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with such advice and consent, do constitute and of the twenty-fifth day of August, one thousand eight
appoint you the said hundred and sixty-nine, and in this Commission re-
OSWALD CURTIS, spectively mentioned.
NATHANIEL EDWARDS,
WILLIAM HUNTER REYNOLDS,
HENRY HOWORTH,
GEORGE MAURICE O'RORKE,
EDWARD CEPHAS JOHN STEVENS, and
JONAS WOODWARD,
to be Commissioners for the like purposes, and with
the like powers and duties, as are mentioned, ex-
pressed, and contained in the said recited Commission
of the twenty-fifth day of August, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-nine, but so, nevertheless, that
you do, within fourteen days after the date of this
Commission, or as much sooner as the same can be
done (using all diligence), certify to me, under your
hands and seals, or under the hands and seals of any
three of you, your several proceedings and your
opinion touching the matters in the said Commission

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of
Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor
and Commander-in-Chief in and over the
said Colony of New Zealand and its
Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the
same, at the Government House, at Wel-
lington; and issued under the Seal of the
said Colony, this twenty-fourth day of
August, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy.

W. GISBORNE.

Approved in Council, 24th August, 1870.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of August, 1870.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Waste Lands Act, 1858," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in
Council at any time, and from time to time, to except from sale, and either reserve to Her Majesty
or dispose of in such other manner as for the public interest may seem best, such of the Waste Lands of the
Crown, in any of the Provinces of the Colony, as may be required for the purposes of Military Defence, or
for the construction of Trunk Lines of Road, or as sites for Public Buildings for the use of the General
Government, or for other purposes of public utility or convenience :

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the Colony, in exercise and in pursuance of the power and authority in that behalf vested in
him, doth hereby except from sale and reserve to Her Majesty the several parcels of the Waste Lands of the
Crown particularly specified and described in the Schedule hereunder written, for the purposes in the said
Schedule mentioned, and set opposite the descriptions of the said parcels of land respectively.

SCHEDULE.

Description of Reserve.
Purpose of Reserve.

PROVINCE OF OTAGO.
Township of Palmerston.
All that parcel of land, being sections numbers three (3)
and four (4), Block XXVII.
} As a site for Telegraph Station.

PROVINCE OF AUCKLAND.
County of Hokianga.
All that parcel of land, containing by admeasurement
thirty-seven (37) acres, more or less, situated on the South
Head of Hokianga Harbour, and called or known by the
name of "Araitura;" being bounded towards the North by
the Hokianga River; towards the East by the Taiharu
Creek; towards the South by a line bearing 63° 5', one
thousand and seventy-one (1,071) links, and by the
Pungiriki Creek; and towards the West by the sea.
} For purposes of the General Government.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

TO JAMES MACANDREW, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the several parcels of Waste Lands of the Crown particularly specified
and described in the Schedule hereunder written are required for the purposes mentioned and set
opposite to the descriptions of the said parcels of land respectively in the said Schedule, and that the
same have been respectively excepted from sale and reserved to Her Majesty by the Order in Council
bearing the date mentioned in the second column of the said Schedule.