Numb. 59.

699

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1877.

Lands declared to be Waste Lands of the Crown.

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

WHEREAS 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 provi-
sions:

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 District of
Auckland.

SCHEDULE.
WAIHIRERE No. 1.

ALL that piece of land situate at Waihirere, in the
Poverty Bay District, in the Provincial District of
Auckland, known by the name of Waihirere No. 1,
containing by admeasurement twenty-eight (28)
acres two (2) roods and thirty-one (31) perches, or
thereabouts. Bounded towards the North-east by a
line one thousand nine hundred and sixty-five (1965)
links; towards the South by the Pohatuhatununui
Stream, a line one thousand one hundred and five
(1105) links, and by a stream; towards the West by
lines two hundred and five (205) links and three
hundred and fifty-two (352) links; and towards the
North-west by a line seven hundred and fifty-two
(752) links, and by the Waihirere Stream.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Most Honorable George Augustus Con-
stantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of
Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and Baron
Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the County
of York, in the Peerage of the United
Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave of New
Ross, in the County of Wexford, in the
Peerage of Ireland; a Member of Her
Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Coun-
cil; Knight Commander of the Most
Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George; Governor and Commander-
in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony
of New Zealand and its Dependencies,
and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued
under the Seal of the said Colony, at the
Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-sixth day of June, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-seven.

D. REID.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!