WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1925.

Settlement Land in Marlborough Land District proclaimed to be National-endowment Land.
[L.S.] CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by section three of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1922, it is enacted that the Governor-General may by Proclamation declare any land acquired under the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, whether before or after the passing of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1922, to be, inter alia, ordinary national-endowment land available for disposal under the Land Act, 1924:
And whereas it is deemed expedient that the land described in the Schedule hereto, and which was acquired under the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, shall cease to be settlement land and become ordinary national-endowment land for disposal under the Land Act, 1924:
Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities so conferred upon me by the aforesaid section three, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that from and after the date of the gazetting hereof the land described in the Schedule hereto, which was acquired under the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, shall be national-endowment land available for disposal under the Land Act, 1924.
SCHEDULE.
ALL that area in the Marlborough Land District, containing by admeasurement 34 acres 3 roods 36 perches, more or less, being Section 3 of 3s, Linkwater Dale Settlement, situated in Block X, Linkwater Survey District. Bounded as follows: Towards the north by a public road, 50 links; towards the east and again to the north by Section 2 of 3s, Linkwater Dale Settlement, 2505·4 links and 550·6 links respectively; again to the east by Section 4s of the aforesaid settlement, 2510·6 links; towards the south, again to the east, and again to the south, by a public road, 200 links, 505·5 links and 952·2 links respectively; towards the west by Section 2s of the aforesaid settlement, 3005·9 links; and again to the north and to the west by Section 1 of 3s, aforesaid settlement, ment, 550·6 links and 2505·6 links respectively: be all the aforesaid distances more or less.
Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 18th day of April, 1925.
A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.
GOD SAVE THE KING!
Land in Taranaki Land District declared to be subject to Section 133 of the Land Act, 1924.
[L.S.] CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the Land Board of the Taranaki Land District has recommended that the Crown tenant of the land enumerated in the Schedule hereto should be afforded relief, owing to exceptional circumstances over which he has no control preventing the profitable occupation of such land: Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by section one hundred and thirty-four of the Land Act, 1924, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare the land enumerated in the Schedule hereto to be subject to the provisions of section one hundred and thirty-three of the Land Act, 1924; and I do further fix three years from the date mentioned in the said Schedule as the period for which the said land shall be exempt from payment of rent.
SCHEDULE.
TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.
SECTION 4, Block VII, Totoro Survey District: 1st January, 1925.
Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 19th day of April, 1925.
A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.
GOD SAVE THE KING!