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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 29

Special Orders made by the Manganui Road Board, County of Stratford.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 17th April, 1895.

THE following special orders, made by the Manganui Road Board, are published in accordance with the provisions of "The Road Boards Act, 1882."

P. A. BUCKLEY.

MANGANUI ROAD BOARD.

THE following special orders were made on Saturday, 16th February, 1895, and confirmed on Saturday, 6th April, 1895:—

"That, to secure the repayment of a further loan of £70, raised under 'The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,' for the purpose of completing the formation and metalling of about 30 chains of the Rutland Road, from the Mountain Road westwards, and about 7 chains, more or less, from the end of the present gravel to Mr. Body's section, to pay out of such loan the cost of raising it, to strike as security on this loan a special rate of ½d. in the pound over the following lands—namely, Sections 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 239, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, Moa Survey District; such rate to be an annually-recurring rate for twenty-six years, and shall be payable in two half-yearly instalments on the 1st January and the 1st July in each year."

"That, to secure the repayment of a further loan of £55, raised under 'The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,' for the purpose of completing the gravelling on Monmouth Road, from the Mountain Road westwards, a distance of about 104 chains, a special rate of ½d. in the pound be made and levied over the following lands—namely, Sections 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 63, Manganui Survey District; 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, Block I., Ngaire Survey District; such rate to be an annually-recurring rate for twenty-six years, and shall be payable in two half-yearly instalments on the 1st January and the 1st July in each year."

I hereby certify the above special orders were duly made in accordance with "The Road Boards Act, 1886."

HENRY WATSON,
Clerk.

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 16th April, 1895.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders for the Mataura Bridge Contract of the Seaward Bush Railway is published for general information.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister for Public Works.

Accepted.

Messrs. J. and A. Anderson, Christchurch .. 6,486 16 2

Declined.

Messrs. Scott Brothers, Christchurch .. 6,593 17 8
M. O'Connor, Greymouth .. .. 7,896 0 0
The Southland Farmers' Implement and Engineering Company, Invercargill .. 9,776 10 3

Notice of the Laying-off of Roads over Lands in the Auckland Land District.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, under the authority of "The Native Land Court Act, 1894," that the roads described in the Schedule hereto were, on the 24th October, 1894, duly taken and laid off through the lands specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said colony, by a warrant dated the 3rd July, 1894.

SCHEDULE.

ROADS THROUGH KOROMATUA NO. 1 AND HOURURANGI BLOCKS.

All that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 4 acres 2 roods 8 perches, more or less, situate in the Waitoa Survey District, and being a road, 100 links wide, traversing the Hoururangi Block No. 3913, the centre line of which commences at a point on the north-western boundary-line of the aforesaid block at a distance of 1925 links, more or less, from the southern angle of Te Tautiti No. 1 Block, and proceeds south-easterly generally for a distance of 4561·4 links, more or less, to its junction with the road which forms the south-western boundary

of Section No. 1 of Block No. XII., Waitoa Survey District; as the same is delineated on the plan numbered 7058A, deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office at Auckland, in the Auckland Land District, and thereon coloured pink.

All that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 4 acres 1 rood 22 perches, more or less, situate in the Waitoa Survey District, and being a road, 100 links wide, traversing the Koromatau No. 1 Block No. 3929, the south-western side of which commences at the westernmost angle of a piece of Crown land, and proceeds on a bearing N. 33° 57′ west for a distance of 4406·8 links, more or less, to the north-western boundary-line of the Koromatau No. 1 Block aforesaid; as the same is delineated on Map No. 7058A, deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office at Auckland, in the Auckland Land District, and thereon coloured pink.

Dated this 8th day of April, 1895.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Notice of the Laying-off of a Road over Lands in the Wellington Land District.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, under the authority of "The Native Land Court Act, 1894," that the road described in the Schedule hereto was, in November, 1894, duly taken and laid off through the lands specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said colony, by a warrant dated the 6th April, 1893,

SCHEDULE.

ROAD IN POHONUIATANE BLOCK.

Tiriraukawa Survey District.

The several parcels of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

As the same are delineated upon the map above referred to, deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above stated.

Dated this 8th day of April, 1895.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Notice of Intention to change the Purpose of a Portion of a Reserve in Wellington Land District.

GLASGOW, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Public Reserves Act, 1881," it is amongst other things enacted that the Governor may declare his intention to make, change, exchange, or alter the dedication of any public reserve now or hereafter vested in Her Majesty or the Governor for any of the purposes named in Class II. of the Schedule to the said Act, whether the same be granted or not; and in the case of any reserve made under the authority of section one hundred and forty-four of "The Land Act, 1877," if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to change the purpose of such reserve or any part thereof from the purpose or presumed purpose for which it was set apart to any other purpose, or if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to exchange any of the land comprised in such reserve for other land of equal value, to be dedicated to one or more purposes named in the said Class II., the Governor may, by notice gazetted, declare his intention to make such change, exchange, or dedication, as the case may be, and in such notice declare the manner and terms in which the same is intended to be so made:

Now, therefore, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by "The Public Reserves Act, 1881," aforesaid, declare my intention to change the specific purpose of the portion of the reserves described in the second column of the Schedule hereto from that named in the first column of the said Schedule to that named in the third column of the said Schedule respectively.