Mar. 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 587

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

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 23rd February, 1932.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, I hereby notify that the undermentioned land, being the land known as Puni Settlement, which was acquired under the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, became subject to the said Act as from 30th March, 1920.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—PUNI SETTLEMENT.

ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 1,218 acres 2 roods 21·6 perches, more or less, being Allotment 19A (formerly known as Allotment 19), pt. Allotment 78, and Allotments 107, 109, Parish of Puni, and being part of the land contained in Deed of Conveyance numbered 281412, and part of the land contained in Certificate of Title, Vol. 313, folio 300, Auckland Register: Bounded, commencing at the easternmost corner of Lot 2 on a plan deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Auckland and numbered 7923, being a subdivision of Purapura Block, towards the south-west generally by north-eastern boundaries of Lots 2, 3, and 1 on D.P. 7923 aforesaid, and by the north-eastern boundary of part of Purapura Block to a public road; and by the aforesaid public road to the south-western boundary of pt. Lot 1 of a subdivision of Allotment 78, Puni Parish; thence towards the north-east and north-west by the south-western and south-eastern boundaries of part Lot 1 of Allotment 78 aforesaid, and by the south-eastern boundary of Lot 2 of Allotment 78 aforesaid to and across a stream to and by the south-eastern side of a public road to the south-western corner of Lot 6 of a subdivision of Allotments 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, Puni Parish; thence towards the north-east by the south-western boundary of Lot 6 aforesaid to the southernmost corner of that lot; thence towards the north-west by the south-eastern boundary of Lot 6 aforesaid to the westernmost corner of Lot 7 of the aforesaid subdivision; again towards the north-east by the south-western boundary of Lot 7 aforesaid to a public road 50 links wide; thence towards the south-east, north-east, and north-west by the aforesaid public road to the junction of another public road; thence towards the east generally by the last-mentioned public road to the north-eastern corner of Lot 1 of Section XIV, Cameron Town; thence towards the south by the northern boundaries of Lots 1 and 5 of Section XIV, Cameron Town, the abutment of a public road, and by the northern boundaries of Lots 4, 3, 2, and 1 of Section XV, Cameron Town, to the north-western corner of the last-mentioned lot; thence towards the east by the western boundaries of Lot 1, Section XV, Cameron Town, the abutment of a public road, and the western boundaries of Lots 1 and 5 of Section XVI, Cameron Town, and by the abutment of another public road to its southern side; thence again towards the north by the southern side of the last-mentioned public road to the Mauku Stream; thence again towards the east by Mauku Stream aforesaid to its confluence with the Waikato River; thence towards the south generally by the right bank of the Waikato River to the easternmost corner of Lot 2 on D.P. 7923, the point of commencement.

Also all that area in the North Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 28 acres 2 roods 12 perches, more or less, being part Allotment 110, Puni Parish, and part Lot 12 of a subdivision of Allotment 78, Puni Parish, and being part of the land contained in Certificate of Title, Vol. 313, folio 300, and in Deed of Conveyance number 281412, Auckland Register, respectively: Bounded, commencing at the westernmost corner of Lot 2 on a plan deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Auckland, numbered 7540, towards the south by the northern boundary of the other part of Allotment 110 to a public road; thence towards the west and north-west generally by the aforesaid public road to the south-western boundary of Allotment 108, Puni Parish; thence towards the north-east by the south-western boundary of Allotment 108 to the southernmost corner of that allotment; thence again towards the north-east and towards the south-east by Lot 2 on D.P. 7540 aforesaid to the westernmost corner of the last-mentioned lot, the point of commencement.

Both the aforesaid areas are more particularly delineated on plan marked L. and S. 21/220, deposited under No. 2552 in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 21/220.)

Lands in Oreti Sands Township declared to be Public Reserves.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 19th March, 1932.

NOTICE is hereby given that the following resolution has been passed by the Invercargill City Council pursuant to section 5 of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, due notice of intention to pass such resolution having been given in terms of the said section, and no objections thereto having been received:—

“It is hereby resolved and declared, pursuant to section 5 of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, that Lot 15, Block I, and Lot 20, Block II, Oreti Sands Township, shall be reserves for public utility, and that the recreation reserves containing 1 acre 3 roods 3·6 poles and 1 acre 3 roods 19·45 poles respectively in Blocks I and II on the plan of the said Township shall be reserves for recreation.”

The lands to which the foregoing resolution relates are more particularly described as follows:—

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—ORETI SANDS TOWNSHIP.

Lot 15, Block I: Area, 1 acre 0 roods 32·3 perches, more or less. Public Utility Reserve.

Lot 33, Block I: Area, 1 acre 3 roods 3·6 perches, more or less. Recreation Reserve.

Lot 20, Block II: Area, 1 acre 1 rood 27·2 perches, more or less. Public Utility Reserve.

Lot 33, Block II: Area, 1 acre 3 roods 19·4 perches, more or less. Recreation Reserve.

As the same are delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 25/1026A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 25/1026.)

Waihi Swamp Drainage Area.—Penalty on Overdue Rates.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 16th March, 1932.

IN pursuance of section 76 of the Rating Act, 1925, and the Swamp Drainage Act, 1915, and its amendments, the ratepayers within the rating-areas constituted by the last mentioned Acts are hereby notified that 10 per cent. additional will be added to all rates for the year ending 31st March, 1932, unpaid on the 8th April, 1932.

Rates may be paid at any money-order office or to the Collector of Rates, Box 1659, Auckland.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 15/24/1.)

Bluff Harbour Board.—Cancellation of Unexercised Loan Authority.

In the matter of section 118 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926.

WHEREAS the Bluff Harbour Board has been duly authorized to borrow by way of special loan the sum of twelve thousand pounds for meeting part purchase-price of the new tug “Awarua,” and the consent of the Governor-General in Council to the raising of the said loan was given by Order in Council made on the 9th day of June, 1931, and published in the Gazette on the 18th day of the same month, at page 1769:

And whereas it has not been found necessary to borrow any of the amount so authorized, and the Minister of Finance has duly notified the Bluff Harbour Board in writing of his intention to cancel the loan authority in so far as it has not been exercised:

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers in that behalf conferred upon me by section 118 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, and of all other powers me in this behalf enabling, I, William Downie Stewart, Minister of Finance, do hereby cancel the authority of the Bluff Harbour Board to borrow, under the loan authority hereinbefore referred to, the sum of twelve thousand pounds, being the amount in respect of which the said loan authority has not been exercised:

Dated at Wellington, this 16th day of March, 1932.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART, Minister of Finance.

(T. 49/315/1.)