Oct. 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2621

The altitude ranges from 1,200 ft. to 3,259 ft. above sea-level. There is generally a thick undergrowth of scrub on the sections, consisting of horopito, lawyer, five-finger, fuchsia, &c. With slight improvement the present access would enable wheeled traffic to reach any of the sections. The homestead is connected with telephone.

DEAD STOCK.

There is a considerable quantity of dead stock on the settlement, consisting of machines, implements, tools, harness, &c., which will be available for disposal at valuation to the incoming settlers.

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

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Opening Land in the Gisborne 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 on this behalf, as provided by section one hundred and fifty-four of the said Act, do hereby declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on Wednesday, the tenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four; and also that the land 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 price at which the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

GISBORNE LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Opotiki County.—Motu Survey District.

SECTIONS 18 and 19, Block II: Area, 97 acres 2 roods 30 perches. Capital value, £490. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £12 5s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £9 16s.

Sections 20 and 21, Block II: Area, 98 acres 2 roods 34 perches. Capital value, £495. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £12 7s. 6d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £9 18s.

The land is situated about one mile from Motu Village and four miles from Motuhora Railway-station. The area comprises undulating land and low hills, well watered; good soil on sandy clay subsoil, mixed tawa bush recently milled; land suitable for dairying when cleared and grassed. Average altitude about 1,700 ft.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 24th day of October, 1924.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Land temporarily reserved in the Marlborough Land District for River-protection Purposes.

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 Marlborough Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, for river-protection purposes.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Marlborough Land District, containing approximately 780 acres, being a portion of the original bed of the Wairau River, situated in Blocks VI, VII, IX, and X,

Cloudy Bay Survey District, bounded as follows—Commencing at the Wairau Bridge in Block IX, Cloudy Bay Survey District; thence in a northerly direction by that bridge to the middle of the Wairau River; thence in an easterly direction by the middle line of that river to the western boundary of Section 69, Block VII aforesaid; thence in a southerly direction by the said boundary to Section 126, Wairau West; thence in a westerly direction by the northern boundaries of Sections 126, 125, 124, and 122, Wairau West, by the western boundary of the last-mentioned section, and by the river-bank road along the southern bank of the Wairau River to the Wairau Bridge, the point of commencement. Excluding from the above description Sections 120 and 121, Wairau West, with all access and appurtenant rights for which due allowance has been made in the above area. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 22/3200, 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 25th day of October, 1924.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Setting apart Crown Land under Section 20 of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1912.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section twenty of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1912, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby set apart the lands described in the Schedule hereto for disposal under the section of the Act mentioned.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 28, Block X, Hohoura East Survey District: Area, 16 acres 0 roods 21 perches.

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

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Vesting the Control of Scenic Reserves in the New Plymouth Scenic Reserves Board, under the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby vest the control of the reserves described in the Schedule below (being land reserved under the said Act), for the period of three years from the date hereof (unless previously altered or revoked under the said Act), in the undermentioned persons, namely—

Robert William James Davies,
William Walter Smith, F.L.S.,
William Henry Skinner,
Follett Carrington,
The Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Taranaki Land District (ex officio),

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the New Plymouth Scenic Reserves Board (herein referred to as “the Board”), in trust, for the preservation of scenery, and with the powers and subject to the conditions hereinafter contained, that is to say,—

1. The Board shall meet for the transaction of business on the fourth Tuesday in the months of January, April, July, and October in each year, at four o’clock p.m., at the District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, or at such other time or place as may from time to time be fixed by the Board. The first meeting shall be held on Tuesday, the twenty-seventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five.

2. The Commissioner of Crown Lands shall be the Chairman of the Board. He may join in the discussion, and shall have an original as well as a casting vote.

3. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman, provided that two days’ notice of such meeting be given to each member, specifying the business to be transacted at such special meeting; and no other business than that so specified shall be transacted at such meeting.

4. Any three members of the Board shall form a quorum. Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.