Numb. 92.

2079

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1899.

Declaring State Forests in the Land District of Wellington.

RANFURLY, Governor.

By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.

(l.s.)

A PROCLAMATION.

BY virtue and in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by “The New Zealand State Forests Act, 1885,” and of every other power and authority enabling me in that behalf, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby set apart the forest land described in the Schedule hereto, forming part of the Crown lands in New Zealand, as and for State forests within the provisions of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 1,998 acres 2 roods, more or less, being Sections Nos. 16, Block I., Kopuaranga Survey District, 205 acres; 6, Block IV., Mikimiki Survey District, 625 acres; 174, Block XIII., Mangaone Survey District, 379 acres; 7, Block XIV., Tararua Survey District, 789 acres 2 roods. Bounded towards the north by Section No. 172 of Block XIII., Mangaone Survey District; towards the east by a Native reserve of 1,000 acres, and Section No. 175, Block XIII., Mangaone Survey District; again towards the north by Section No. 175; towards the south-east by Sections Nos. 12, 13, 14, 15, and 17, Block I., Kopuaranga Survey District; towards the south by Section No. 8 of Block IV., Mikimiki Survey District; and towards the west by Section No. 5 of Block IV., Mikimiki Survey District, Section No. 8 of Block 14, Tararua Survey District, and the Bruce Road: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Wellington.

All that parcel of land in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 323 acres, more or less, being Section No. 42, Block XI., Ongo Survey District. Bounded towards the north and north-west by Rangitikei Valley Road and Section No. 71; towards the north-east by Section No. 44; towards the south-east by Sections Nos. 43 and 40; and towards the south-west by Section No. 38: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Wellington.

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 twenty-eighth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Commissioner of State Forests.

Approved in Council.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Declaring that the Protection of a Part of the Banks of the Okuku River shall be a Public Work.

RANFURLY, Governor.

By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.

(l.s.)

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and sixty-four of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” it is, inter alia, enacted that whenever it is found desirable, for the safety or proper maintenance of any public work constructed or authorised under the authority of Her Majesty or the Governor, or the Government of the colony, or by or under the provisions of any Act of the General Assembly, to protect, alter, or divert, either wholly or partially, any river, stream, or watercourse, the Governor, by Proclamation, may declare that the course of such river, stream, or watercourse shall be protected, altered, or diverted, and thereupon the said protection, alteration, or diversion shall be a public work within the meaning of the said Act: