1602
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 73

District, and by the Waimamaku River; towards the east generally by Sections Nos. 4 and 12 of Block XIII. aforesaid, and by the western boundary of Block XIV., Waoku Survey District; towards the south by Block I., Waipoua Survey District; towards the west by a right line running due north to the south-eastern angle of the northern portion of the Wairau Block; and towards the north-west by that block: as the same is delineated upon the plan marked S.G. 44346c, deposited in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged with red.

WHAREORINO BLOCK.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 20,583 acres, more or less, situate in Blocks VI., VII., VIII., IX., X., and XI., Whareorino Survey District, and Blocks IX. and XIII., Maungamangero Survey District. Bounded towards the north by the Kinohaku West F Section 1 Block; towards the north-east by the northern boundary of the Heruera Block (which forms the southern boundary of the Kinohaku West Loan Block, proclaimed in Gazette of 1st December, 1899, page 2198); towards the south-east generally by the Awakino River, by the Kinohaku West B No. 2 Block, again by the Awakino River, and by the Kinohaku West A Block; towards the south-west generally by a right line being the production in a south-westerly direction of the north-western boundary of Section No. 3 of Block I., Awakino East Survey District, by a right line being the production in a south-easterly direction of the north-eastern boundary of Sections Nos. 4 and 3 of Block II., Awakino North Survey District, and by those sections, and by the Kinohaku West E Section 1g, Section 1b, Section 1e, and Section 1f Blocks; and towards the west by the sea: as the same is delineated upon the plan marked S.G. 44346f, deposited in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged with red.

MAHOENUl BLOCK.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 6,624 acres, more or less, situate in Blocks XIII. and XIV., Maungamangero Survey District, and Blocks I. and II., Awakino East Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by the Puketiti No. 3 and No. 2 Blocks; towards the south by the Mahoenui No. 1b Section 2, and Mahoenui No. 1b Section 1, Blocks; towards the south-west by the Awakino River; and towards the north-west by the Puketiti No. 1 Block: as the same is delineated upon the plan marked S.G. 44346e, deposited in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged with red.

OWAI LOAN BLOCK.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 3,400 acres, more or less, situate in Block I., Opuawhanga Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east generally by Section No. 1 of Block I., Opuawhanga Survey District, by a public road, by Section No. 3 of the same block, by a public road, by Sections Nos. 6, 7, 10, 2, and 9 of the same block, and by the Owai Block; towards the east by Block II., Opuawhanga Survey District; towards the south generally by Block IV., Opuawhanga Survey District, by a right line running parallel to and at a distance of 125 chains in a westerly direction from the eastern boundary of Block IV. aforesaid, and by Sections Nos. 26a, 21, 20, 19, and 29 of Block IV. aforesaid; towards the west generally by Section No. 22 of Block VIII., Hukerenui Survey District, by a public road, and by Sections Nos. 4 and 1 of the block last mentioned; and towards the north-west by unadjudicated Native land: as the same is delineated upon the plan marked S.G. 44346b, deposited in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged with red.

WHANGAINGATAKUPU BLOCK.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 975 acres, more or less, being Sections Nos. 9 and 10 of Block IX., Pirongia Survey District: as the same is delineated upon the plan marked S.G. 44346c, deposited in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured blue.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His 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 third day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and one.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Proclaiming Creeks in the Land District of Nelson, together with their Tributaries, to be Watercourses for the Deposit of Tailings, &c.

(l.s.)
RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the one-hundred-and-fifty-second section of “The Mining Act, 1891” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor in Council may from time to time, by Proclamation published in the Gazette, proclaim and declare that any watercourse shall be a watercourse into which tailings, mining débris, and waste water of every kind used in, upon, or discharged from any claim or licensed holding shall be suffered to flow or be discharged:

And whereas prior to the repeal of the said Act by “The Mining Act, 1898,” not less than ninety days’ notice was published, in the manner provided by the said section, that application had been made to the Governor to proclaim the watercourses hereinafter mentioned, and their tributaries, to be watercourses for the purposes of the said section mentioned:

And whereas by section 7 of “The Mining Act, 1898,” it is enacted that for the purposes of that section, and of continuing and perfecting any matter or thing commenced or in progress thereunder, or under any former Mining Act, every such Act should be deemed to be unrepealed:

And whereas His Excellency the Governor has decided to exercise the powers conferred upon him by the said Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers conferred by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby proclaim and declare that the whole of the watercourses described in the Schedule hereto, together with their tributaries, shall be watercourses into which tailings, mining débris, and waste water of every kind used in, upon, or discharged from any claim or licensed holding adjacent to such watercourses shall be suffered to flow or be discharged; and, with the like advice and consent, His Excellency doth hereby prescribe that this Proclamation shall take effect on and after the first day of October, one thousand nine hundred and one.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

That creek known as Walker’s Creek, which flows westerly through Sections 5, 6, and 7, Block XII., Inangahua Survey District, for a distance of about one mile, from its source to its confluence with the Inangahua River; and also the tributaries thereof.

That creek known as Boatman’s Creek, which flows westerly for a distance of about fourteen miles from its source to its junction with the Inangahua River; and also the tributaries thereof.

That creek known as Spring Creek, which rises in the spurs of the Brunner Range, and flows into the Buller River at a point known as Three-channel Flat; together with the tributaries thereof.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His 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 fifth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and one.

JAMES McGOWAN,
Minister of Mines.

Approved in Council.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Revoking Portion of a Proclamation.

(l.s.)
RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred by the one-hundred-and-sixty-second section of “The Land Act, 1892,” and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do by this notice hereby revoke that part of a Proclamation dated the twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 15, dated the fifth day of March, one