April 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 675

Native Land proposed to be taken for Construction of Drainage-works in Aorangi Drainage District.

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this eighth day of April, 1895.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE PREMIER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken for a public work, to wit, the construction of drainage-works in Aorangi Drainage District:

And whereas the said lands are held or occupied by Native owners under a title which is not derived from the Crown:

And whereas a map in duplicate has been prepared of the said lands by the Aorangi Drainage Board, as required by the eighty-eighth section of "The Public Works Act, 1894":

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the eighty-eighth section of the said Act, and of "The Land Drainage Act, 1893," and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, 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 declare that the land shown upon

such map, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be deemed to be taken for the purpose of the said drainage-works, and the said land shall vest in the Aorangi Drainage Board, as from the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five.

SCHEDULE.

THE parcel of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

In the Wellington Land District: as the said parcel of land is more particularly delineated on the plans marked as above mentioned, deposited in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured blue.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Rural Lands in the Southland Land District open for Sale or Selection.

GLASGOW, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one hundred and thirty-sixth section of "The Land Act, 1892," I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on and after the fifth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five; and also that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase or on lease in perpetuity, or, in respect of any lands containing or supposed to contain any metal, mineral, or valuable stone, be selected on lease in perpetuity only; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of "The Land Act, 1892."

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

FIRST-CLASS RURAL LAND.

Wallace .. | Longwood .. | 15 | IV. | A. R. P. 25 0 0 | s. d. 30 0 | £ s. d. 37 10 0 | s. d. 1 6 | £ s. d. 0 18 9 | s. d. 1 2·4 | £ s. d. 0 15 0
" .. | " .. | 16 | " | 25 0 0 | 30 0 | 37 10 0 | 1 6 | 0 18 9 | 1 2·4 | 0 15 0
" .. | " .. | 17 | " | 22 2 0 | 30 0 | 34 10 0 | 1 6 | 0 17 3 | 1 2·4 | 0 13 10
" .. | " .. | 18 | " | 25 0 0 | 30 0 | 37 10 0 | 1 6 | 0 18 9 | 1 2·4 | 0 15 0
" .. | " .. | 21 | V. | 23 0 4 | 30 0 | 34 10 0 | 1 6 | 0 17 3 | 1 2·4 | 0 13 10
" .. | " .. | 23 | " | 22 3 6 | 30 0 | 34 10 0 | 1 6 | 0 17 3 | 1 2·4 | 0 13 10
" .. | " .. | 24 | " | 23 0 4 | 30 0 | 34 10 0 | 1 6 | 0 17 3 | 1 2·4 | 0 13 10
" .. | " .. | 25 | " | 25 1 6 | 30 0 | 37 10 0 | 1 6 | 0 18 9 | 1 2·4 | 0 15 0
" .. | " .. | 28 | " | 10 0 0 | 30 0 | 15 0 0 | 1 6 | 0 7 6 | 1 2·4 | 0 6 0
" .. | " .. | 29 | " | 10 0 0 | 30 0 | 15 0 0 | 1 6 | 0 7 6 | 1 2·4 | 0 6 0
" .. | " .. | 30 | " | 11 1 12 | 30 0 | 16 10 0 | 1 6 | 0 8 3 | 1 2·4 | 0 6 8
" .. | " .. | 31 | " | 10 0 21 | 30 0 | 15 0 0 | 1 6 | 0 7 6 | 1 2·4 | 0 6 0
" .. | " .. | 32 | " | 10 3 33 | 30 0 | 16 10 0 | 1 6 | 0 8 3 | 1 2·4 | 0 6 8

Land undulating, partly bush-clad; good soil. Distance from Pahia Railway-station, from one to two miles. Of the above-noted sections the following are burdened with valuation for improvements: Block IV., Section 15, clearing and fencing, £15 5s.; Section 16, fencing, £1 10s.; Section 17, fencing, 18s. Block V., Section 21, fencing, £2 14s.; Section 23, fencing, £1 7s.; Section 28, clearing, £2 10s.; Section 30, clearing, £1 5s.; Section 32, clearing and fencing, £3 10s.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.