THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 79

SCHEDULE.

FIRST COLUMN.
Description of Land.
Purpose for which Reserve is made.
SECOND COLUMN.
Date of Order in Council excepting
Land from Sale.

PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.
Ashburton District.
Three (3) acres, more or less, situate in the Ashburton
District, being part of the Town Reserve No. 174 (in red)
on the south bank of the River Rakaia, bounded on the
Northward by the high bank of the aforesaid river; on the
South-eastward by the road forming the south-eastern
boundary of Section No. 6,127; on the Westward by the
South Road; and on the Southward by a line at right angles
to the latter road, so as to contain the above quantity.

For Telegraph Offices and
other General Govern-
ment purposes.
} 1st February,
1871.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this
first day of February, 1871.
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Otago Settlements Act,
1869," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for
the Governor to make in any Settlement in the
Province of Otago constituted under the said Act,
such Reserves as he may think necessary for pur-
poses connected with the public service of the
Colony:

And whereas a Settlement has been constituted in
Martin's Bay, in the said Province:

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.
PROVINCE OF OTAGO.
Town of Jamestown (Martin's
Bay).
Sections Nos. five (5) and seven
(7), Block five (V.)
the seven years ending on the thirtieth day of June,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, there
shall be paid out of the Consolidated Revenue
of the Colony the sum of fifty thousand pounds,
which shall be divided among and paid to the several
Provinces and the County of Westland in proportion
to their respective populations, and that all sums so
paid shall be paid into the Bank at which the Pro-
vincial Account or the County of Westland Account,
as the case may be, is for the time being kept, and shall
there be placed to the credit of a special account to be
called "The Road District Funds Account" of the
Province or County: And whereas by the said Act it
is further enacted that the said moneys shall be avail-
able only for division among the Road Boards of the
Province or County in accordance with a scheme to
be proposed for each year by the Superintendent or
Deputy Superintendent of the Province, or the Chair-
man of the County Council of the County, for his Pro-
vince or County, and approved by the Governor in
Council for the first year, and by Resolution of both
Houses of the General Assembly for the remaining
years:

And whereas there is available for division amongst
the Road Boards of the Province of Auckland, for
the year ending the thirtieth day of June, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, the sum of
twelve thousand four hundred pounds: And whereas
the Superintendent of the Province of Auckland has
proposed a scheme for the division of the said sum:

Now therefore, His Excellency Sir George Fergu-
son Bowen, Governor of New Zealand, in exercise
and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested
in him by the said Act, doth hereby, by and with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
Colony, approve of the said scheme of the Superin-
tendent of the Province of Auckland.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Purpose of Reserve.
As sites for Public Build-
ings, or other purposes of
the General Government
of New Zealand.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this
first day of February, 1871.
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Payments to Provinces Act,
1870," it is enacted that in each year during

N exercise of the power in me for this purpose
vested by "The Customs Regulation Act, 1858,"
I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint that, on
and from the day of the date hereof, the limits of the
Port of New Plymouth shall be within a line drawn
from the Main Sugar Loaf to the Outer Sugar Loaf,
or islet of Mahanga; thence north-east (magnetic)
for twelve nautic miles, until it meets a line drawn
by West from Point Tunewha; and shall also