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when fully drained. Sections are watered by drains and in some cases by streams. About 20 acres on the north boundary of Section 7, about 10 acres of part Section 35s, and a small area of Section 9s are mineralized.

IMPROVEMENTS.

The improvements not included in the capital values, but which are to be paid for separately, are—

Part Section 35s: Four-roomed dwelling, four-bail cowshed and separator-room, and part of old shed; total value, £200; repayable in cash or in fourteen years by twenty-eight half-yearly instalments of £10 2s.

Section 48s: Two-roomed dwelling with porch, four-bail cow-shed and separator-room, and outhouse and creamshed; total value, £200; repayable in cash or in fourteen years by twenty-eight half-yearly instalments of £10 2s.

Section 49s: Bungalow, three rooms, bathroom, and pantry, wash-house, six-bail cow-shed and engine-room, fowlhouse; total value, £615; repayable in cash or in twenty-one years by forty-two half-yearly instalments of £23 19s. 9d.

The improvements which are included in the capital values of the sections are approximately as follows:—

Section 1s: 25 chains road-boundary fence and half share 36 chains boundary-fence, valued at £ s. d.
32 5 0

Section 2s: 13 chains road-boundary fence and half share 25 chains boundary-fence, valued at 18 7 6

Section 3s: Half share 20 chains boundary-fence, valued at 5 0 0

Section 4s: Half share 55 chains boundary-fence, valued at 13 15 0

Section 7s: Half share 30 chains boundary-fence, valued at 7 10 0

Section 8s: Half share 22 chains boundary-fence, valued at 5 10 0

Section 10s: 7 chains road-boundary fence, 38 chains fencing along outlet drain, and half share 30 chains boundary-fence, valued at 41 5 0

Section 13s: 26 chains road-boundary fence and half share 82 chains boundary-fence, valued at 40 0 0

Section 14s: 22 chains road-boundary fence and half share 43 chains boundary-fence, valued at 32 12 6

Section 15s: 26 chains road-boundary fence, 24 chains internal fence, and half share 55 chains boundary-fence, valued at 45 5 0

Section 16s: 25 chains internal fence and half share 35 chains boundary-fence, valued at 21 5 0

Section part 35s: 57 chains boundary-fence and 80 chains internal fence, valued at.. 105 5 0

Section 48s: 44 chains road-boundary fence, 66 chains internal fence, and half share 64 chains boundary-fence, valued at 116 10 0

Section 49s: 18 chains road-boundary fence, 50 chains internal fence, and half share 142 chains boundary-fence, valued at 94 0 0

SPECIAL CONDITIONS.

Applications for Sections part 35s and 53s as offruns to be held in conjunction with other holdings on the settlement will receive consideration.

The successful applicant for Section 53s will be liable to the lessee of Section 52s for a share of the five-wire fence which has been erected on the boundary.

Selectors will be required to fence all main and road drains to the satisfaction of the Commissioner before any stock is placed on the land, and will also be responsible for the maintenance of all boundary, catchment, and surface drains within their sections.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 18th day of May, 1926.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Vesting the Control of a Scenic Reserve in the Pukeamaru Range Scenic Board.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

By his Deputy,

CHARLES PERRIN SKERRETT.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby vest the control of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto (being land reserved under the said Act), for the period of three years from the date hereof (unless previously altered or revoked under the said Act), in the undermentioned persons, namely,—

James Alexander Mullooly,
John Frank Pettie,
Oliver James McLachlan,
Thomas Murtagh,
David McGuire,
Thomas Cecil Prince, and
Kingsford Frederick Reed,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Pukeamaru Range Scenic Board (herein referred to as “the Board”), in trust, for the preservation of scenery, and with the powers and subject to the conditions hereinafter contained, that is to say,—

1. The first meeting of the Board shall be held on Saturday, the twelfth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, at eleven o’clock a.m., in the Te Araroa Hotel, and thereafter the Board shall meet for the transaction of business on the second Saturday in each month at the time and place aforesaid, or at such other time or place as may from time to time be fixed by the Board.

2. The members of the Board shall at their first meeting and thereafter at the annual meeting hereinafter mentioned elect one of themselves to be Chairman, who may join in the discussion, and shall have an original as well as a casting vote. The Chairman shall hold office until the election of his successor.

3. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman, provided that two days’ notice of such meeting is given to each member, specifying the business to be transacted at such special meeting; and no other business than that so specified shall be transacted at such meeting.

4. Any three members of the Board shall form a quorum. Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.

5. All questions shall be determined by the majority of votes of the members of the Board present at the meeting.

6. If at any meeting the Chairman is not present at the time appointed for holding the same, the members present shall choose one of their number to be Chairman for such meeting.

7. If, by resignation, death, incapacity, or otherwise, the seat of any member shall be or become vacant, or if any member absents himself, without reasonable cause, from three consecutive meetings of the Board, the Governor-General shall have power to appoint any other person to be a member of the Board in his stead.

8. The Board shall prepare and submit at an annual meeting to be held in the month of April in each year a report of the proceedings of the Board for the previous year ending on the thirty-first day of March, together with a statement of the receipts and expenditure of the Board for such year. A copy of every such report and statement, certified by the Chairman to be correct, shall be sent to the Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation as soon as possible after each annual meeting.

9. The Board shall control the said reserve in accordance with the provisions of the said Act and of the regulations made thereunder.

SCHEDULE.

PUKEAMARU RANGE.

ALL that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, containing by admeasurement 1,878 acres 3 roods, more or less, being portion of Small Grazing-run No. 71, Blocks XI and XII, Matakaoa Survey District. Bounded towards the south-west by part of Small Grazing-run No. 71 aforesaid, 13134·9 links; towards the south by the Parinui Stream, by other part of Small Grazing-run No. 71 aforesaid, 6751·9 links, and by a road-line, 166 links; towards the south-east by the Papatarata and Pipituangi Blocks, 16158·3 links; towards the north generally by Pukeamaru No. 6b Block, 9924·8 links, the Wairenga and Makirikiri Streams, and the Wharekahika Block, 7270 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 52804/29, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 18th day of May, 1926.

A. D. McLEOD,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.