APRIL 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 827

Notifying Roads as closed through Lands in the Southland County (Glenham Settlement).

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred by section sixty-nine of “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do by this notice hereby notify as closed the roads in the Southland County hereinafter described, and do declare such road-lines to be subject to the said Act, that is to say:—

As the same are delineated upon the plan marked S.G. 19241A, deposited in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and coloured thereon as above stated.

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

C. H. MILLS,
For Minister of Lands.

Notice of Intention to change the Purpose of Reserves 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 change or alter the dedication of any public reserve now or hereafter vested in His 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; and 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, the Governor may, by notice gazetted, declare his intention to make such change, 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 purposes of the reserves described in the Schedule hereto from tramway, water-race, and plantation purposes to water-race, plantation, and internal-communication purposes.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District known as part of the Mount Somers Tramway Reserve, and being reserve numbered 3084 (in red), situated in Blocks XI. and XV., Alford Survey District, containing by admeasurement 24 acres and 32 perches, more or less. Bounded towards the north-east by the road forming the south-west boundary of Sections Nos. 14431, 8478, 15492, 17801, 18245, and 22004; towards the north-west by a road-line dividing Sections Nos. 32042 and 33450, 200·9 links; towards the south-west by Sections Nos. 27148, 18513, and a road-line; and towards the south-east by a road-line dividing Sections Nos. 15202 and 18512, 259·2 links: save and excepting one gravel reserve, containing 1 acre, and two road-lines, which are within the above-described boundaries; and subject to the right of taking and continuing any necessary line of road through the above reserve that may be required to give access to the abutting properties: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Christchurch.

Also all that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District known as part of the Mount Somers Tramway Reserve, and being reserve numbered 3085 (in red), situated in Blocks X. and XI., Alford Survey District, containing by admeasurement 35 acres 1 rood 39 perches, more or less. Bounded towards the north-east by a road forming the south-western boundary of Sections Nos. 33999, 18280, 18993, 33998, Reserve 1822 (in red), Rural Sections Nos. 36190, 36189, 32645, 32227, 15519, 23010, 23007, 18400, 31782, 18399, and 29611; towards the north-west by a line at right angles to the last-described boundary and 100 links distant therefrom; thence south-easterly at a right angle following a line parallel to and 1 chain distant from the first-described boundary, along the north-eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 32644, 23063, 32884, a road-line, Sections Nos. 32883, 36423, a road-line, Sections Nos. 32226, 33449, and 32042; and towards the south-east by a road-line dividing Sections Nos. 32042 and 33450, 101·5 links: save and excepting five reserves, each containing 2 roods, and two road-lines, which are within the above described boundaries; and subject to the right of taking and continuing any necessary line of road through the above reserve that may be required to give access to the abutting properties: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Christchurch.

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

C. H. MILLS,
For Minister of Lands.

Changing the Purpose of a Reserve in Southland.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto was heretofore duly set apart for a reserve for police-station purposes, being a reserve within Class I. of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” and such land has not been vested in trust in any society, body corporate, or trustees:

And whereas it is expedient that such reserve shall be appropriated for the purposes of a site for a benevolent home for women, being a reserve in Class III. of the aforesaid Act:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the second section of “The Public Reserves Act Amendment Act, 1889,” do by this notification declare that the said reserve shall, from and after the tenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and two, be appropriated for the purposes of a site for a benevolent home for women under Class III. of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881”; and I do hereby direct that this notification shall be published in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Southland Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 rood, more or less, being Section No. 2, Block XLI., Town of Invercargill.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this second day of April, one thousand nine hundred and two.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.