Numb. 53.
501

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1873.

The Manchester Block, Manawatu, set apart for
Immigration purposes.

(L.S.) JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Immigration and Public
Works Act Amendment Act, 1871," it is,
among other things, enacted that in any Province in
which there are not at any time, in the opinion of
the Governor, waste lands of the Crown set apart or
taken under the provisions of the now reciting or
any other Act for the purpose of furnishing means
for defraying the costs of railways, or other like
purposes connected with railways, sufficient in
quantity and suitable in quality and situation for
settling immigrants, the Governor, on the recom-
mendation of the Minister, may from time to time,
by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, reserve
and set apart any waste lands of the Crown within
such Province for the purposes of immigration, and
to be dealt with under the said Act: And whereas
by "The Wellington Debts Act Amendment Act,
1872," it is enacted that notwithstanding that the
waste lands of the Crown described in the Schedule
to the said Act are dealt with and affected by the
provisions of "The Wellington Debts Act, 1871,"
such waste lands may be reserved and set apart
under the sixty-first section of "The Immigration
and Public Works Act, 1871," and to be dealt with
under Regulations made under the said last men-
tioned Act: And whereas by the secondly herein-
before in part recited Act, after reciting that by
deed dated the twenty-sixth day of December, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, a contract
was entered into between the Governor in the name
of Her Majesty of the one part, and "The Emigrant
and Colonist's Aid Corporation (Limited)," of Lon-
don, in England, of the other part, for the sole
occupation of the lands described in the Schedule
thereto; and further reciting, that by the said
contract it is, among other things, provided that
the Governor shall make regulations for the sale,
occupation, and disposal of the said lands on certain

terms in the said contract mentioned; and that
doubts were entertained whether the Governor was
empowered to enter into such contracts or to make
such regulations: it is enacted that the Governor
shall be deemed, at the time of the making of such
contract, to have had full power and authority to
enter into the said contract and to carry out the
same, and to have had and to have power to make
regulations for carrying out the terms of such
contract, and generally such regulations and Procla-
mations as in the said contract mentioned or referred
to: And whereas in the Schedule to the last men-
tioned Act a block of land is described as follows:-
"Limits of a block of land situated in the Mana-
watu and the Manawatu-Rangitikei Blocks, in the
Province of Wellington, New Zealand, estimated to
contain about one hundred and six thousand acres,
bounded as follows:-Southerly by a line bearing
97° 43′ passing through the trigonometrical stations
called Mount Biggs and Mount Taylor, and produced
as far as the Native reserves situated on the banks
of the Rangitikei and Oroua Rivers by the northern
boundary of the said Native reserves on the bank
of the Oroua River by a line of railroad running
through the Township of Palmerston Block, Mana-
watu District, by the northern boundary of section
number four hundred and eleven, Township of
Palmerston Block, and by a line bearing about 135°
from the northern extremity of the Ti Wi Native
Reserve; Easterly by the Ti Wi Native Reserve, by
a line bearing about 200° from the Manawatu Gorge
to intersect the southern boundary line bearing about
135° from the northern extremity of the said Ti Wi
Native Reserve, and by a line drawn from the Mana-
watu Gorge passing along the lower slopes of the
Ruahine Ranges at an average distance of two miles
from the Pohangina River; Westerly by the Native
reserves along the bank of the Rangitikei River,
by the north-western boundary of the Rangitikei-
Manawatu Block, and by Native land forming the
boundary of the Township of Palmerston Block,
Manawatu District; Northerly by a line commencing
about two miles from the mouth of the Waitapu
Stream and on the north-west boundary line of the