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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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by or on behalf of the said Council, stating the amount so required to be paid and the purpose for which it is so required, shall have been left at the office of the local body liable hereunder to make such payment; and the payments so to be made shall be made from time to time to the Clerk of the said Council for and on behalf of the said Council.

SCHEDULE.

THAT bridge over the Waikato River at Cambridge known as the Waikato Traffic-bridge, situated on the line of road leading from Te Awamutu and Ohaupo to Cambridge, partly in Waipa County and partly in the Borough of Cambridge; all in the Land District of Auckland: as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 16696, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Land District of Wellington, and thereon marked in red.

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 seventeenth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three.

W. P. REEVES,
For the Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Purchase of the Cheviot Hills Estate, County of Cheviot.

GLASGOW, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of December, 1892.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS under the provisions of “The Land and Income Assessment Act, 1891,” the trustees of the estate of the late Honourable William Robinson, of Christchurch, in New Zealand, deceased, as owners of the lands lying within the County of Cheviot, in New Zealand, called or known as “The Cheviot Hills Estate,” on or about the twenty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, furnished a return to the Commissioner of Taxes, wherein the value of the said lands for the purposes of the said Act was stated to be two hundred and sixty thousand two hundred and twenty pounds: And whereas in virtue of the powers vested in him under the said Act the said Commissioner assessed the value of the said lands at the sum of three hundred and four thousand eight hundred and twenty-six pounds: And whereas on or about the tenth day of October last the said trustees gave notice in writing to the said Commissioner to the effect that they were dissatisfied with the amount at which the said lands were assessed, and called upon him to reduce such assessment to the sum at which such lands had been valued in the return so made by the said trustees, or else to purchase such lands at such sum: And whereas the Commissioner has determined not to reduce the assessment so made by him, but to purchase or acquire the said lands, subject to the approval hereinafter mentioned:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of all powers and authorities enabling him under “The Land and Income Assessment Act, 1891,” and “The Land and Income Assessment Act Amendment Act, 1892,” and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby consent to and approve of the purchase or acquisition from the said trustees by the said Commissioner, on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen, of all the lands lying in the County of Cheviot aforesaid, called or known as “The Cheviot Hills Estate,” at or for the price or sum of two hundred and sixty thousand two hundred and twenty pounds, being the value of such lands as specified in the return furnished by the said trustees as aforesaid.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Land in the Pahiatua County, not required for Public Use, authorised to be sold.

GLASGOW, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twelfth day of January, 1893.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section fourteen of “The Public Works Act, 1882” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is provided that, if it is found that any land held, taken, purchased, or acquired at any time under that Act, or any other Act or provincial ordinance, or otherwise however, for public works, is not required for public use, the Governor may, by an Order in Council, publicly notified and gazetted, cause the same to be sold under the conditions in the said recited section set forth: And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto has been acquired for a public work within the meaning of the said Act, namely, for the purposes of a public road, and is not now required for the same; and the Pahiatua County Council has laid before the Governor a memorial, accompanied by a map, in terms of the said Act, praying the Governor, by an Order in Council, to cause the said land to be sold:

Now, therefore, I, David Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, and in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred by the said Act, do hereby order that the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto shall be valued and sold in the manner and subject to the conditions in the fourteenth section of the said Act provided.

SCHEDULE.

THE several parcels of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

All in the Land District of Wellington; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked S.G. 16935, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Land District of Wellington, and thereon bordered with red colour.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Directing that the Accounts of the Receipt of Land Revenue in the Department of Lands and Survey shall be audited by Officers of that Department.

GLASGOW, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twelfth day of January, 1893.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him by section thirty-one of “The Public Revenues Act, 1891,” as amended by section four of “The Public Revenues Act, 1892,” 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, doth hereby direct that the accounts of the receipt of revenue in the Department of Lands and Survey shall be audited by the officers of that department, instead of by the Audit Office.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Vesting Reserves in the Westland Acclimatisation Society (Incorporated).

GLASGOW, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twelfth day of January, 1893.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto were reserved permanently for acclimatisation purposes on the third day of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine:

And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient to vest the said lands in the Westland Acclimatisation Society:

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