April 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 635

Setting apart Land for the Canterbury Society of Arts.

GLASGOW, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by “The Canterbury Society of Arts Reserve Act, 1889,” I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do, by this notice in the Gazette, hereby set apart the land described in the Schedule hereto for the Canterbury Society of Arts upon trust as a site for a building to be used as a public art gallery, and for the promotion of the fine arts, subject, however, to the terms of the said Act, and to such other terms and conditions as may be hereafter inserted in any grant made under the said Act.

Lands permanently reserved.

GLASGOW, Governor.

WHEREAS by the two hundred and thirty-fifth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned :

And whereas by the two hundred and thirty-sixth section of the said Act it is provided that land temporarily reserved under the said two hundred and thirty-fifth section may, at the expiration of one month but not later than six months after the publication in the Gazette of notice of such temporary reservation, be permanently reserved, and that notice of such permanent reservation shall be published in the Gazette :

And whereas the lands specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto were, by the warrants the dates of which are specified in the third column of the said Schedule, and the notifications of which were published in the Gazette specified in the fourth column, temporarily reserved under the authority of the said Act for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule :

Now, therefore, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, do hereby permanently reserve the lands so temporarily reserved as aforesaid, and enumerated in the first column of the Schedule hereto, for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule, being the same purposes for which the said lands were so temporarily reserved as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

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

W. C. WALKER,
For Minister of Lands.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece of land situate in the City of Christchurch, containing by admeasurement 13¾ perches, more or less, being part of Town Section No. 319 on the map of the Chief Surveyor of the Provincial District of Canterbury, setting out and describing the lands in the said city. Bounded as follows: Commencing at the south-west corner of the said section; thence easterly along the southern boundary of the said section, 87 links; and extending back northerly in a rectangular block, being bounded on the west by the western boundary of the said section.

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

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.