Land Acquisition Orders




July 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 783

Kawaha not yet passed the Native Lands Court, Native lands
of Koutu Nos. 1 and 2 not yet passed the Native Lands
Court, the land known as the Government Telegraph
Paddock, the Tarewa Block, lands known as Pukeroa-o-
Ruawhata; the Town of Rotorua, being the reserve between
Omohau Street and Pereaika Street; Pereaika Street; Sec-
tions Nos. 8, 9, 10, and 11 of the Suburbs of Rotorua: all
within the Counties of Piako and Tauranga, in the Provincial
District of Auckland; including all adjoining and intervening
places, lands, roads, streams, reserves, rivers, and water-
courses; in the manner delineated upon the plan marked
P.W.D. 13720, deposited in the office of the Minister for
Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of
Wellington, the total length being about thirty-two miles.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Order to take Land for Waikato-Thames Railway (Section
from Hikutai to Te Aroha).

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this fifth day
of May, 1886.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him
by "The Public Works Act, 1882," and of all other
powers enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency Sir
William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth order that
the Government work known as the Waikato-Thames Rail-
way, having an average width of three hundred links, shall
be constructed on or through all lands held or occupied by
Native owners, as mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

Commencing at a point in Henry Alley's land at Hikutai,
as described in Proclamation dated the 4th September, 1879,
and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 95, of the
11th September, 1879, and proceeding thence generally in a
southerly direction for a distance of 19 miles or thereabouts,
passing in, through, or over the following lands, &c.: Henry
Alley's land at Hikutai; A. McAskill's land at Hikutai;
Kaimanawa Block; Native land; Te Komata North; Te
Komata South; Tawakarewakauri; land granted to J. Thorp;
Hararahi No. 1; Hararahi No. 2; Opatito; Te Arero-o-Hua-
tata No. 2; Te Paeroa; Te Arero-o-Huata No. 1; Blocks
Nos. 5858, 5370; Muraoteahi, 5814, 1875, 5800, 4454; Koro-
matua Nos. 1, 2, and 3; Te Manukau; Te Waka-o-tiki te
Aroha; Otamaurunganui; Takapau; Taumatawhine No. 2;
Native land; Mangamutu; Te Paeroa No. 1; Ngakuoneone;
Waitoki; Karaka; Te Maire; Patuwhao; Sections Nos. 1,
5, 15, 16, 18, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, and Pa Reserve,
Te Aroha Goldfield; Ruakaka; land owned by Ema Lipsey;
and terminating at a point on the north-western boundary
of Emma Street, Te Aroha Goldfield Township, situate in
Block IX., Te Aroha Survey District: all within the Coun-
ties of Thames, Ohinemuri, and Piako, Provincial District
of Auckland, Colony of New Zealand; the same being more
particularly delineated upon the plan marked P.W.D. 7365,
deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at
Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington,

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Terms and Conditions of Sale of a Village Settlement in
Block VIII., Toitois District (Fortrose), Otago Land Dis-
trict.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth
day of June, 1886.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the one hundred and sixty-seventh sec-
tion of "The Land Act, 1885," it is enacted that the
Governor in Council may fix the terms and conditions upon
which the lands comprised in any village settlement shall be
disposed of, and the mode of payment for the same:

And whereas His Excellency the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand has, by Proclamation, set apart the lands
enumerated in the Schedule hereto for sale as a village
settlement:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
and authorities conferred upon him by the hereinafore in
part recited Act, and by and with the advice of the Executive
Council of the Colony of New Zealand, doth hereby fix the
following terms and conditions upon which the said village
settlement shall be disposed of, and the mode of payment
for the same, that is to say,--

  1. The lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be
    disposed of as village allotments for cash.

  2. The day upon which the lands shall be open for appli-
    cation shall be Wednesday, the eleventh day of August, one
    thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, at the Land Office,
    Dunedin.

  3. The lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be
    sold for cash immediately on purchase.

  4. No person shall be allowed to acquire more than one
    section.

  5. If there should be more than one application for any
    allotment, the right to purchase the same shall be deter-
    mined by lot amongst the applicants.

  6. The purchaser of any lands described in the Schedule,
    upon the full payment of the purchase-money, will be en-
    titled to his Crown grant, to be issued in the usual way upon
    payment of the fees prescribed by law.

SCHEDULE.

VILLAGE SETTLEMENT, BLOCK VIII., TOITOIS DISTRICT
(FORTROSE).

Village Allotments for Cash.

Block. Section. Area.
IV. 51 A. R. P.
52 0 1 3
53 0 1 0
54 0 1 0
55 0 1 0
56 0 1 0
57 7 1 0
58 0 1 0
IX. 1 0 0 32
2 0 1 0
3 0 1 0
4 0 1 0
5 0 1 0
8 0 1 0
9 0 1 0

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Vesting a Reserve in the Corporation of Palmerston South.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth
day of June, 1886.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto
was reserved for a site for an athenæum: And
whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient
to vest the said land in the Corporation of the Borough of
Palmerston South:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the said colony, and in exercise of the
powers and authorities vested in him by the fourth section
of "The Public Reserves Act, 1881," doth hereby declare
that, from and after the day of the date hereof, the said
reserve shall become vested in the Corporation of the Borough
of Palmerston South, in trust, for a site for an athenæum.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land in the Provincial District of Otago,
containing by admeasurement 20 perches, more or less,
situate in the Town of Palmerston, and being Section No.
14 of Block XXVII. of said town. Bounded towards the
North-west by Section No. 1 of same block, 75·7 links;
towards the North-east by part of Section No. 3 of same
block, 166 links; towards the South-east by Ronaldsay
Street, 75·7 links; and towards the South-west by the other
part of Section No. 3 of same block, 166 links: be all the
aforesaid linkages more or less.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.



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