APRIL 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 755

All in the Hawke’s Bay Land District; as the said parcels of land are more particularly delineated on the plan marked as above mentioned, deposited in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above stated.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS by “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” it is, amongst other things, enacted that the Governor may declare his intention to make, change, exchange, or alter the dedication of any public reserve now or hereafter vested in Her Majesty or the Governor for any of the purposes named in Class II. of the Schedule to the said Act, whether the same be granted or not; if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to change the purpose of such reserve or any part thereof from the purpose or presumed purpose for which it was set apart to any other purpose, or if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to exchange any of the land comprised in such reserve for other land of equal value, to be dedicated to one or more purposes named in the said Class II., the Governor may, by notice gazetted, declare his intention to make such change, exchange, or dedication, as the case may be, and in such notice declare the manner and terms in which the same is intended to be so made:

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 change the specific purpose of the portion of the reserves described in the second column of the Schedule hereto from that named in the first column of the said Schedule to that named in the third column of the said Schedule respectively.

SCHEDULE.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand nine hundred.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Appointing Commission to inquire and report generally in respect to the Constituting and Setting-apart of Watercourses in the Land Districts of Otago and Southland as Watercourses for the Discharge of Tailings and Waste Water produced by Mining Operations.

COMMISSION.

To all to whom these presents shall come, and to John Hayes, of Wellington, Esquire, Inspecting Engineer to the Mines Department, James Pillans Maitland, of Dunedin, Esquire, Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Land District of Otago, David Barron, of Invercargill, Esquire, Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Land District of Southland, Thomas Young Duncan, of Pukeuri, Esquire, Member of the House of Representatives, and Henry Andrew Gordon, of Auckland, Esquire, Mining Engineer: Greeting.

WHEREAS applications under section one hundred and eight of “The Mining Act, 1898,” have been made from time to time for the issue of Proclamations constituting and setting apart the watercourses enumerated in the First and Second Schedules hereto to be watercourses for the discharge of tailings and waste water produced by or resulting from mining operations, and other the purposes specified in that section: And whereas in the case of the watercourses enumerated in the First Schedule hereto notice of the receipt of the applications has been duly published as required by the said Act, and all the claims for compensation, as provided by the said Act, have been served upon the Minister of Mines, and no further claims can be made: And whereas in the case of the watercourses enumerated in the Second Schedule hereto notice of the receipt of the applications has not yet been published as aforesaid, and consequently the claims for compensation have not yet been made: And whereas there are other watercourses in the Land Districts of Otago and Southland which in the interests of the mining industry it may be desirable to constitute and set apart by Proclamation to be watercourses for the purposes aforesaid: And whereas it may be desirable, in lieu of paying compensation, to compulsorily take as provided by subsection two of section one hundred and thirteen of the said Act the whole or portions of the lands that may be damaged or injuriously affected by reason of the operation of the respective Proclamations:

Now, therefore, know ye that I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, reposing trust and confidence in your knowledge, integrity, and ability, and by the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby constitute and appoint you, the said

JOHN HAYES,
JAMES PILLANS MAITLAND,
DAVID BARRON,
THOMAS YOUNG DUNCAN, and
HENRY ANDREW GORDON,

to be Commissioners for the purpose of making inquiry into the matters hereinbefore referred to, and into the several other matters mentioned in these presents, that is to say,—

(1.) As to whether it is expedient that any, and, if any, then which, and in each case what part, of the respective watercourses enumerated in the First and Second Schedules hereto should be proclaimed as aforesaid.

(2.) As to whether it is expedient, or is likely to become expedient, that any other watercourses in the Land District of Otago or Southland, and, if any, then which, and in each case what part thereof, should be proclaimed as aforesaid.

(3.) In the case of each of the watercourses enumerated in the First and Second Schedules hereto, and in the case also of any other watercourses in either of the land districts aforesaid as to which it is, in your opinion, expedient, or likely to become expedient, that the same should in whole or in part be proclaimed as aforesaid, to make inquiry into the matters following:—

(a.) What lands are likely to be damaged or injuriously affected, and to what extent, by the operation of the Proclamation if the same is issued.

(b.) What claims for compensation have been made, or are likely to be made in respect thereof, and the amount to which in your opinion the claimant would be reasonably entitled in cases where claims have been made; and in cases where no claims have been made, but where damage or injury is likely to occur, the amount of compensation likely to be required to cover the same.

(c.) In what cases it would be expedient to compulsorily take the land in lieu of paying com-