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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 51

Situated two miles by track from Kaiaka and thirteen miles from Kaitaia. Undulating country, lying towards the south-west. Thirty acres rich limestone land ; balance fairly good. Section is covered with mixed bush, except where fire has crept in in places. Poorly watered by springs. Section has been fenced on all sides by the adjoining owners.

Mangonui County.—Ahipara Parish.

Section S. 19 : Area, 22 acres. Capital value, £200. Deposit on deferred payments, £10 ; half-yearly instalment, £6 3s. 6d. Renewable lease : Half-yearly rent, £4.

Situated at Ahipara, near the Ninety-mile Beach, and about nine miles distant from Kaitaia. Country is flat to slightly undulating, and contains about seven acres of rich river flat in paspalum. Land lies nicely to the sun. There is a fair amount of tea-tree on the section, and gorse is beginning to make its appearance.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Mangonui County.—Kaiaka Parish.

Sections 14 and 15 : Area, 226 acres 1 rood 38 perches. Capital value, £630. Deposit on deferred payments, £30 ; half-yearly instalment, £19 10s. Renewable lease : Half-yearly rent, £15 15s.

Situated at Paranui, which is about eight miles from Peria and five miles from Oruru Dairy Factory. Access road metalled four miles, formed cart road four miles. There are about 30 acres in grass, balance bush containing three kauris, puriri, taraire, kahikatea, and totara. Steep to undulating country capable of growing good grass. Fairly well watered by small streams. Altitude 150 ft. to 500 ft. above sea-level. Improvements, included in capital value, consist of 87 chains of fencing in very fair order generally, and small shack.

Bay of Islands County.—Kawakawa Survey District.

Section 4, Block XV : Area, 116 acres 3 roods 16 perches. Capital value, £130. Deposit on deferred payments, £10. half-yearly instalment, £3 18s. Renewable lease : Half-yearly rent, £2 12s.

Situated between Mill Road and Waiharakeke Stream, about three miles from Kawakawa Railway-station and township. Flat, undulating, and easy sloping country, fairly well watered by swamp. About 30 acres flax swamp with good soil ; balance poor, verging on gum soil in short manuka, fern, and hakea. Altitude 40 ft. to 150 ft. above sea-level.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 15th day of July, 1927.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Opening Settlement Land in North Auckland Land District for Selection.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN 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 land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Monday, the twenty-ninth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, at the rental mentioned in the said Schedule ; and I do also declare that the said land shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SETTLEMENT LAND.

Waitemata County.—Kumeu Survey District.—Motutara Settlement.

SECTIONS 11s, 12s, and 19s : Area, 636 acres 3 roods 11 perches. Capital value, £2,300 ; £700.* Half-yearly rent, £57 10s. ; £27 6s.†

• Valuation for buildings.

† Half-yearly instalment of principal and interest on buildings, consisting of a kauri dwelling of four rooms and lean-to, washhouse built of kauri, stable, shed, wool-shed, dip and yards, valued at £700, to be paid in cash or in twenty-one years by forty-two half-yearly instalments of £27 6s. Total half-yearly payment on lease, £84 16s.

Sections form part of the Motutara Settlement, near Muriwai, on the west coast. Access is from Waimauku Railway-station, six miles and a half distant by formed road, four miles and a half of which is metalled. Soil is clay on clay and sandstone formation. About 235 acres useless, being cliff faces and sandstone outcrops. Balance undulating to steep, more or less ploughable. In grass, but mostly run out. Section is well watered by springs and small streams. Improvements, included in capital value, consisting of 400 chains of fencing, varying conditions, and windmill and bore.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 15th day of July, 1927.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

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

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 6th July, 1927.

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

William Simon Mackenzie, of Ruakituri,

to be an officer for the purposes of Part II of the said Act for the Rotorua Acclimatization District.

RICH. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 6th July, 1927.

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 under-mentioned person has been appointed Ranger under and for the purposes of that Act for the Rotorua Acclimatization District :—

William Simon Mackenzie, of Ruakituri.

RICH. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 8th July, 1927.

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 under-mentioned person has been appointed Ranger under and for the purposes of that Act for the area defined in the First Schedule to the Taupo Trout-fishing Regulations, 1926, as on and from the 18th July, 1927 :—

Ralph Horatio Ward, of Tauranga.

RICH. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Members of Board of Science and Art appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs.
Wellington, 18th July, 1927.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

The Hon. George Malcolm Thomson, M.L.C., F.L.S., F.N.Z.Inst., of Dunedin ;
Percy Gates Morgan, Esquire, M.A., A.O.S.M., F.G.S., Director of Geological Surveys, Wellington ;
Dr. Ernest Marsden, D.Sc., Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research ;
Dr. Guy Hardy Scholefield, D.Sc., F.R.H.S., F.H.S., of Wellington ; and
Henry Morland Gore, Esquire, Secretary, New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington ;

to be members of the Board of Science and Art as constituted by the Science and Art Act, 1913.

RICH. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Police-gaoler appointed.

Prisons Department,
Wellington, 11th June, 1927.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Constable George Neale

to be Police-gaoler at Tolaga Bay, on and from the 11th March, 1927, vice Constable Blakely, resigned.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.