JUNE 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1725

Weighted with £382 15s., value of improvements consisting of 220 acres felled and grassed (now in fern), 115 chains of fencing, sheep-yards, two-roomed whare (mud lined), iron shed, &c., also 80 chains of pack-track. This sum may either be paid in cash or left on mortgage to Superintendent, State Advances Office, for a term of twenty years, with interest at 6 per cent. per annum.

Situated at Marahau, seven miles and a half distant from main road at Riwaka. Access is through Sandy Bay, by poor road generally. About 220 acres have been felled and sown, but now reverted to fern and rubbish; balance in bush. Soil of fair quality generally resting on granite and clay formation. Well watered by permanent streams.

Section 12, Block V: Area, 1,164 acres. Capital value, £290. Half-yearly rent, £5 16s.

Weighted with £167 15s., value of improvements, consisting of 80 acres of felling and grassing and 117 chains of fencing. Of this sum an amount of £160 may be left on mortgage to State Advances Superintendent for a term of twenty years with interest at 6 per cent. per annum; the balance of £7 15s. being payable in cash.

Section is situated at Marahau, seven miles and a half distant from Riwaka, by road in poor order. Section consists of broken country and does not lie well to the sun. Approximately 80 acres have been felled and sown, but is now in fern, while a further area has been burnt but not felled; balance of section in beech bush. Well watered by permanent streams. Soil of fair to poor quality on granite and clay formation.

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SECOND SCHEDULE.

NATIONAL-ENDOWMENT LAND.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Inangahua County.—Inangahua Survey District.

(Exempt from Payment of Rent for a Period of Four Years.)

SECTION 25, Block V: Area, 486 acres. Capital value, £540. Half-yearly rent, £10 16s.

Situated with frontage to main Reefton-Westport Road, half a mile from Inangahua Junction Post-office and railway-station and one mile from school. Ten to twelve acres of flat on frontage of section; balance hillside. Soil of good quality on flat and fair to poor on hillside, resting on limestone and sandstone formation. Medium to heavy beech bush. Altitude, 250 ft. to 1,700 ft. above sea-level.

Improvements included in capital value are 40 acres of felling and grassing, 3 acres stumped, 2 acres logged, 40 chains fencing, and five-roomed incompleted cottage; also old cow-shed.

NATIONAL-ENDOWMENT LAND.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Waimea County.—Waimea Survey District.

(Exempt from Payment of Rent for a Period of Four Years.)

Section 5, Block XVI: Area, 1,935 acres. Capital value, £580. Half-yearly rent, £11 12s.

Situated at the head of the Miner Stream, a branch of the Roding River, eight miles and a half distant by good road from Hope Railway-station and four miles of pack-track. Whole area is covered with bush and sub-alpine scrub, very rough and broken, and rising to an altitude of 4,700 ft. above sea-level. Soil of poor quality. Well watered.

Buller County.—Otumahana Survey District.

(Exempt from Payment of Rent for a Period of Five Years.)

Section 16, Block IX: Area, 497 acres. Capital value, £190. Half-yearly rent, £3 16s.

Weighted with £150, value of improvements consisting of 30 acres felled and grassed, three-roomed dwelling, cow-shed, and fencing; payable in cash.

Situated on Blue Duck Creek Road, six miles from Te Namu Post-office, seven miles from Little Wanganui School, and seventeen miles from Karamea Dairy Factory, by fair road. Fair soil on flats, poor on hillside, resting on sandstone formation. Thirty acres are in grass; balance poor bush land, rough and broken with exception of about 50 acres along creek. Altitude, 150 ft. to 1,200 ft. above sea-level. Well watered.

Takaka County.—Totaranui Survey District.

Section 4, Block IX: Area, 495 acres. Capital value, £125. Half-yearly rent, £2 10s.

Weighted with £102, value of improvements consisting of 95 acres of felling and grassing and 14 chains of fencing; payable in cash.

Situated at the head of Awaroa Bay, twenty-one miles from Takaka, by fair road. Section is very broken and quality of soil is poor. Approximately 95 acres have been felled and sown; balance beech bush. Well watered.

Murchison County.—Matakitaki Survey District.

Section 6, Block I: Area, 385 acres. Capital value, £115. Half-yearly rent, £2 6s.

Weighted with £150, value of improvements consisting of 25 acres of felling and grassing and four-roomed dwelling. This sum may either be paid in cash or left on mortgage to the Superintendent, State Advances Office, for a term of twenty years, and bearing interest at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum.

Situated fourteen miles from Murchison Dairy Factory and four miles from Glenroy School by good road; thence ford across Matakitaki River. About 25 acres have been felled and grassed; balance in beech bush. Section is rough and poor with exception of river flats. Well watered.

Buller County.—Steeple Survey District.

Section 7, Block I: Area, 167 acres 0 roods 23 perches. Capital value, £45. Half-yearly rent, 18s.

Weighted with £308, value of improvements consisting of five-roomed dwelling, wash-house, stable, cow-shed, dairy, &c., and 150 chains of fencing. Of this sum approximately £225 may be left on mortgage to State Advances Superintendent, the balance being payable in cash.

Situated at Cape Foulwind, 20 chains from railway-station, and seven miles and a half from Westport. Semi-pakihi land, undulating to flat. Very poor soil. Elevation, 150 ft. above sea-level.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 15th day of June, 1929.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

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Members appointed to Lake Rotoiti Scenic Board.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by a Warrant dated the seventh day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, and published in the Gazette of the twelfth day of that month, the control of certain reserves in the Auckland Land District, known as the Lake Rotoiti Scenic Reserves, was vested in certain persons therein named, who were by the said Warrant constituted a special Board by the name of the Lake Rotoiti Scenic Board, in pursuance of section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908: And whereas it is desirable that Te Mapu te Kirikau and Wharerangi Ratema should be appointed members of the said Board in place of Morehu te Kirikau, deceased, and Hemi Ratema, left the district:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, doth hereby appoint the said

Te Mapu te Kirikau and
Wharerangi Ratema

to be members of the Lake Rotoiti Scenic Board constituted by the Warrant dated the seventh day of April hereinbefore referred to, in place of the said Morehu te Kirikau and Hemi Ratema.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 15th day of June, 1929.

GEO. W. FORBES,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

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Portion of a Primary-education Endowment in Township of Carnarvon, Block II, Te Kauwau Survey District, Wellington Land District, set apart as a Site for a Public School.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section thirty-three of the Education Reserves Act, 1928, 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, or of section twenty-two of the first-mentioned Act, set apart as sites for public schools, secondary schools, or technical schools any part of such reserves or endowments:

And whereas the Land Board of the Wellington 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: