May 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1321

Section 16 of Lot 1, Block XIVA: Area, 38·03 perches. Upset price, £75.
Section 17 of Lot 1, Block XIVA: Area, 37·98 perches. Upset price, £75.
Section 12, Block XIX: Area, 1 acre. Upset price, £100.
Section 13, Block XIX: Area, 1 acre. Upset price, £100.
Section 14, Block XIX: Area, 1 acre. Upset price, £100.
Section 11, Block XXVI: Area, 1 acre 0 roods 3 perches. Upset price, £100.
Section 8, Block XXXI: Area, 1 acre. Upset price, £110.

These sections, situated in the Township of Taumarunui, are all suitable for building-sites.

Sections 11 to 17 of Lot 1 of Block XIVA are situated in Taitua Street. A small creek runs through the centre of these sections, widening out on Sections 11, 12, and 13.

Sections 12–14, Block XIX, have a frontage to the Main Taupo Road, and lie between the road and the railway. These sections are level and have a small creek running through the centre.

Section 11, Block XXVI, situated at the corner of Ngatai and Para Streets, mainly a level section, but with a high bank along the Ngatai Street frontage.

Section 8, Block XXXI, is situated on the Main Taupo Road. Level section, rising slightly towards the back.

Taumarunui County.—Rangaroa Village.

Section 5, Block V: Area, 5 acres 3 roods 3 perches. Upset price, £120.

Weighted with £244, valuation for improvements, comprising dwelling of five rooms (in poor repair), felling and grassing, approximately 35 chains of fencing. This amount is repayable either in cash or by a cash deposit of £4; the balance being secured to the State Advances Superintendent by an instalment mortgage over a period of twenty years; interest at 6 per cent. Half-yearly instalments £10 17s. 7d.

Section situated within the Borough of Taumarunui, one mile and three-quarters from Taumarunui High School and one mile and a quarter from the post-office and railway-station. Originally this section was in heavy manuka, but is now in poor pasture. The soil is a medium clay loam, resting on papa formation, the conformation being easy to hilly.

Section 8, Block V: Area, 6 acres 0 roods 37 perches. Upset price, £75.

Section very suitable for a stock paddock, situated in East Street, Rangaroa Suburbs, being only a quarter of a mile from the Taumarunui Railway-station and township.

The area comprises hilly country of pumice formation. Originally surface-sown pasture, now covered in ragwort, fern, and scrub. Ring-fenced, and connected with the town water-supply.

NATIONAL-ENDOWMENT LAND.

Taumarunui County.—Tuhua Survey District.

Sections 34 and 35, Block XIII: Area, 20 acres 1 rood 26 perches. Upset price, £150.

Weighted with £20 for improvements, comprising two old sheds, 10 chains road fence, and 20 chains boundary fencing; payable in cash.

Property suitable for either pig or poultry farming, situated at Lairdvale, about one mile and a half from Taumarunui Township, by good metalled road; undulating to broken land covered with manuka, the soil being of a light loam on pumice formation; watered by a spring.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 26th day of April, 1929.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

Notifying Land in Southland Land District for Sale by Public Auction for Cash.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

I N 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 fifth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, as the time at which the lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction for cash; and I do hereby fix the price at which the said land shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Suburban Land.—Town of Riverton.

SECTIONS 13, 14, 15, and 16, Block XXII: Area, 1 acre. Upset price, £12.

Sections 12, 15, 16, and 17, Block XXIII: Area, 1 acre. Upset price, £10.

Sections 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15, Block XXIV: Area, 1 acre 1 rood. Upset price, £6.

Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, and 14, Block XXV: Area, 3 acres. Upset price, £12.

Situated on the Riverton Town boundary, close to the main road.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 26th day of April, 1929.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

Regulations for the New Zealand Military Forces, 1927, amended.—Amendments No. 15.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

I N pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by the Defence Act, 1909, and its amendments, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby amend in the manner and to the extent set forth in the Schedule hereto, the regulations for the Military Forces of the Dominion of New Zealand, published in the New Zealand Gazette dated the twenty-fifth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven: And I do hereby declare that the amendments hereby made shall take effect as from date of publication thereof in the Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

REGULATIONS FOR THE MILITARY FORCES OF THE DOMINION OF NEW ZEALAND.

SECTION III.—COMMAND, RANK, PRECEDENCE, ETC.

1. PARAGRAPH 94—Add at end:—

“Provided that in the N.Z. Medical Corps, the N.Z. Dental Corps, and the N.Z. Veterinary Corps, no officer will be given seniority from a date preceding that on which he qualified as a practitioner, unless as otherwise provided for in the cases of those who hold Certificates ‘A’ or ‘B’ in the appropriate corps, obtained in an Officers’ Training Corps in any part of the British Empire, or while serving in the Otago University Medical Company, N.Z. Medical Corps.”

Appointments to First Commissions in Territorial Force.

2. Paragraph 110 is hereby revoked.

Retirements.

3. Paragraph 164: Delete the table and substitute the following:—

SECTION V.—TERRITORIAL FORCE AND CADETS.

Medical Examination.

4. Paragraph 264: Delete the last sentence of the paragraph, beginning with the words “In all cases.”

SECTION XIII.—CADETS.

Establishment.

5. Paragraph 885: Add at end of para.:—

“Each Platoon:—
1 Lieutenant.
2 Sergeants.
4 Corporals.
18 to 43 Privates. (May include 4 Lance-Corporals.)

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 26th day of April, 1929.

THOMAS M. WILFORD, Minister of Defence.