Num. 43.

1009

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1899.

Land set apart for Settlement.

(L.S.)

RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the second section of “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act Amendment Act, 1891” (herein termed “the said Act”), it is, amongst other things, enacted that, before certain moneys therein mentioned shall be expended upon any block of land, it shall be necessary that the same be proclaimed as set apart for settlement:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of every power and authority enabling me in this behalf, and for the purposes of the said Act, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim the block of land described in the Schedule hereto as set apart for settlement.

SCHEDULE.

Piko Block.

As the same are delineated upon the plan marked as above mentioned, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged with red.

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 Wellington, this twentieth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

God save the Queen!

Vesting a Reserve in the Cheviot County Council.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twelfth day of May, 1899.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. C. WALKER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto was permanently reserved as a site for offices and buildings of the Cheviot County Council on the twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine:

And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient to vest the said lands in the Cheviot County Council:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting 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 described in the Schedule hereto shall become vested in “The Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of Cheviot County,” in trust, as a site for offices and buildings for the county.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.

Town of Mackenzie.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Sale of Land under “The Public Works Act, 1894.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twelfth day of May, 1899.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. C. WALKER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the twenty-ninth section of “The Public Works Act, 1894” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that, if it is found that any land held, taken, purchased, or acquired at any time under this or any other Act or provincial Ordinance, or otherwise however, for any public work, is not required for such public work, the Governor may, by Order in Council publicly notified and gazetted, cause the same to be sold under the