Number 14.

273

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1893.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1893.

Land set apart for Village Homesteads in the Otago Land District.

(L.S.) GLASGOW, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one hundred and sixty-eighth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do, by this Proclamation, set apart the sections of land described in the Schedule hereto, and declare that the same shall be open for lease as village settlements.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

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 Wellington, this twenty-second day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Altering the Boundaries of the Land Districts of Nelson and Canterbury.

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-first day of February, 1893.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR P. A. BUCKLEY, K.C.M.G., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the twenty-second section of “The Land Act, 1892,” certain land districts are defined, but it is provided that the Governor, by Order in Council, if he shall deem it necessary, may from time to time alter the boundaries of any land district as he shall think fit:

And whereas it is desirable to alter the boundaries of the Nelson and Canterbury Land Districts, so that the land described in the Schedule hereto may be taken from the Nelson Land District and added to the Canterbury Land District:

Now, therefore, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by the hereinbefore in part recited Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby direct and declare that, from and after the date hereof, the land described in the said Schedule shall cease to belong to the Nelson Land District, as defined under the said Act, and shall be added to the Canterbury Land District, as defined as aforesaid, and that the boundaries of the said land districts are hereby altered by excluding the said land from the Nelson Land District and including it within the Canterbury Land District.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Colony of New Zealand, containing by admeasurement 85,361 acres, more or less, bounded towards the north generally by the Waiau-au River to a point in line with the eastern boundary-line of Section No. 1, Cheviot Survey District; thence to and by that section and by Sections Nos. 2 and 39, and again by the Waiau-au River; towards the east by the sea; towards the south by the Hurunui River; and towards the west generally by the Kaiwara River and Sections Nos. 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81A, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, and 200, Lowry Peaks Survey District.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council,