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Sections S. 110, 111, 112, and N.E. 113 : Area, 270 acres.
Capital value, £300. Deposit on deferred payments, £15 ;
half-yearly instalment, £9 5s. 3d. Renewable lease: Half-
yearly rent, £6.

Sections are situated on a branch road off the main Wha-
garei-Ruatangata Road, about one mile from the Rua-
tangata School and hall. Access is from Kamo, ten to
twelve miles distant; nine to ten miles metalled, balance
unformed but good grade, and accessible to wheeled traffic.
Altitude, 300 ft. to 600 ft. above sea-level.

Sections N. 81, &c.—About 50 acres easy undulating,
100 acres undulating, balance hilly to broken land in fern,
tea-tree scrub, wiri, and rough danthonia. Soil is of fairly
poor clay, resting on clay formation; fairly well watered by
a creek and a few raupo gullies.

Sections S. 110, &c.—About two-thirds level, balance very
easy undulating land; all in fern, tea-tree, wiri rushes, heather,
and a lot of rough danthonia. Soil is clay with the exception
of 25 acres low-lying swamp. Well watered by Wairua River.

Whangarei County.—Ruakaka Parish.

Sections S.E. 14 and 16 : Area, 93 acres. Capital value,
£70. Deposit on deferred payments, £5 ; half-yearly instal-
ment, £2 2s. 3d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £1 8s.
Situatcd on a by-road off the One Tree Point – Waipu Road.
Access is from One Tree Point, two miles and a half distant by
cart road (unmetalled), and the nearest school is at Marsden
Point, two miles and a half away. Level land, a little inclined
to be swampy in places, and with patches of pipe clay.
Covered with a short growth of tea-tree, rushes, and wiwi.
Soil is of peaty clay and pipe clay, resting on heavy clay
formation. Poorly watered by swampy creek on western
boundary. No improvements. Altitude, 50 ft. above sea-
level.

Otamatea County.—Wairau Parish.

Part Section 137 : Area, 114 acres 2 roods. Capital value,
£115. Deposit on deferred payments, £5 ; half-yearly in-
stalment, £3 11s. 6d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent,
£2 6s.

Weighted with £20 valuation for improvements, consisting
of 40 chains of fencing in fair order.

Situated on the Waipu-Maungaturoto Gorge Road. Access
is from Maungaturoto Railway-station, seven miles distant,
by metalled cart road. Very broken hilly country, well
watered by creek at Gorge Road end. About 60 acres felled
and grassed, now overgrown, 20 acres tea-tree; balance light
bush, comprising towai, rimu, rata, nikau, punga, and manuka.
Elevation, 100 ft. to 400 ft. above sea-level.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Whangarei County.—Mangakahia Survey District.

Section 26, Block XII : Area, 145 acres 2 roods 31 perches.
Capital value, £75. Deposit on deferred payments, £5 ; half-
yearly instalment, £2 5s. 6d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly
rent, £1 10s.

Weighted with £156 valuation for improvements, consisting
of 156 chains of boundary fencing in good condition.

Situated near Titoki, about seventeen miles from Whangarei.
Access road metalled fifteen miles, balance formed but un-
metalled. About 15 to 20 acres flat, balance undulating.
All gum land in fern, tea-tree scrub, and wild danthonia.
Soil is mostly poor clay, resting on clay formation. Badly
watered. Elevation, 100 ft. to 300 ft. above sea-level.

Rodney County.—Pakiri Survey District.

Section 13, Block VIII : Area, 38 acres 3 roods 18 perches.
Capital value, £20. Deposit on deferred payments, £5 ; half-
yearly instalment, 9s. 9d. Renewable lease : Half-yearly
rent, 8s.

The section is situated off the Wellsford-Waiteiti Road,
about three miles and a half from the Wellsford Railway-
station and township. Access road not formed for the last
three-quarters of a mile. Undulating to broken country, with
no improvements. Soil is poor clay, resting on sandstone for-
mation. Watered by creek. Elevation, 1,000 ft. above sea-
level.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 20th day of June, 1927.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Altering Constitution of the Transport Appeal Board for No. 13
Motor-omnibus District.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on me

by section sixteen of the Motor-omnibus Traffic Act,
1926, and of all other powers and authorities in anyway

enabling me in this behalf, I, General Sir Charles Ferguson,
Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand,
do hereby revoke the appointment, made under my hand on
the first day of November, one thousand nine hundred and
twenty-six, of

Andrew Bain

as member of the Transport Appeal Board of No. 13 Motor-
omnibus District, and do hereby appoint

Stanley Morell Macalister,

City Councillor, Invercargill, as representative of all those
local authorities and public bodies (including persons having
the delegated powers of a local authority under the Tramways
Act, 1908) which have established any motor-omnibus service
or tramway service for the conveyance of passengers within the
district.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General
of the Dominion of New Zealand, this 22nd day of June,
1927.

K. S. WILLIAMS, Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 26/5/2/17.)

Warrant vesting the Control of the Mangaorongo Stream Bridge,
on the Mangaorongo-Kawa Road, in the Otorohanga County
Council.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
vested in me by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all
other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this
behalf, I, General Sir Charles Ferguson, Baronet, Governor-
General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby direct
that the bridge over the Mangaorongo Stream on the Manga-
orongo-Kawa Road (as more particularly described in the
Schedule hereto) shall, on and after the date of the gazetting
hereof, be under the exclusive care, control, and management
of the Otorohanga County Council.

SCHEDULE.

THAT bridge in the Auckland Land District over the Manga-
orongo Stream on the Mangaorongo-Kawa Road known as
Mangaorongo Stream Bridge, situated near the south-eastern
corner of Rangitoto-Tuhua No. 29c No. 2a Section 3B,
Block II, Mangaorongo Survey District. As the site of the
said bridge is more particularly delineated on the plan marked
P.W.D. 69146, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public
Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and
thereon coloured red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 18th day of June, 1927.

K. S. WILLIAMS, Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 34/278.)

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

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 11th June, 1927.

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

Richard Seddon Pilmer, of Masterton,
George James Foreman, of Masterton,
Albert James Montgomerie, of Parawanui, and
William Alexander Sutherland, of Bull’s,

to be Officers for the purposes of Part II of the said Act for
the Wellington Acclimatization District.

O. HAWKEN,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

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

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 14th June, 1927.

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

Thomas Urquhart Levin, of Maihiihi, Otorohanga, and
George Alfred Gregory, of Te Rangi, Mercer,

to be Officers for the purposes of Part II of the said Act for
the Auckland Acclimatization District.

RICHD. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.