APRIL 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 971

Withdrawing Lands from the Operation of “The Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1898.”

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this tenth day of April, 1905.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by “The Kauri-gum Industry Amendment Act, 1902” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor may by Order in Council declare that land set apart under “The Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1898” (hereinafter termed “the principal Act”), as a kauri gum reserve, and which is no longer required for the purpose of gum-digging, shall be no longer subject to the principal Act, and shall thereafter be dealt with by the Land Board as ordinary Crown land; provided that such Order in Council shall only be issued in pursuance of a resolution of the Land Board, supported by such independent evidence as the Governor in Council deems necessary:

And whereas the Land Board of the Auckland Land District has duly passed a resolution recommending that the portion of the Te Mata Kauri-gum Reserve Extension, the Jordan Kauri-gum Reserve, and the portion of the Otakairangi Kauri-gum Reserve described in the Schedule hereto be excepted from the operation of the principal Act, and it is expedient to give effect to such recommendation:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon me by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby order and declare that the portion of the Te Mata Kauri-gum Reserve Extension, the Jordan Kauri-gum Reserve, and the portion of the Otakairangi Kauri-gum Reserve described in the Schedule hereto shall be no longer subject to the provisions of the principal Act, and shall hereafter be dealt with by the Land Board as ordinary Crown lands.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 500 acres, more or less, situate in Block X., Hukerenui Survey District, being portion of the Te Mata Kauri Gum -reserve Extension, set apart by Order in Council dated 10th July, 1899, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 60, of 13th July, 1899, page 1302. Bounded towards the east by Block XI., Hukerenui Survey District; towards the south by Sections Nos. 13 and 12 of Block XIV. of said district to the north-western corner of the last-mentioned section; towards the west by a right line from the said corner to the south side of a public road where it would be intersected by the production of the south-western boundary-line of Section No. 29 of Block X. of said district; and towards the north-west generally by the said road, by Section No. 29, and by Section No. 36, of Block X., Hukerenui Survey District aforesaid: as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 37704c, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged red.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 705 acres, situate in Block XI., Hukerenui Survey District, being the Jordan Kauri - gum Reserve, set apart by Order in Council dated 12th April, 1899, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 32, of 13th April, 1899, page 756. Bounded towards the north generally by Sections Nos. 18, 16, and 19 of Block XI., Hukerenui Survey District; towards the east by the Waiotu River; towards the south-east by Section No. 14 of Block XV., Hukerenui Survey District; and towards the west by Block X. of the same survey district to the point of commencement: as the same is delineated on plan marked S.G. 37704d, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged red.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 1,810 acres, more or less, situate in Blocks XIV. and XV., Hukerenui Survey District, and Blocks III. and IV., Purua Survey District, being portion of the Otakairangi Kauri-gum Reserve, set apart by Order in Council dated 10th July, 1899, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 60, of 13th July, 1899, page 1302. Commencing at peg No. II. on the southern boundary of Section No. 8, Block XIV., Hukerenui Survey District, and bounded thence towards the north generally by the said Section No. 8, Sections Nos. 4 and 5 of the said Block XIV., and Sections Nos. 6 and 7 of Block XV. of said district; towards the east generally by a public road, and by Section No. 12 of Block XV. aforesaid; towards the south-east by the Wairua River; towards the west by the Okarika Stream; towards the south by Sections Nos. 20 and 9 of the Parish of Otakairangi, and by the northern side of a public road which forms the northern boundary of Section No. 23 of the same parish, to peg No. LIII.; and towards the north-west by a right line from said peg No. LIII. to peg No. II. aforesaid, the place of commencement: as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 37704e, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged red.

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

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Domain Board appointed to have Control of the Arawa Park Domain.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this tenth day of April, 1905.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section two of “The Domain Boards Act, 1904” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, with respect to any public domain, appoint such person or persons (not exceeding nine) as he thinks fit to be a Domain Board having, subject to “The Public Domains Act, 1881,” control of such domain:

And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto was, under the provisions of “The Public Domains Act, 1881,” constituted a public domain by an Order in Council made and issued on the twenty-third day of December, one thousand nine hundred and four, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 2, of the twelfth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and five:

And whereas it appears expedient to appoint a Domain Board to control the said domain:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers conferred by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice of the Executive Council of the said Colony of New Zealand, doth hereby appoint

CHARLES AUGUSTUS CLARKE,
THORNTON WALKER, and
WILLIAM THOMAS CARR

to be the Arawa Park Domain Board, having the control of the land described in the said Schedule hereto for the purposes of and subject to the provisions of the said Act, and doth hereby appoint Monday, the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and five, at eight o'clock p.m., as the time when, and the office at the corner of Tutanekai and Hinemoa Streets, Rotorua, as the place where, the first meeting of the Board shall be held.

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SCHEDULE.

ARAWA PARK DOMAIN.

ALL that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, being Section No. 23 of the Rotorua Rural Sections, containing by admeasurement 46 acres 3 roods 17 perches, more or less. Bounded towards the north by Section No. 22 of the Rotorua Suburban Sections, 1515 links; towards the north-east by a public road, 2455 links; towards the east by Section No. 26 of the Rotorua Rural Sections, 111 links; towards the south by Section No. 24 of the Rotorua Rural Sections, 2783 links; and towards the west by Fenton Street, 2000 links, to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 44604, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

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

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Terms and Conditions of Lease of Village-homestead Allotments in Westland Land District.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this tenth day of April, 1905.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the one-hundred-and-sixty-ninth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” it is enacted that the Governor in Council may fix the terms and conditions upon