THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 809

the old surveys, which is followed until a point in
the boundary of the Otoia Reserve is reached,
thence by a survey line running in a northerly
direction to its point of termination, and thence by a
survey line to the point of commencement at Nga-
kotana on the Patea River.

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 Welling-
ton, this thirty-first day of July, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-seven.

J. D. ORMOND.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Proclaiming certain Lands to be Waste Lands of the
Crown in the Land Districts of Hawke's Bay and
Wellington.

(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 Districts of
Hawke's Bay and Wellington respectively.

SCHEDULE.
AHUATURANGA.

ALL that piece or parcel of land in the Woodville
District, Seventy-Mile Bush, situate partly in the
Provincial District of Hawke's Bay, and partly in the
Provincial District of Wellington and being called
or known by the name of the Ahuaturanga Block,
containing by admeasurement forty-one thousand
five hundred and seventy-one (41,571) acres, or
thereabouts, namely, thirty-seven thousand nine
hundred and ninety-five (37,995) acres in the Pro-
vincial District of Hawke's Bay and three thousand
five hundred and seventy-six (3576) acres in the Pro-
vincial District of Wellington. Bounded towards
the North by the Maharahara Block; and on the
North-east and East by the Oringi Waiaruhe Block;
on the South-east, South, and South-west by the
Manawatu River; and on the West by the Manawatu
Block. Excepting out of the hereinbefore described
area a Native reserve situate in the Provincial
District of Hawke's Bay near the point where the
road from Woodville to Masterton crosses the Mana-
watu River, extending from the Manawatu River to
the Manga Atua River, and containing one thousand
five hundred and seventy-five (1,575) acres, or there-
abouts.

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
Council; 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 Welling-
ton, this sixth day of August, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-seven.

J. D. ORMOND.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Proclaiming certain lands in Taranaki to be Waste
Lands of the Crown.

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Waste Lands Administration
Act, 1876," it is, among other things, enacted
that the Governor may from time to time, by Procla-
mation in the New Zealand Gazette, proclaim the
confiscated lands within any land district to be waste
lands of the Crown:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
power and authority vested in me by the said Act,
do hereby proclaim that the confiscated lands in the
Land District of Taranaki, which are particularly
described in the Schedule hereto, shall be and the
same are hereby declared to be waste lands of the
Crown.