APRIL 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 775

SCHEDULE.
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

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 twenty-seventh day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Lands set apart for Lease as a Village Settlement in the Wellington Land District.

(L.S.)
RANFURLY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

I N 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 Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that the allotments of Crown land described in the Schedule hereto shall be and the same are hereby set apart and declared open for lease as village settlements.

SCHEDULE.
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—HOROWHENUA BLOCK.
Horowhenua East Village Settlement.

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 twenty-seventh day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Land set apart for Lease as Village Settlements in the Otago Land District.

(L.S.)
RANFURLY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

I N 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 Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that the allotments of Crown land respectively described in the Schedule hereto shall be and the same are hereby set apart and declared open for lease as village settlements.

SCHEDULE.
OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

MANIOTOTO COUNTY.—KOMAKO TOWNSHIP.

CLUTHA COUNTY.—GLENOMARU SURVEY DISTRICT.

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 twenty-seventh day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two.

C. H. MILLS,
For Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Vesting Part of Anchorage Island (Suwarrow Islands) in the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty as a Reserve for Imperial Naval and Military Defence.

(L.S.)
RANFURLY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

W HEREAS by “The Cook and other Islands Government Act, 1901” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted, inter alia, that, upon being informed by His Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies as to who is the proper person or authority in whom any reserve for Imperial naval and military defence ought to be vested, the Governor may, by Proclamation, vest the same in such person or authority as in the said Act mentioned: And whereas it has been deemed expedient to make a reserve for naval purposes at the Suwarrow Islands, part of the Cook Islands group, and the said Secretary of State has intimated that such reserve should be vested in the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon me by the said Act, and also in pursuance of the intimation aforesaid, do hereby proclaim and declare that from and after the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette that portion of Anchorage Island, one of the Suwarrow Islands aforesaid, as shown on Admiralty Chart No. 1176, and which is more particularly defined and described in the Schedule hereof, shall vest in the Lords Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the time being, and their successors in office, for an estate in fee-simple, in trust to hold and use the same for the naval service of His Majesty the King in such manner as the said Lords Commissioners may from time to time direct or determine, subject to the provisions of section 15 of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area, being part of Anchorage Island, one of the Suwarrow Islands, situated in latitude 13° 15′ S., longitude 163° 5′ W., in the South Pacific Ocean, bounded by a line commencing at a point on the western coast-line of the said Anchorage Island bearing east-north-east from the inner beacon shown on Admiralty Chart No. 1176, to the southward of the existing pier, and proceeding along the south-western, southern, and eastern coast-lines to a right line running east-north-east from the inner beacon aforesaid, and thence along the said right line to the place of commencement. The fringing reef adjacent to the above-described area to be included as part of the Admiralty property, together with the right of anchorage in the surrounding waters and access to the shore at any point of the whole