Mar. 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 477

above sea-level. In present state section could carry 30 sheep, and when improved would be suitable for dairying.

Bay of Islands County.—Kaeo Survey District.

NATIVE LAND SETTLEMENT ACCOUNT.

(Exempt from the payment of rent for five years.)

Sections 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, Block V, and Section 1, Block IX: Area, 674 acres 0 roods 2 perches. Capital value, £350. Half-yearly rent, £8 15s.

Situated on Omaunu Stream. Access is from Whangaroa Wharf, which is about ten miles distant. About 15 acres river-flat; balance undulating to hilly worked-out kauri bush in manuka and fern, with scattered patches of green bush. Soil is fair clay to poor gum land resting on sandstone. Well watered by several permanent streams. Elevation 400 ft. to 600 ft. above sea-level.

NOTE.—No advances will be made for the development of these sections under the provisions of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1929.

Bay of Islands County.—Russell Survey District.

NATIONAL-ENDOWMENT LAND.

Section 8, Block XIV: Area, 500 acres. Capital value, £375. Half-yearly rent, £7 10s.

Section 9, Block XIV: Area, 507 acres. Capital value, £380. Half-yearly rent, £7 12s.

Sections situated on the Tapuhi-Gore Road. Access is from Hukerenui Railway-station, about ten miles distant by formed road—six miles metalled, balance clay. Section suitable for grazing. Well watered by streams. Elevation 400 ft. to 900 ft. above sea-level.

Section 8: Undulating to steep and broken. About 200 acres bush in gullies from which all millable timber has been removed; ample fencing timber left. Balance manuka and scrub, carrying some danthonia. Soil very fair rubbly clay.

Section 9: Undulating to steep and broken. About one-third bush from which all millable timber has been removed; ample fencing timber left. Balance manuka, fern, and hakea, with some rough danthonia feed. Soil fair clay of rubbly nature.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 27th day of February, 1931.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 9/2574.)

Opening Lands in the North Auckland Land District for Sale or Selection.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1924, and the amendments thereof, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, having received the report of the Under-Secretary in this behalf, as provided by section one hundred and seventy-six of the said Act, do hereby declare that the lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on Monday, the twentieth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, and also that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash or on deferred payments, or be selected on renewable lease; and I do hereby also fix the price at which the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do hereby declare that the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1924, and the amendments thereof.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Waitemata County.—Paremoremo Parish.

SECTION 179: Area, 34 acres 1 rood 24 perches. Capital value, £240. Deposit on deferred payments, £15; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £7 6s. 3d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £4 16s.

Situated just off one of the Albany - Brown’s Bay Roads. Metalled to one corner of the section. Access is from Albany, which is one mile and a quarter distant.

Front portion of section is undulating, good quality gum land, fairly easy worked. Back and southern portion facing the creek is steep, but most of it is ploughable. Soil is fair quality clay on sandstone. All in fern and scrub. Well watered by Lucas Creek. Daily bus service to Birkenhead.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Waitemata County.—Pukeatua Parish.

Section E 217: Area, 20 acres 1 rood 33 perches. Capital value, £65. Deposit on deferred payments, £5; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £1 19s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £1 6s.

Situated on the Albany Dairy Flat Road, about six miles from Albany. Level land in front and gradually sloping to the back, where it is hilly but not steep. Covered with small tea-tree and scrub. Soil is clay resting on clay formation. Watered by rainfall only. There are no improvements on the section.

Mangonui County.—Takahue Survey District.

Sections 15, 16, and 21, Block XI: Area, 278 acres 1 rood 24 perches. Capital value, £105. Deposit on deferred payments, £5; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £3 5s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £2 2s.

Weighted with £50, for improvements consisting of 170 chains of fencing, in poor condition generally. This amount may be paid in cash or secured by a mortgage to the Superintendent, State Advances Department.

Section is situated at the Takahue end of the Friars-Takahue Road, about twelve miles from Kaitaia Post-office and about six miles from the school. Easy undulating country, covered with fern and tea-tree scrub, with a little rough feed running through it. About 40 acres poor flat. Soil is poor clay on sandstone formation; fairly well watered by running stream and swamps. No bush.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 27th day of February, 1931.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 9/2574.)

Cancelling the Reservation over Primary-education Endowment Reserves in the North Auckland Land District, and reserving Crown Land in lieu thereof.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and sixty-three of the Land Act, 1924, it is enacted that the Governor-General may, by Warrant under his hand, whenever he deems it expedient in the public interest so to do, cancel the reservation over any education reserve or endowment vested in the Crown pursuant to the Education Reserves Amendment Act, 1910, or over any part thereof, and to reserve in lieu thereof either an area of equal value of national-endowment land over which the reservation has likewise been cancelled pursuant to that section or an area of equal value of ordinary Crown land:

And whereas the Governor-General deems it expedient in the public interest to cancel the reservation over the primary-education reserves described in the First Schedule hereto, and to reserve in lieu thereof the area of Crown land of equal value described in the Second Schedule hereto:

Now, therefore, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section one hundred and sixty-three of the Land Act, 1924, do hereby cancel the reservation over the primary-education reserves described in the First Schedule hereto, and do hereby reserve in lieu thereof the Crown land of equal value described in the Second Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF PRIMARY-EDUCATION RESERVES OVER WHICH RESERVATION CANCELLED.

ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District, Franklin County, Block VI, Opaheke Survey District, containing by admeasurement 100 acres 0 roods 4 perches, more or less, being Allotment 205, Parish of Opaheke, and being the said allotment permanently set aside for educational purposes and apportioned for primary education by notice published in New Zealand Gazette, 1884, page 641, No. 46. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 6/4/52c, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red. (North Auckland plans 189, 4157, and 16505.)

Also all that area in the North Auckland Land District, Bay of Islands County, containing by admeasurement 65 acres 2 roods, more or less, being Sections 16, 22, and part 23, Block VI, Hukerenui Survey District, and being the said sections permanently set aside for educational purposes, and apportioned for primary education by notice published in New Zealand Gazette, 1928, No. 62, page 2429. Bounded as follows: Commencing at a point being the north-western corner of Section 32, Block VI, Hukerenui Survey District;