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said Schedule hereto shall be deemed to be “light-bush land.”

4. No general rate shall be levied or collected by any local authority from the said lands for the period of three years from the date from which such lands are disposed of, and no local authority shall have power to levy or collect any such rate from such lands during such period.

5. After the first half-year’s rent has been paid by the selector the further instalments of rent payable by him for a period of three years shall not be demanded; provided that if at any time during the first five years of his occupancy the selector disposes of his interest in the land the rent so conceded shall be paid by him in full, and thereupon the Land Board may remit such instalments of rent payable by the incoming tenant, not exceeding in the aggregate the amount of rent previously conceded to the selector, as the Board shall think fit.

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SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WESTLAND COUNTY.

Second-class Surveyed Light-bush Land.

OTIRA SURVEY DISTRICT.

A. R. P. S. d. £ s. d.

797 | VI. | 100 0 0 | 0 4·8 | 1 0 0

Sloping hillside covered with light forest, medium soil. Access by open Taramakau River bed from railway and the Christchurch Road. Subsoil consists of shale débris.

TARAMAKAU SURVEY DISTRICT.

813 | V. | 100 0 0 | 0 4·8 | 1 0 0

Principally light sandy soil resting on open river drift, covered with light bush; one-third is steep terrace country, densely timbered, and with poor soil. Access by open bed of Taramakau River from railway and the Christchurch Road.

814 | V. | 20 0 0 | 0 4·8 | 0 4 0

One-third light sandy loam, with loose gravelly subsoil, and lightly timbered; two-thirds steep hill-slopes covered with kamahi and other forest. Access by open bed of Taramakau River from railway and the Christchurch Road.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and five.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

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

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PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” it is amongst other things enacted that the Governor may declare his intention to make, change, exchange, 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 in the case of any reserve made under the authority of section one hundred and forty-four of “The Land Act, 1877,” 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, 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,

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SCHEDULE.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

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Amending the Description of a Reserve in the Marlborough Land District.

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PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by the two-hundred-and-thirty-ninth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” it is enacted that where there has been any error of description made in any notification of any intended reserve, or where there appears a great discrepancy in the area of any intended reserve after the same shall have been surveyed, the Governor may cancel any notification that may have been made in respect of such reserve, and issue fresh notifications in respect thereof, with amended particulars and descriptions: And whereas an error was made in the description of six thousand eight hundred acres, Marlborough Land District, which was wrongly stated in the notifications dated the twenty-third day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 41, of the twenty-sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, and the twenty-sixth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 61, of the twenty-eighth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, reserving the land for the growth and preservation of timber; and it is expedient to cancel the said notifications in so far as they relate to the six thousand eight hundred acres, Marlborough Land District, aforesaid:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby revoke the notifications of the twenty-third day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, and the twenty-sixth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, in so far as they relate to the six thousand eight hundred acres, Marlborough Land District, and do declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be the land set apart for the growth and preservation of timber intended by the said notifications.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Marlborough Land District, containing by admeasurement 7,000 acres, more or less, situated in Blocks I., II., III., VI., VII., and VIII., Gore Survey District, and Blocks I. and V., Orieri Survey District. Bounded by a line commencing at a point on the north-eastern boundary-line of Section No. 12, Block II., Gore Survey District (the said point being distant 4200 links in a north-westerly direction along said boundary-line from the easternmost corner of said Section No. 12), and proceeding thence north-easterly along a line bearing N. 43° E., a distance of