1816
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 47

Polling-places for the Lyttelton Electoral District
appointed.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred
upon me by the Electoral Act, 1927, I, George Vere
Arundell, Viscount Galway, Governor-General of the
Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby abolish all existing
polling-places, and do hereby appoint the places men-
tioned in the Schedule hereto to be the polling-places in
the said Electoral District of Lyttelton.

SCHEDULE.

LYTTELTON ELECTORAL DISTRICT.

Akaros, the Courthouse.
Barry’s Bay, the Public School.
Cashmere Hills, Room in Middle Sanatorium.
Cashmere Hills, the Public School.
Chatham Islands, Waitangi, old Post-office Building.
Chatham Islands, Kaingaroa, the Schoolhouse.
Chatham Islands, Owenga, the School.
Colombo Street, at foot of Cashmere Hills, Cashmere
Stores, Ltd.
Diamond Harbour (Tea Kiosk).
Duvauchelle, the Council Chambers.
Governor’s Bay, the Public School.
Heathcote, the Public School.
Le Bon’s Bay, the Public School.
Little Akaloa, the Public School.
Lyttelton, the Colonists’ Hall.
Lyttelton, the St. John’s Presbyterian Hall.
Lyttelton West, the Anglican Schoolroom.
Mount Pleasant, Garage attached to the Mount
Pleasant Store, Sumner Road.
Okain’s Bay, the Public Hall.
Opawa, the Public School, Ford Road.
Opawa, garage, residence of A. W. McKay, 314 Hills
Road, St. Martins.
Pigeon Bay, the Public School.
Port Levy, the Public School.
Redcliffs, the Public School.
Sumner, the Town Hall.
Takamatua, the Public School.
Tedington, the Public School.
Waimu, the Public School.
Woolston, McDonald Hall, Aldwin’s Road.
Woolston, the Public School (principal).
Woolston, St. John’s Anglican Schoolroom.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 26th day of June, 1935.

E. A. RANSOM,
Acting Minister in Charge of Electoral Department.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Land in Wellington Land District for Selection on Optional
Tenure.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 25th June, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section
is open for selection on optional tenure under the
Land Act, 1924, and applications will be received at the
District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, up to 4 o’clock
p.m. on Monday, the 29th July, 1935.
Applicants should appear personally for examination at
the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, on
Wednesday, the 31st July, 1935, at 10.30 o’clock a.m., but
if any applicant is unable to attend he may be examined by
any other Land Board or by any Commissioner of Crown
Lands.
The ballot will be held immediately upon conclusion of the
examination of applicants.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Kaitieke County.—Manganui Survey District.

Section 28, Block XVI: Area, 394 acres. Capital value,
£100. Deposit on deferred payments, £5: Half-yearly
instalment on deferred payments, £3 1s. 9d. Renewable
lease: Half-yearly rent, £2.

Weighted with the sum of £397 (payable in cash) for
improvements, comprising four-roomed dwelling, cow byre
and shed, 124 chains of road boundary and subdivisional
fencing, 20 acres cleared and stumped, 20 acres surface sown,
and approximately 50,000 ft. of millable timber.

This property is situated one mile and a quarter from
Horopito Railway-station, Post-office, and School, and
ten miles from Raetihi Dairy Factory and Saleyards. There
are about 300 acres of level land, balance undulating, sub-
divided into three paddocks. Poor light volcanic soil on clay
and shingle. A very poor proposition, not suitable as a
separate holding. Altitude, 2,100 ft. to 2,400 ft. above
sea-level.

Application forms and any further information desired may
be obtained from—

H. W. C. MACKINTOSH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 22/3430.)

Lands in Nelson Land District for Selection on Renewable
Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Nelson, 26th June, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections
are open for selection on renewable lease under the
Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the
District Lands and Survey Office, Nelson, up to noon on
Wednesday, 10th July, 1935.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the
Lands and Survey Office, Nelson, on Thursday, 11th July,
1935, at 10.30 a.m., but if any applicant is unable to attend
he may be examined by any other Land Board or by any
Commissioner of Crown Lands. The ballot will be held
immediately upon conclusion of the examination of applicants.

NOTE.—These lands are offered in terms of section 153 of
the Land Act, 1924, which provides that no right to any
mineral under the surface shall pertain to the lessees whose
rights shall be to the surface soil only.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Buller County.—Kawatiri Survey District.—Karamoa Mining
District.

(Westport Harbour Endowment.)

PART Section 14, Block II, and Section 2, Block VI: Area,
9 acres 1 rood 16 perches. Capital value, £30; half-yearly
rent, 12s.

Weighted with the sum of £450 for improvements, com-
prising dwelling of five rooms, bathroom, and pantry, 30 chains
of fencing—property subdivided into two paddocks—and
8 acres felled, stumped, and grassed. This sum is payable
in cash or by a deposit of £50, and the balance secured on
mortgage to this Department—instalments £24 per annum
to discharged soldiers and £26 per annum to others.

These sections are situated on the Waimangaroa Road,
within half a mile of the school, post-office, and railway-
station, and ten miles from the Buller Dairy Factory. Access
by formed road. Mostly flat land running to hillside at the
back. Water supplied by pipes from small creek. Soil fair,
resting on gravel formation. A few blackberries are in
evidence. The property is suitable for a homestead-site and
for gardening.

Buller County.—Mokihinui Survey District.—Karamoa Mining
District.

(Westport Harbour Endowment.)

Section 55, Block XI: Area, 5 acres 2 roods 33 perches.
Capital value, £6: half-yearly rent, 2s. 6d.

Section is situated on Westport-Seddonville Road, near
the Mokihinui Railway-station and St. Helens Post-office,
and one mile from Summerlea School. The land is undulating
and hillside, the back and western end running on to a bluff.
Part of the area has been grassed but is now in fern and black-
berry. Soil is poor to fair resting on sandstone formation;
poorly watered. General quality of section is poor.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Murchison County.—Tutaki Survey District.—Westland Mining
District.

(Exempt from payment of rent for four years.*)

(National Endowment.)

Section 19, Block VI: Area, 858 acres. Capital value,
£215: half-yearly rent, £4 6s.

• Exemption is subject to improvements being effected by the
  selector to the value of twice the amount of rent exempted.

Weighted with £63 (payable in cash) for improvements,
comprising hay-shed and 160 chains of poor fencing.

Section is situated in the Blackwater Valley, and comprises
small flats along Blackwater Stream, balance steep, rough
hillside. Access is from Murchison, which is about ten miles
distant by seven miles of good motor road and three miles of
unmetalled dray-road. There are about 230 acres old clearing