THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
1755

Authorizing the taking and laying down of Roads in
the Auckland Provincial District.
—

NORMANBY, Governor.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
intituled "The Crown Grants Act, 1866," it
is enacted that, whenever roads or rights of roads
have been or hereafter may be reserved in any Crown
grants, but such roads or the particular part or por-
tions of the land comprised in the grant over which
the road is to be or may be taken have not been or
may not be specifically described in the body of the
grant and laid down from survey on the plan in the
margin thereof, or indorsed thereon or attached
thereto, such Crown grants, if otherwise duly and
legally executed, shall be and be taken to have been
as valid and effectual to all intents and purposes as
if the said road or part of the land over which the
right of road was to be taken had been specifically
described and laid down as aforesaid on the said grant
before the execution of the same, any law or practice
to the contrary notwithstanding; and it is also
thereby enacted that all such reservations made
before or after the passing of the said Act shall be
valid and effectual to all intents and purposes; pro-
vided always that the right of taking a road through
any section shall only be exercised within five years
after the issue of the grant, and, with regard to grants
issued before the passing of the said Act, within three
years from the coming into operation of the said Act;
and it is also thereby enacted that, in any case where
allowances have been or shall be made in land or
remission of purchase-money in respect of such
reservation of road, the road to be taken shall in no
case exceed the amount of land allowed or the amount
of the purchase-money whereof shall have been or
shall be remitted as aforesaid; and it is also thereby
enacted that, whenever such road or roads shall have
been taken and laid down in manner aforesaid on the
land comprised in any such grant by any person
legally authorized in that behalf, the land conveyed
by the grant shall be deemed, from the date of the
laying down of such road, to be all the land therein
described to be granted, with the exception of the
part thereof taken for such road, which part shall be
deemed to be vested in Her Majesty, her heirs and
successors:

And whereas by "The Special Powers and Con-
tracts Act, 1878," it is declared that the reservation
in the several Crown grants issued under "The
Poverty Bay Grants Act, 1869," of the right to take
roads through the lands thereby granted within ten
years from the date of the said grants shall be and be
deemed to have been, as from the issue of such grants,
valid to all intents and purposes, and the provisions
of sections nine, ten, and eleven of "The Crown
Grants Act, 1866," shall apply to such grants, except
that those provisions, so far as the grants aforesaid
are concerned, shall be construed as if "ten years"
had been inserted in lieu of "five years" in the
tenth section of the said "Crown Grants Act, 1866:"
And whereas it is expedient that a fit and proper
person should be authorized to take and lay down
roads over the lands specified in the Schedule hereto:
Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of all powers
and authorities enabling me in this behalf, do hereby
authorize

FRANCIS SIMPSON, Esquire,
Assistant Surveyor, of Gisborne, to take and lay
down roads over the lands specified in the Schedule
hereto, and for that purpose to exercise all such
powers as by the said Act may be exercised by a
person legally authorized in that behalf under the
said Act.

SCHEDULE.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this tenth day of December,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
eight.

ROBERT STOUT.

Lands permanently reserved.

NORMANBY, Governor.

WHEREAS by the one hundred and forty-fourth section of "The Land Act, 1877," it is enacted that
the Governor may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the
same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then
held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in
the said section mentioned:

And whereas by the one hundred and forty-fifth section of the said Act it is provided that land tempo-
rarily reserved under the said one hundred and forty-fourth section may, at the expiration of one month
but not later than six months after the publication in the Gazette of notice of such temporary reservation,
be permanently reserved, and that notice of such permanent reservation shall be published in the Gazette:

And whereas the lands specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto were, by the several
warrants the dates of which are specified in the third column of the said Schedule, and the notifications of
which were published in the Gazettes specified in the fourth column, temporarily reserved under the autho-
rity of the said Act for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule: