Section 47, Block XIV : Area, 4 acres 0 roods 15 perches; upset price, £20 10s.

Section 48, Block XIV : Area, 5 acres; upset price, £25. Situated half a mile from Pembroke Township, on the east side of the lake, and served by a good road. About 60 ft. above lake-level, facing the west, and commanding a fine view of the lake and surrounding country. All good building sites, and suitable for permanent and week-end resorts.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 23rd day of June, 1926.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Notifying Lands in Canterbury 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 Wednesday, the eleventh day of August, 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.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.

Ashburton County.—Hutt Survey District.

SECTION 36982, Block IV : Area, 150 acres (third-class land); upset price, £50.

Situated about fourteen miles from Methven. Altitude, 1,400 ft. About 50 acres swamp, remainder river-bed.

Section 36984, Blocks IV and VI : Area, 10 acres 0 roods 30 perches (second-class land); upset price, £65.

Situated twelve miles and a half from Methven. Well watered. Altitude, 1,600 ft. Good undulating ploughable land, light loam, mostly on clay.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 23rd day of June, 1926.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Notifying Land in Canterbury 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 Wednesday, the eleventh day of August, 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; and I do hereby fix the price at which the said land shall be sold as that mentioned in the said Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Geraldine County.—Orari Survey District.

RESERVE 165, Block IV : Area, 5 acres 0 roods 7 perches; upset price, £125.

Situated half a mile from Peel Forest. About 2 acres in light bush, balance cleared. Soil light, on shingly bottom. Suitable for bee-farming.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 23rd day of June, 1926.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Appointing Members of the Whakatane Harbour Board.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

WHEREAS it is provided by the twenty-eighth section of the Harbours Act, 1923, that if any constituent district or combined district fails at any election to elect the required number of representatives the Governor-General may, by Warrant under his hand, appoint such qualified persons as he thinks fit to be the representatives of that district in lieu of those who ought to have been elected; and the persons so appointed shall hold office in all respects as if they had been duly elected in conformity with the said Act:

And whereas it is provided by the said Act that three members of the Whakatane Harbour Board shall be elected by the electors of the Rangitaiki Subdivision of the Harbour District, and two members shall be elected by the electors of the Opouriao Subdivision of the Harbour District :

And whereas at the election held on the twelfth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, the electors of the said Rangitaiki Subdivision elected two members only, and the electors of the said Opouriao Subdivision elected one member only to the Board :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the hereinbefore recited power and authority, doth hereby appoint

Lewin Lewis

to be a member of the Whakatane Harbour Board as a representative of the electors of the Rangitaiki Subdivision of the Harbour District, and

James Kynaston Franks

to be a member of the Board as a representative of the Opouriao Subdivision of the Harbour District, to fill the vacancies caused by the before-mentioned failures to elect.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 25th day of June, 1926.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Marine.

Appointing a Member of the Gisborne Harbour Board.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

WHEREAS it is provided by the twenty-eighth section of the Harbours Act, 1923, that if any constituent district or combined district fails at any election to elect the required number of representatives the Governor-General may, by Warrant under his hand, appoint such qualified persons as he thinks fit to be the representatives of that district in lieu of those who ought to have been elected; and the person so appointed shall hold office in all respects as if they had been duly elected in conformity with the said Act:

And whereas it is provided by the said Act that five members of the Gisborne Harbour Board shall be elected by the electors of the County of Cook:

And whereas at the election held on the twelfth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, the electors of the said county elected four members only to the Board:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the hereinbefore recited power and authority, doth hereby appoint

Alexander Campbell Steele

to be a member of the Gisborne Harbour Board as a representative of the electors of the County of Cook, to fill the vacancy caused by the before-mentioned failure to elect.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 23rd day of June, 1926.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Marine.

Appointing a Commission to inquire into and report on the Benefit derived or likely to be derived by the Government from the Operations carried out or proposed to be carried out by the Manawatu-Oroua River Board.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

To all to whom these presents shall come, and to ROBERT MACKENZIE WATSON, Esquire, Stipendiary Magistrate, Feilding; AUGUST CHARLES KOCH, Esquire, Civil Engineer, Auckland; and HERBERT ERNEST LEIGHTON, Esquire, Auctioneer and Estate Agent, Wellington : Greeting:

WHEREAS the Manawatu-Oroua River Board (hereinafter called the Board), constituted under the Manawatu-Oroua River District Act, 1923, is of opinion that the Government is deriving or will derive benefit from the operations carried out or proposed to be carried out under the powers conferred by the principal Act or by the Manawatu-Oroua River District Amendment Act, 1925, and it is desirable to inquire into the working of the said Acts and into the expediency of legislation proposed to authorize such subsidy as is hereinafter referred to:

And whereas it is expedient to appoint certain persons to be a Commission as provided in the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908, for the respective purposes herein set forth: