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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 35

Notifying Land in the Gisborne Land District subject to the Land for Settlements Act, 1925.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 10th April, 1931.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, I hereby notify that the undermentioned land, being the land known as Ruangarehu Settlement, which has been acquired under the said Act, is subject to the said Act as from 24th February, 1931.

SCHEDULE.

GISBORNE LAND DISTRICT.—RUANGAREHU SETTLEMENT.

ALL that area in the Gisborne Land District, containing by admeasurement 142 acres 0 roods 20 perches, more or less, being Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 on D.P. 2329, Ruangarehu G Block, Waimata Survey District: Bounded towards the north by the Waipaoa River; towards the east by the Waipaoa River; towards the south by Ruangarehu Block H; thence again towards the west by the Waipaoa River. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 21/149/445, deposited under No. 2481, in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

THOMAS K. SIDEY, for Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 21/149/445.)

Officiating Ministers for 1931.—Notice No. 17.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 5th May, 1931.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908, the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

The Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.

The Reverend Douglas Vivian Whitlock.

The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.

The Reverend Duncan MacKellar Hercus.
The Reverend Andrew McFarlane.

The Methodist Church of New Zealand.

Mr. Clarence Thomas James Luxton.
Mr. Hoani Hakaraia Te Uawiri.

Baptists.

The Reverend Leo Crawford Manning Donaldson.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Officiating Ministers for 1931.—Notice No. 18.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 5th May, 1931.

IT is hereby notified that the name of the following Officiating Minister has been removed from the List of Officiating Ministers under the Marriage Act, 1908, by request:—

The Methodist Church of New Zealand.

Mr. Tom Bailey.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block X, Rangaunu Survey District, for the Purposes of a Road.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1928, to execute a certain public work—to wit, the construction of a road—and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken: And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Awanui, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land required to be taken: 2 acres 0 roods 7 perches.

Being portion of part Maimaru Block.

Situated in Block X, Rangaunu Survey District (Auckland R.D.). (S.O. 26353.)

In the North Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 81708, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 6th day of May, 1931.

A. J. MURDOCH,
For Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 48/188.)

Population of the Dominion.

RETURN of the Estimated Population of the Dominion of New Zealand, Dependencies, and Mandated Territory.

New Zealand proper, 31st March, 1931:—

(a) Estimated population (excluding Maoris) | 735,965 | 706,781 | 1,442,746 |
(b) Estimated Maori population | 35,526 | 32,668 | 68,194 |

North Island,—

(a) Estimated population (including Maoris) | 501,514 | 471,748 | 973,262 |
(b) ,, (excluding Maoris) | 467,543 | 440,496 | 908,039 |

South Island,--

(a) Estimated population (including Maoris) | 269,977 | 267,701 | 537,678 |
(b) ,, (excluding Maoris) | 268,422 | 266,285 | 534,707 |

During the quarter ended 31st March, 1931, the population showed an increase of 4,853 compared with an increase of 3,031 during the corresponding quarter of 1930.

Census and Statistics Office,
Wellington. 4th May, 1931.

MALCOLM FRASER,
Government Statistician