Numb. 28.

539

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1892.

Lands set apart for Special Settlements.

(L.S.) JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred by the one hundred and sixty-second section of “The Land Act, 1885,” and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, I, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that the blocks of land described in the Schedule hereto shall be and the same are hereby set apart and declared open for special settlement.

SCHEDULE.

No. 1. The whole of the block of land known as Te Kapua, situated in the Wellington Land District; excepting reserves for roads, education, and other purposes; containing a net area for selection of 19,000 acres.

No. 2. All that area in the Wellington Land District bounded towards the west by the temporary Forest Reserve along the Tararua Range to the Mangahao River; towards the north-west by that river; towards the north-east by a road-line and lands disposed of; towards the south-east generally by the Mangatainoka River and lands disposed of; and towards the south by a due east line lying 76 chains to the north of Patara Trig. Station: excepting reserves for roads, education, and other purposes: containing a net area for selection of 9,800 acres.

No. 3. All that area in the Wellington Land District bounded towards the north by Blocks I. and II., Umutoi Survey District; towards the east by a due south line 212 chains, lying 76 chains east of Trig. Q; thence generally towards the south-east by lines bearing as follow: 221° 216 chains, 308° 40 chains, by Native land (Manawatu Nos. 2 and 3), a line bearing 174° 24 chains, across and by the Pohangina River, and by Crown lands (Manawatu No. 1); towards the south-west by Section No. 65, Block IV., Pohangina Survey District, by a public road, by a proposed village reserve, and by a public road, to and across the Pohangina River, by Section No. 53, Block III., of said district; and towards the north-west generally by Coal Creek, by Block VIII., Apiti Survey District, the Oroua River, and by a due north line to Block I., Umutoi Survey District: excepting reserves for roads, education, and other purposes: containing a net area for selection of 24,000 acres.

No. 4. All that area in the Wellington Land District situated in Blocks XIV. and XV., Manganui Survey District, and Blocks II., III., and VI., Makotuku Survey District. Bounded towards the north and east by Crown lands and by the Makotuku Stream; towards the south by a township reserve; and towards the west by Crown land: excepting reserves for roads, education, and other purposes: containing a net area for selection of 7,200 acres.

No. 5. All that area in the Auckland Land District, situated in Whakatane County, bounded towards the north generally by the Rangitaiki and Orini Rivers; towards the south-east by Sections Nos. 28, 29, and 30, Rangitaiki Parish; towards the south generally by the Te Teko–Whakatane Road, Crown land, the Rangitaiki River, again by Crown land, Sections Nos. 74 and 73, Matata Parish, and again by Crown land to the Tarawera River; and towards the west by that river: exclusive of all sold land and land disposed of, and excepting reserves for roads, education, and other purposes: containing a net area for selection of 20,000 acres.

No. 6. All that area in the Taranaki Land District, situated in Blocks XIV. and XV., Upper Waitara Survey District, and Blocks II., III., VI., and VII., Ngatimaru Survey District. Bounded towards the north and east by Crown lands and the boundary of the Pohokura and Taumatamahoe Blocks; and towards the south and west by a public road: excepting reserves for roads, education, and other purposes: containing a net area for selection of 5,200 acres.

No. 7. All that area in the Wellington Land District, comprising the Umumore Block and part of the Rangatau Block, situate in Blocks VII., VIII., and XII., Makotuku Survey District, and Blocks V. and IX, Karioi Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east generally by the Mangawhero and Mangateitei Streams, by a public road, and by a forest reserve; towards the south by unsurveyed Native lands and the Mangahouhou Stream; towards the west by the Tawhitoariki Block (Run 25), and by the Makaranui Stream; and towards the north-west by the Mangawhero Stream. Also all that area in the same land district, being part of the Raetihi Block, situate in Blocks II., III., IV., VI., and VII., Makotuku Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east and south-east by other parts of the Raetihi Block; towards the south-west by the Ngapakihi or Raetihi No. 1 Block; and towards the north-west by the Makotuku Stream: excepting from the above-described areas reserves for roads, education, and other purposes: containing a net area of 6,600 acres.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir James Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice, the Administrator of the Government of Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

ERRATUM.—In the New Zealand Gazette No. 25, of the 24th March, 1892, page 521, Justices of the Peace appointed for “William Herbert Langdown, Esq., of Sydenham,” read “William Langdown, Esq., of Sydenham.”