974
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 44

(1.) The owner of any land, or a majority of the owners thereof, or a majority of the members of any committee representing the incorporated owners thereof, and duly appointed under Part II. of Division II. of this Act, may apply to the Land Board for the land district within which such land is situated to dispose of the same under the laws for the time being regulating the disposal of Crown lands :

(2.) Every such application shall forthwith, on the receipt thereof, be referred by the Land Board to the Governor, who, if he shall be satisfied that the owners have sufficient other land left for their maintenance, may, by Order in Council, subject to such conditions (if any) as he may think fit to impose, consent to the disposal of any such land as aforesaid ”:

And whereas the land known as Eketahuna No. 2, being the land more particularly described in the First Schedule hereto, is held in fee-simple by certain Native owners under a grant from the Crown bearing date the third day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one: And whereas a majority of the owners of the said land have applied to the Land Board for the Wellington Land District, being the land district within which such land is situated, to dispose of the same under the laws for the time being regulating the disposal of Crown lands: And whereas such application has been referred by the said Board to His Excellency the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, and he is satisfied that the owners have sufficient other land left for their maintenance: And whereas the said land is held subject to a certain memorandum of lease, short particulars whereof are set out in the Second Schedule hereto:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, and in exercise of the powers and authorities aforesaid, doth hereby consent to the disposal of such land by the Land Board of the Wellington Land District under the laws for the time being regulating the disposal of Crown lands, subject to the conditions following, that is to say,—

1. The fee-simple of and in the said land shall be disposed of by auction for cash.

2. The said land shall be disposed of subject to the said memorandum of lease, short particulars whereof are contained in the said Second Schedule.

3. Any sale made under this Order in Council shall be on the express condition that in the event of the tenant under the said memorandum of lease not becoming the purchaser, any other purchaser shall, before being let into possession, in addition to the purchase-money, pay to the Receiver of Land Revenue the sum of one thousand one hundred and ninety-four pounds sixteen shillings, being the valuation for the substantial improvements of a permanent character made on the said land by the said tenant. On receipt of the said sum of one thousand one hundred and ninety-four pounds sixteen shillings, the Receiver of Land Revenue shall, on application made to him for that purpose, pay over the same to the said tenant, or other person or persons then legally entitled thereto.

———

FIRST SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, containing 898 acres 1 rood 5 perches, situate in the Wellington Land District, and known as Eketahuna No. 2 of Block X., Mangaone Survey District, and being the whole of the land in certificate of title, Vol. lxxxii., folio 207.

———

SECOND SCHEDULE.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

———

Land temporarily reserved in the Land Districts of Auckland, Taranaki, Wellington, Marlborough, Canterbury, and Otago.

———

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

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:

Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the lands in the Land Districts of Auckland, Taranaki, Wellington, Marlborough, Canterbury, and Otago, described in the Schedule hereunder written, for the purposes in the said Schedule specified at the end of the descriptions of the lands so intended to be temporarily reserved.

———

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND.

ALL that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District being Sections Nos. 28 and 29 of the Village of Taneatua, and containing by admeasurement 2 acres and 6 perches, more or less. Bounded towards the north-east by Section No. 8 of Block IX., Whakatane Survey District, 461 links; towards the south-east by a public road, 444 links; towards the south-west by Section No. 30 of the Village of Taneatua, 458 links; and towards the north-west by Sections Nos. 26 and 27 of the Village of Taneatua aforesaid, 444 links, to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. For a public pound.

All that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 3 acres 1 rood 13 perches, more or less, being Section No. 144A, Parish of Mangonui. Bounded towards the north generally by a public road, 414·2 links, 27·7 links, 137·1 links, 263·2 links, and 159·2 links; towards north-east, south, and south-west by Section No. 143, 594 links, 644·5 links, 440·5 links, respectively: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less; as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Auckland. For a quarry reserve.

All that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District being Section No. 302 of the Parish of Waipipi, and containing by admeasurement 1 acre, more or less. Bounded towards the north-east by Section No. 250 of the Parish of Waipipi, 507 links; towards the south-west by a public road, 507 links; and towards the north-west by Section No. 249 of the Parish of Waipipi, 198 links and 198 links, to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. For a public cemetery.

TARANAKI.

All that parcel of land in the Taranaki Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 rood 28 perches, more or less, being Sections Nos. 189 and 190, Town of Inglewood. Bounded towards the north by Section No. 178, Town of Inglewood aforesaid, 200 links; towards the east by a railway reserve, 244·2 links; towards the south-west by the Junction Road, 209·6 links; and towards the west by Richmond Street, 181·2 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less; as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, New Plymouth. For a site for a public library and mechanics’ institute.

WELLINGTON.

All that parcel of land in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 5 acres, more or less, being Section No. 29, Block XVI., Apiti Survey District. Bounded towards the north by the Makoura Road; towards the east by Section No. 19; towards the south by Section No. 19; and towards the west by the Makiekie Road: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Wellington. For a public-school site.

All that parcel of land in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 2 acres and 31 perches, more or less, being Section No. 85, Block VII., Mangahao Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Section No. 49; towards the south-east by the reserve along the Mangahao River; towards the south by Section No. 50; and towards the west by Section No. 49: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Wellington. For a public-school site.

All that parcel of land in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 3 acres 1 rood 16 perches, more or less, being Sections Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 15, Block IX., Township of Pongaroa. Bounded towards the north by Sections Nos. 5 and 11 and the Taraingahuata Stream; towards the east generally by the Taraingahuata Stream; towards the south by the chain reserve along the Pongaroa Stream; and towards the west by the Alfredton—Weber Road: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Wellington. For a public-school site.

All that parcel of land in the Wellington Land District containing by admeasurement 43 acres, more or less, being Section No. 42, Block XV., Hautapu Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Section No. 40; towards the east generally by the Mangawharariki Stream reserve, along said stream and Kelpie Road; towards the south by Sections Nos. 36 and 14; and towards the west generally by the