Num. 11.

295

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1900.

Taking Land for a Road through Private Land, Section 52, Block XIV., Pohangina Survey District.

(I.S.) RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred by section thirteen of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, with the consent of the lessee of the land hereinafter mentioned, and with the consent of the Pohangina County Council, being the local authority in whose district the said land is situated, do by this notice hereby proclaim as a road the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

The parcel of land mentioned hereunder:—

In the Wellington Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked as above mentioned, deposited in the District Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above noted.

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 thirty-first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Notice of Intention to define the Purpose of a Reserve in the Canterbury Land District.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS by the fifth section of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” it is, amongst other things, enacted that, if there shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be any doubt or uncertainty as to the purpose for which a reserve was set apart, he may by notice gazetted define such purpose or purposes as to either the whole or any part of such reserve, subject to the action of the General Assembly, as provided in the seventh section of the said Act :

And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto was reserved by the Superintendent of Canterbury for public purposes :

And whereas it is expedient to define the specific purpose for which such land shall hereafter be set apart :

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” aforesaid, declare my intention to define the specific purpose of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto to be a reserve for a sanctuary for native water-fowl.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 31 acres, more or less, being Reserve No. 1873. Bounded towards the north-east generally by Rural Section No. 3744; towards the south-east by Reserve No. 898; towards the south-west by a public road; and towards the north-west generally by Rural Sections Nos. 826, 1485, and 3660: excepting from the above-described area Reserve No. 873A.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twentieth day of January, one thousand nine hundred.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

ERRATUM.—In New Zealand Gazette No. 100, of the 1st December, 1899, page 2202, for “Joseph Taylor Wood,” appointed Lieutenant, Timaru Rifle Volunteers, read “Robert Taylor Wood.”

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