Number 44.

769

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1892.

Village-settlement Land in Taranaki withdrawn.

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

WHEREAS by the twentieth section of “The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1879,” and by the one hundred and sixty-sixth section of “The Land Act, 1885,” the lands specified in the Schedule hereto were, with other lands, set apart for sale as a village settlement, by Proclamation dated the twenty-eighth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight: And whereas it is expedient that the sections enumerated in the Schedule hereto should be withdrawn from the village-settlement system:

Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by section six of “The Land Act, 1885,” and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in that behalf, do hereby revoke the said Proclamation of the twenty-eighth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, so far as it relates to the sections enumerated in the Schedule hereto, and do proclaim and declare that the said sections are hereby withdrawn from the village-settlement system.

SCHEDULE.
TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.
Tarata Village Settlement.

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-sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Land available for Selection by the Midland Railway Company set apart for Mining Purposes.

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

WHEREAS in the contract bearing date the third day of August, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, made between Her Majesty the Queen and the New Zealand Midland Railway Company (Limited), it is, among other things, provided that, subject to the conditions therein contained, all lands within the limits of the authorised area defined in the said contract shall be available for selection by the company, with certain exceptions: And whereas among such exceptions are included all lands which from time to time, in the opinion of the Governor, are or may be required for bonâ fide mining purposes and the several purposes connected therewith or incidental or conducive thereto, and which lands shall from time to time be set apart and defined by Proclamation to be issued in that behalf; but no more than ten thousand acres shall be so set apart or proclaimed in one block at any one time, and the lands so set apart and proclaimed from time to time shall not, in the aggregate, exceed seven hundred and fifty thousand acres: And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, the lands described in the Schedule hereto are required for bonâ fide mining purposes and the several purposes connected therewith, and the said lands are comprised in one block, containing ten thousand acres: And whereas it is expedient the said land should be set apart and defined by this Proclamation:

Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of all powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf under the hereinbefore-mentioned contract or otherwise, do hereby proclaim and declare that the block of land defined and described in the Schedule hereto is set apart under the provisions of the said contract for bonâ fide mining purposes and the several purposes connected therewith.

SCHEDULE.
Block LXV.: All that area in the Land District of Nelson, situated in the Mawheraiti and Waitahu Survey Districts, containing 10,000 acres, more or less. Bounded by a straight line commencing at a point on the northern bank of Big River due north of the north-eastern corner of Section No. 5, Block VIII., Mawheraiti Survey District, and proceeding to Trig. Station J, Waitahu Survey District; thence along a line to the eastern corner of Section No. 10, Block XVI., Mawheraiti Survey District; thence along the north-eastern boundaries of that section, and Section No. 6, Block XVI.,

ERRATUM.—In the Schedule to the Proclamation setting apart an area of 7,500 acres for mining purposes within the boundaries of the lands available for selection by the New Zealand Midland Railway Company (Limited), published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 33, of the 21st April, 1892, page 623, in the ninth line, for “Block VII.” read “Block VIII.”