JUNE 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 2079

REGULATIONS.

INTERPRETATION.

1. In these regulations—
   “Council” means the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research constituted in accordance with the provisions of the said Act :
   “Member” means a member of the Council who is not an officer of the Public Service :
   “Business of the Council” means any business authorized to be performed by a member and transacted by such member pursuant to a resolution of the Council, and includes a meeting of the Council or any committee thereof :
   “Committee” means any committee appointed by the Council in manner provided by the said Act.

TRAVELLING-EXPENSES.

2. There shall be paid to members of the Council or of any committee thereof all travelling and locomotion expenses (including the cost of sleeping-berths on trains and deck accommodation on steamers) actually and reasonably expended by them in attending meetings of the Council or any committee thereof (as the case may be), or in transacting any business of the Council.

HONORARIA.

3. (1) There shall be paid to the Chairman of the Council an annual allowance, to be approved by the Minister, not exceeding £100 per annum.
   (2) There shall be paid to each member of the Council other than the Chairman an annual allowance, to be approved by the Minister, not exceeding £50 per annum.

TRAVELLING-ALLOWANCES.

4. (1) There shall be paid to each member of the Council for each day on which he is travelling in connection with the business of the Council, as a travelling-allowance for personal expenses, the sum of £1 10s.: Provided that if on any day for which a travelling-allowance is claimed a member is absent from his home in connection with the business of the Council for not more than half a day an allowance of 15s. only shall be paid.
   (2) There shall be paid to each member of a committee, not being a member of the Council, a travelling-allowance of £1 per day or 10s. for a portion of a day not exceeding a half day, but otherwise as provided for members of the Council.
   (3) For the purposes of this regulation a day shall be the period of twenty-four hours commencing immediately after midnight of the preceding day.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Opening Settlement Lands in Southland Land District for Selection.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

I N pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1924, and 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 settlement lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Tuesday, the nineteenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, at the rentals mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SETTLEMENT LAND.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Southland County.—Hokonui Survey District.—Ardlussa Settlement.

SECTION 4, Block VII: Area, 1,586 acres 1 rood 16 perches. Capital value, £4,218. Half-yearly rent, £105 9s.
The improvements not included in the capital value, but which have to be paid for separately, consist of dwelling-house, stable, shed, hut, and fencing valued at £555, of this amount £265 is repayable in fourteen years by twenty-eight half-yearly instalments of £13 7s. 8d., and the balance, £290, is to be paid in cash.
Situated about six miles from Balfour and three miles from Ardlussa School by good metalled road. About 100 acres are good flat land, balance undulating to hilly. Cultivated on the lower portion, but the greater part is still in the natural state, carrying tussock, fern, and manuka-scrub.

Sections 5 and 6, Block IV: Area, 398 acres 0 roods 5 perches. Capital value, £3,015. Half-yearly rent, £75 7s. 6d.
Weighted with £625 valuation for cottage, outbuildings, and 120 chains internal fencing. £30 of this amount must be paid in cash, and the balance of £595 may be allowed to remain on Advances to Settlers mortgage at 6¼ per cent.
The improvements included in the capital value consist of 451 chains of original boundary and subdivisional fencing, valued at £181 16s. 6d.
Situated about seven miles from Balfour Railway-station and four miles from Ardlussa School by metalled road. About half the total area is good heavy flat land, and has been cultivated. The remainder is hilly and undulating, still in the natural state, and carrying tussock, fern, and manuka-scrub. Well watered.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 13th day of June, 1927.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Lands temporarily reserved in the Wellington and Canterbury Land Districts.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-fifty-ninth section of the Land Act, 1924, it is enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:
Now, therefore, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the lands in the Wellington and Canterbury Land Districts described in the Schedule hereunder written, for the purposes in the said Schedule specified at the end of the respective descriptions of the lands so intended to be temporarily reserved.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 20 acres, more or less, being a piece of Crown land known as Oterongo Block, situated in Block IV, Port Nicholson Survey District, and bounded as follows: Towards the north and north-east by Section 9, Block IV, Port Nicholson District, 1000 links and 1450 links respectively; towards the south and south-west by the top of the cliff bordering on Oterongo Bay; and towards the west by Section 10, Block IV, Port Nicholson Survey District, 2300 links: as the same is delineated on the plan marked W.D. 2141, deposited in the Wellington District Office, Department of Lands and Survey, and thereon bordered yellow. For a site for a cable-station.

All that area in the Canterbury Land District containing by admeasurement 18,900 acres, more or less, being Reserve No. 4174, situated in Blocks II, III, IV, VII, VIII, and IX of Torlesse Survey District, and Blocks I and IV, Cook Survey District, and Blocks I and II of Godley Survey District, and bounded as follows: Commencing at a point on the boundary between the Land Districts of Canterbury and Westland and being the summit of McClure Peak; thence southerly along the western boundary of the Ashburton County to its junction with the northern boundary of Run. No 78; thence westerly along the said boundary to a point due west of Trig. Station L; thence due west to a point on the eastern boundary of Run No. 80; thence north-westerly, southerly, and easterly to a point opposite the easternmost extremity of Reserve No. 2756; thence due west to the said easternmost extremity of Reserve No. 2756; thence north-westerly along the north-eastern boundary of the said reserve to the boundary between the Land Districts of Canterbury and Westland as aforesaid; thence north-easterly along the said boundary to the point of commencement: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S., 8/8/76, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red. For recreation purposes.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 11th day of June, 1927.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.