1928
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 47

Section 1s: About 15 acres undulating land, ploughed and in fair grass. About 15 acres ploughed in fallow, now gone to fern. About 50 acres standing bush, balance about 477¾ acres hilly and broken. The quality of the section is poor and rough.

Improvements included in capital value comprise about 250 chains fencing and 15 acres ploughed and grassed, valued at £170.

Section 3s: About 45 acres in fair grass, about 200 acres run-out grass, now back to fern, about 75 acres standing bush, balance of area about 396¾ acres open land in fern and tea-tree, hilly to broken, of which 100 acres could be ploughed.

Improvements included in capital value comprise about 360 chains boundary-fencing (half-share), 350 chains road-fencing, 45 acres grassed, motor-shed (old), piggery, and slaughter-shed, valued at 386.

Improvements not included in capital value comprise dwellinghouse of six rooms and conveniences, wash-house with copper and coal-room, combined shed (including stable, feed, implements, and harness rooms), cow-shed (four bails and separator), and men’s room; valued at £830; repayable in cash or in twenty-one years by forty-two half-yearly instalments of £32 7s. 5d. Total half-yearly payment on lease, £63 12s. 5d.

Section 6s: Open fern land of poor quality, undulating to hilly and broken, about half of which is ploughable. Improvements included in capital value comprise half-share of 183 chains of boundary-fence, valued at £64.

Section 7s: About 5 acres worn-out grassing, about 30 acres ploughed for turnips reverted to fern, about 40 acres standing bush, balance about 151 acres natural state, open fern land hilly to broken, of which about 60 acres is ploughable.

Improvements included in capital value comprise 40 chains of old boundary-fence in disrepair, valued at £20.

Improvements not included in capital value comprise small bungalow house of four rooms, detached wash-house; valued at £300; repayable in cash or in ten years by twenty half-yearly instalments of £19 8s. 6d. Total half-yearly payment on lease, £25 13s. 6d.

Section 69s: About 40 acres hilly land, old bush clearing, felled and grassed, 25 acres standing bush, about 296 acres fern land, steep and broken, mostly unploughable.

Improvements included in capital value comprise 40 acres bush felled and grassed, poor, small whare in disrepair, skeleton cow-shed, iron roof, 100 chains poor four to seven wire fencing; valued at £170.

Section 74s.: About 50 acres level, part reclaimed swamp in fair pasture, about 80 acres run-out pasture, about 45 acres standing bush, balance about 305 acres hilly to broken land in fern and tea-tree, mostly unploughable.

Improvements included in capital value comprise about 166 chains of boundary-fencing, about 200 chains of internal fencing, about 50 acres fair grassing, 80 acres of run-out grass, and about 112 chains drains, manure-shed (wood and iron); valued at £550.

Section 30s: About 46 acres in good to fair pasture, about 8 acres in worn-out pasture, 14 acres in fallow, and balance (63¾ acres) in fern and scrub. This land is suitable for dairying and when fully improved should make a good little farm.

Improvements included in capital value comprise about 15 chains road boundary fence in fair order, 47 chains old boundary-fence, seven-wire in poor order (half-share), 120 chains internal fencing, cow-shed (all wood), and road-formation on section; valued at £100.

Improvements not included in capital value comprise dwelling of six rooms, bathroom, and scullery, built of wood and iron, brick chimney, rough and unfinished inside, valued at £350. Repayable in cash or in fifteen years by thirty half-yearly instalments of £16 17s. 2d. Total half-yearly payment on lease, £28 17s. 2d.

Section 31s: About 50 acres in worn-out pasture, 30 acres bush land felled and grassed run out, 55 acres standing bush, 60 acres fern land ploughable, and balance (about 137¾ acres) fern country unploughable. The land is suitable for grazing only, although a few cows could be run for dairying. Fair amount of Canadian thistle, ragwort, and blackberry; and rabbits numerous.

Improvements included in capital value comprise about 480 chains of four-wire fencing, three posts to chain, mostly battened, in poor order, and cow-shed (walls only); valued at £250.

Improvements not included in capital value comprise house (four rooms, wood and iron, with double brick chimney, rough-lined and unpainted), whare (two rooms, wood and iron, rough lined); valued at £280; repayable in cash or in ten years by twenty half-yearly instalments of £18 2s. 7d. Total half-yearly payment on lease, £33 12s. 7d.

General Description.—These sections are situated within the Te Miro Settlement, Piako County, about eight miles north-east of Cambridge. Three good metalled roads lead to the settlement from Cambridge through Fencourt and Whitehall Settlements, and each section has access by formed roads. There is a public school and post-office within the settlement with a tri-weekly mail service.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 13th day of July, 1926.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Declaring Land in the Auckland Land District to be subject to the Land for Settlements Act, 1925.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section one hundred and five of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the area of Crown land described in the Schedule hereto shall be subject to the provisions of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, and shall hereafter form part of the Otway Settlement.

SCHEDULE.

SECTION 14, Block VII, Waitoa Survey District, containing 50 acres, more or less.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 8th day of July, 1926.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Officers of the Crown authorized to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by section two hundred and eighty-eight of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908, and section sixteen of the Justices of the Peace Amendment Act, 1923, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that the persons whose names are set out in the Schedule hereto, being persons holding office in the service of the Crown as stated opposite their names in the said Schedule, are authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under section two hundred and eighty-eight of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

Commodore George Thomas Carlisle Parker Swabey, D.S.O. Commanding H.M.S. “Dunedin.”
Paymaster-Commander Evelyn Norman Robert Fletcher, M.B.E. Naval Secretary, Wellington.

As witness my hand this 8th day of July, 1926.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

Rangers under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 6th July, 1926.

IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section 35 of the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, the undermentioned persons have been appointed Rangers under and for the purposes of that Act for the districts set opposite their names respectively, viz.:

Archibald Banks, of Tokaanu Acclimatization District.
Angus Munro, of Masterton Rotorua.
Nelson.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Appointment of Officer under Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 7th July, 1926.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of the provisions of the Fisheries Act, 1908, appointed

Angus Munro, of Masterton,

to be an Officer for the purposes of Part II of the said Act.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.