APRIL 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 573

Taihape Township—continued.

Block XV.—continued.

Block XVI.—continued.

Block XVI.

| 1 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | 0 | 1 | 26 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 10 | 0 |

Block XVII.

| 1 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 7 | 10 | 0 |
| 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 0 |
| 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 0 |
| 5 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 0 |
| 6 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 0 |

Block XVIII.

| 1 | 0 | 3 | 25 | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 16 | 0 | 0 |

Taihape Suburbs.

| 18 | 16 | 0 | 20 | 48 | 7 | 6 |
| 21 | 25 | 2 | 30 | 51 | 7 | 6 |
| 22 | 11 | 2 | 10 | 57 | 16 | 0 |
| 25 | 5 | 0 | 15 | 30 | 11 | 3 |
| 26 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 2 |
| 30 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 0 |

| 31 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 18 | 9 |
| 32 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 0 |
| 34 | 3 | 3 | 19 | 19 | 7 | 0 |
| 36 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 25 | 17 | 6 |
| 37 | 5 | 0 | 13 | 35 | 11 | 5 |

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

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Notifying Lands in Wellington for Sale by Public Auction.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred
upon me by the one-hundred-and-thirteenth section of
“ The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of
Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do
hereby appoint Wednesday, the twenty-fifth day of May, one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, as the time at
which the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be
sold by public auction; and I do hereby fix the prices at
which the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the
said Schedule hereto opposite the description of such lands
respectively.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

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

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

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

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS by “ The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” it is,
amongst other things, enacted that the Governor
may declare his intention to 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 pur-
poses named in Class II. of the Schedule to the said Act,
whether the same be granted or not; and in the case of any
reserve made under the authority of section one hundred
and forty-four of “ The Land Act, 1877,” 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, 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, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly,
the Governor 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, de-
clare my intention to change the specific purpose of the
reserve described in the first column of the Schedule hereto
from that named to the purpose named in the second column
of the said Schedule respectively.

SCHEDULE.

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

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

Animals Protection Acts.—Declaring Reserve for Native and
Imported Game, Wellington.

RANFURLY, Governor.

PURSUANT to the powers conferred on him by “ The
Animals Protection Act, 1880,” His Excellency the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand doth hereby notify
that neither imported nor native game, and no native birds
of any kind whatsoever, shall be taken or killed within that
portion of the Wellington Acclimatisation District being
the northern portion of the Wainui Forest Reserve, near
Paraparaumu, and more particularly described in the Sche-
dule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, situated
near Paraparaumu, in the Akatarawa Survey District,
bounded towards the north-east by Sections Nos. 12 and
13, Block I., Akatarawa Survey District; towards the south
generally by a right line from the south-western corner of
the last-mentioned section to Trig. Station, Maunganui;
thence by a right line to the Maungakotukutuku Stream, at
the south-eastern corner of Section No. 93, Block II., Pai-
kakariki Survey District; and thence towards the north-
west generally by the Maungakotukutuku Stream afore-
said to Section No. 12 aforesaid.

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

WM. HALL-JONES.

Removal of Restrictions on Alienation of Native Land.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS application has been made to the Governor
by the Native owner of the land described in the
Schedule hereto, praying that the restrictions on the alien-
ation of such land contained in the Crown grant bearing
date the sixteenth day of February, one thousand eight-
hundred and eighty-one, may be removed: And whereas
inquiry has been duly made by the Native Land Court,
and the said Court has recommended that such restrictions
be removed:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
conferred upon him by the fifty-second section of “ The