Lower Rangitikei School, No. 2.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 21st August, 1871.

NOTICE has been received at this office that, at a meeting of the ratepayers of the above named school district, held on the 15th instant,

Mr. C. H. Tomlinson
was appointed Collector of Rates for the said district.

Henry Bunny,
Provincial Secretary.

Rangitikei School District, No. 3.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 12th August, 1871.

NOTICE has been received at this office that, at a general meeting of the ratepayers of the above district,

Mr. S. S. Griffiths
was elected Collector of Rates.

Henry Bunny,
Provincial Secretary.

Morea Road District.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 9th August, 1871.

NOTICE has been received at this office that, at a meeting held at the School House at Morea, on the 19th May, 1871, of the rate-payers of the above named district,

Mr. Robert Lucas
was appointed Collector of Rates.

Henry Bunny,
Provincial Secretary.

Kaiwarra-Warra Road District.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 9th August, 1871.

NOTICE has been received at this office that, at a meeting of the rate-payers of the above named road district, held on the 17th July, 1871, the following persons were elected a Board of Wardens:

• Mr. William Lowes
• James Nairn
• Robert Bould
• Christopher Aplin
• George Hobbs
• Wm. Pharazyn, Chairman.

Henry Bunny,
Provincial Secretary.

Featherston Road District.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, August 9, 1871.

NOTICE has been received at this office that at a meeting of the Board of Wardens of the above district,
Stephen Carkeek, Esq., was elected Chairman of the Board in the place of Henry Bunny, Esq., resigned; also, that they elected
Mr. Jas. George Cox to be Treasurer.

Henry Bunny,
Provincial Secretary.

Immigration.

[From New Zealand Gazette, August 5, 1871]

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1870," it is among other things enacted that the Governor may, at the request of the Superintendent of any Province, from time to time make regulations (as therein mentioned) for the conduct of immigration under the said Act into such Province, and for the nomination of Immigrants by persons resident therein, and for the distribution of funds provided by the said Act for Immigration purposes, and for the introduction into and settlement in such Province of Immigrants, and for selling as special settlements for any such Immigrants any lands which he may acquire from any Province under the provisions therein contained, or any lands acquired under "The New Zealand Settlements Act, 1863," or the Acts amending the same, and for laying out and allotting any lands so acquired amongst any such Immigrants: And whereas William Fitzherbert, Esq., the Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, hath requested me, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand to make regulations under the provisions of the said Act as and in manner hereinafter set forth:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, by virtue, and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the forty-first section of "The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1870," and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in that behalf, and in compliance with the request of the said Superintendent, do hereby make the following Regulations, that is to say:—

REGULATIONS FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS INTO THE PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.

Any person residing in Europe desirous of obtaining an assisted passage to the Province of Wellington in vessels under contract to proceed to that Province, may receive assistance as follows:

1. The Government will grant passages on payment to the Agent-General in London, before embarkation, of the sum of five pounds for each adult of twelve years old and upwards; but where the intending immigrant is unable to pay the five pounds above mentioned, the Agent-General will have power to commute the cash payment into the giving a promissory note for seven pounds per adult; preference will, however, always be given to those who can pay the largest portion in cash. The promissory notes will be made payable on demand in the form printed below; but unless the immigrant dispute the debt or shall attempt to leave the Province, payment will only be required by such instalments as may be