Numb. 34.

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1880.

Lands declared to be Waste Lands of the Crown.
(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the lands described in the Schedule
hereto have been purchased out of the sums
authorized under "The Immigration and Public
Works Act, 1870," and Acts amending the same, to
be issued and expended in the purchase of lands in
the North Island of New Zealand, and it is expedient
that the said lands should be declared to be waste
lands of the Crown:

Now, therefore, I, Sir Hercules George Robert
Robinson, the Governor of the Colony of New Zea-
land, being satisfied that the lands described 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 seventeenth section of "The Waste Lands
Administration Act, 1876," and the twenty-eighth
section of "The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act,
1879," and all other authorities enabling me in that
behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare the said lands
to be waste lands of the Crown, subject, except as
in the first-mentioned 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 in force in the Land District of Wel-
lington.

SCHEDULE.
TAWHITOARIKI.

ALL that piece of land at Mangawhero, in the Dis-
trict of Wanganui, in the Provincial District of
Wellington, known by the name of Tawhitoariki,

ERRATA.-In New Zealand Gazette No. 26, of the 18th March, 1880, page 342, Land set apart on Deferred Payments,
for "Hindon" District read "Mount Hyde" District, and for "Wanaka" District read "Lower Wanaka" District.
In Gazette No. 28, of the 25th March, page 390, Sale of Crown Lands, for "Hindon" District read "Mount Hyde" District.
In Gazette No. 33, of 6th April, 1880, page 447, in notice of appointments under "Property Assessment Act, 1879," for
"Napier" District read "Hawke's Bay" District.

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containing by admeasurement 2,880 acres, more or
less. Bounded towards the North by the Makara
Stream, 11320 links; towards the East by Native
land, 22720 links; towards the South by Native
land, the Horoweka Stream, by Native land, the
Maungahouhi Stream, and again by Native land,
14687 links; and towards the West by the Manga-
whero River, 32040 links.

WAITAPU RESERVE.

All that parcel of land in the Rangitikei-Manawatu
District, in the Provincial District of Wellington,
known as the Waitapu Reserve, and forming a tri-
angular block with Waitapu, on the Rangitikei
River, as its apex, containing by admeasurement
29,484 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the
North-west by the southern boundary of the Otama-
kapua No. 2 Block, 136500 links; towards the South-
west by a line from Waitapu to Parimanuka, 117395
links; and towards the East by the Oroua River.

Given under the hand of His Excellency
Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson,
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distin-
guished 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
thirty-first day of March, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighty.

JOHN BRYCE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!