Jan. 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 61

Opening Land in the Gisborne Land District for Sale or Selection.

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, having received the report of the Under-Secretary in this behalf, as provided by section one hundred and seventy-six of the said Act, do hereby declare that the lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on Wednesday, the thirteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, and also that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash or on deferred payments, or be selected on renewable lease; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE.

GISBORNE LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Opotiki County.—Waioeka Survey District.

SECTION 1, Block XII, and Section 1, Block XV: Area, 1,885 acres. Capital value, £525. Deposit on deferred payments, £25. Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £16 5s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £10 10s.

Loaded with £2,330, for improvements consisting of five-roomed house, store-house, wool-shed, yards, dip, felling, grassing, and fencing. Loading may be paid in cash or arrangements may be made with State Advances Office to leave amount on mortgage.

Situated near Oponae, on Waioeka-Matawai Road, about twenty miles from Opotiki. About 950 acres felled and in grass (an additional 700 acres was felled, but has gone back to fern and scrub); balance bush. Well watered by creeks. About 40 acres flat, along Omaukoro Stream; balance mainly steep country. Half-time school in district. Altitude, 500 ft. to 2,000 ft. above sea-level.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 20th day of December, 1928.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

Lands permanently reserved.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-fifty-ninth section of the Land Act, 1924, it is enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time set apart temporarily as reserves, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:

And whereas by the three-hundred-and-sixtieth section of the said Act it is provided that land temporarily reserved under the said three-hundred-and-fifty-ninth section may, at the expiration of one month but not later than six months after the publication in the Gazette of notice of such temporary reservation, be permanently reserved, and that notice of such permanent reservation shall be published in the Gazette:

And whereas by the seventy-first section of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, it is further provided that the Governor-General may from time to time, as he thinks fit, set aside reserves for any specified public purpose out of lands acquired under the last-mentioned Act, provided that no land so acquired shall be set aside for endowments:

And whereas the lands specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto were, by the Warrants the dates of which are specified in the third column of the said Schedule, and the notifications of which were published in the Gazette specified in the fourth column, temporarily reserved under the authority of the said Acts for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule:

Now, therefore, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the said Acts, do hereby permanently reserve the lands so temporarily reserved as aforesaid, and enumerated in the first column of the Schedule hereto, for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule, being the same purposes for which the said lands were so temporarily reserved as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

• Survey District.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 21st day of December, 1928.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.