Nov. 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3111

Opening Lands in Auckland Land District for Sale or Selection.

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BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

I N 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, do hereby declare and provide as follows, this is to say :—

1. The rural lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto are hereby set apart for disposal by way of sale or selection on Friday, the eleventh day of December, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, at the prices specified in the said Schedule, and for the purposes of section one hundred and thirty-three of the Land Act, 1924, the said lands shall be deemed to be “swamp lands.”

2. The said lands may be purchased for cash, or on deferred payments, or be selected on renewable lease.

3. After the first half-year’s rent (or the deposit on deferred payments, as the case may be) has been paid by the selectors the further instalments of rent (or such parts of the instalments on deferred payments as consist of interest) payable by them for the periods specified in the Schedule hereto, shall not be demanded: Provided that if at any time during the first five years of his occupancy any selector disposes of his interest in the land the rent or interest so conceded shall be paid by him in full, and thereupon the Land Board may remit such instalments of rent or interest payable by the incoming tenant, not exceeding in the aggregate the amount previously conceded to the selector, as the Board shall think fit.

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SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Hauraki Plains County.—Waihou Survey District.

(HAURAKI PLAINS ACCOUNT.)

(Exempt from rent for one year.)

SECTION 8, Block VII: Area, 88 acres 0 roods 25 perches. Capital value, £1,250. Deposits on deferred payment, £60; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £38 13s. 6d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £25.

Section 45, Block XI: 54 acres 1 rood 12 perches. Capital value, £825. Deposit on deferred payments, £40; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £25 10s. 3d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £16 10s.

Section 46, Block XI: Area, 54 acres 1 rood 12 perches. Capital value, £750. Deposit on deferred payments, £35; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £23 4s. 9d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £15.

Section 47, Block XI: Area, 54 acres 1 rood 31 perches. Capital value, £750. Deposit on deferred payments, £35; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £23 4s. 9d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £15.

(Exempt from rent for two years.)

Section 10, Block VII: Area, 86 acres. Capital value, £1,200. Deposit on deferred payments, £60; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £37 1s. Renewable lease: half-yearly rent, £24.

(Exempt from rent for three years.)

Section 9, Block VII: Area, 85 acres 2 roods 33 perches. Capital value, £750. Deposit on deferred payments, £35; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £23 4s. 9d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £15.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 30th day of October, 1931.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 9/2703.)

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Opening Lands in the North Auckland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

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BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

I N pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by the Land Act, 1924, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Monday, the fourteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, at the rentals mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Whangaroa County.—Kerikeri Survey District.

NATIONAL-ENDOWMENT LAND.

SECTIONS 1 and 2, Block I: Area, 554 acres 0 roods 5 perches. Capital value, £550. Half-yearly rent, £11. Weighted with £50 for improvements.

Sections 8 and 10, Block IV: Area, 1,547 acres 3 roods 3 perches. Capital value, £1,160. Half-yearly rent, £23 4s. Weighted with £60 for improvements.

Otamatea County.—Kaiwaka Parish.

NATIONAL-ENDOWMENT AND CROWN LAND.

Sections S.E. 93, N.W. 94A, and 195: Area, 131 acres 1 rood 33 perches. Capital value, £120. Half-yearly rent, £2 8s.

Crown land: 125 acres 3 roods 30 perches. Capital value, £64.

National endowment: 55 acres 2 roods 3 perches. Capital value, £56.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 30th day of October, 1931.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 9/2702.)

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Member of Island Council of Pukapuka, Cook Islands, appointed.

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BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

P URSUANT to the authority vested in me by section sixty-five of the Cook Islands Act, 1915, and by an Order in Council of the twentieth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, establishing an Island Council for the Island of Pukapuka in the Cook Islands, and determining the constitution thereof, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby nominate and appoint

Winangaro, of the Village of Ngake,

to be a member of the said Island Council of Pukapuka, in lieu of Toka, to hold office during my pleasure as from the date hereof.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 30th day of October, 1931.

A. T. NGATA,

Minister for the Cook Islands.

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Vice-Consul of China at Western Samoa recognized.

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Department of External Affairs,

Wellington, 23rd October, 1931.

H IS Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be notified that, in accordance with advice received from His Majesty’s Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, he has recognized the appointment of

Mr. Cheng-Fu Pan

as Vice-Consul of China in Western Samoa, pending the issue of the King’s Exequatur in his favour.

GEO. W. FORBES,

Minister of External Affairs.

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Appointments, Promotions, Transfers, Resignations, and Retirements of Officers of the N.Z. Military Forces.

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Department of Defence,

Wellington, 2nd November, 1931.

H IS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the appointments, promotions, transfers, resignations, and retirements of the undermentioned officers of the N.Z. Military Forces:—

COMMAND.

The period of command of Lieutenant-Colonel A. S. Wilder, D.S.O., M.C., v.d., The Manawatu Mounted Rifles, is extended for one year from 21st August, 1931.

THE MANAWATU MOUNTED RIFLES.

Captain N. P. Manning, Regimental Supernumerary List, is transferred to the Reserve of Officers, Class I (b), R.D. 10. Dated 15th October, 1931.