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dient that the said land should be vested in the Raglan County Council:

Now, therefore, 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, and in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the fourth section of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” doth hereby declare that, from and after the day of the date hereof, the reserve mentioned in the Schedule hereto shall become vested in “The Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the Raglan County,” in trust, as a quarry reserve.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, being the northern portion of Section No. 85 of the Parish of Whaingaroa, containing by admeasurement 36 acres 2 roods 11 perches, more or less. Bounded towards the north-east generally by Section No. 68 of the Parish of Whaingaroa, 146 and 196 links; by the crossing of a road 100 links wide; by a public road, 312 and 112 links; again by Section No. 68 aforesaid, 135 links; and by a public road, 23, 345, and 794 links: towards the south-east by a public road, 123, 258, 345, 1135, 210, and 549 links: and towards the north-west generally by a public road, 632, 969, 114, 365, 204, and 910 links; by the crossing of a road 100 links wide; and by a public road, 115 links, to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: save and except a road 100 links wide which intersects the north-eastern portion of the area hereinbefore described.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.

Revoking Warrant appointing Trustees for the Hunterville Public Cemetery.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the sixth section of “The Cemeteries Act, 1882,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby revoke the warrant of the fifteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety, appointing Trustees to provide for the maintenance and care of the Hunterville Public Cemetery.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Declaring Northern Oyster-fishery, and Subdivisions wherein Oysters may not be taken.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance of the power and authority vested in me by section fifteen of “The Sea-fisheries Act, 1894,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby declare the bays, estuaries, and tidal waters situated between a point on high-water mark of the sea due east of Trig. Station No. 29, on the South Head of Whangaruru Harbour and North Cape (including the bays, estuaries, and tidal waters of any islands situated between the said South Head of Whangaruru Harbour and North Cape), to be an oyster-fishery under the name of “The Northern Oyster-fishery,” and I do hereby divide the same into three subdivisions, namely:—

1. The Southern Subdivision, which shall extend from a point on high-water mark of the sea due east of Trig. Station No. 29, on the South Head of Whangaruru Harbour, to Ti Point, being the south side of the entrance to the River Waitangi, in the Bay of Islands, and shall include all the bays, estuaries, and tidal waters situated between these points.

2. The Middle Subdivision, which shall extend from Ti Point, being the south side of the entrance to the River Waitangi, in the Bay of Islands, to a point on high-water mark of the sea due east of Trig. Station No. 3, Mataka, near Cape Wiwiki, and shall include all bays, estuaries, and tidal waters situated between these points.

3. The Northern Subdivision, which shall extend from a point on high-water mark of the sea due east of Trig. Station No. 3, Mataka, near Cape Wiwiki, to North Cape, and shall include all bays, estuaries, and tidal waters situated between these points.

And I do hereby further declare and prescribe that it shall be unlawful to take oysters in the said Southern, Middle, and Northern Subdivisions of the oyster-fishery aforesaid; and, further, that the said oyster-fishery and the several subdivisions thereof shall be marked out by distinguishing posts or marks (to be approved by the Collector or officer in charge of Customs at the Port of Russell), in the manner provided by section twenty-six of the said Act, as nearly as may be.

The warrant defining the Northern Oyster-fishery, dated the twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the fourth April in the same year, is hereby revoked.

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

WM. HALL-JONES.

Declaring it unlawful to take Oysters in the Tauranga Oyster-fishery.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS it is, amongst other things, provided by section fifteen of “The Sea-fisheries Act, 1894” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), that the Governor may from time to time declare any bay, estuary, or tidal waters in the colony to be an oyster-fishery under the said Act, and may part the same into subdivisions by distinguishing marks, and may prescribe the subdivisions thereof wherein it shall be lawful and unlawful respectively to take oysters:

And whereas, by warrant under the hand of the Governor dated the third day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, and published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 33, of the eighth day of the same month, the Tauranga Oyster-fishery was constituted, and it was declared lawful to take oysters in such oyster-fishery: And whereas it is desirable that it shall be declared unlawful to take oysters in the said oyster-fishery:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the hereinbefore-recited power and authority, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in that behalf, do hereby declare and prescribe that, after the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, it shall be unlawful to take oysters in the Tauranga Oyster-fishery.

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

WM. HALL-JONES.

Declaring Auckland Oyster-fishery, and Subdivisions within which Oysters may and may not be taken.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance of the power and authority vested in me by section fifteen of “The Sea-fisheries Act, 1894,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby declare the bays, estuaries, and tidal waters situated between a point on high-water mark of the sea due east of Trig. Station No. 29, on the south head of Whangaruru Harbour, and the northernmost point of the south head of Tairua Harbour, including the bays, estuaries, and tidal waters of any islands situated between the said points on the south head of Whangaruru Harbour and the south head of Tairua Harbour, excepting the bays, estuaries, and tidal waters of the Island of Kawau, to be an oyster-fishery under the name of “The Auckland Oyster-fishery”; and I do hereby divide the same into three subdivisions, namely:—

1. The Whangarei Subdivision, which shall include the bays, estuaries, and tidal waters situated between the easternmost point of Bream Head and the eastern boundary-line of Section 91, Block I., Mangawai Survey District, on Bream Tail.

2. The Auckland Subdivision, which shall include the bays, estuaries, and tidal waters in the said oyster-fishery between the eastern boundary-line of Section 91, Block I., Mangawai Survey District, on Bream Tail, and the northernmost point of the south head of Tairua Harbour, excepting the Great Barrier Island, and the bays, estuaries, and tidal waters thereof.

3. The Great Barrier Subdivision, which shall include the bays, estuaries, and tidal waters of Great Barrier Island.

And I do hereby further declare and prescribe that it shall be lawful to take oysters, within the periods prescribed in that behalf, in the Auckland and Great Barrier Subdivisions aforesaid; and that it shall be unlawful to take oysters in the Whangarei Subdivision of the oyster-fishery aforesaid; and, further, that the said oyster-fishery and the several subdivisions thereof shall be marked out by distinguishing posts or marks (to be approved by the Collector of Customs at the Port of Auckland), in the manner provided by section twenty-six of the said Act, as nearly as may be.

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

WM. HALL-JONES.