Jan. 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 97

SCHEDULE.
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Village of Grahamtown.

Parish of Waikomiti
(Suburbs of Avondale South).

Village of Leigh.

Town of Kihikihi.
(Classified as Suburban.)

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

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Rural Lands in the Auckland 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 described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale
or selection on and after the third day of March, one thousand
eight hundred and ninety-seven; 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 lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned
in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said
lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to
the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—KAWHIA COUNTY.
Unsurveyed Second-class Land.

All that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District,
situate in Blocks VI. and VII., Pirongia Survey District,
containing approximately 2,000 acres. Bounded towards the
north-east generally by the Manganika No. 1b Block, by
Sections Nos. 2 and 1 of Block VII., Pirongia Survey
District, and by the Kopua No. 1b Block; towards the
south and south-west by Kopua No. 1b Block; and towards
the west generally by a Native reserve and the Pirongia
West B Block to the point of commencement.

Description of land: Mostly broken forest land of fair
quality, with a little open, situate about five miles from
Pirongia Township.

Cash price, 12s. 6d. per acre; occupation with right of
purchase, rent, 7·5d. per acre per annum; lease in perpetuity,
rent, 6d. per acre per annum.

All that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District,
situate in Blocks III., IV., VII., and VIII., Pirongia Survey
District, and containing by admeasurement 1,980 acres,
more or less. Bounded towards the north-east by Sections
Nos. 367, 366, 365, and 306 of the Parish of Pirongia;
towards the south-east by Sections Nos. 2 and 3 of Block
IV., and 2 of Block VIII., Pirongia Survey District, and by
the Kaipihā Block; towards the south by Section No. 3 of
Block VII., Pirongia Survey District; and towards the west
generally by the Manganika No. 1b Block, by two Native
reserves, and by the Manganika B Block to the point of
commencement.

Description of land: Forest and open land of fair
quality, rather broken; two miles from Pirongia Township.

Cash price, 12s. 6d. per acre; occupation with right of
purchase, rent, 7·5d. per acre per annum; lease in perpetuity,
rent, 6d. per acre per annum.

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

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Rural Lands in the Auckland 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 described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for
sale or selection on and after the tenth day of March, one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven; 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 lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as
mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that
the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and
subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—MANGONUI COUNTY.
Unsurveyed Second-class Land.

All that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District,
situate in Block XII., Takahue Survey District, and
Block IX., Maungataniwha Survey District, containing
approximately 1,900 acres. Bounded towards the north-east
by a public road; towards the south-east, south, and
south-west by a forest reserve; and towards the north-west
by Sections Nos. 147 and 145 of the Parish of Maungataniwha
to the point of commencement.

Description of land: Broken forest land; situate about
two miles from Victoria Valley Post-office.

Cash price, 12s. 6d. per acre; occupation with right of
purchase, 7·5d. per acre per annum; lease in perpetuity,
6d. per acre per annum.

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

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Native Land proposed to be taken for a Pilot- and Signal-station
in Tainui Survey District.

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twelfth
day of December, 1896.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto
is required to be taken for a public work, to wit,
the construction of a pilot- and signal-station on the said
land:

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

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
vested in him by the eighty-eighth section of “The Public
Works Act, 1894,” 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 mentioned in the Schedule
hereto, and shown on the map therein referred to, shall, as
from the twelfth day of December, one thousand eight hundred
and ninety-six, vest in Her Majesty for the purposes
of the public work above mentioned.

SCHEDULE.

The parcel of land mentioned hereunder:—

In the Taranaki Land District; as the same is more particularly
delineated on the plan marked as above mentioned,
deposited in the Head Office of the Department of Lands
and Survey, at Wellington, in the Land District of Wellington,
and thereon coloured as stated above.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.