JULY 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2173

Improvements consist of 90 chains seven-wire fencing, 50 acres felling and grassing, and dwelling of one room 16 ft. by 12 ft.

Rodney County.—Oruawhara Parish.

Sections 191A and 194 : Area, 110 acres 2 roods. Capital value, £115. Occupation with right of purchase : Half-yearly rent, £2 17s. 6d. Renewable lease : Half-yearly rent, £2 6s.

Situated on the Hakaru River about seven miles from Kaiwaka. School is about two miles distant and Hakaru Dairy about four miles. Access is from Kaiwaka, five miles formed clay road, balance bridle-track. Soil is loamy clay of a heavy nature, well watered by the Hakaru River. Undulating to steep country, covered with fern, manuka, and bush. Nearly all ploughable, excepting in the thick bush and high manuka portion. Altitude, 20 ft. to 50 ft.

Rodney County.—Ahuroa Parish.

Sections N. 9 and S.E. 11 : Area, 42 acres 3 roods 32 perches. Capital value, £35. Occupation with right of purchase : Half-yearly rent, 17s. 6d. Renewable lease : Half-yearly rent, 14s.

Situated on the Ahuroa-Puhoi Road, at distance of about four miles from either town. Access is by formed clay road, parts of which are metalled. At both towns there is a post-office, school, and store; at Puhoi there is also an hotel. The section is of broken to very steep country covered with fern, blackberry, and patches of gorse ; less than one-third ploughable. Formerly bush land, cleared, but now gone back. Poorly watered by springs that dry in summer.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 27th day of July, 1925.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Opening Town Lands in Westland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

[I] N pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1924, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the town lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Monday, the fourteenth day of September, 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.

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN LAND.

Runanga Borough.—Town of Runanga._—National Endowment.

Section 5, Block XIX : Area, 1 rood 1 perch ; capital value, £40 ; half-yearly rent, £1.

Section 10, Block XXVI : Area, 1 rood ; capital value, £30 ; half-yearly rent, 15s.

Weighted with £5, valuation for fencing and clearing.

Section 2, Block XXXVIII : Area, 27.4 perches; capital value, £20 ; half-yearly rent, 10s.

Section 16, Block XVII : Area, 1 rood ; capital value, £65 ; half-yearly rent, £1 12s. 6d.

Weighted with £40, valuation for house and clearing.

Section 5, Block XXXII : Area, 1 rood 19 perches ; capital value, £20 ; half-yearly rent, 10s.

Section 5, Block XXXVIII : Area, 24.7 perches; capital value, £20; half-yearly rent, 10s.

Runanga Township is situated at the State Coal-mine about three miles by road and railway from Greymouth.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 21st day of July, 1925.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Opening Settlement Land in Westland Land District for Selection.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

[I] N 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 Monday, the fourteenth day of September, 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.

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SETTLEMENT LAND.—TOWN LAND.

Runanga Borough.—Town of Runanga.

Section 11, Block IX : Area, 34 perches; capital value, £40; half-yearly rent, £1.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 21st day of July 1925.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Opening National-endowment Land in Hawke's Bay Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

[I] N pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by the Land Act, 1924, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the national-endowment land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Wednesday, the ninth day of September, 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 Act.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE'S BAY LAND DISTRICT.NATIONAL ENDOWMENT. SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Waipawa County.—Wakarara Survey District.

Section 20, Block XIII : Area, 479 acres; capital value, £1,900; half-yearly rent, £47 10s.

Situated twenty-six miles from Ongaonga and five miles from post-office and school by metalled road, the last four miles being in a bad state of repair. Altitude, 1,500 ft. to 2,000 ft. About 60 acres undulating, balance hilly. Property subdivided into three paddocks. Watered by permanent streams. Soil light loam on clay and shingle. 180 acres in standing bush (light birch, rimu, and matai); balance in light pasture.

The improvements consist of whare, yards, about 200 chains post-and-wire fencing (fair order).

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 21st day of July, 1925.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Setting apart Crown Land under Section 161 of the Land Act, 1924.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

[I] N pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section one hundred and sixty-one of the Land Act, 1924, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby set apart the land described in the Schedule hereto for disposal under the section of the Act mentioned.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Section S9, Block XII, Kaeo Survey District : Area, 34 acres 3 roods 30 perches.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General this 27th day of July, 1925.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Setting apart Crown Land under Section 161 of the Land Act, 1924.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

[I] N pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section one hundred and sixty-one of the Land Act, 1924, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson,