JUNE 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1051

Survey District. Bounded towards the north by a public road, 6407·6 links; towards the north-east by a road reserve, 396 links; towards the south-east by Section No. 8, Block XVI., Weber Survey District, 2664·8 links; and towards the south-west by the Wellington Land District, 5783·4 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Napier.

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

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

Regulations for the Exclusive Right of taking Sponges.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on me by section twenty-one of “The Sea-fisheries Act, 1894,” subsection one of section three of “The Sea-fisheries Act Amendment Act, 1895,” and of an Order in Council dated the twelfth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, made under section three of “The Sea-fisheries Act Amendment Act, 1896,” and published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 32, of the thirteenth day of the same month, declaring sponges and sponge-beds to be subject to the provisions of sections eighteen to twenty-two of “The Sea-fisheries Act, 1894,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby make the following regulations for granting licenses for the exclusive right of taking sponges from sponge-beds in New Zealand:—

REGULATIONS.

1. The area to be included in a license shall be such as may be decided upon by the Minister having Charge of the Marine Department.

2. The licenses will be issued for such periods as may be decided upon by the Minister having Charge of the Marine Department, provided that no license shall be issued for a longer period than fourteen years.

3. In the case where a survey of the area comprised in a license is necessary, the sum of one pound shall be paid by the licensee on the issue of a license as a fee for the survey.

4. A licensee shall not assign, charge, or part with any right, power, or privilege conferred by or under his license without the written consent of the Minister having Charge of the Marine Department first obtained.

5. A license for one area may be granted to any number of persons or to a joint-stock company.

6. The working of the sponge-beds shall be under the control of the Inspector of Fisheries, who shall have power to regulate the quantity of sponges that may be taken from the beds of any holding, so as to prevent the beds being depleted or injuriously affected.

7. Should a licensee commit a breach of the Sea-fisheries Act or its amendments, or of these regulations, his license may be revoked or determined without any notice to him.

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

WM. HALL-JONES.

Amending the Description of a Reserve in the Wellington Land District.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS by the two-hundred-and-thirty-ninth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” it is enacted that where there has been any error of description made in any notification of any intended reserve, or where there appears a great discrepancy in the area of any intended reserve after the same shall have been surveyed, the Governor may cancel any notification that may have been made in respect of such reserve, and issue fresh notification in respect thereof, with amended particulars and description: And whereas an error was made in the description of Section No. 51, Block II., Makuri Survey District, Wellington Land District, which was wrongly described as Section No. 57, Block II., Makuri Survey District, in the warrant of the fourteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 26, of the twenty-third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, reserving the land for gravel; and it is expedient to cancel the said notification in so far as it relates to Section No. 57, Block II., Makuri Survey District, aforesaid:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby revoke the warrant of the fourteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, in so far as it relates to Section No. 57, Block II., Makuri Survey District; and do declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be the land set apart as a gravel reserve intended by the said notification.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 acre, more or less, being Section No. 51, Block II., Makuri Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Section No. 24 of Block XIII., Taha-raite Survey District; towards the south-east by a public road, 100 links wide; and towards the south and south-west by a public road, 100 links wide: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Wellington.

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

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

Changing the Purpose of a Reserve at Taranaki.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power conferred by section seventeen of “The Reserves, Endowments, and Crown and Native Lands Exchange, Sale, Disposal, and Enabling Act, 1898,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby change the purpose of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto from a prison-site reserve to a reserve for harbour purposes and as an endowment for the New Plymouth Harbour Board.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Taranaki Land District, containing by admeasurement 2 roods 30 perches, more or less, being Section No. 816, Grey District, Block IV., Paritutu Survey District. Bounded towards the north and north-west by part of F Harbour Reserve, 108·3 links and 218 links respectively: towards the south-east by Section 812, Grey District aforesaid, 156·1 links; thence by a termination of a right-of-way to Section 817, Grey District aforesaid, 12·9 links; thence by the said right-of-way, 89 links: towards the south-west by a public road, 294·2 links: on the west and north-west by a public road, 93 links and 94·2 links respectively. Excepting therefrom the Native Burial Reserve, Section 817 aforesaid—bounded on the north-east, 36 links; on the south-east, 58·9 links; on the west, 37·1 links; and on the north-west, 49·15 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, New Plymouth.

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

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

Land temporarily reserved in the Land District of Auckland.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS by the two-hundred-and-thirty-fifth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the land in the Land District of Auckland described in the Schedule hereunder written, as endowments for primary education.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, being Section No. 141A of the Parish of Tauraroa, and containing by admeasurement 29 acres 2 roods, more or less. Bounded towards the north-east by a road, 958 links; towards the south-east by Section No. 141 of the same parish, 3680 links; and towards the north-west generally by lines along the Tauraroa River, 196, 930, 284, 242, 508, 352, 428, 308, 357, 608, 466, 248, 363, 853, 462, 395, 189, 524, and 589 links, to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.