JAN. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 15

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 nineteenth day of December, one thousand
eight hundred and ninety-nine.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

Paeroa Township exempted from the Provisions of “The Mining Act, 1898.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
vested in him by section 20 of “The Mining Act, 1898,”
His Excellency the Governor hereby notifies that the parcel
of land described in the Schedule hereto is exempted from
mining and from the provisions of the Mining Act aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Land District of Auckland
situated in Blocks XVI., Waihou, and XIII., Ohinemuri,
Survey Districts, Ohinemuri County, and being called or
known as the Paeroa Township, containing by admeasure-
ment 165 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the north-
east generally by the Te Arero-o-Huatata No. 2 Block, the
Aorangi Block, and the Te Puru-o-te-Rangi No. 2 Block,
1900, 380, 1300, 420, 320, 200, 220, 185, 120, 330, 140, 270,
180, 190, 225, 370, 260, 750, 520, 420, and 790 links respec-
tively; towards the south-east by the Te Puru-o-te-Rangi
No. 2 Block aforesaid and the Te Puru-o-te-Rangi No. 1
Block, 1466, 1249, and 1733 links respectively; and to-
wards the south-west generally by the Ohinemuri River and
the Ngahina and Te Arero-o-Huatata No. 1 Blocks, 538 and
1954 links respectively: be all the aforesaid linkages more
or less: as the same is more particularly delineated on the
plan numbered 374 (in red), deposited in the Survey Office
at Auckland.

Dated at Wellington, this twentieth day of December,
one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.

Changing the Purpose of a Reserve in Canterbury.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto
was heretofore duly set apart for a police-station and
other Government purposes within Class II. of “The Public
Reserves Act, 1881,” and such land has not been vested in
trust in any society, body corporate, or trustees: And
whereas it is expedient that such reserve shall be appro-
priated for the purposes of an old men’s home, Ashburton,
being a reserve in Class III. of the aforesaid Act:
Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of
the powers and authorities vested in me by the second sec-
tion of “The Public Reserves Act Amendment Act, 1889,”
do by this notification declare that the said reserve shall,
from and after the thirty-first day of December instant, be
appropriated for the purposes of an old men’s home, under
Class III. of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881”; and I do
hereby direct that this notification shall be published in the
New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District,
containing by admeasurement 10 acres and 31 perches, more
or less, and being Reserve 3446, formerly part of Reserve
1261, situate in Block XIII., Ashburton Survey District.
Commencing at the south-eastern corner of R.S. 5800;
thence north-easterly by Reserve 1120, 1316·5 links; thence
north-westerly by right lines along the top of the terrace,
distances respectively of 325·5, 352·6, 395, 183·7, and 176·2
links; thence south-westerly by a road-line, 729·8 links;
thence south-easterly by said Section 5800, 1099 links, to the
commencing-point: be all the aforesaid linkages more or
less.

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

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands,