Sept. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2501

Opening Land in 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, and the amendments thereof, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare and provide as follows, this is to say:—

1. The rural land enumerated in the Schedule hereto is hereby set apart for disposal by way of sale or selection on Friday, the twenty-second day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, at the price specified in the said Schedule, and for the purposes of section one hundred and thirty-three of the Land Act, 1924, shall be deemed to be “light-bush land.”

2. The said land may be purchased for cash or on deferred payments, or be selected on renewable lease.

3. No general rate shall be levied or collected by any local authority from the said land for a period of three years from the date from which such land is disposed of, and no local authority shall have power to levy or collect any such rate from such land during such period.

4. After the first half-year’s rent (or the deposit on deferred payments, as the case may be) has been paid by the selector, the further instalments of rent (or such parts of the instalments on deferred payments as consist of interest), payable by him for a period of three years shall not be demanded: Provided that if at any time during the first five years of his occupancy the selector disposes of his interest in the land, the rent or interest so conceded shall be paid by him in full, and thereupon the Land Board may remit such instalments of rent or interest payable by the incoming tenant, not exceeding in the aggregate the amount previously conceded to the selector, as the Board shall think fit.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT—THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Raglan County.—Karioi Survey District.

(Exempt from Payment of Rent, Rates, or Interest for a Period of Three Years.)

SECTION 6, Block XV: Area, 290 acres 2 roods. Capital value, £145. Deposit on deferred payments, £5. Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £4 11s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £2 18s.

Weighted with £120, value of improvements comprising felling and grassing; one-roomed whare, and approximately 80 chains of fencing. This sum is payable either in cash or by a deposit of £20, the balance being secured on instalment mortgage: Term, fifteen years; interest at 5½ per cent. Half-yearly instalments of £4 18s. 9d. A remission of the interest portion of these instalments will be granted over a period of three years, conditional upon improvements being effected annually to the value of the annual remission.

Grazing property situated approximately fifteen miles from Kawhia Wharf, Township and Dairy Factory, and four miles from Moerangi School. Approximately 110 acres bush land, felled and grassed, now mostly reverted; balance unimproved. Well watered by running streams.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 13th day of September, 1929.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

Opening Settlement Land 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 the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, and amendments, 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 Friday, the twenty-fifth 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.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.—SETTLEMENT LAND.

Hauraki Plains County.—Orongo Settlement.

SECTION 5: Area, 48 acres. Capital value, £1,820. Half-yearly rent, £45 10s.

Section 10: Area, 47 acres 3 roods 2 perches. Capital value, £2,640. Half-yearly rent, £66.

Section 21: Area, 50 acres. Capital value, £2,900. Half-yearly rent, £72 10s.

Lot 1 of Section 38: Area, 29 acres 3 roods 28 perches. Capital value, £1,650. Half-yearly rent, £41 5s.

Section 39: Area, 62 acres 0 roods 7 perches. Capital value, £3,400. Half-yearly rent, £85.

Section 41: Area, 50 acres 1 rood 15 perches. Capital value, £2,040. Half-yearly rent, £51.

The Orongo Settlement is situated on the western bank of the Waihou river, about three miles from Turua Township. Access to the Kopu Railway-station, which is situated one mile distant from the settlement, is by bridge over the Waihou River. The sections now being offered comprise level land of good quality covered with fescue.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General; this 13th day of September, 1929.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

Declaring Section 117, Block IX, Aroha Survey District, to be a Sanctuary under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, Auckland Acclimatization District.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

PURSUANT to the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the area described in the Schedule hereto shall be a sanctuary for the purposes of the said Act, and that no imported game or native game shall be taken or killed within the said area, except pursuant to an authority granted under section thirty-one or section thirty-two of the said Act; nor shall any person, except under such conditions as may from time to time be prescribed by the Minister, take any dog or firearm into such area, or discharge any firearm or explosive in such area, or do anything likely to cause any imported game or native game to leave such area.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District being Section 117, Block IX, Aroha Survey District, bounded on the north, east, and south by a Forest Reserve, and on the west by Sections 30A 2A and 30A 1.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 17th day of September, 1929.

P. A. DE LA PERRELLE,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 25/5/272.)

Authority to take and receive Statutory Declarations under the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by section three hundred and one of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that Commodore Geoffrey Blake, C.B., D.S.O., R.N., being a person holding the office of Commanding Officer of H.M.S. “Dunedin,” is authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927.

As witness my hand this 16th day of September, 1929.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

Producers’ Representatives on the New Zealand Fruit-export Control Board appointed.—(Notice No. Ag. 2854.)

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 16th September, 1929.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint, in terms of paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section 5 of the Fruit Control Act, 1924—

John Liddell Brown, Esquire, and
Frank Firth, Esquire,

as representatives of producers on the New Zealand Fruit-export Control Board, established under the said Act, for the triennial period ending 31st day of August, 1932.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Agriculture.