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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 19

SCHEDULE.
NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SETTLEMENT LAND.—
FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Bay of Islands County.—Omapere Survey District.—Remuera Settlement.

SECTIONS 15s and 37s: Area, 162 acres 1 rood 28 perches. Capital value, £1,575; £400*. Half-yearly rent, £39 7s. 6d.; £16 1s.†.

• Valuation for buildings.

† Half-yearly instalment of principal and interest on buildings, consisting of dwellinghouse (rimu with iron roof) of three rooms, pantry, and porch; cowshed (kauri with iron roof) of four bails, and separator room, valued at £400, to be paid for in cash or in twenty years by forty half-yearly instalments of £16 1s. Total half-yearly payment on lease £55 8s. 6d.

Situated in the heart of the Remuera Settlement, about two miles from Ohaeawai Post-office, one mile and a half from Ahu Ahu School, and three miles from Bay of Islands Dairy Factory at Ohaeawai. Volcanic soil, fairly rocky. Flat to undulating land with fair amount of fern in evidence. Well watered. Boundaries fenced except adjoining Section 20s, also fair amount of subdivision fencing; generally in need of repair.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 2nd day of March, 1928.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Opening Settlement Land in Hawke’s Bay 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 seventeenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, at the rentals 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.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—SETTLEMENT LAND.—
FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Dannevirke County.—Norsewood Survey District.—Glengarry Settlement.

SECTION 30s: Area, 14 acres 0 roods 15 perches. Capital value, £625. Half-yearly rent, £15 12s. 6d.

Weighted with £20, valuation for improvements, to be paid in cash.

The improvements, included in the capital value, comprise four-roomed cottage, wool-shed, cow-shed, and fencing.

The section is generally hilly; soil not of very good quality. Situated within two miles and a half of Dannevirke. Would suit a man with a small family, who is employed in the neighbourhood, and could spend his spare time on this property. There is a well advanced plantation of assorted trees on the section.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 2nd day of March, 1928.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Opening Lands in Hawke’s Bay Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on 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 lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Tuesday, the seventeenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, at the rentals mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Hawkes’ Bay County.—Moeangiangi Survey District.

SECTION 2, Block XIV: Area, 445 acres. Capital value, £1,335. Half-yearly rent, £33 7s. 6d.

Weighted with £270, valuation for improvements consisting of a two-roomed whare and boundary and subdivisional fencing. This amount may remain on mortgage: term, twenty years.

Situated about twenty-two miles north of Napier by metalled road. Watered by streams. Suitable for sheep-farming. Present carrying-capacity about 250 wet ewes and 25 head of cattle. When cleared, should carry about 500 ewes and 150 dry sheep. There is a good deal of blackberry on section.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Patangata County.—Porangahau Survey District.

(Exempt from payment of Rent for Four Years.)

Section 1, Block IX: Area, 1,919 acres. Capital value, £2,000. Half-yearly rent, £40.

The land is situated in the Patangata County, about ten miles by good formed road from Porangahau, or thirty miles from Waipukurau, and is at present overgrown with scrub, with the exception of about 500 acres of rough feed. There are also a few clumps of native bush, of no commercial value. The soil is shallow and generally of a fair quality. A good homestead-site is available, and the block is well watered. The boundary-fences are in fair order, while the internal fences are in poor condition and of little value. The land is probably capable of being brought into one-sheep country.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 2nd day of March, 1928.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Vesting the Control of Scenic Reserves in the Summit Road Scenic Reserves Board, under the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908.

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 reserves 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—

The Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Canterbury Land District, or his Deputy (ex officio),

David Bates,
William Graham Jamieson,
Henry George Ell,
George Gould,
George Harper,
Henry Smart Hobday,
William Machin,
Arthur Roscoe Vernon Morten,
Walter Fox Parkinson,
William Reece, and
Frederick Maurice Warren,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Summit 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 District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, at such times as may be fixed by the Board. The first meeting shall be held on Monday, the twelfth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight.

2. The Commissioner of Crown Lands or his Deputy shall be the Chairman of the Board. He may join in the discussion, and shall have an original as well as a casting vote.

3. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman, provided that two days’ notice of such meeting be 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 three 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 a meeting.