Num. 60. 1535

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1905.

Native Land reserved under “The Scenery Preservation Act, 1903.”

(L.S.) PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by “The Scenery Preservation Act, 1903” (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), it is, inter alia, enacted that the Governor may from time to time appoint such suitable persons, not exceeding five, as he thinks fit to be a Commission under the said Act; such Commission may, if it deems necessary, inspect any lands possessing scenic or historic interest, or on which there are thermal springs, and shall make inquiries respecting the same and report to the Governor, and shall from time to time recommend what lands, whether Crown, private, or Native lands, in their opinion should be permanently reserved as scenic, thermal, or historic reserves; and that the Governor may from time to time, by Proclamation, declare that any lands so recommended to be reserved shall be a reserve under the said Act, and thereupon such lands shall be inalienable unless by special Act of Parliament passed in that behalf, and no person shall cut or remove timber or in any way interfere with such lands, or damage the scenic features thereof; and such lands may be fenced, preserved, and conserved intact as and for an inalienable patrimony of the people of New Zealand:

And whereas the Governor has, in pursuance of the powers conferred by the said Act, appointed certain persons to be a Commission for the purposes thereof: And whereas the said Commission has, after making inquiries respecting the same, reported to the Governor and recommended that the parcel of Native land described in the Schedule hereto should be permanently reserved as a scenic reserve: And whereas it is expedient that the said recommendation should be given effect to:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities aforesaid, do hereby proclaim and declare that, from and after the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, the parcel of Native land described in the Schedule hereto shall be a reserve under the said Act.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, containing by admeasurement 100 acres, more or less, situated in Block I., Mata Survey District. Bounded towards the north by the Aorangiawai No. 1a Block, 3900 links; towards the west by the Aorangiawai No. 1 Block aforesaid, 2900 links; and towards the south and east by the Aorangiawai River: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.

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 thirty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five.

J. G. WARD,
Minister in Charge of Tourist and Health Resorts Department.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

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Districts constituted under “The Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1875.”

(L.S.) PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in the Governor by “The Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1875,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby abolish the existing registration district known as the Whangaroa District, and do proclaim and declare that the territory heretofore comprised within the said district is hereby divided anew into two registration districts, the names and boundaries whereof shall be as follow:—

KAE0 DISTRICT.

All that area in the Auckland Land District bounded towards the north generally by a right line from the north-western corner of Section No. 4, Block III., Kaeo Survey District, to the westernmost corner of Section No. 28, Block III., Kaeo Survey District; thence by the Mahinepua Parish to the northernmost corner of Section No. 64, Kaeo Parish; thence towards the east generally by the said Mahinepua Parish to the easternmost corner of Section No. 25, Kaeo Parish; thence again towards the south-east generally by the Bay of Islands County to where the county boundary leaves the road on the south-eastern boundary of Section No. 17, Matawherohia Parish; thence by the road forming the southern boundary of the said Section No. 17 to the south-western corner of that section; thence towards the