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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 76

that, for the purposes of section one hundred and thirty-three of the said Act, the lands described in the said Schedule hereto shall be deemed to be “ heavy bush land.”

And I do hereby provide that, after the first half-year’s rent has been paid by the selector, the further instalments of rent payable by him for a period of two years for the land in the First Schedule and four years for the land in the Second Schedule shall not be demanded; provided that if at any time during the first five years of his occupancy the selector disposes of his interest in the land the rent so conceded shall be paid by him in full, and thereupon the Land Board may remit such instalments of rent payable by the incoming tenant, not exceeding in the aggregate the amount of rent previously conceded to the selector, as the Board thinks fit.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.
FIRST SCHEDULE.
CROWN LAND.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.
Takaka County.—Waitapu Survey District.—Karamea Mining District.
(Exempt from Rent for Two Years.)
SECTION 20, Block XI: Area, 80 acres, 3 roods 10 perches; capital value, £160; half-yearly rent, £3 4s.
Weighted with £21 valuation for improvements, consisting of 35 chains of fencing.
Situated at the back of Clifton Village between Motupipi and Tarakohe. Access from Takaka, four miles distant, by good metalled road. Practically all bush-clad broken country. Soil of good quality, resting on limestone formation. Well watered by permanent streams.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
CROWN LAND.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.
Murchison County.—Matakitaiki Survey District.—Westland Mining District.
(Exempt from Rent for Four Years.)
SECTIONS 8, 9, 12, and 13, Block V: Area, 1,225 acres; capital value, £550; half-yearly rent, £11.
Situated on the saddle between Maruia and Matakitaiki Valleys. About twenty-four miles from Murchison and six miles from a school by metalled road; one mile from telephone office. About 50 acres have been burnt and sown but are now in fern, while a further area has been burnt and is now in fern and self-sown grass. Balance of sections in standing bush of mixed birch. Soil of good quality on low land, fair to poor on remainder, resting on sandstone-conglomerate formation. Well watered. Altitude, 1,200 ft. to 3,000 ft. above sea-level. Sixty chains of fencing.

Special Conditions for Sections 8, 9, 12, and 13, Block V, Matakitaiki Survey District.

1. The right is reserved at all times to ingress, egress, and regress for all persons lawfully engaged in working any mineral, mineral-oil, gas, or precious metal, or for the boring for oil or the taking of petroleum.

2. The lessee shall be entitled to compensation for any damage to his substantial improvements caused by or arising from the operation of above condition.

3. The amount of compensation payable to the lessee shall be assessed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands or his agent, and his decision shall be final.

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 27th day of October, 1925.

F. H. D. BELL, for Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Land in Auckland 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 Auckland 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.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.
SECTION 7, Block VII, Whareorino Survey District: 1st July, 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 20th day of October, 1925.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Proclaiming a Road-line laid out through Purakau No. 1 Block, Taranaki Land District, to be a Public Road.

[l.s.] CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto was, by an order of the Native Land Court made on the second day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, duly laid off as a road-line, in pursuance of section forty-nine of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1913:

And whereas the said Court is of the opinion that it is in the public interest that the said road-line should be proclaimed as a public road, and a notification to that effect has been forwarded to the Minister of Lands, in terms of section fifty-one of the said Act:

And whereas one month’s notice in writing of the intention to proclaim the said road-line as a public road has been given by the Surveyor-General to the local authority of the district concerned, in terms of section fifteen of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1914:

And whereas it is now expedient that the said road-line should be proclaimed as a public road:

Now, therefore, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section forty-nine of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1913, do hereby proclaim as a public road the road-line described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land proclaimed as a road: 36·5 perches.

Portion of Purakau No. 1 Block, situated in Block V, Paritutu Survey District.

In the Taranaki Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L, and S. 16/1240, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, under No. 2140, and thereon coloured pink.

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 26th day of October, 1925.

R. HEATON RHODES,
For Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Revoking the Setting-apart of Lands for Selection by Discharged Soldiers, under Special Tenures, in the Auckland Land District.

[l.s.] CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby revoke the Proclamation made on the second day of November, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, and published in the Gazette of the ninth day of November then instant, setting apart Crown land for selection by discharged soldiers, under