Oct. 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1973

Lands permanently reserved.

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:

And whereas by the two-hundred-and-thirty-sixth section of the said Act it is provided that land temporarily reserved under the said two-hundred-and-thirty-fifth section may, at the expiration of one month but not later than six months after the publication in the Gazette of notice of such temporary reservation, be permanently reserved, and that notice of such permanent reservation shall be published in the Gazette:

And whereas the lands specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto were, by the warrants the dates of which are specified in the third column of the said Schedule, and the notifications of which were published in the Gazette specified in the fourth column, temporarily reserved under the authority of the said Act for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule:

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 vested in me by the said Act, do hereby permanently reserve the lands so temporarily reserved as aforesaid, and enumerated in the first column of the Schedule hereto, for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule, being the same purposes for which the said lands were so temporarily reserved as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

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

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

Warrant exempting Crown Lands from the Operation of “The Mining Act, 1898.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS by section twenty of “The Mining Act, 1898,” it is, inter alia, enacted that the Governor may from time to time, by notice in the Gazette, exempt any Crown lands from mining, or from any specified mining purpose, or from that Act or any specified provisions of that Act, and that the lands to which such notice relates shall be specified therein by words of particular description: And whereas the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto have been acquired under the provisions of “The Land for Settlements Act, 1894,” and its amendments, and it is desirable that they should be exempted from mining, or from any specified mining purpose, or from “The Mining Act, 1898,” or any specified provisions of that Act:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of the hereinbefore-in-part-recited Act, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in that behalf, do hereby exempt the lands particularly described in the Schedule hereto from mining, and from any specified mining purpose, or from the operation of “The Mining Act, 1898,” and from any specified provisions of that Act.

SCHEDULE.

TAHAWAI SETTLEMENT.

All that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 67 acres and 38 perches, more or less, being Subdivision No. 7 of original Section No. 5, Block I., Kurow Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west by Subdivision No. 6 of Section No. 5 aforesaid; towards the north-east by a public road along the southern bank of the Waitaki River; towards the south-east by the Kurow River, and Section No. 18, Block I. aforesaid; and towards the south-west by a public road (Kurow to Oamaru): as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 18895, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Land District of Wellington, and thereon edged red.

MOMONA SETTLEMENT.

All that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 218 acres 2 roods 21 perches, more or less, being original Sections 52, 2 of 53, and parts of 54 and 55, Block IV., Maungatua Survey District, parts of River Sections 1, 2, and 3, and part of closed road-line, West Taieri District. Bounded towards the north-west and north generally by road-lines; towards the north-east and east generally by road-lines and a road reserve; towards the south-east by the Taieri River and a road reserve; towards the north-west by a road-line; and towards the south-west by Section 51 of Block IV., Maungatua Survey District