Jan. 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 21

As the said area is delineated upon the plan marked as above mentioned, deposited in the District Office of the Lands and Survey Department at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above stated.

Dated this 21st day of December, 1897.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Notice of the Laying-off of a Road over Native Land in the Maungaru Survey District.

NOTICE is hereby given, under the authority contained in section 72 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” and the amendments thereof, that the road mentioned in the Schedule hereto was, on the 23rd April, 1897, surveyed and laid off over the Native land therein mentioned, under my direction; and that, in terms of the said Act, the site of such road shall be deemed to be a road dedicated to the public, and shall vest in Her Majesty.

SCHEDULE.

As the said area is delineated upon the plan marked as above mentioned, deposited in the District Office of the Lands and Survey Department, Auckland, in the Auckland Land District, and thereon coloured as above stated.

Dated this 23rd day of December, 1897.

A. BARRON,
Assistant Surveyor-General.

Notice of Intention to take Land for a Road in connection with the Railway from the Main Line of the Waitaki-Bluff Railway to Oteramika and Toitois, Seaward Bush Branch, Remaining Part of Mataura Section.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” to execute a certain public work, to wit, the construction of a road in connection with the railway from the main line of the Waitaki-Bluff Railway to Oteramika and Toitois, Seaward Bush Branch, remaining part of Mataura Section, and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken. And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the said road and of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the Post-office, Fortrose, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land shall, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister for Public Works, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

The parcel of land mentioned hereunder:—

In the Land District of Southland; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 18100, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured sepia.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this twenty-third day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

Results of Road Board Elections.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 5th January, 1898.

THE following notices of elections of members of Road Boards have been received at this office, and are published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

HUGH POLLEN,
Under-Secretary.

Mangawai Road District, County of Otamatea :
David Moir.
John Thomas Somerville.

Ahuroa Road District, County of Rodney :
Thomas Oliver Jenkins.

Examination for Land Surveyors.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 26th November, 1897.

IN accordance with the regulations for the examination of surveyors under “The Land Act, 1892,” as published in the New Zealand Gazette of 5th March, 1896, it is hereby notified that the next examination thereunder will be held on 29th March next.

T. M. GRANT,
Secretary to the Board of Examiners.

Crown Lands Notices.

Leases of Land, Auckland, forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 13th December, 1897.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned leases of land were forfeited by resolutions of the Auckland Land Board on the 24th August, 1897.

SCHEDULE.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Lands in Canterbury Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 24th December, 1897.

IT is hereby notified that, the leases of the under-mentioned Crown lands having been forfeited by resolutions of the Canterbury Land Board, the said lands have reverted to the Crown, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Land in Auckland classified.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 20th December, 1897.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Commissioners appointed in pursuance of section 189 of “The Land Act, 1892,” have reported to His Excellency the Governor that the land described in the Schedule hereto has been classified by them as therein noted.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.