Feb. 26.]

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Raglan County.—Awaroa Survey District.—Ahuroa Block.

Section 9, Block VI: Area, 286 acres 2 roods. Capital value, £150. Deposit on deferred payments, £5; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £4 14s. 3d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £3.

Weighted with improvements valued at £579 10s., comprising dwelling (five rooms), implement-shed and stable, 212 acres danthonia pasture, 110 chains road-boundary fence, half-share 100 chains boundary-fence, 30 chains subdivisional fencing. This amount is payable by a cash deposit of £4 10s., the balance of £575 to remain on instalment mortgage to Superintendent, State Advances Office, over a period of thirty years at 6 per cent. interest; half-yearly instalment, £20 15s. 6d.

Grazing property, situated twenty-two miles from Rangiriri Railway-station and one mile and a half from Kaawa School. Cream collected two miles from property by motor-lorry. Twenty-nine miles from Tuakau (twenty-three miles metalled road, six miles clay). Approximately 70 acres standing bush; balance in danthonia pasture. Section watered by springs and creeks. Blackberry requires attention. Subdivided into two paddocks.

Kawhia County.—Pirongia Survey District.

Section 2, Block V: Area, 590 acres. Capital value, £585. Deposit on deferred payments, £25; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £18 4s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £11 14s.

Weighted with £1,085, for improvements comprising dwelling (in good condition), implement-shed, milking-shed, 270 chains subdivisional fencing, 160 chains boundary-fencing, and 100 chains road-fencing. Approximately 350 acres grassed (50 per cent. reverted), 8 acres cleared and stumped, and 150 acres surface sown. This sum is payable in cash or by a deposit of £10, the balance—viz., £1,075—being secured by instalment mortgage for 34½ years, with interest at 5½ per cent. per annum; half-yearly instalment, £34 18s. 9d.

Grazing property, situated on the Pirongia West Road, seven miles from Oparau Post-office, school, and saleyards. Undulating and broken section, the soil being of light to medium loam resting on sandstone and limestone formation. Ragwort in appearance. Section is well watered by running streams. Approximately 380 acres felled and grassed, now reverting; 150 acres bush, not felled, through which fire a has passed; balance standing bush.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 18th day of February, 1931.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 9/2578.)

Open Season for Red Deer Shooting, Lakes District Acclimatization District.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, I, Philip Aldborough de la Perrelle, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare the period from the 2nd day of March, 1931, to the 30th day of April, 1931 (both days inclusive), to be an open season in those parts of the Lakes District Acclimatization District described in the First, Second, and Third Schedules hereto for the taking or killing of the following imported game—viz., red-deer stags and hinds—subject to the following conditions.

CONDITIONS.

1. LICENSES to take or kill red-deer stags and hinds in the areas described in the First and Second Schedules hereto may be issued by the Secretary of the Lakes District Acclimatization Society, Queenstown, on payment of a license fee of £4, in the form prescribed in the Fourth Schedule hereto, and subject to the said Act and regulations thereunder and this notification: Provided that not more than one such license shall be issued to the same person.
2. No licensee shall allow any dog to accompany either himself or any attendant he may have with him.
3. Nothing in any license to take or kill red-deer stags and hinds shall authorize the holder thereof to take or kill red-deer stags or hinds on lands actually and exclusively used by any registered acclimatization society for acclimatization purposes, or on any sanctuary or public domain, or on any land excepted from the operation of the notification declaring an open season for the district, or to enter upon any State forest for the purpose of taking or killing red-deer stags and hinds without the express permission of the Conservator of Forests, Invercargill, first had and obtained.
4. Any person committing a breach of any of these conditions is liable, on conviction, to a fine of £20.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

All that area known as Glacier Creek, Routeburn, Rockburn, and Dart Valleys.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

All that area known as the Aspiring, Upper Wanaka, Wilkins, and Matukituki Districts.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

All that area known as Rees Valley, Kinlock and Caples, Upper Wakatipu.

FOURTH SCHEDULE.

License to take or kill Imported Game (Deer).

, of , having this day paid the sum of £4, is hereby authorized to take or kill red-deer stags and hinds within that part of the Lakes District Acclimatization District known as the Glacier Creek, Routeburn, Rockburn, and Dart Valleys, Aspiring, Upper Wanaka, Wilkins, and Matukituki districts and Rees Valley, Kinlock and Caples, and Upper Wakatipu, from the 2nd day of March, 1931, to the 30th day of April, 1931 (both days inclusive), subject to the provisions of the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, and all regulations and notifications affecting red-deer stags and hinds made thereunder and in force within the said district.

This license does not authorize the holder thereof to take or kill red-deer stags or hinds on lands actually and exclusively used by any registered acclimatization society for acclimatization purposes, or on any sanctuary or public domain, or on any land exempted from the operation of the notification declaring an open season for the district, nor does it authorize the holder thereof to enter any State forest for the purpose of taking or killing red-deer stags and hinds, without the express written consent of the Conservator of Forests, Invercargill, first having been obtained.

Dated at this day of , 1931.

Secretary, Lakes District Acclimatization Society.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 19th day of February, 1931.

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

(I.A. 25/20/18)

Declaring Road-lines intersecting Land in Arthurton Settlement, Otago Land District, to be closed, and the Land comprised therein to be subject to the Land for Settlements Act, 1925.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS a report has been received from the Surveyor-General, from which it appears that the roads described in the Schedule hereto are unformed and unused, and that the said roads intersect land acquired under the Land for Settlements Act, 1925 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), and are not suitable to the subdivision of such land:

Now, therefore, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section one hundred and six of the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby close the roads hereinafter described; and I do hereby declare that the land comprised in the said roads shall thereupon become subject to the Land for Settlements Act, 1925.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the pieces of road to be closed:

A. R. P.

10 1 15 Passing through Sections 24, 25, 26, 27, and 68, Block VII, Waipahi Survey District, Clutha County.

5 3 35 Passing through Section 5, Block XVIII, and adjoining Sections 15 and 16, Block XVI, Waipahi Survey District, Clutha County.

5 3 4 Adjoining Sections 13 and 14, Block XVI, Waipahi Survey District, Clutha County.

20 2 35 Adjoining Sections 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17, Block XVI, Waipahi Survey District, Clutha County.

In the Otago Land District, as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 21/149/817, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, under No. 2464, and thereon coloured green.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 18th day of February, 1931.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 21/149/817.)