Num. 26.

695

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1897.

Land set apart as a Site for a Native Township in the Auckland Land District.

(L.S.) JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by the third section of “The Native Townships Act, 1895,” I, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that the parcel of Native land situated in the Auckland Land District, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be and the same is hereby set apart as a site for a Native township, and I do hereby assign the name of “Tokaanu” to such Native township.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Pukawa Survey District, in the Land District of Auckland, containing 490 acres, more or less, and bounded by a line starting from an iron pipe marked I., 50 links from Lake Taupo, and proceeding thence southerly on a bearing 157° 26′ for a distance of 4570·8 links to an iron pipe marked II.; thence north-easterly on a bearing 53° 30′ for a distance of 1022·8 links to an iron pipe marked III.; thence southerly on a bearing 143° 30′ for a distance of 1068·6 links to an iron pipe marked IV.; thence southerly on a bearing 157° 26′ for a distance of 9170·2 links to an iron pipe marked V.; thence westerly on a bearing 247° 26′ for a distance of 2263 links to an iron pipe marked VI., on the southern side of Tokaanu Road; thence northerly along the southern side of said road on a bearing 325° 4′ for a distance of 1037·7 links, and westerly along the southern side of another road on bearings 219° 8′ and 299° 6′ for distances of 351·3 and 167 links respectively, to the Tokaanu River; thence northerly along the eastern bank of the Tokaanu River to an iron pipe marked VII.; thence westerly across the said river and thence on a bearing 247° 26′ for a distance of 2750 links to an iron pipe marked VIII.; thence northerly on a bearing 337° 26′ for a distance of 5060 links to an iron pipe marked IX.; thence easterly on a bearing 67° 26′ for a distance of 1780 links to an iron pipe marked X.; thence on a bearing 94° for a distance of 370 links to an iron pipe on the bank of the Tokaanu River, thence across the Tokaanu River and northerly along the eastern bank of the said Tokaanu River to its entrance into Lake Taupo; thence easterly along the shore of Lake Taupo to a point 50 links due north of the said iron pipe marked I., and thence due south to that pipe, the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less, as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 28166, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Land District of Wellington.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir James Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice, Administrator of the Government in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, at the Government House, at Wellington; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, this eleventh day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Land declared to be Crown Land subject to “The Land for Settlements Act, 1894.”

(L.S.) JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto has been acquired under the provisions of “The Land for Settlements Act, 1894” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), and the purchase thereof has been concluded as by the said Act is provided: And whereas it is enacted by the said Act that all land so acquired shall be proclaimed as Crown land subject to the provisions of the said Act:

Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the power and authority conferred by the said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto shall, on the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, be and be deemed to be Crown land subject to the provisions of “The Land for Settlements Act, 1894.”

SCHEDULE.

WAIAPU SETTLEMENT.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 1124 acres 2 roods 36 perches, more or less, situated in Arowhenua Survey District. Bounded towards the north generally by Langridge and Waitohi

ERRATUM.—In New Zealand Gazette No. 20, page 577, of the 25th February, 1897, in the warrant notifying land in Otago for sale by public auction, for “Blenheim” read “Dunedin.”