Mar. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 637

Section 8s: Area, 65 acres 3 roods 8 perches. Capital value, £1,360. Half-yearly rent, £34.
Section 9s: Area, 65 acres. Capital value, £1,650. Half-yearly rent, £41 5s.
Section 10s: Area, 109 acres 1 rood 29 perches. Capital value, £2,810. Half-yearly rent, £70 5s. Buildings: Capital value, £1,040. Half-yearly instalment, £31 4s.
Section 11s: Area, 82 acres 2 roods 5 perches. Capital value, £1,740. Half-yearly rent, £43 10s.
Section 12s: Area, 97 acres 1 rood 23 perches. Capital value, £1,900. Half-yearly rent, £47 10s.
Section 13s: Area, 492 acres 2 roods 21 perches. Capital value, £1,800. Half-yearly rent, £45.
Section 14s: Area, 237 acres 1 rood 24 perches. Capital value, £1,905. Half-yearly rent, £47 12s. 6d.

The Wairakau Settlement, formerly known as the McNicol Estate, is situated on the eastern bank of the Waihou River, a short distance south of the Town of Te Aroha. Access from Te Aroha, about three miles and a half distant, is by the Te Aroha–Shaftsbury Road, which is metalled for the whole distance. Sections 1s to 10s have frontages to this road, while Sections 11s to 14s front a level unformed side road, which will be formed and metalled at an early date. Railway-station, school, and all shopping facilities are at Te Aroha. A school bus runs to within one mile of the estate, and cream is collected.

The property ranges in quality from rich alluvial flats and drained swamp land to fair quality downs on shingle bank and terrace formation and to hilly to broken land. Sections 1 to 12 are suitable for dairying or fattening, and Sections 13 and 14 for part dairying and dry stock or sheep. The sections generally are well watered by streams, and streams converted into drains. Parts of Sections 1 to 4 are subject to partial flooding for short periods, but sufficient land above all known flood-levels is provided on each section to permit of erection of buildings and to provide grazing for stock during flood periods. The grassing on the areas subject to flooding is chiefly paspalum, which is not seriously affected by submergence.

The successful applicants will be given possession as from the 1st May, 1931.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 17th day of March, 1931.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 21/149/1152.)

Revoking a Warrant notifying Land in North Auckland Land District for disposal under Section 20 of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1912.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section three of the Land Act, 1924, and of every other power enabling me in that behalf, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby revoke the Warrant dated the fourteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, and published in Gazette, No. 20, of the sixteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, page 684, notifying Sections 25 and 26, Block V, Opoe Survey District, as set apart for disposal under section twenty of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1912.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 12th day of March, 1931.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 26/25089.)

Vesting the Control of Scenic Reserves in the Dunedin City Council.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby vest the control of the scenic reserves described in the Schedule hereto (being lands reserved under the said Act) in the Dunedin City Council, subject to the conditions hereinafter contained, that is to say:—

1. The period for which the control of the reserves is hereby vested shall be five years from the date hereof, unless the reservation is previously altered or revoked under the said Act.

2. The said Council shall prepare a report each year ending on the thirty-first day of March, together with a statement of receipts and expenditure in connection with the said reserves. Such report and statement shall be sent to the Minister charged with the administration of the said Act as soon as possible after the close of the year.

3. The said Council shall control the said reserves in accordance with the provisions of the said Act and of the regulations made thereunder.

SCHEDULE.

WAIPORI FALLS SCENIC RESERVES.

ALL that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 1,262 acres, more or less, being Sections Nos. 54 and 55, Block XV, Maungatua Survey District, and Section No. 7, Block X, Waipori Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west by Section No. 6, Block X, Waipori Survey District, a distance of 5264·2 links; towards the north by part of Section No. 7, Block VIII, Waipori Survey District, the crossing of a road-line, and by part of Section No. 11, Block XIII, Maungatua Survey District, a distance of 5805·5 links; towards the north-east generally by Section No. 53, Block XV, Maungatua Survey District, a distance of 10788·5 links, and by a public road, a distance of 18677·5 links; towards the south generally by a public road fronting the Waipori River, a distance of 34820 links; and towards the south-west by Crown lands, a distance of 5287 links: excepting three road-lines, each 100 links wide, which intersect the above-described area: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 437/20, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

Also all that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 1,540 acres, more or less, being the bush land situated in Run No. 51A, Waipori Survey District. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 437, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

Also all that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 366 acres, more or less, being Section 10, Block X, Waipori Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Section 8, 5705·3 links; towards the north-east by Section 6, 2479 links, Section 7 and river-bank reserve, 5638·4 links; towards the south and south-west generally by the Waipori River, 14200 links; again towards the south-west by Section 9 and river-bank reserve, 861·9 links; towards the west by the Waipori River, 3100 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 437A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 10th day of March, 1931.

E. A. RANSOM,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.
(L. and S. 437.)

Vesting the Control of a Scenic Reserve in the Rotoiti Scenic Board.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, doth hereby vest the control of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto (being land reserved under the said Act), for the period of five years from the date hereof (unless previously altered or revoked under the said Act), in the undermentioned persons, namely,—

William Alfred Andrews,
Thomas Andrew Hemming Field,
Frederick Giles Gibbs,
Henry Thomas Kidson,
Francis Innes Ledger,
Arthur Stratford, and
Ernest Harold Thomson,