Num. 78. 1803

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1899.

Constituting Rabbit-proof Wire-netting District. — Notice No. 563.

(L.S.) RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS a petition from a majority of the ratepayers in that part of the colony comprised in the Schedule hereto has been presented to His Excellency the Governor, praying him to constitute such part of the colony a district for the purposes of “The Rabbit-proof Wire-netting Fences Act, 1898” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), and it appears expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition:

Now, therefore, His Excellency Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred by the said Act, doth hereby constitute all that part of the said colony comprised in the Schedule hereto to be a district for the purposes of the said Act, and doth hereby declare that such district shall be known by the name of “The Taipos Rabbit-proof Wire-netting District.”

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Provincial District of Wellington, containing 9,562 acres, more or less, being the whole of the properties known as the Taipos and Bankview, and part of the Brancepeth Estate, situate in the Wainuioru Survey District. Commencing at a point on the north-western boundary where the Kumahanga Stream flows into the Wainuioru River, proceeding eastwards on a fencing-line on the right bank of the Kumahanga Stream. Bounded towards the east by part Section 128, Block III., and Sections 235, 267, and 270, Block VII., and Section 277, Block XI., in the said survey district; towards the south by Sections 286, 285, and 284, Block X., and Section 237, Block VI., in the said survey district, and known as the Admiral Run; towards the west partly by Section 282, Block VI., in the said survey district, also part of the Admiral Run, partly by the Wainuioru River, partly by part of the Te Umukereru and Tikiwhakaiko No. 2 Blocks, the property of W. and H. Beetham, and again partly by the Wainuioru River to the point of commencement.

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 thirteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

W. C. WALKER.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Land set apart for Settlement.

(I.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.

ORAUKURA BLOCK.

As the same are delineated upon the plan marked S.G. 41839, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged with blue.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly;