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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 56

Vesting a Reserve in the Pahiatua County Council.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of June, 1899.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto was permanently set aside as a gravel reserve on the twentieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine:

And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient to vest the said land in the Pahiatua 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 mentioned in the Schedule hereto shall become vested in “The Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the Pahiatua County,” in trust, for a gravel reserve.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 2 acres 3 roods 20 perches, more or less, being Section No. 76, Block V., Makuri Survey District. Bounded generally towards the north, north-east, east, south-east, and south by the Woodville-Aohanga Road, and towards the west by Section No. 75: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Wellington.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Setting apart Reserves under “The Kauri-Gum Industry Act, 1898.”

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of June, 1899.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by “The Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1898” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor in Council is authorised under the said Act to set apart any specified area of Crown lands within a kauri-gum district to be kauri-gum reserves under the said Act: And whereas it is expedient to create and set apart the kauri-gum reserves hereinafter mentioned:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby set apart the several areas of Crown lands respectively described in the Schedule hereto as kauri-gum reserves, with the names respectively set over the description of such reserves in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

WHANGAROA COUNTY.

Totara Kauri-gum Reserve Extension: 2,200 acres. For Totara Settlement.

Takou Kauri-gum Reserve Extension: 960 acres. For Kaeo Settlement.

Mahinepua Kauri-gum Reserve: 517 acres 3 roods 16 perches. For Kaeo Settlement.

WHANGAREI COUNTY.

Waipu Kauri-gum Reserve: 2,240 acres. For Waipu Settlement.

Pohuenui Kauri-gum Reserve: 190 acres. For Waipu Settlement.

WHANGAROA COUNTY.

Totara Kauri-gum Reserve Extension.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, situate in Block XI., Mangonui Survey District, and containing by admeasurement 2,200 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the north generally by part of the northern boundary of the County of Whangaroa, by Section No. 10 of the Parish of Whakapaku, and by the Mangataraire Block; towards the east by the eastern boundary of Mangonui Survey District; and by a public road; towards the south by the northern boundary of the Parish of Kohumaru; towards the south-west by land granted to J. Berghan (No. 103 O.L.C.); and towards the west by a line running parallel to and at a distance of 120 chains in a westerly direction from the eastern boundary of Block XI., Mangonui Survey District, to the point of commencement: save and except Section No. 1 of Block XI. aforesaid from the area hereinbefore described.

Takou Kauri-gum Reserve Extension.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, situate in Blocks IV. and VIII., Kaeo Survey District, and Blocks I. and II., Kerikeri Survey District, and containing by admeasurement 960 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the north by the Takou Kauri-gum Reserve, proclaimed in Gazette of 21st December, 1898; towards the north-east by Section No. 1 of Block I., Kerikeri Survey District; towards the south by land granted to J. H. Davis (No. 19 O.L.C.); towards the west and again towards the south by Section No. 1 of Block VIII., Kaeo Survey District; and again towards the west by Section 1 of Block IV. of the same survey district to the point of commencement.

Mahinepua Kauri-gum Reserve.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, being Sections Nos. 5, 6, and 7 of Block IV., Kaeo Survey District, and containing by admeasurement 517 acres 3 roods 16 perches, more or less. Bounded towards the north-east by the Whakarara Block; towards the south-east by a public road; towards the south-west by a public road; again towards the south-east by land granted to J. Shepherd (No. 14 O.L.C.); towards the west by a stream; and towards the north-west by unadjudicated Native land, by Section No. 8 of the Parish of Mahinepua, and by land granted to J. Shepherd (No. 14 O.L.C.) to the point of commencement.

WHANGAREI COUNTY.

Waipu Kauri-gum Reserve.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, situate in the Parish of Waipu, and containing by admeasurement 2,240 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the north-east generally by Sections Nos. 22, 307, 26, 43, and 333 of the Parish of Waipu, by a public road, by Section No. 129 of the same parish, by a public road, and by Sections Nos. 35 and 180 of the same parish; towards the south generally by a public road; and towards the west generally by a public road, by Sections No. 84 and 85 of the Parish of Waipu aforesaid, by a public road, and by Section No. 213 of the same parish to the point of commencement.

Pohuenui Kauri-gum Reserve.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, situate in the Parish of Waipu, and containing by admeasurement 190 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the north-east by Sections Nos. 10 and 11 of the Parish of Waipu and by a public road; towards the south-west by a public road; towards the south-east by Sections Nos. 226, 12, and 161 of the Parish of Waipu aforesaid; again towards the south-west by Section No. 212 of the same parish; and towards the north-west by a public road, and by Sections Nos. 156 and 36 of the Parish of Waipu aforesaid to the point of commencement.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

“The Education Act, 1877.”—Class-books for Public Schools.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of June, 1899.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Education Act, 1877,” the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the colony, doth hereby revoke all regulations heretofore made under the authority of the said Act prescribing class-books for public schools, and in lieu thereof doth make the regulations hereto annexed; and, with the like advice and consent, doth prescribe that this Order shall come into force on the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

REGULATIONS.

1. Subject to such restrictions as the Education Board of any district may impose, any books described in the following list may be used in any public school:—

Reading.—Brooks’ Australian Readers, 1–5 (for Standards I.–VI.); Longmans’ New Readers and Ship Literary Readers; Nelson’s Royal Crown Readers, Queen Primer,