1764
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 61

above noted, and deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable William Lee, Baron Plunket, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, 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 nineteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four.

JAS. McGOWAN,
Acting Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Declaring Part of Kaituna Road, Block X., Mount Cerberus Survey District, a Government Road.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of July, 1904.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him by “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order and declare that the portion of the road known as the Kaituna Road, described in the Schedule hereto, shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, be a Government road.

SCHEDULE.

In the Wellington Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above noted, and deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Land taken for a Native School at Te Kopua.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of June, 1904.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required for a certain public work, to wit, a Native school:

And whereas the Native owners have agreed to make a free gift of the said land to His Majesty the King, and it has been made to appear that such agreement is sufficient for the purposes intended to be effected thereby:

And whereas by an order of the Native Land Court, on investigation of title, bearing date the twenty-second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, certain aboriginal natives, as in the said order mentioned, were declared to be the owners of the Te Kopua Block, within which the said land is situated:

And whereas, as required by “The Public Works Act, 1894,” a map has been prepared showing accurately the position and extent of the said land, and such map is hereto attached:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred by “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and “The Public Works Acts Amendment Act, 1900,” and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order and declare that the land shown upon the said map and described in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for the purposes of the said Native school, and shall vest in His Majesty the King, as from the first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and four.

SCHEDULE.

Te Kopua Native-school Site.

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan as described above, deposited in the Education Department, at Wellington, and thereon bordered pink.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Notice of Intention to change the Purpose of a Reserve in the Marlborough Land District.

PLUNKET, 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, William Lee, Baron Plunket, 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 purpose of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto from “road purposes” to “preservation of scenery.”

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Marlborough Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 acre 1 rood, more or less, being Section No. 26, Village of Tuamarina, in Block VII., Cloudy Bay Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by a public road; towards the south-west by the Tuamarina River; and towards the north-west by Crown land: as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 51970, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon bordered red.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Polling-places abolished and appointed, Pahiatua District.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by “The Electoral Act, 1902,” it is, among other things, enacted that the Governor may from time to time appoint, alter, and abolish polling-places for each electoral district within the limits thereof:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby abolish the existing polling-places for the Electoral District of Pahiatua, and appoint the places mentioned in the Schedule hereto to be polling-places for the said electoral district,