Mar. 28.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 779

month, it was, amongst other things, declared lawful to take oysters in the Southern Subdivision of the Northern Oyster-fishery:

And whereas it is desirable that it should be declared unlawful to take oysters from the Islands of Moturua and Motu Maire, in the Southern Subdivision of the Northern Oyster-fishery:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the hereinbefore-recited power and authority, doth hereby declare and prescribe that it shall be unlawful to take oysters from any bay, estuary, or tidal waters in the Islands of Moturua and Motu Maire, in the Southern Subdivision of the Northern Oyster-fishery.

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

ALEX. WILLIS.

Rural Land in the Auckland Land District open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-thirty-sixth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural land enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on and after the twenty-second day of May, one thousand nine hundred and one; and that the land mentioned in the said Schedule may be selected on lease in perpetuity only, in accordance with the provisions of section one hundred and twenty-one of the said Act, as it contains, or is supposed to contain, metals, minerals, or valuable stone; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said land shall be leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said land shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—HAURAKI MINING DISTRICT.—COROMANDEL COUNTY.—HARATAUNGA SURVEY DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

Very broken land; part burnt bush and tea-tree; well watered. Two miles from Cabbage Bay.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Lands permanently reserved.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS by the two-hundred-and-thirty-fifth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:

And whereas by the two-hundred-and-thirty-sixth section of the said Act it is provided that land temporarily reserved under the said two-hundred-and-thirty-fifth section may, at the expiration of one month but not later than six months after the publication in the Gazette of notice of such temporary reservation, be permanently reserved, and that notice of such permanent reservation shall be published in the Gazette:

And whereas the lands specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto were, by the warrants the dates of which are specified in the third column of the said Schedule, and the notifications of which were published in the Gazette specified in the fourth column, temporarily reserved under the authority of the said Act for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, do hereby permanently reserve the lands so 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 twenty-third day of March, one thousand nine hundred and one.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.