Weighted with £220, valuation for improvements comprising 30 chains fencing, 2-roomed whare, and about 310 acres felling and grassing. This amount is payable in cash or may be secured by way of first mortgage to the State Advances Superintendent.

Situated on the Mt. Humphreys Road, about twenty-three miles from Douglas Railway-station. Soil is of fair quality resting on sandstone formation. The area originally felled and grassed is deteriorated to second growth. Well watered by permanent streams.

Stratford County.—Huiroa Survey District.

(Exempt from Payment of Rent for Five Years.)

Section 13, Block VIII : Area, 435 acres. Capital value, £300. Half-yearly rent, £6.

Exempt from payment of rent for a period of five years, providing permanent improvements to the value of £30 are effected annually during the exemption period.

Situated on the Autawa Road, about ten miles from Tarata. It comprises fair pastoral land. Approximately half the area has been felled and grassed, but this has now reverted to second growth. Balance area is in light bush, with tawhero predominating. Well watered.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 10th day of September, 1927.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Opening Land in the Taranaki Land District for Sale or Selection.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1924, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, having received the report of the Under-Secretary in this behalf, as provided by section one hundred and seventy-six of the said Act, do hereby declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on Tuesday, the twenty-fifth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, and also that the land mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash or on deferred payments, or to be selected on renewable lease: and I do hereby also fix the price at which the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased as that mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Waitomo County.—Totoro Survey District.

SECTION 21, Block IX : Area, 200 acres. Capital value, £410. Half-yearly instalment, £12 13s. 6d. Deposit on deferred payments, £20. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £8 4s.

Weighted with £700, valuation for improvements comprising dwelling, cowshed and yards, shed, 250 chains of fencing, and about 250 acres felling and grassing. This amount is payable in cash, or may be secured by way of first mortgage to the State Advances Department.

Situated on the Kumara Road, about one mile from Aria Post-office and Dairy Factory, by good metalled road. The quality of the soil varies from heavy loam to light clay, on papa formation. About 40 acres are practically flat, balance being broken and hilly, but not steep. When draining is completed about 40 acres will be ploughable.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 10th day of September, 1927.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Opening Settlement Land in Otago 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 Tuesday, the eleventh day of October, 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.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—SETTLEMENT LAND.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Borough of Mosgiel.—East Taieri Survey District.—Melville Park Settlement.

SECTION 1s : Area, 36 acres l rood 28 perches. Capital value, £1,600 ; £300.* Half-yearly rent, £40 ; £15 3s.†

• Valuation for buildings.

† Half-yearly instalment of principal and interest on buildings comprising dwellinghouse, barn, and stable, valued at £300, payable in cash or in fourteen years by twenty-eight half-yearly instalments of £15 3s. Total half-yearly payment on lease £55 3s.

Improvements included in the capital value of the section consist of boundary and subdivisional fences valued at £19 16s.

The improvements, which are not included in the capital value but which have to be paid for separately, comprise fencing, windmill, pipes, and concrete trough, valued at £63 13s., payable in cash.

Melville Park Settlement is situated in the Borough of Mosgiel within easy distance of railway-station, post-office, and district high school. The land is level and of very fine quality, the soil being a very rich black loam resting on a sandy clay formation. Access is by level, well-formed roads. The land is admirably suited for dairying or intense cultivation. Mosgiel has an excellent water-supply, electric lighting, and a large well-known woollen factory.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 10th day of September, 1927.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Land temporarily reserved in the Auckland Land District for a Site for a Public School (Golden Cross.)

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 set apart temporarily as reserves, 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 land in the Auckland Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, for a site for a public school.

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 acre, more or less, being part Section 24, Block X, Ohinemuri Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east, south-east, and south-west by other part Section 24, Block X, Ohinemuri Survey District, 351·05, 424·7, 259·2 links, and towards the north-west generally by a road 45·0, 307·3, and 47·7 links. As the same is more particularly delineated on plan marked L. and S. 22/1432/15, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red. Auckland plan, L. T. 20298.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 10th day of September, 1927.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Polling-places for the Raglan Electoral District appointed.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the Legislature Act, 1908, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby abolish all existing polling-places and do hereby appoint the places mentioned in the Schedule hereto to be the polling-places in the said Electoral District of Raglan.