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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 72

and authorities, doth hereby declare it is his intention to grant
in fee-simple the area of Crown land described in the First
Schedule hereto in exchange for the fee-simple of the land
described in the Second Schedule.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF LAND AUTHORIZED TO BE EXCHANGED.
ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District, Bay of
Islands County, containing by admeasurement 2 roods
10 perches, more or less, being Section 11, Block 1, Russell
Survey District : As the same is more particularly delineated
on the plan marked L. and S. 4/551A, deposited in the Head
Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and
thereon edged red. (North Auckland plan 12268.)

SECOND SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF LAND TO BE OBTAINED IN EXCHANGE
THEREFOR.

ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District, Bay of
Islands County, containing by admeasurement 2 acres 0 roods
38·9 perches, more or less, being Lots 1 and 3 on L.T. P.
20409, being subdivision of part O. L. C. 217, Block 1, Russell
Survey District : As the same is more particularly delineated
on the plan marked L. and S. 4/551B, deposited in the Head
Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and
thereon edged red. (North Auckland plan L.T.P. 20409.)

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 29th day of September, 1928.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Opening Settlement Land in Canterbury 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 Friday, the twenty-sixth day of October,
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.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.-SETTLEMENT LAND.-
FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Waimate County.-Waimate Survey District.-Lansdown
Settlement.

Section 8 and part Section 7, Block X : Area, 243 acres
l rood 30 perches. Capital value, £4,045. Renewable lease:
Half-yearly rent, £101 2s. 6d.

Weighted with £302 5s., valuation for improvements comprising dwellinghouse, other buildings, fencing, trees and shelter, water supply, &c. Of this amount £102 5s. is payable in cash ; the balance (£200) is to be secured by an instalment mortgage for a period of twenty years.

Property situated four miles from Waimate Railway-station and three miles from Waituna School. Cream-van calls. Watered by race and water-holes, well and pump, &c. Suitable for mixed farming. Should carry 350 to 400 ewes, with cultivation ; 170 acres suitable for cereal cropping, and root crops can be grown on practically whole farm.

Two years' remission of rent, subject to equivalent value of improvements being effected to satisfaction of Land Board.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this lst day of October, 1928.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Opening Land in Gisborne 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 land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Wednesday, the seventh day of November, 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 Act.

SCHEDULE.

GisBORNE LAND DISTRICT.-SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Opotiki County.-Waioeka South Survey District.

SECTION 8, Block IV : Area, 1,209 acres. Capital value, £365. Half-yearly rent, £7 6s.

Rent will be remitted for a maximum of five years from Ist January or Ist July following date of selection conditional upon the lessee effecting new improvements to at least the value of the rent remitted annually.

Weighted with £540, valuation for improvements consisting of felling, grassing, fencing, small dip, yards, &c. £400 of this amount may be left on mortgage for five years at 5 per cent., by arrangement.

Situated on Matawai-Opotiki Road, about sixteen miles from Matawai. About 5 acres on frontage flat ; balance steep. Some .450 acres originally felled and grassed, but 60 acres (approximate) gone back. Cleared area slipping badly. Practically whole of clearing in one paddock ; balance bush. Mostly lies well to the sun. Well watered by streams. About half area remaining in bush is unfit for felling.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 1st day of October, 1928.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Primary-education Endowment in Town of Waitara East,
Taranaki 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 Taranaki Land District has duly passed a resolution recommending that 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 primary-education endowment described in the Schedule hereto as a site for a public school.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

BLOCK XLVIII, Town of Waitara East : Area, l acre 2 roods 26 perches.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 29th day of September, 1928.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Vesting the Control of a Scenic Reserve in the Lake Rotoiti Scenic Reserve 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 set apart under the said Act), in trust, for the purposes of scenery preservation, as from the date of this notice until the seventh day of April, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three (unless previously altered or revoked under the said Act), in the Lake Rotoiti Scenic Reserve Board, as constituted by notification dated the seventh day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, and published in Gazette of the twelfth day of that month.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District containing by admeasurement 126 acres 1 rood 35 perches, more or less, being Scenic Reserve (Hongi's Track), situated in Block IX,