Fumb. 102.
1205

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1877.

Lands declared to be Waste Lands of the Crown.

NORMANBY, Governor.
(L.S.) A PROCLAMATION.

W HEREAS by the seventeenth section of "The
Waste Lands Administration Act, 1876," it
is enacted that whenever the Governor is satisfied
that any lands purchased out of the sums authorized
under "The Immigration and Public Works Act,
1870," and any Act amending the same, to be issued
and expended in the purchase of lands in the North
Island of New Zealand, are free from Native claims
and all difficulties in connection therewith, he shall
by Proclamation declare such lands to be waste
lands of the Crown, subject, except as thereafter in
the said Act provided, to be sold and dealt with
according to the provisions of the laws regulating
the sale and disposal of waste lands of the Crown
for the time being in force in the land district in
which such land is situated; and thereupon such
land so proclaimed shall become subject to such
provisions:

And whereas the land described in the Schedule
hereto has been purchased out of the sums authorized
under "The Immigration and Public Works Act,
1870," and Acts amending the same, and it is ex-
pedient that the said land should be declared to be
waste lands of the Crown:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, being satisfied that the lands de-
scribed in the Schedule hereto are free from Native
claims and all difficulties in connection therewith, in
pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
vested in me by "The Waste Lands Administration
Act, 1876," do hereby proclaim and declare the said
lands to be waste lands of the Crown, subject to be
sold and dealt with according to the provisions of
the laws regulating the sale and disposal of waste
lands of the Crown in force in the Land Districts of
Hawke's Bay and Wellington respectively.

SCHEDULE.

PUKETOI No. 1.

ALL that parcel of land situate partly in the Pro-
vincial District of Hawke's Bay and partly in the
Provincial District of Wellington, containing thirty-
seven thousand (37,000) acres or thereabouts—
namely, three thousand eight hundred and forty-one
(3,841) acres in the Provincial District of Hawke's
Bay, and thirty-three thousand one hundred and
fifty-nine (33,159) acres in the Provincial District of
Wellington. Bounded towards the North-west by the
Manawatu River from the confluence of the Tirau-
mea River to the Takiao Stream; towards the North-
east by the Takiao Stream aforesaid; towards the
East and South-east by a right line from the source
of the said stream to the source of the Waitakotorua
Stream, thence by the said stream to its confluence
with the Tiraumea River; towards the West by the
Tiraumea River aforesaid to the Manawatu River,
the starting point.

PUKETOI No. 2.

All that parcel of land situate in the Provincial
District of Wellington, being called or known by the
name of Puketoi No. 2, containing by admeasurement
twenty-eight thousand five hundred (28,500) acres or
thereabouts. Bounded towards the North by part of
the boundary line between the Provincial Districts
of Hawke's Bay and Wellington; towards the East
by the Mangatoro River to its source, thence by a
right line to the source of the Makuri River;
towards the South by that river; towards the West by
the Tiraumea River; and towards the North-west by
the Puketoi No. 1 Block, to the boundary of the
provincial districts aforesaid.

PUKETOI No. 3.

All that parcel of land situate in the Provincial
District of Hawke's Bay, being called or known by
the name of Puketoi No. 3, containing by admeasure-
ment twenty-five thousand one hundred and seventy-
four (25,174) acres, more or less. Bounded toward
the North by a line bearing north sixty-seven degrees
thirty minutes (67° 30') east magnetic, from the
junction of the Totara Stream with the Manawatu
River to the Otawhao River, thirteen thousand seven
hundred and twenty (13720) links; towards the East
by the Otawhao River aforesaid; again towards the
North by the Otawhao Block, bearing north forty-
three degrees forty-seven minutes (43° 47') east
magnetic, fourteen thousand three hundred and sixty-
four (14364) links, north forty-eight degrees (48°)
east magnetic, four thousand one hundred and fifty
(4150) links, to the Otope River; towards the West
by the said river to the Kaitoki Block; again