1888
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 73

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 55 acres, more or less, being Section No. 3716, in red, situated in Block VIII., Tevictdale Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west by the public road forming the south-east boundary of Rural Sections Nos. 22381, 29897, 22411, and 20486, Block VIII., Teviotdale Survey District; towards the north-east by Reserve No. 899 of the said Block VIII., and by the road reserve along the high-water mark of the ocean; towards the south-east of the said road reserve to a point in line with the south-western boundary-line of Rural Section No. 22381 aforesaid; and towards the south-west by a right line in line with the said boundary-line of Rural Section No. 22381 to the public road first mentioned: as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 53884/1, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon bordered red. For a recreation reserve.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Land temporarily reserved in the Canterbury 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 Canterbury 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 Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 190 acres, more or less, being Section No. 3706, in red (and known as Yarr’s Lagoon), Block XII., Leeston Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Rural Section No. 10070, Block XII., Leeston Survey District, by the abutment of a public road, by Rural Sections Nos. 10470, 10662, and 19796 of the said Block XII., by the abutment of a public road, and by Rural Sections Nos. 10663 and 20389 of the said Block XII.; towards the east by Rural Section No. 11388 of the said Block XII., and a line in continuation of its south-west boundary-line to the northern boundary of Rural Section No. 7390 of the said Block XII., and by the last-mentioned section; towards the south-east by Rural Sections Nos. 4761, 6699, and 7707 of Block XII. aforesaid to the outlet of Yarr’s Lagoon; towards the south by a right line due west across the said outlet to Rural Section No. 9932 of the said Block XII.; and towards the west generally by the last-mentioned section, and by Sections Nos. 10621 and 11102 of Block XII. aforesaid: as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 52297/1, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon bordered red. For a sanctuary for native and imported game.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Removing Restrictions against Alienation of Native Lands.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by section fourteen of “The Maori Land Laws Amendment Act, 1903,” it is enacted that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act, or in any Crown grant or other instrument of title, the Governor may, on the recommendation of the Council, remove any restriction on the alienation of land owned by Maoris: Provided that the decision of the Governor on any recommendation of the Council shall be given within six months from the date of the receipt of such recommendation:

And whereas the Aotea District Maori Land Council, by recommendations made and passed by the said Council on the thirteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and five, and received on the twenty-eighth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and five, recommended the Governor to remove the restrictions contained in the instruments of title to the blocks of land known as Awarua 4c No. 4, Awarua 4c No. 6, and Awarua 4c No. 7, particulars of which lands are set out in the Schedule hereunder written, to so far as to permit the said lands to be leased:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon and vested in me by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities me thereunto enabling, and in accordance with the recommendations of the Aotea District Maori Land Council aforesaid, do hereby remove and revoke the restrictions now existing against the alienation of the blocks of land known as Awarua 4c No. 4, Awarua 4c No. 6, and Awarua 4c No. 7, as the same are more particularly described in the Schedule hereto, so far as to permit the said lands to be leased for any term not exceeding twenty-one years.

SCHEDULE.

ALL those pieces or parcels of land, situate in the Wellington Land District, known as Awarua 4c No. 4, Awarua 4c No. 6, and Awarua 4c No. 7, containing respectively 86, 172, and 151 acres, more or less, and being the lands comprised in partition orders of the Native Land Court, dated the eighth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and six, in favour respectively of Ihaka te Konga, Horima Paerau, and Puaō Rangipo, and three others, and containing the following restriction: “Inalienable.”

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

J. CARROLL.

Rural Lands in Southland Land District open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

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 lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on and after the nineteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and five; and also that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may be selected on lease in perpetuity only, in accordance with the provisions of section one hundred and twenty-one of the said Act, as they contain, or are supposed to contain, metals, minerals, or valuable stone; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said lands shall be leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

WALLACE COUNTY.—WAIRIO SURVEY DISTRICT.

206 | VI. | 172 3 38 | 0 2·4 | 0 17 4

Open pastoral land, well watered; soil poor; partly covered with light manuka scrub. Distant from Nightcaps Railway-station about two miles and a half by formed road.

LAKE COUNTY.—KINGSTON SURVEY DISTRICT.

1 | I. | 50 0 0 | 0 4·8 | 0 10 0

Weighted with £28 17s. 6d., valuation for boundary-fencing.

Open land; soil poor and shingly; principally covered with fern and white tussock. Access by unformed road from Kingston, and distant therefrom about three-quarters of a mile.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.