SEPT. 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2421

Opening Education Reserve Lands in Auckland 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, and section twenty-two of the Education Reserves Act, 1928, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Monday, the twenty-eighth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, at the rentals mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—EDUCATION RESERVE.

Otorohanga County.—Puniu Survey District.

SECTION 9, Block XIII: Area, 267 acres 2 roods. Half-yearly rent, £30 12s.

Weighted with £15, value of improvements comprising approximately 30 chains of boundary-fence, payable in cash. Mixed farming proposition, situated on the Puketarata Road, eight miles from Otorohanga Dairy Factory and sale-yards, approximately three miles and a half from Kiokio Railway-station and post-office (two miles and a half metalled road and one mile formed dray-road), and five miles and a half from Kiokio School. Level to easy undulating land, approximately 100 acres swamp, balance low-lying hills at present in fern. Soil, chocolate loam, resting on volcanic and clay formation; peat on the swamp area. Ragwort in evidence. Well watered by springs and creek. When fully developed this section will have a large carrying-capacity. Section is intersected by the North Island Main Trunk Railway, a way-leave over which has been granted subject to railway regulations at a rent of £1 per annum to be paid to the Railway Department by the selector of the holding.

Raglan County.—Pirongia Parish.

Allotment 30: Area, 51 acres 1 rood 1 perch. Half-yearly rent, £2.

Situated on the slopes of Pirongia Mountain, two miles from Pirongia School and store and approximately seventeen miles from Te Awamutu Railway-station. Section comprises fern land of medium quality, undulating and ploughable, with exception of creek banks, with shallow soil of light black nature, resting on clay formation.

All rights necessary for the effective working and maintenance of the tramway traversing this section, at present operated by Messrs. Cashmore Brothers, are reserved.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 21st day of August, 1929.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

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

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN 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 ninth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, as the time at which the land 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 that mentioned in the said Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Taumarunui County.—Tuhua Survey District.

SECTION 5, Block IX: Area, 3 acres 0 roods 10 perches. Upset price, £20.

This property is situated on a metalled road, a quarter of a mile from the Okahukura Railway-station and opposite the Okahukura School. Level section, totally unimproved, covered with manuka and fern, with ragwort in evidence. Suitable for use as home-site with cow-run.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 27th day of August, 1929.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

Land temporarily reserved in Block VII, Awakino North Survey District, Auckland Land District, for Gravel Purposes.

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:

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 Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the land in the Auckland Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, for gravel purposes.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District containing by admeasurement 3 roods 18·9 perches, more or less, being part Section 42, Block VII, Awakino North Survey District, bounded towards the north-west and north-east by part Section 32, Block VII, Awakino North Survey District, 218·5 and 397·3 links; towards the south-east by Section 31, Block VII, Awakino North Survey District, 218·5 links; towards the south-west by part Section 42, Block VII, Awakino North Survey District, 397·4 links: Be all the aforesaid linkages a little more or less. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 6/6/15A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged blue. (Auckland plan 23830, blue.)

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 2nd day of September, 1929.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

Notice of Intention to issue an Order in Council revoking the Reservation over Portion of the Vigor Brown Domain, Hawke’s Bay Land District.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section forty-one of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), it is provided that the Governor-General may from time to time by Order in Council, but subject to compliance with the requirements of subsection two of section seven of the said Act, declare that the land comprised in a public domain or part thereof shall cease to be subject to Part II of the said Act; and, further, may declare either that such land shall be a public reserve for the purposes of Part I of the said Act, or Crown land available for disposal by way of sale for cash under the Land Act, 1924:

And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto forms portion of the Vigor Brown Domain, but is not required for domain purposes, and it is expedient to revoke the reservation over the said land:

Now, therefore, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby give notice, pursuant to subsection two of section seven of the said Act, that it is my intention to issue an Order in Council under the provisions of section forty-one of the said Act declaring that the portion of the Vigor Brown Domain described in the Schedule hereto shall cease to be subject to Part II of the said Act, and shall be deemed to be Crown land available for disposal by way of sale for cash under the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—PART VIGOR BROWN DOMAIN.

SECTION 5, Westshore, Napier: Area, 2 roods.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 27th day of August, 1929.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.