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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 37

Opening Settlement Lands in Auckland Land District for Selection.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1924, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the settlement lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Friday, the twenty-fifth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, 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.—SETTLEMENT LAND.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Matamata County.—Tapapa Survey District.—Okauia Settlement.

SECTION 1, Block IV: Area, 325 acres. Capital value, £325. Half-yearly rent, £8 2s. 6d.

Situated two miles from Okauia Post-office and school; seven miles and a half from Matamata Railway-station, dairy factory, and saleyards. A broken and stony section, all in worn-out pasture. Watered by springs. Ragwort in evidence. Suitable for a run-off in conjunction with land already held in the locality.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Matamata County.—Patetere North-east Survey District.—Selwyn Settlement.

Section 49, Block IV, and Section 50, Block X: Area, 396 acres 1 rood 8 perches. Capital value, £150. Half-yearly rent, £3 15s.

Sections situated in the Selwyn Settlement, on the main Cambridge—Rotorua Road, approximately fourteen miles from Okoroire Railway-station and post-office, and ten miles from Putaruru. The general quality of this area is poor, and the property would prove most suitable as a grazing run-off for a selector holding a property in the locality.

Weighted with £280, for improvements comprising whare, felling and grassing (deteriorated), approximately two hundred chains fencing; to be paid in cash.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 9th day of May, 1930.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

Opening Settlement Lands in Southland Land District for Selection.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1924, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the settlement lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Thursday, the twenty-sixth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, at the rentals mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said lands shall be leased under the subject to the provisions of the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SETTLEMENT LAND.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Wallace County.—Longwood Survey District.—Te Wae Wae Settlement.

SECTION 1s: Area, 146 acres. Capital value of land, £3,900. Value of buildings, £225; half-yearly rent, £97 10s.; half-yearly payment on buildings (for twenty-one years), £8 15s. 6d.: Total half-yearly payment, £106 5s. 6d.

Section 2s: Area, 129 acres 2 roods. Capital value, £3,100; half-yearly rent, £77 10s.

Section 3s: Area, 92 acres and 15 perches. Capital value of land, £1,250. Value of buildings, £400; half-yearly rent, £31 5s.; half-yearly payment on buildings (for twenty-one years), £15 12s.: Total half-yearly payment, £46 17s.

Section 4s: Area, 72 acres and 20 perches. Capital value of land, £1,415; value of buildings, £200; half-yearly rent, £35 7s. 6d.; half-yearly payment on buildings (for twenty-one years), £7 16s.: Total half-yearly payment, £43 3s. 6d.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

Te Wae Wae Settlement is situated on both sides of the main road between Orepuki and Tuatapere, close to Te Wae Wae Railway-siding, school, and post-office, and about six miles from Tuatapere Dairy Factory. Altitude, 50 ft. to 150 ft. above sea-level. Originally under heavy bush, now all cleared. Land is of very high quality, very suitable for dairying.

Possession will be given on 1st July, 1930, from which date the rent will commence. Successful applicants will be permitted to take fencing and building material on to their holdings immediately after the ballot.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 20th day of May, 1930.

W. A. VEITCH,
For Minister of Lands

Rangers under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921-22, appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 16th May, 1930.

IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section 35 of the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921-22, the under-mentioned persons have been appointed Rangers under and for the purposes of that Act for the Mangonui-Whangaroa Acclimatization District:—

John Samuel Brighouse, of Kaeo, and
Harold Percy Charles McLean, of Kaeo.

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

(I.A. 25/23/19.)

Deputy Member of the New Zealand Fruit-export Control Board appointed.—(Notice No. Ag. 2898.)

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 19th May, 1930.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint, in terms of section 7 (1) of the Fruit Control Act, 1924,

David Haining, Esquire,

as a deputy to act for John Liddell Brown, Esquire, during the period that the said John Liddell Brown is by absence from the Dominion incapacitated from performing his duties as a member of the New Zealand Fruit-export Control Board established under the said Act.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Agriculture.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 20th May, 1930.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service.

John Dalziel Hay

to be Receiver of Land Revenue for the Southland Land District for the purposes of the Land Act, 1924, as from the 15th day of May, 1930.

Duncan Ritchie Ingram

to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Ohakune, as from the 3rd day of May, 1930.

William James Jackson

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Greytown and Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Greytown, as from the 6th May, 1930.

Charles Michael Whelan

to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Drury, as from the 14th day of May, 1930.

Richard Embleton Hunter

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Ngaruawahia, at Taupiri, as from the 14th day of May, 1930.

Alfred Pellow

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Te Kuiti and Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Te Kuiti, as from the 12th day of May, 1930.

T. MARK, Secretary.