fair clay on blue-rock formation. Well watered by running stream; and is situated seven miles from Maungaturoto Railway-station by metalled road.
Section 137: Elevation ranges from 100 ft. to 400 ft. above sea-level. Land is broken; 80 acres was bush country, 20 acres tea-tree, and 14 scattered bush and scrub. The 80 acres has now been felled and grassed, but fern is growing through. The soil is fair clay on blue-rock foundation. Well watered by running stream; and is situated on the Waipu-Maungaturoto Gorge Road, about seven miles from Maungaturoto Railway-station by metalled road.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.
Whangaroa County.—Whangaroa Survey District.
Section 10, Block VII: Area, 50 acres 1 rood 30 perches, and Section 21, Block VII: Area, 207 acres 2 roods 18 perches: Total area, 258 acres 0 roods 8 perches. Capital value, £255. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £6 7s. 6d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £5 2s.
Weighted with £302 10s., valuation for improvements, comprising house and 60 chains of fencing on Section 21.
Sections adjoin one another. The elevation ranges from 10 ft. to 550 ft. above sea-level. Section 21 comprises easy rising to steep land, about 70 acres light bush, balance in fern, manuka, and hakea. Section 10 is half flat, balance easy undulating land. The soil is alluvial and clay on sandstone formation. Both sections are well watered by permanent streams. The access is from Whangaroa, about two miles and a half away by formed half-metalled road.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 27th day of August, 1924.
A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Notifying Land in Wellington Land District for Sale by Public Auction for Cash or on Deferred Payments.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section one hundred and twenty-six of the Land Act, 1908, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Wednesday, the eighth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, as the time at which the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction for cash or on deferred payments; and I hereby fix the price at which the said land shall be sold as that mentioned in the said Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.
Waimarino County.—Ngamatea Survey District.
SECTION 1, Block X: Area, 127 acres 1 rood 20 perches; capital value, £640.
Weighted with £604, valuation for improvements, consisting of felling and grassing whole area, £448; and 104 chains of eight-wire fencing, £156. To be paid in cash on the fall of the hammer.
This section is situated on the Parapara-Raetihi Road, about twenty miles from Raetihi by formed and partly metalled dray-road. Comprises fairly steep good pastoral country. The whole area has been felled and laid down in grass. Section is watered by running streams.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General this 26th day of August, 1924.
A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

White Swan protected in North Canterbury Acclimatization District.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance of the powers conferred on me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921-22, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that from and after the date hereof white swan (Cygnus olor) shall be protected in that part of New Zealand described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.
North Canterbury Acclimatization District.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 29th day of August, 1924.
RICH. F. BOLLARD.
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Financial Instructions and Allowance Regulations for the New Zealand Military Forces amended.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authority conferred on me by the Defence Act, 1909, and its amendments, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby amend the Financial Instructions and Allowances Regulations for the New Zealand Military Forces, published in the New Zealand Gazette of the eighteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, in accordance with the Schedule hereto; and I do hereby declare that such amendment shall take effect from the date of the publication thereof in the Gazette.

SCHEDULE.
FINANCIAL INSTRUCTIONS AND ALLOWANCE REGULATIONS FOR THE NEW ZEALAND MILITARY FORCES.
REGULATION 117A is hereby amended by cancelling the first sentence, and substituting therefor the following: “An annual grant of £75 to regimental bands and £25 to cadet bands will be made towards the upkeep of all approved regimental and cadet bands other than bugle, drum and fife, or pipe bands.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General this 28th day of August, 1924.
R. HEATON RHODES, Minister of Defence.

Miners’ Rights no longer issued at Otatau Post-office.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by the Mining Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the Post-office at Otatau shall no longer be a post-office at which miners’ rights may be issued.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General this 28th day of August, 1924.
G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Mines.
(Mines N.10/5.)

Appointment as Ranger under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921-22.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921-22, I, Richard Francis Bollard, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint
John Edward Blair, of Omoto,
to be a Ranger under the said Act for the Grey District Acclimatization District.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 29th day of August, 1924.
RICH. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Inspector under the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, appointed.—Notice No. Ag. 2405.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 27th August, 1924.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint
Henry Charles Gimblett
to be an Inspector for the purposes of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, for the Borough of Bluff, the appointment to date as from 27th August, 1924.
W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.