Numb. 127.
1753

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1879.

Setting apart Land in Otago for Agricultural Leases.

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the fifty-fourth section of "The
Mines Act, 1877," it is, amongst other things,
enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor to
cause Crown lands situate within a gold field to be
selected and set apart for the purpose of granting
agricultural leases thereon and therefor:

And whereas the lands described in the Schedule
hereto are Crown lands subject to be dealt with
under the provisions of the said Act, and it is deemed
expedient to set the same apart for the purpose of
granting agricultural leases thereon and therefor:

Now, therefore, I, Sir Hercules George Robert
Robinson, the Governor of the Colony of New Zea-
land, do hereby select and set apart, for the purpose
of granting agricultural leases thereon and therefor,
the lands lands de described in the Schedule hereto; and do
fix the fifth day of February next ensuing, at
the Warden's office at Lawrence, as the day and
place on which the said land shall be open for appli-
cation in allotments, as surveyed and marked on the
survey map in the office of the Chief Surveyor,
Dunedin.

SCHEDULE.
TUAPEKA EAST.

Given under the hand of His Excellency
Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson,

Knight Grand Cross of the Most Dis-
tinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George, Governor and Commander-
in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's
Colony of New Zealand and its Depen-
dencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same;
and issued under the Seal of the said
Colony, at the Government House, at
Wellington, this sixteenth day of Decem-
ber, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-nine.

WM. ROLLESTON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Land taken for Road in Sections 65, 66, and 67,
Meanee District, County of Hawke's Bay.

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule
hereto is required to be taken under "The
Public Works Act, 1876," and "The Public Works
Act 1876 Amendment Act, 1878," for a certain work,
to wit, the construction of a road in Sections sixty-
five, sixty-six, and sixty-seven, Meanee District,
County of Hawke's Bay:

And whereas the Meanee District Highway Board
has laid before the Governor the memorial and map
mentioned in and signed and certified as required by
the said Acts:

Now, therefore, I, Hercules George Robert Robin-
son, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and
with the advice and consent of the Executive Council
of the said colony, in exercise and pursuance of the
powers and authorities in me vested by sections
twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four,
and twenty-five of "The Public Works Act, 1876,"
and by section twenty-eight of "The Public Works
Act 1876 Amendment Act, 1878," and of any other
power and authority enabling me in that behalf, do
hereby proclaim and declare that the land described
in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for the pur-
poses of a road; and that, from and after the eleventh
day of December, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-nine, the land so described shall become
absolutely vested in fee-simple in Her Majesty, dis-
charged from all mortgages, charges, claims, estates,
and interests of what kind soever, for use as a road.