Numb. 56.

1217

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1897.

Native Land proposed to be taken for Main Road in the Horowhenua County.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this fourteenth day of June, 1897.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE GOVERNMENT 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 main road at Waikanae, through Block IX., Kaitawa Survey District:

And whereas the said land is held or occupied by Native owners under a title which is not derived from the Crown: And whereas a map in duplicate has been prepared of the said land by the Horowhenua County Council, as required by the eighty-eighth section of “The Public Works Act, 1894”:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the eighty-eighth section of the said Act, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, 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, doth hereby declare that the land shown upon such map, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be deemed to be taken for the purpose of the said road, and the said land shall vest in Her Majesty the Queen as from the seventeenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

SCHEDULE.

The parcel of land mentioned hereunder :—

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

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

WHEREAS by “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” it is amongst other things enacted that the Governor may 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, 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, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government 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 reserve described in the Schedule hereto from a site for a public hall to a site for offices and buildings of the General Government.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land, containing by admeasurement 1 acre and 12 perches, more or less, being Lot No. 38 in the Parish of Okura, Block XI., Waiwera Survey District, Auckland Land District. Bounded towards the north-east by a road, 468 links; towards the south by a road, 598 links; and towards the north-west by a road, 477 links, to the point of commencement.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, this twenty-eighth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Extending Time for Shooting Season for Imported and Native Game, Cook County District.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

WHEREAS by warrant made under “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” dated the twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven,