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Notifying Land in the Marlborough Land District for Sale by Public Auction for Cash or on Deferred Payments.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section one hundred and thirty-two of the Land Act, 1924, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Thursday, the eighth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, as the time at which the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction for cash or on deferred payments; and I do hereby fix the price at which the land shall be sold as that mentioned in the said Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—RURAL LAND.

Sounds County.—Gore Survey District.

SECTION 49A, Block VII : Area, 462 acres 0 roods 18 perches ; upset price, £450.

This property comprises a shady steep slope running up from Big Bay, Endeavour Inlet, Queen Charlotte Sound. Situated about twenty miles from Picton by water. A small portion, fire-cleared, has reverted to fern and scrub, while the balance is in light birch bush.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 24th day of February, 1926.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Notifying Lands in Southland Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section one hundred and thirty-two of the Land Act, 1924, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Thursday, the eighth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, as the time at which the lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction; and I do hereby fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN OF OTARA.

SECTION 61 : Area, 1 rood; upset price, £10.

,, 69 ,, 1 ,, ,, £10.

,, 70 ,, 1 ,, ,, £10.

Section 61 faces the main road. Sections 69 and 70 are in Manuka Street. The three sections are within a few chains of the Colac Railway-station. Suitable for building-sites.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 24th day of April, 1926.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Notifying Land in Marlborough Land District for Sale by Public Auction for Cash or on Deferred Payments.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section one hundred and thirty-two of the Land Act, 1924, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Thursday, the eighth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, as the time at which the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction for cash or on deferred payments; and I do hereby fix the price at which the said land shall be sold as that mentioned in the said Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—SUBURBAN LAND.

Marlborough County.—Cloudy Bay Survey District.

PART 49 of Section 35, Block XI: Area, 1 acre O roods 15 perches; upset price, £50.

This property is situated at Grovetown, about three miles from Blenheim. The land is of first-class quality, suitable for residential purposes or market-gardening.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 24th day of February, 1926.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 12

Opening Land in the Marlborough Land District for Sale or Selection.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN 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, having received the report of the Under-Secretary in this behalf, as provided by section one hundred and seventy-six of the said Act, do hereby declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on Thursday, the eighth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, 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, 1924.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Marlborough County.—Wakamarina Survey District.

SECTION 7, Block III : Area, 282 acres. Capital value, £600. Value of buildings, £600. Occupation with right of purchase : Half-yearly rent, £15. Renewable lease : Half-yearly rent, £12 ; £23 8s.*

• Interest and sinking fund on building (well-built five-roomed dwelling with hot and cold water and conveniences) and fencing, valued at £600, payable in cash or in twenty-one years by forty-two half-yearly instalments of £23 8s.

Comprises about 60 acres of fair to good flat land. The balance is steep, broken country, cold and shady, covered with birch bush. Practically all the milling-timber has been cleared off. Well watered. Altitude varies from 320 ft. to 1,500 ft. Distant about seven miles and a half from the Rai Valley Post-office and Dairy Factory.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 24th day of February, 1926.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Appointing a Member of the Nelson Harbour Board.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by Warrant dated the twenty-fourth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 2, of the fourteenth day of January following, James Allen was appointed to be a member of the Nelson Harbour Board in the place of Albert Gilbert, resigned:

And whereas it was subsequently discovered that by virtue of the provisions of clause (a) of subsection one of section thirty-four of the Harbours Act, 1923, the said James Allen was incapable of being appointed to be or of being a member of the said Board, and it is therefore desirable to appoint a duly qualified person to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of the said Albert Gilbert :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by section thirty-eight of the Harbours Act, 1923, doth hereby appoint Herbert Edward Stephens to be a member of the Nelson Harbour Board, in the place of the said Albert Gilbert, resigned.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 26th day of February, 1926.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Marine.

Postmasters appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that the persons set out in the Schedule hereto, being persons holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at the places set opposite their names in the said Schedule, are authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.