914
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 31

Rural Land in the Southland Land District open for Sale or Selection.

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 sale or selection on and after the twenty-second day of July, one thousand nine hundred and two; and also that the land mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase or on lease in perpetuity, or, in respect of any land containing or supposed to contain any metal, mineral, or valuable stone, be selected on lease in perpetuity only; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.
Second-class Land.

Situated about five miles and a half from Otatau Township. Land low-lying and wet, and partly covered with manuka scrub.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Land temporarily reserved in the Wellington Land District.

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:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the land in the Wellington Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, for the purpose of an extension of a public cemetery.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 28 perches, more or less, being portion of Section No. 66, Block XIV., Ohinewairua Survey District; as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 41385, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured green.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Shooting Season for Imported and Native Game, License Fee, &c., Marlborough District.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that Californian quail and hares may be taken or killed within the Marlborough District, consisting of the Counties of Marlborough and Sounds (except in the area described in the Schedule hereto), from the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and two, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and two, both inclusive (subject, nevertheless, to the restrictions in the said Acts mentioned). And I do further notify that licenses to take or kill such game within the said district shall be issued on payment of the sum of twenty shillings each, and that licenses to sell game shall be issued on payment of the sum of five pounds each, and that the Chief Postmaster at Blenheim is hereby appointed to sign and issue the said licenses.

And I do further declare that native game, excepting tui, huia, white heron, and crested grebe, may be taken or killed within the said district (except in the area described in the Schedule hereto), from the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and two, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and two, both inclusive.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Marlborough Land District bounded towards the north-east by the ocean from the north-western end of the Boulder Bank, at the mouth of the Wairau River, to the south-eastern end of the Boulder Bank, at the north-eastern corner of Section No. 10, Block III., Clifford Bay Survey District: thence towards the south generally by Sections Nos. 10, 8, and 9, Block III. aforesaid, to a point 5 chains distant from high-water mark of the Big Lagoon; thence by a line parallel to and 5 chains distant from high-water mark of the Big Lagoon, through Sections Nos. 9 and 7, Block III. aforesaid, to the channel between the Big Lagoon and Chandler’s Lagoon: thence towards the west generally by the said channel to a small lagoon in Section No. 5, Block I., Clifford Bay Survey District; thence by the western side of that lagoon and a line parallel to and 5 chains distant from high-water mark of the Big Lagoon, through Sections Nos. 5, 2, 1, and 3, Block I. aforesaid, to the channel in Section No. 3; thence by that channel, through Sections Nos. 3, 4, 6, and 9, Block I. aforesaid, and a line parallel to and 5 chains distant from high-water mark, through Sections Nos. 9, 7, and 8, Block I. aforesaid, to the southern side of the estuary of the Wairau and Opawa Rivers; thence by a right line across the said estuary in the direction of the Pilot-station to the west side of the mouth of the Wairau River; and thence by a right line to the north-western end of the Boulder Bank, the place of commencement.

Also all that area in the Marlborough Land District known as Lake Grassmere, and the area within a line running parallel to and 5 chains distant from the margin of the said lake.

Also all that area in the Marlborough Land District known as Lake Elterwater or Flaxbourne Lagoon, situated in Cape Campbell Survey District, and the area within a line running parallel to and 5 chains distant from the margin of the said lake.

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

J. G. WARD.