Numb. 119.

1667

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1878.

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 autho-
rized 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 there-
with, 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 there-
upon 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 District of
Auckland.

SCHEDULE.
POUTO No. 3.

ALL that piece of land at Pouto, in the District of
Kaipara, in the Provincial District of Auckland,
known by the name of Pouto No. 3, containing by
admeasurement 1,026 acres or thereabouts. Bounded
towards the West and North by the Pouto No. 2

Block and the Pouto No. 1 Block, 38638 links;
towards the East and South-east by the Pouto Block
and the Wairoa River, 37650 links; and towards the
South-west by the Pouto No. 2 Block aforesaid, 4092
links. Excepting out of the hereinbefore-described
area a Waihi Tapu, containing 110 acres or there-
abouts; as delineated on the plan deposited in the
office of the Chief Surveyor, Auckland.

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 Grand Cross 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
sixth day of November, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-eight.

JOHN SHEEHAN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Land withdrawn from the Deferred-payment System
in Otago.

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

WHEREAS by the fifty-third section of "The
Land Act, 1877," it is enacted that the
Governor, by Proclamation in the Gazette, may from
time to time set apart out of any suburban or rural
lands such blocks or allotments of land as he shall
think fit, and set the same aside for sale on deferred
payments, and in such Proclamation may fix a day
on which the land shall be open for application; and
that he may also in like manner set apart for sale on
deferred payments such blocks or allotments as may
be recommended by any Land Board, and may also
from time to time alter, amend, or revoke any such
Proclamation: