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THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1898.

Rivers in Auckland District notified under “The Timber-floating Act, 1884.”

(L.S.)
RANFURLY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the second section of “The Timber-floating Act, 1884,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that the rivers specified in the Schedule hereto may be used under license for the purposes of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

RIVERS.

Arapaoa River,
Te Pahi River,

with all their respective tributary streams and branches, all being situate within the County of Otamatea.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Christchurch, this fourteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Resuming Land held under Lease in Perpetuity for the Purposes of a Road.

(L.S.)
RANFURLY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and twenty-five of “The Land Act, 1892” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is, inter alia, enacted that the Governor in Council may, by Proclamation, resume possession of any land leased under Part III. of the said Act which in his opinion is required for any public purpose:

And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto forms part of lands which are held on perpetual lease from Her Majesty the Queen under Part III. of the said Act, dated the seventeenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three: And whereas in the opinion of the Governor the land described in the Schedule hereto is required for a public purpose, that is to say, for the purposes of a public road or highway:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section one hundred and twenty-five of “The Land Act, 1892,” and of all other powers and authorities in any wise enabling me in that behalf, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby proclaim and declare that I hereby resume possession of the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto for the public purpose hereinbefore mentioned, the same being part of the lands as held under lease as aforesaid; and do also hereby proclaim and declare that this Proclamation shall take effect on the twenty-fifth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

SCHEDULE.

All in the Hawke’s Bay Land District; as the same are delineated upon the plan marked as above-mentioned, deposited in the District Office of the Lands and Survey Department, at Napier, and thereon coloured as above stated.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Christchurch, this fifteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Approved in Council.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!