Dec. 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2957

Notifying Lands in Taranaki Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-thirteenth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Wednesday, the fourteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and six, as the time at which the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction; and I do hereby fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto opposite the description of such lands respectively.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN OF MANGAROA.

Town Lands.

All level sections, some in grass; soil of rich quality.

Suburban Lands.

These sections comprise easy slopes and spurs, with occasional flats along streams. The forest is light, consisting chiefly of tawa, hinau, rewarewa, mahoe, manuka, with a little white-pine and a light undergrowth of fern. The soil is of good quality, resting on papa formation.

LOCALITY AND DESCRIPTION OF MANGAROA TOWNSHIP.

Mangaroa Township is situated on the southern bank of the Mangaroa River, at the junction of the Ongarue-Stratford Main Road with the Tongaporutu Road, and is distant about twenty-nine miles from Ongarue Railway-station, the road being formed for dray traffic. It is distant from Whangamomona about forty-one miles and a half. The road for about sixteen miles is a dray-road, the balance for horse traffic only. The township is most centrally situated,

and roads lead into it opening up large areas of Crown and Native lands from Mokau, Ongarue, Lower Ohura, and Wanganui Rivers, and Tongaporutu and Stratford.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fourteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and five.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Land temporarily reserved in the Hawke’s Bay Land District.

PLUNKET, 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, William Lee, Baron Plunket, 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 Hawke’s Bay Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, for the purpose in the said Schedule specified at the end of the description of the land so intended to be temporarily reserved.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, containing by admeasurement 9 acres 3 roods 15 perches, more or less, being Section No. 1a (formerly part of Original Section No. 1), Block III., Ngatapa Survey District. Bounded towards the north by a public road; towards the east by Section No. 1, Block III., Ngatapa Survey District; towards the south-east by the Waihuka Stream; towards the south by Section No. 1 aforesaid; and towards the west by Section No. 7, Block XV., Motu Survey District: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 52739/5, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon bordered red. For a site for a public cemetery.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fourteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and five.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Land temporarily reserved in the Wellington Land District.

PLUNKET, 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, William Lee, Baron Plunket, 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 in the said Schedule specified at the end of the description of the land so intended to be temporarily reserved.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 rood, more or less, being Section No. 7, Block V., Town of Taihape. Bounded towards the north-east by Section No. 6, Block V., Town of Taihape; towards the south-east by Section No. 12 of the said Block V.; towards the south-west by Section No. 8 of Block V. aforesaid; and towards the north-west by Tui Street of the said township: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 48509/16, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red. For a site for a Courthouse.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fourteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and five.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.