258 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 6

lawful for any purchaser on deferred payments to transfer his interest in such land before the completion of the purchase, or the expiration of ten years from the date of his license, whichever is the less.

5. The intention of intending purchasers is drawn to the sewer easements as shown on the plan.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 26th day of January, 1928.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Notifying Land in Hawke’s Bay Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section one hundred and thirty-two of the Land Act, 1924, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Wednesday, the twenty-ninth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, as the time at which the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction; and I do hereby fix the price at which the said land shall be sold as that mentioned in the said Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

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

Hawke’s Bay County.—Tarawera Survey District.

SECTION 2, Block VI: Area, 94 acres 2 roods. Upset price, £1,150.

Possession will be given on 1st March, 1928.

Weighted with £2,186, valuation for improvements. Payable in cash if purchased by other than present lessee. If purchased by present lessee the sum of £386, being excess on improvements, to be paid to the Crown.

Situated at Tarawera, on the Napier–Taupo Main Road, forty-eight miles from Napier, and fifty miles from Taupo. The Tarawera Hotel is situated on this area, and the improvements comprise the hotel of sixteen rooms, with bar, kitchen, scullery, and bathroom. Outbuildings comprise dairy, store, staff’s quarters, washhouse, bottle store, benzine and oil store, motor-shed, &c. Other improvements comprise tennis courts, grounds laid out, plantations, orchard, stockyard, fowl-house and run, piggery and run, and fences.

The hotel is a favourite stopping-place for travellers to and from Taupo.

The land comprises fair flats, but steep sideling along creeks. In fair grass, principally danthonia. Would carry five to six cows and few sheep; well watered. A hot spring is located about one third of a mile from hotel.

NOTE.—The hotel license is not included in the sale of land or value of improvements.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 26th day of January, 1928.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Opening Settlement Land in Southland 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 thirteenth day of March, 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 the provisions of the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SETTLEMENT LAND.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Southland County.—Hokonui Survey District.

Ardlussa Settlement.

SECTION 4, Block VII: Area, 1,586 acres 1 rood 16 perches. Capital value, £2,200. Half-yearly rent, £55.

IMPROVEMENTS.

The valuation for improvements not included in the capital value, but which have to be paid for separately, consist of dwellinghouse, stable, shed, hut, and fencing, valued at £555: of this amount £265 is repayable in fourteen years by twenty-eight half-yearly instalments of £13 7s. 8d., and the balance, £290, is to be paid in cash.

The improvements included in the capital value of the land consist of 1,119 chains of boundary-fencing valued at £571 7s. 6d.

DESCRIPTION.

Situated about six miles from Balfour and three miles from Ardlussa School by good metalled road. About 100 acres are good flat land; balance undulating to hilly. Cultivated on the lower portion, but the greater part is still in the natural state, carrying tussock, fern, and manuka-scrub. Suitable for grazing.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 26th day of January, 1928.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Portion of a Primary-education Endowment in Block IV, North Harbour and Blueskin District, Otago Land District, set apart as a Site for a Public School.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section five of the Education Reserves Amendment Act, 1911, it is enacted that the Governor-General may, on the recommendation of the Land Board of the district in which are situated any reserves or endowments vested in the Crown by or in pursuance of section two of the Education Reserves Amendment Act, 1910, set apart as sites for public schools, secondary schools, or technical schools any part of such reserve or endowments:

And whereas the Land Board of the Otago Land District has duly passed a resolution recommending that the portion of the primary-education endowment described in the Schedule hereto should be set apart as a site for a public school, and it is expedient to give effect to such recommendation:

Now, therefore, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the Acts aforesaid, do hereby set apart the portion of the primary-education endowment described in the Schedule hereto as a site for a public school (Purakanui).

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Otago Land District containing by admeasurement 9 acres 3 roods 38 perches, more or less, being Lot 2 of Land Transfer Plan 3702, being part of Section 2 of 23, Block IV, North Harbour and Blueskin District. Bounded towards the east by a road line, 661·6 links; towards the south by Section 1 of 23, 1607·6 links; and towards the west and north by Lot 1 aforesaid plan, 617·9 and 1503 links respectively. Be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is more particularly shown on the plan marked L. and S. 6/6/500, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 28th day of January, 1928.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Notice as to Change of Purpose of Portion of a Reserve in Pukawau Survey District, Nelson Land District.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by notice issued pursuant to section six of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, dated the twenty-fourth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, and published in the Gazette of the twenty-ninth day of that month, the purpose for which the portion of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto was set apart was changed from a reserve for public utility to a reserve for a resting place for travelling stock:

And whereas the said notice was laid before Parliament pursuant to the provisions of section seven of the said Act, and no resolution has been passed by either House of Parliament that such House does not assent to such change of purpose:

And whereas it is provided by the said section seven that if no such resolution is passed by either House, then, from and after the termination of the then session of Parliament, such change of purpose, in accordance with the terms of the notice, shall be valid and effectual for all purposes whatsoever:

Now, therefore, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby