SEPT. 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2789

Public Service Superannuation Act, 1927.-Election of Member of Teachers' Superannuation Board.

Education Department,
Wellington, 7th September, 1931.
NOTICE is hereby given that an election will be held for the purpose of electing as members of the Teachers' Superannuation Board two persons from among the contributors to the Teachers' Superannuation Fund residing in the South Island, to fill two extraordinary vacancies caused by the resignation of Herbert Charles Jones and John Ernest Purchase. And notice is further given that-
(1) The said election will be held on Friday, the 30th day of October, 1931, at the offices of the Education Department, Wellington.
(2) The poll will be closed at 5 o'clock p.m.
(3) Nominations will close on Friday, the 2nd day of October, 1931, at 5 o'clock p.m.
Dated at Wellington this 7th day of September, 1931.
C. E. CRAWFORD,
Secretary to the Teachers' Superannuation Board,
Returning Officer.

New Zealand Fruit-export Control Board.-Declaration of Election of Producers' Representative for the Hawke's Bay-Wellington Provincial Districts.

ROBERT WILLIAMSON ATKINSON, Returning Officer for the purposes of the Fruit Control Act, 1924, and the regulations made thereunder, hereby declare Alexander Morris Robertson, who was the only person nominated on the 17th day of August, 1931, for the above provincial districts, to be duly elected the producers' representative on the Board.
Dated at Wellington, this 7th day of September, 1931.
R. W. ATKINSON, Returning Officer.

New Zealand Fruit-export Control Board.-Declaration of Result of Election of Producers' Representative for the Canterbury-Nelson-Marlborough Provincial Districts.

I, ROBERT WILLIAMSON ATKINSON, Returning Officer for the purposes of the Fruit Control Act, 1924, and the regulations made thereunder, hereby declare the result of the poll taken on Saturday, the 5th day of September, 1931, for the election of a producers' representative on the New Zealand Fruit-export Control Board for the Provincial Districts of Canterbury, Nelson, and Marlborough to be as follows:-
Candidates. Votes polled.
Brash, Thomas Cuddie .. .. .. .. 161
Stephens, Herbert Edward.. .. .. .. 101
I therefore declare the said Thomas Cuddie Brash to be elected.
Dated at Wellington, this 7th day of September, 1931.
R. W. ATKINSON, Returning Officer.

The Rural Intermediate Credit Act, 1927.

APPOINTMENT OF MEMBER OF DISTRICT RURAL INTERMEDIATE CREDIT BOARD.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Rural Intermediate Credit Board, acting in pursuance and exercise of the authority conferred upon it by section 14 of the Rural Intermediate Credit Act, 1927, and all other powers and authorities it in that behalf enabling, has appointed Bernard Charles Alton McCabe, Commissioner of Crown Lands, Invercargill, to be a member of the Southland District Rural Intermediate Credit Board in succession to John Macdonald, late Commissioner of Crown Lands, Invercargill, who has retired.
Dated at Wellington, this 7th day of September, 1931.
J. W. MACDONALD,
Commissioner of Rural Intermediate Credit.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Lands in Taranaki Land District forfeited.

NOTICE is hereby given that the leases of the undermentioned lands having been declared forfeited by resolution of the Taranaki Land Board, the said lands have thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924, and the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915.
SCHEDULE.
Tenure: S.T.L. Lease No. 12. Section 8, Block I, Rangi Survey District. Lessee: Ronald Clifford Black. Reason for forfeiture: At request.
Tenure: S.T.L.S. Lease No. 51. Section 2s, Taitama Settlement. Lessee: Owen Davies James. Reason for forfeiture: Non-compliance with conditions.
Tenure: S.T.L.S. Lease No. 106. Section 3s, Taitama Settlement. Lessee: Owen Davies James. Reason for forfeiture: Non-compliance with conditions.
E. A. RANDSOM, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 22/950/3.)

Land in Auckland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, up to 4 o'clock p.m. on Monday, 28th September, 1931.
Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Tuesday, the 29th September, 1931, at 10 o'clock a.m., but if any applicant so desires he may be examined by the Land Board of any other district.
The ballot will be held immediately upon conclusion of examination of applicants.
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SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.-SECOND-CLASS LAND.
Raglan County.--Awaroa Survey District.
(Exempt from the payment of rent for three years.)
SECTION 9, Block VI: Area, 286 acres 2 roods. Capital value, £150. Half-yearly rent, £3.
After payment of rent for broken period and first half-year's rent, no further rent will be charged for a period of three years provided substantial improvements of an equivalent value are effected annually.
Weighted with £494, for improvements consisting of a dwelling of five rooms and outhouse, shed, cattle-yards, approximately 110 chains fencing, half-share 110 chains boundary-fencing, 30 chains subdivisional fencing, approximately 210 acres felled and surface sown in danthonia pasture.
This sum is payable in cash or by a cash deposit of £4, the balance to remain on instalment mortgage to the State Advances Superintendent, payable over a period of thirty years at 6 per cent. interest; half - yearly instalment, £17 14s. 1d.
Free from payment of interest for one year.
Grazing property situated on the Kaawa-Glen Murray Road, about nine miles from Opuatia Post-office; one mile and a half from Kaawa School; twenty-nine miles from Tuakau Railway-station and dairy-factory by a metalled road for twenty-three miles; balance clay road. Twenty-two miles from Rangiriri Saleyards.
Hilly and broken section, of which approximately 212 acres is in worn-out danthonia pasture; the balance is in natural state in standing bush.
The soil is a poor clay resting on hematite clay formation. Poorly watered by springs, which are apt to dry up in summer.
This section is not suitable as a separate holding, but would work in well as a grazing-run for a settler holding land in the locality.
Further particulars on application to--
K. M. GRAHAM,
Commissioner of Crown Lands, Auckland.
(L. and S. 22/1098/468.)