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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 98

Lands withdrawn from State Forests.

(l.s.)
RANFURLY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the lands specified in the first column of
the Schedule hereto are portions of State forests
under the control of the Commissioner of State Forests
appointed under “The New Zealand State Forests Act,
1885” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), and the said
lands are now no longer required for State-forest purposes :
And whereas plans showing the extent and position of the
said lands, and a statement of the reasons why they are no
longer required for State-forest purposes, have been laid
before both Houses of Parliament for a period of thirty
days, and no resolution has been passed by either of such
Houses objecting to the issue of this Proclamation :
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Right Honourable
Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the
powers conferred by “The New Zealand State Forests Act
Amendment Act, 1883,” and of all other powers in anywise
enabling him in this behalf, and acting by and with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said
colony, doth hereby revoke the Proclamation specified in the
second column of the Schedule hereto, in so far as it relates
to the lands specified in the first column of the Schedule
hereto, as from the date of the publication hereof in the
New Zealand Gazette ; and doth hereby proclaim and declare
that from and after such date the several parcels of land
described in the first column of the Schedule hereto shall be
no longer subject to the provisions of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

FIRST COLUMN.

All that area in the Southland Land District,
containing by admeasurement 3,727 acres 3 roods
17 perches, more or less, being sections numbered
37 to 50 and 59 to 74, Block VIII., Winton Hun-
dred : as the same is delineated on the official
map in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Inver-
cargill.

All that area in the Southland Land District,
containing by estimation 13,500 acres, situated in
Longwood and Waiau Survey Districts. Bounded
generally towards the north by Sections Nos. 105
and 82, Waiau District, 4120·6 links, 513 links,
916·1 links, 4600 links, 8972 links, 10819·4 links,
and 8685·6 links respectively ; towards the east and
south-east by Crown land, 11600 links, 34000 links,
and 2000 links respectively ; towards the south by
Crown land and by Sections 10 and 11, Block
XVI., Longwood District, 13535·8 links ; towards
the west by Sections 14, 13, 11, 9, and 8, Block
XVII., Longwood District, 27300 links ; again
towards the south by the last-mentioned sec-
tion, 7111·8 links ; and towards the north-west
by the Waiau and Orawia Rivers, 35000 links : be
all the aforesaid linkages more or less : as the
same is more particularly delineated on the official
map in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Inver-
cargill.

SECOND COLUMN.

A Proclamation bearing date the 24th February, 1886,
published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 4th March,
1886, pages 253 and 254, in so far as it relates to the land
described in the first column.

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 fourteenth day of November,
in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hun-
dred.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Approved in Council.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !

Lands set apart as a Village Settlement in the Southland Land District.

(l.s.)
RANFURLY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon
me by the one-hundred-and-sixty-eighth section of

“The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ran-
furly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do
hereby proclaim and declare that the Crown lands described
in the Schedule hereto shall be and the same are hereby
set apart and declared open for lease as a village settlement.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

First-class Land.

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 Wel-
ington, this sixteenth day of November, in the
year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !

Recreation-ground at Mackytown brought under “The Public Domains Act, 1881.”

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this thir-
teenth day of November, 1900.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in me by
the twenty-fourth section of “The Public Reserves
Act, 1881,” 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 order and declare that the reserve in the
Auckland Land District described in the Schedule hereto
shall be and the same is hereby brought under the operation
of and declared to be subject to the provisions of “The
Public Domains Act, 1881” ; and such domain shall here-
after be managed, administered, and dealt with in manner
directed by the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District,
situated in Block XIII., Ohinemuri Survey District, and in
Ohinemuri County, being Section No. 1 of Block VII. of the
Township of Mackytown, containing by admeasurement
11 acres 3 roods 30 perches, more or less. Bounded towards
the north-east by the termination of a road and Section
No. 15, Block XIII., Ohinemuri Survey District, 453 and
441 links ; towards the south-east and east by a public
road, 1054 and 357 links ; towards the south by Section
No. 2 of Block VII. of the Township of Mackytown (school
reserve), 665 links ; and towards the west by the Ohinemuri
River : be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Increasing the Holding-area of Land to Settlers in the Rakaunui Village Settlement, Wellington.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this thir-
teenth day of November, 1900.

Present :

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council issued on the
twenty-first day of December, one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-four, under the authority of section one
hundred and sixty-nine of “The Land Act, 1892,” fixing
the terms and conditions upon which the land in the Ra-
kaunui Village Settlement should be disposed of, it was pro-
vided that no lessee should hold more than one allotment :