APRIL 21. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1115

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

Situated about half a mile from Waikiwi Railway-station, Invercargill-Kingston Railway. Land low-lying and wet, soil inferior, mostly covered with light scrub.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Warrant exempting Crown Lands from the Operation of "The Mining Act, 1898."

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS by section twenty of “The Mining Act, 1898,” it is, inter alia, enacted that the Governor may from time to time, by notice in the Gazette, exempt any Crown lands from mining, or from any specified mining purpose, or from that Act or any specified provisions of that Act; and that the lands to which such notice relates shall be specified therein by words of particular description:

And whereas the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto have been acquired, under the provisions of “The Land for Settlements Act, 1894,” and its amendments, and it is desirable that they should be exempted from mining, and from any specified mining purpose, and from “The Mining Act, 1898,” and from any specified provisions of that Act:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of the hereinbefore-in-part-recited Act, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in that behalf, do hereby exempt the lands particularly described in the Schedule hereto from mining, and from any specified mining purpose, and from the operations of “The Mining Act, 1898,” and from any specified provisions of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

EDENDALE SETTLEMENT.

ALL those areas of land, including closed roads, in the Southland Land District, situated in the Lindhurst, Mataura, Lothian, and Oteramika Hundreds, containing together by admeasurement 19,781 acres 2 roods 10 perches, more or less, being Lots 4, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 35, 36, 37, 41, 42, and parts of 30 and 38 of Land Transfer Plan No. 175; also Lots 5, 6, 9, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19a, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 10, and 237 of Land Transfer Plan No. 174A; also Lots 2A and part 1 of Land Transfer Plan No. 173; all in Lindhurst Hundred: also part of Lot 236 and Lots 232, 233, 234, 253, 254, 260, 261, and 262 of Land Transfer Plan No. 128; Lots 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 89, and 90 of Land Transfer Plan No. 106; Lot 7 of Land Transfer Plan No. 13; Lots 239, 240, 247, 248, and part of 245 of Land Transfer Plan No. 129; Lots 207, 209, 210, 211, 212, 214, 216, 222, 223, 224, and part of 213 of Land Transfer Plan No. 107; parts of Lots 231A, 231B, and 231C of Land Transfer Plan No. 161; all in Mataura Hundred: also Lot 266 and parts of Lots 265 and 231A of Land Transfer Plans Nos. 146 and 161; Lots 267, 268, 269, and 270 of Land Transfer Plan No. 229; all in Lothian Hundred: also Lots 10, 12, 15, 20, 24, 25, 26, 29, 32, 33, 35, and part of 23 of Land Transfer Plan No. 172, all in Oteramika Hundred: as the said lots are delineated on the plan marked S.G. 19299, 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 fifteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and four.

JAS. McGOWAN,
Minister of Mines.

Lands temporarily reserved in the Canterbury 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 lands in the Canterbury Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, for the purposes in the said Schedule specified at the end of the respective descriptions of the lands so intended to be temporarily reserved.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 176 acres, more or less, being Reserve No. 3701 (formerly part of Reserve No. 182), Block XIII., Pukaki Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by Reserve No. 2927, Block XIII., Pukaki Survey District, the abutment of a public road, and by Run No. 217A of said block and survey district; towards the south-east by said Run No. 217A to a road reserve along the northern bank of the Pukaki River; and towards the west and north-west generally by said road reserve, by Reserve No. 2947 to the public road forming the eastern boundary of a reserve containing 20 acres, Block XIII., Pukaki Survey District, by said public road to a point in line with the north-eastern boundary-line of said reserve of 20 acres, across the said public road, and by the said north-eastern boundary-line to a road reserve along the southern shore of Pukaki Lake, and by the last-mentioned road reserve to the commencing-point: exclusive of a road 100 links wide which intersects the above-described boundary. For a recreation reserve.

All that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 180 acres, more or less, being Reserve No. 3702 (formerly part of Reserve No. 183), Block XV., Pukaki West, and Block III., Strachey Survey Districts. Bounded towards the north-east by a road reserve along the southern shore of Pukaki Lake to the main road from Lake Pukaki to Ben Ohau Homestead, by said main road to a point in line with the south-western boundary-line of a reserve containing 20 acres, Block XV., Pukaki West, and Block III., Strachey Survey Districts, across the main road aforesaid, and by the said south-western boundary-line to Run No. 87, Block III., Strachey Survey District; towards the south-east by said Run No. 87; towards the south-west by Run No. 220, Block XV., Pukaki West, and Block III., Strachey Survey Districts, the abutment of the main road aforesaid, and again by the said Run No. 220; and towards the north-west by Run No. 219, Block XV., Pukaki West Survey District, to the commencing-point: exclusive of a road 100 links wide which intersects the above-described boundary. For a recreation reserve.