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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 16

minion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the national-endowment lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Tuesday, the twenty-first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, at the rentals mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—NATIONAL ENDOWMENT.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Waitemata County.—Paremoremo Parish.

SECTION 287: Area, 49 acres 0 roods 28 perches. Capital value, £245. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £4 18s. Altitude, about 50 ft. to 150 ft. above sea-level. Undulating fern and manuka country, with a few pines. Practically all ploughable. Soil, brown loam, medium quality, on clay subsoil. Lies well to sun. Poorly watered by swamps. Situated about two miles and a half from Riverhead by formed cart-road, not metalled. Commands a fine view of upper portion of Waitemata Harbour and of Auckland City. There is a post-office, store, and hotel at Riverhead, which is connected with Auckland by a daily boat service.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Mangonui County.—Mangonui East Parish.

Sections 75, 76, 77, and 78: Area, 111 acres 0 roods 33 perches. Capital value, £90. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £1 16s.

Section situated east of main Mangonui-Kaeo Road, ten miles from Mangonui, six miles good metalled road, balance partly formed cart-road. Open country; small clumps of bush in gullies; all in fern, scrub, and rough feed. Soil is of poor clay on sandstone. Well watered by streams. Altitude, approximately 500 ft. to 600 ft. above sea-level. No improvements.

Waitemata County.—Paremoremo Parish.

Section 271: Area, 56 acres 2 roods. Capital value, £170. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £3 8s.

Situated on Ridge Road, Albany to Fernielea, access being from Albany, five miles distant, one mile and a half by metalled road, balance formed clay; can also be reached from Riverhead, four miles distant, by clay road. Undulating to steep land, all ploughable; lies to the north, well sheltered; in fern and tea-tree. Altitude, 380 ft. to 450 ft. above sea-level. Soil is of light clay on sandstone. Fairly well watered by swampy creek.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 3rd day of March, 1925.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Opening Settlement Land in North Auckland Land District for Selection.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1924, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, and amendments, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the settlement land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Tuesday, the twenty-first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, at the rental mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said land shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SETTLEMENT LAND.

Waitemata County.—Waari Hamlet Settlement.

SECTION 58: Area, 5 acres. Capital value, £475. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £10 13s. 9d.

Section situated within stone-throw of New North Road (which is to be concreted from Auckland to Henderson) on formed (part metalled) clay road, and commands a fine view of the Waitakerei Ranges. Access is from Oratia Station, half a mile away. All level land, ploughable, the soil being of a clay nature on sandstone. Elevation is 250 ft. above sea-level.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 3rd day of March, 1925.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 25th February, 1925.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Thomas Leslie Evans

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Blueskin, on and from the 24th February, 1925.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Inspectors under the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, appointed.—Notice No. Ag. 2475.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 4th March, 1925.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Percy Henry Hollingsworth and William Tole

to be Inspectors for the purposes of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, for the One Tree Hill Road District; the appointments date as from the 26th February, 1925.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.

Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1908.—Public Auditor appointed.

Head Office, Stamp Duties Department,
Wellington, 26th February, 1925.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Charles Edward Richards

a Public Auditor under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1908.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Stamp Duties.

Appointment of Officer under Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 2nd March, 1925.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of the provisions of the Fisheries Act, 1908, and of the Official Appointments and Documents Act, 1919, appointed

Charles Joseph Evans,

of Invercargill, to be an officer for the purposes of Part II of the first-mentioned Act, in respect of the Otago and Southland Acclimatization Districts.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Marine.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 3rd March, 1925.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned persons have been appointed to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz. :

Robert Albert Mace .. .. Mangonui.
William John Betty .. .. Wellington at Kilbirnie.
Jack Paice .. .. Otorohanga.
George Henry York .. .. Ngaruawahia at Taupiri.
James Molloy .. .. Lumsden.
William Henry Smith .. .. Dunstan.
William Frederick Owen .. .. Hororata.
James Frederick Crabb .. .. Murchison.

• Births and Deaths only.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Appointments to the Cook Islands Public Service.

Cook Islands Department,
Wellington, 23rd February, 1925.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to make the following appointments to the Cook Islands Public Service, under section 13 of the Cook Islands Act, 1915:—

William Tailby

to be Treasurer and Collector of Customs, Rarotonga; and

Grace Bernardine Montgomery

to be Assistant Teacher, Rarotonga.

M. POMARE, Minister for the Cook Islands.