Num. 4.

79

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1898.

Native Land off East Cape to be taken for a Lighthouse, and other Works in Connection therewith, being the Island of Whangaokeno, or East Island, in the Provincial District of Auckland.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of December, 1897.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR 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 lighthouse, and other works in connection therewith, on the island known as Whangaokeno, or East Island, in the Provincial District of Auckland:

And whereas the said land is held or occupied by Native owners, and the title thereto is not derived from the Crown: And whereas a map of the said land has been prepared in duplicate, 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 said Act, and of all other powers in any wise enabling him in this behalf, 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, doth hereby declare that the land shown upon such map, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be deemed to be taken for the purposes of the public work hereinbefore mentioned; and the said land shall vest in Her Majesty the Queen as from the fifteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area of land in the Provincial District of Auckland, being the Island of Whangaokeno, or East Island, lying about a mile and a half in an easterly direction from East Cape, and containing approximately 20 acres; and on which island a trig. marked D bears 98° 26′ 30″ from Trig. E, Block XVI., East Cape Survey District, and 48° 11′ 51″ from Trig. B, Block IV., Waipu Survey District: as the same is delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 18088, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

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

Rural Lands in the Auckland Land District open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by “The Land for Settlements Act, 1894,” and the one hundred and thirty-sixth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said one hundred and thirty-sixth section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on and after the twenty-first day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, and that the said lands may be selected on lease in perpetuity, subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892”; and I do hereby declare that the rentals at which the said lands shall be leased shall be those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto opposite the description of such lands respectively.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—PIAKO COUNTY.—OKAUIA SETTLEMENT.

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

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

ERRATA.—In New Zealand Gazette No. 1, of 6th January, 1898, page 18, in the notice “Endowment Reserves for Education sanctioned by Parliament, Auckland Land District,” in first column, for “Kopura,” read “Kopuru,” and for “Takapuna North-west, middle portion,” read “Takapuna Parish”; and in second column, for “204,” read “North-west middle portion 204”; and in the Wellington Land District, first column, for “Rakaunui Village,” read “Rakaunui Village Settlement”; and for “Hautapu Settlement Survey District,” read “Hautapu Survey District.”

A