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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 16

in cash, and the balance of £320 in fifteen years by thirty half-yearly instalments of £15 8s. 3d.

Situated four miles from Oropi School and Post-office or fourteen miles from Tauranga by formed road, partly metalled. About 30 acres level land; balance undulating to broken. Sandy soil of fair quality. About 100 acres in worn-out pasture; balance fern and scrub land. Subdivided into three paddocks.

Section 18: Area, 191 acres. Capital value, £400. Half-yearly rent, £10.

Weighted with £210, valuation for improvements comprising grassing, fencing, three-roomed lean-to (in poor order), and cowshed, to be paid in cash.

Situated about eight miles from Tauranga Post-office and dairy factory, and three-quarters of a mile from Ohauiti School. About 40 acres easy country, suitable for dairying; balance poor broken land. Watered by creek and springs. Ragwort and gorse are spreading.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 27th day of February, 1928.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Opening Land in Auckland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

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, do hereby declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Friday, the twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, at the rental mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said land shall be leased under and subject to section one hundred and fifty-three of the said Act, as it contains, or is supposed to contain, metal, mineral, or valuable stone.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Kawhia County.—Kawhia South Survey District.

SECTION 10, Block VI: Area, 460 acres 2 roods. Capital value, £230. Half-yearly rent, £4 12s.

The improvements, not included in the capital value but which have to be paid for separately, comprise about 160 chains fencing, valued at £80. Repayable in cash or in seven years by fourteen half-yearly instalments of £6 18s. 4d.

Distant about thirty-five miles from Hangatiki Railway-station, four miles from Taumatatotara School, and eleven miles from Marakopa Dairy Factory. Comprises 200 acres bush land felled and grassed (reverted to second growth): balance in heavy bush comprising tawa, rimu, rata, &c., with dense undergrowth of supplejack and fern. Soil of medium quality on rubble formation; watered by streams. The section has been subdivided into two paddocks, and is suitable for grazing purposes. Access may also be obtained from Kawhia, about seventeen miles distant, seven miles of which is by launch to Kinohaku.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 27th day of February, 1928.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Vesting the Control of a Scenic Reserve in the Huatoki Scenic Board.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby vest the control of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto (being land reserved under the said Act), for the period of five years from the date hereof (unless previously altered or revoked under the said Act), in the undermentioned persons, namely,—

Arthur Squire Allen,
George William Browne,
John Henry Frethey,
Jonathan Gilbert Lawrence,
Charles Edward Dobson,
Newton Allen, and
John Therkleson,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Huatoki Scenic Board (herein referred to as “the Board,”) in trust, for the preservation of scenery, and with the powers and subject to the conditions hereinafter contained, that is to say,—

1. The first meeting of the Board shall be held on Friday, the sixteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, at half-past seven o’clock p.m., in the Methodist Schoolroom, Vogeltown: and thereafter the Board shall meet for the transaction of business on the third Friday in each quarter at the time and place aforesaid, or at such other time or place as may from time to time be fixed by the Board.

2. The members of the Board shall at their first meeting, and thereafter at the annual meeting hereinafter mentioned, elect one of themselves to be Chairman, who may join in the discussion, and shall have an original as well as a casting vote. The Chairman shall hold office until the election of his successor.

3. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman, provided that two days’ notice of such meeting is given to each member, specifying the business to be transacted at such special meeting; and no other business than that so specified shall be transacted at such meeting.

4. Any four members of the Board shall form a quorum. Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.

5. All questions shall be determined by the majority of votes of the members of the Board present at the meeting.

6. If at any meeting the Chairman is not present at the time appointed for holding the same, the members present shall choose one of their number to be chairman for such meeting.

7. If, by resignation, death, incapacity, or otherwise, the seat of any member shall be or become vacant, or if any member absents himself, without reasonable cause, from three consecutive meetings of the Board, the Governor-General shall have power to appoint any other person to be a member of the Board in his stead.

8. The Board shall prepare and submit at an annual meeting to be held in the month of April in each year a report of the proceedings of the Board for the previous year ending on the thirty-first day of March, together with a statement of the receipts and expenditure of the Board for such year. A copy of every such report and statement, certified by the Chairman to be correct, shall be sent to the Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation as soon as possible after each annual meeting.

9. The Board shall control the said reserve in accordance with the provisions of the said Act and of the regulations made thereunder.

SCHEDULE.

HUATOKI SCENIC RESERVE.—TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 48, Huatoki Settlement, Block V, Paritutu Survey District: Area, 9 acres 3 roods 15 perches.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 27th day of February, 1928.

K. S. WILLIAMS,
For Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

Vesting the Control of a Scenic Reserve in the Everett Road Scenic Board.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby vest the control of the reserve described in the Schedule below (being land reserved under the said Act), for the period of five years from the date hereof (unless previously altered or revoked under the said Act) in the undermentioned persons, namely :—

Albert Edward Burwell,
Robert Stuart,
William Henry Armstrong, and
John Robson Gray Sutherland,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Everett Road Scenic Reserves Board (herein referred to as “the Board”), in trust, for the preservation of scenery, and with the powers and subject to the conditions hereinafter contained, that is to say:—

1. The Board shall meet for the transaction of business at the office of Mr. W. H. Armstrong, Solicitor, Matai Street, Inglewood, on the first Wednesday in the months of March, June, September, and December in each year, at eight o’clock p.m., or at such other time or place as may from time to time be fixed by the Board. The first meeting shall be held at