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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 75

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 eight thousand five hundred acres: And whereas it is expedient the said land should be set apart and defined by this Proclamation:

Now, therefore, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor 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.

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SCHEDULE.

BLOCK IV.: All that area in the Nelson Land District, situate in the Waitakere Survey District, containing by admeasurement 8,500 acres, more or less. Bounded by a line commencing at a point 20 chains due north of the north-eastern corner of Block V., Waitakere Survey District, and proceeding along a line due west to the sea; thence in a southerly direction along the sea-coast to the River Nile; thence in an easterly direction along the south bank of that river to the south-eastern corner of Section No. 1, Block VII., Waitakere Survey District; thence along a right line to the point of commencement: excepting from the above-described area all freehold and leasehold sections and reserves.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable David, Earl of Glasgow; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished 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 twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Mines.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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Land withdrawn from State Forests.

(L.s.)
GLASGOW, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto are portions of a State forest under the control of the Commissioner of State Forests appointed under “The New Zealand State Forests Act, 1885” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), and the said lands are now no longer required for State-forest purposes: And whereas plans showing the extent and position of the said lands, and a statement of the reasons why they are no longer required for State-forest purposes, have been laid before both Houses of Parliament for a period of thirty days, and no resolution has been passed by either of such Houses objecting to the issue of this Proclamation:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Right Honourable David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers conferred by “The New Zealand State Forests Act Amendment Act, 1883,” and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby revoke the warrant specified in the second column of the Schedule hereto, in so far as it relates to the land specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto, as from the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette; and doth hereby proclaim and declare that from and after such date the parcel of land described in the first column of the Schedule hereto shall be no longer subject to the provisions of the said Act.

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SCHEDULE.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable David, Earl of Glasgow; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished 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 twenty-seventh day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Approved in Council.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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Vesting a Reserve in the Cust Road District.

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of September, 1892.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto was reserved permanently for a gravel-pit on the fifteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four:

And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient to vest the said land in the inhabitants of the Cust Road District:

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 reserve mentioned in the Schedule hereto shall become vested, in trust, for the purposes specified, for the use of the inhabitants of the Cust Road District, and under the control and management of the Board of such district.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 2 roods 6 perches, more or less, being Section No. 357 (in red), Block VII., Mairaki Survey District. Bounded on the north by the road forming the southern boundary of Section No. 5897 a distance of 858 links; on the east by Tipping’s Road a distance of 126 links; and on the south by the road forming the northern boundary of Section No. 12326 a distance of 856 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less; as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Christchurch.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.