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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 20

the date of my last arrival in New Zealand does not exceed
in either case the respective amount set out in part (b) or
part (c) of the preceding paragraph.
Declared before me at , this day of
19 .
, Officer of Customs.
[Postmaster, Customs Agent, Solicitor, Notary
Public, or Justice of the Peace.]
To the Examining Officer. No. , Collector.
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Declaring National-endowment and Crown Land in the Hauraki
Mining District, Auckland Land District, open for Disposal
on Renewable Lease.

[l.s.] CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and fifty-four of
the Land Act, 1924, it is enacted that the Governor-
General, by Proclamation, may from time to time declare any
Crown lands within any mining district not held under lease
or license, or for which a lease or license has been cancelled,
to be open for disposal as provided in section one hundred
and fifty-three of the said Act :
Now, therefore, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet,
Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise
of the powers and authority conferred upon me by section
one hundred and fifty-four of the said Act, and of every other
power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf,
do hereby proclaim and declare that the lands described in
the Schedule hereto shall be open on Friday, the twenty-sixth
day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, for
disposal on renewable lease, as provided in section one hun-
dred and fifty-three of the said Act.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—HAURAKI MINING DISTRICT.—
SECOND-CLASS LAND.—NATIONAL-ENDOWMENT LAND.

Ohinemuri County.—Aroha Survey District.
SECTION 33, Block II: Area, 50 acres. Capital value, £50.
Half-yearly rent, £1.
Weighted with improvements, valued at £70, comprising
dwelling and leanto, approximately 7 chains of boundary
and 40 chains of subdivisional fencing, 5 acres ploughed and
grassed, 3 acres reverted pasture, and small plantation; to
be paid in cash.
Situated at Whitawheta, about two miles distant from
Owharoa Railway-station, one mile by metalled road and
one mile by formed road. There is a school and store at
Waikino, about three miles distant. The section comprises
about twenty acres of flat land, cleared and grassed, now
reverting to fern and blackberry; balance fern hills. Steep
country, the soil being of poor quality resting on clay forma-
tion. Well watered by stream and springs.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

CROWN LAND.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Thames County.—Hastings Survey District.
SECTION 14, Block XV: Area, 300 acres. Capital value,
£150. Half-yearly rent, £3.
Weighted with improvements, valued at £82, comprising
small slab cowshed and approximately 80 chains of fencing,
repayable either in cash or by payment of a deposit of £2;
the balance to remain on instalment mortgage to the State
Advances Superintendent over a period of thirty years;
interest at 6 per cent.; half-yearly instalments amounting
to £2 17s. 10d.
Grazing proposition situated north-east of Thames, which
is fourteen miles distant (three miles by metalled road and
eleven miles formed pack-track). Altitude ranges from
1,300 ft. to 2,100 ft. above sea-level.
Blackberry is showing upon approximately 80 acres which
has been felled and grassed, but has now reverted. The
balance of approximately 220 acres is in light bush comprising
tawa, totara, matai, and odd rimu, with a dense undergrowth
of punga, &c. The section is hilly and broken, the soil being
of a light clayey loam resting on rottenstone formation;
fairly well watered by springs, creeks, and stream.

Thames County.—Ohinemuri Survey District.
Lot 1 of Section 3, Block II: Area, 218 acres. Capital
value, £110. Half-yearly rent, £2 4s.
Weighted with improvements, valued at £150, comprising
two small dwellings, approximately 150 chains of 5- and 6-
wire fencing, and 100 acres in rough feed. This amount is
either repayable in cash or by a deposit of £20, the balance
to remain on instalment mortgage for fifteen years, with
interest at 5½ per cent.; half-yearly payments, £6 8s. 5d.
Lot 2 of Section 3, Block II: Area, 547 acres. Capital
value, £270. Half-yearly rent, £5 8s.
Weighted with improvements, valued at £180, comprising
a mill, approximately 200 acres of rough feed, and 200 chains
of 5- and 6-wire fencing. This amount is either repayable
in cash or by a deposit of £20, the balance to remain in instal-
ment mortgage for five years with interest at 5½ per cent.;
half-yearly payments, £7 18s.
These areas, which are suitable for selection as run-off
sections, are situated approximately 10 miles from Hikutaiā
Post-office, school, store, and railway-station; four miles by
metalled road, balance by formed dray-road. These sections
were originally under heavy kauri bush, but a portion of each
section now comprises old kauri workings in rough feed.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Thames County.—Ohinemuri Survey District.
Section 4, Block II: Area, 975 acres. Capital value,
£490. Half-yearly rent, £9 16s.
Weighted with improvements, valued at £785, comprising
house of eight rooms (built of kauri), hot and cold water;
200 acres of felling and grassing (now reverted), and 110 chains
of fencing; repayable in cash or by a deposit of £85; balance
on instalment mortgage for 34½ years at 5½ per cent.; half-
yearly instalment, £22 15s.
Grazing proposition situated ten miles from Hikutaiā
School, store, and post-office, of which distance four miles
is by metalled road; balance formed. Hilly land of inferior
quality, resting on clay and rock formation. Approximately
775 acres bush, comprising tawa, rata, rimu, and some kauri,
with a dense undergrowth of supplejack, punga, koromiko,
and rangiora. Balance of section old kauri clearing, partly
grassed, but now gone back. Well watered by the Tairu
River and creeks.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued
under the Seal of that Dominion, this 13th day of March,
1929.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Inspector of Scenic Reserve appointed.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by
section four of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, I,
General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of
the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

John Robertson

to be an Inspector under the said Act in respect to the scenic
reserve described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

TE ARAI SCENIC RESERVE.—GISBORNE LAND DISTRICT.
SECTION 15, Block XII, Patutahi Survey District: Area,
22 acres 0 roods 16 perches, more or less.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 16th day of March, 1929.

W. A. VEITCH,
For Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

Opening Lands in the Auckland 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 land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for
sale or selection on Friday, the twenty-sixth day of April,