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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 86

-capable of being grazed during the summer season; the
balance being undulating dry land, ploughed and sown in
grass. Soil is mostly peat of good quality. Watered by
Kopuku Stream.

The improvements, included in the capital value, com-
prise three-roomed lean-to, two-bail cowshed, 13 acres grassing,
and 40 chains fencing; value, £61.

Section 2s: Area, 66 acres 3 roods 9 perches. Capital
value, £120; £180.* Half-yearly rent, £3; £11 13s. 2d.†

• Valuation for building.
  † Half-yearly instalment of principal and interest on build-
  ing consisting of dwelling of three rooms, bathroom, and
  scullery, valued at £180; repayable in cash or in ten years
  by twenty half-yearly instalments of £11 13s. 2d.: Total
  half-yearly payments on lease, £14 13s. 2d.

Situated two and a quarter miles from Kopuku Launch
Landing and Post-office, and three and a quarter miles from
Kopuku Temporary School. Access by road from Pokeno,
nineteen miles. Store at Pokeno or Mercer, seventeen miles
by launch. About 5 acres has been grassed (now run out);
balance being low-lying swamp of good quality peat; very
wet in winter.

Watered by swamp and creeks. Blackberry prevalent.

The improvements, included in the capital value, comprise
cowshed, piggery, grassing, and about 75 chains fencing;
value, £36.

Waikato County.—Kopuku No. 2 Settlement.

Section 9s: Area, 127 acres 1 rood 7 perches. Capital
value, £470; half-yearly rent, £11 15s.

Situated nineteen miles by road from Pokeno Railway-
station and seventeen miles by launch from Mercer to Kopuku
Landing. Section comprises about 30 acres of undulating
land in poor pasture, 42½ acres undulating, in fern and tea-
tree; balance being swamp, badly infested with blackberry.
The soil is a clay loam on the undulating portion and peat
in the swamp. Poorly watered by swamp and drains.

The improvements, included in the capital value, consist of
30 acres grassing, 250 chains fencing, and four-bail cowshed
and separator-room (concrete floor); valued at £125.

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

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Declaring Land in the Nelson 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 Matakikaki
Settlement.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

ALL that area of Crown land in the Nelson Land District,
Block VIII, Matakikaki Survey District, containing 586 acres,
more or less, bounded towards the north and north-east,
commencing at the north-east corner of Section 5s, Matakikaki
Settlement, by a road 1 chain wide along the Matakikaki
River to Nardoo Creek; thence by a road 2 chains wide along
the Matakikaki River to Section 8s, Matakikaki Settlement;
towards the south-east by Section 8s, Matakikaki Settlement,
905·2 links, 578·7 links, 306·9 links, 159·8 links, 373·1 links,
168·4 links, 123·6 links, 183·6 links, 167·6 links, 753·7 links,
135·9 links, 558·5 links, 131·5 links, 117 links, 290·4 links,
and 694·3 links, to a road along the east bank of Nardoo
Creek; towards the south-west and west by Crown lands,
5171·6 links, and by Section 5s, Matakikaki Settlement,
3638·5 links, 2365·6 links, 531 links, and 2225 links, to the
point of commencement; be all the aforesaid linkages more
or less: excepting therefrom the Nardoo Creek and the road
reserves 1 chain wide on both sides. As the same is more
particularly delineated on a plan marked L. and S. 21/235,
deposited in the Head Office of the Lands and Survey Depart-
ment, Wellington, and thereon edged red.

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

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 Rangitaik
Settlement.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District containing by
admeasurement 22 acres 1 rood 13 perches, being old Rangi-
taiki River-bed, Block III, Rangitaiki Upper Survey District.
Bounded towards the north generally by Allotment 174,
Matata Parish; towards the east by a public road on the left
bank of the Rangitaiki River; towards the south, east, and
north-east generally by Crown land (originally Rangitaiki
No. 1a No. 4); towards the east by public road aforesaid;
towards the south-west generally by Allotments 176, 175,
Matata Parish, and the abutment of a public road to the point
of commencement. As the same is delineated on the plan
marked L. and S. 21/241, deposited in the Head Office, De-
partment of Lands and Survey, Wellington, and thereon
bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 7th day of December, 1927.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Warrant vesting the Control of the Tutaekuri Suspension-
bridge, over the Waiau River, in the Wairoa 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 Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-
General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby direct
that the bridge over the Waiau River on the Tutaekuri Block
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 Wairoa
County Council.

SCHEDULE.

THAT bridge in the Gisborne Land District over the Waiau
River on the Tutaekuri Block Road, known as the Tutaekuri
Suspension-bridge, situated between Section part 7s, Ardkeen
Settlement, and Sections 1a1 and 1a3, Tutaekuri Block,
Block X, Taramarama Survey District. As the site of the
said bridge is more particularly delineated on the plan marked
P.W.D. 70444, 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 13th day of December, 1927.

K. S. WILLIAMS, Minister of Public Works.
(P.W. 36/314.)

Financial Instructions and Allowance Regulations for the
New Zealand Military Forces Amended.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred on me by the Defence Act, 1909, and its
amendments, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet,
Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do
hereby amend in the manner and to the extent set forth in
the Schedule hereto the Financial Instructions and Allowance
Regulations for the New Zealand Military Forces, published
in the New Zealand Gazette dated the sixth day of August,
one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, and I do hereby
declare that the amendments hereby made shall take effect
as from the eleventh day of December, one thousand nine
hundred and twenty-seven.