Sept. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2265

of such reserve or any part thereof from the purpose or presumed purpose for which it was set apart to any other purpose, or if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to exchange any of the land comprised in such reserve for other land of equal value, to be dedicated to one or more purposes named in the said Class II., the Governor may, by notice gazetted, make such change, exchange, or dedication, as the case may be, 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 first column of the Schedule hereto from that named to the purpose named in the second column of the said Schedule respectively.

SCHEDULE.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Notice of Intention to define the Purpose of a Reserve in the Otago Land District.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by the fifth section of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” it is, amongst other things, enacted that, if there shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be any doubt or uncertainty as to the purpose for which a reserve was set apart, he may by notice gazetted define such purpose or purposes as to either the whole or any part of such reserve, subject to the action of the General Assembly, as provided in the seventh section of the said Act:

And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto was reserved for sites for public buildings or other purposes of the General Government:

And whereas it is expedient to define the specific purpose for which such land shall hereafter be set apart:

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 define the specific purpose of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto to be a reserve for Telegraph Department purposes.

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 3 roods, more or less, being Sections Nos. 3, 4, and 13 in Block XXIV., Township of Palmerston. Bounded towards the north by Auskerry Street, Township of Palmerston; towards the east by Sections Nos. 5 and 12 of Block XXIV. of said township; towards the south by Stronsa Street of said township; towards the west and again towards the south by Section No. 14 of the said Block XXIV.; and again towards the west by Sections Nos. 1 and 2 of Block XXIV. aforesaid: as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 51553, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Rural Land in Otago Land District open for Sale or Selection.

PLUNKET, 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, William Lee, Baron Plunket, 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 described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on and after the fifteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and four; 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 price 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.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

Weighted with £70 3s. 6d., valuation for improvements. This land is situated about three miles from Green Valley School and Post-office; it has a frontage to the Shag River. The faces next the river are steep, but the grazing is good; the ridge-tops are ploughable. About 10 acres has been cultivated.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-first day of September, one thousand nine hundred and four.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.