Sept. 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1091

quay-wall and the wharf on the Grey River in a general westerly direction for 2735 links; thence to the commencing-point by a line bearing 186° 15' for 91 links.

Also all that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement 10 acres 3 roods 8 perches, more or less, situate in the Survey District of Arnold, Provincial District of Westland, being portion of Native Reserve No. 33, commencing at a point marked Y on plan, distant 375 links, and bearing 228° 25' from the 3-miles 30-chains peg on the Brunner Railway. Bounded as follows: By a line bearing 73° 33' for 777·3 links; by a line bearing 96° 40' for 2770·4 links; by a line bearing 1° 57' 42" for 302·2 links; by a line bearing 276° 40' for 2804·3 links; by a line bearing 252° 12' for 747 links; thence to the commencing-point by a line bearing 182° 1' 53" for 296·8 links.

Be all the above areas and linkages either more or less; as the same are more particularly delineated upon the plan marked P.W.D. 13946, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured yellow and green.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Native Land taken for Construction of Defence Works at Bastion Point, Provincial District of Auckland.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of August, 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 in anywise 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 hereby order that the Government work known as the construction of defence works at Bastion Point, Provincial District of Auckland, shall and may be constructed on or through the parcel of land more particularly described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

THE parcel of land mentioned hereunder:—

In the Provincial District of Auckland; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 13900, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Notice of Intention to change the Purpose of a Reserve at Westport.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

WHEREAS by “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” it is, amongst other things, enacted that the Governor may declare his intention to make, change, exchange, or alter the dedication of any public reserve now or hereafter vested in Her Majesty or the Governor for any of the purposes named in Class II. of the Schedule to the said Act, whether the same be granted or not; and, in the case of any reserves made under the authority of section two hundred and twenty-seven of “The Land Act, 1885,” if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to change the purpose of such reserves or any part thereof from the purpose or presumed purpose for which it was set apart to any other purpose, or if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to exchange any of the land comprised in such reserve for other land of equal value, to be dedicated to one or more purposes named in the said Class II., the Governor may, by notice in the Gazette, declare his intention to make such change, exchange, or dedication, as the case may be, and in such notice declare the manner and terms in which the same is intended to be so made:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” aforesaid, declare my intention to change the specific purpose of the reserve described in the first column of the Schedule hereto to the specific purpose set opposite such description in the second column of the said Schedule.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirty-first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

J. BALLANCE,
Minister of Lands.

Exchange of Land in Hawke’s Bay.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

WHEREAS the provisions and the requirements of the seventh section of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” have been duly complied with in respect of the lands described in the first column of the Schedule hereto: And whereas notices in the Gazette have been duly published for four consecutive weeks, and laid before both Houses of the Assembly, as provided by the ninth section of the said Act: And whereas no resolution of either House of Assembly has been passed that such House does not concur in the intention declared in any such notices:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the Act aforesaid, do hereby exchange the land described in the first column of the Schedule hereto for the land described in the second column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this seventh day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

ROBERT STOUT,
(For the Minister of Lands.)