Num. 86.

2321

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1905.

Crown 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 Crown 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 Crown land described in the Schedule hereto shall be a reserve under the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Southland Land District, containing by estimation 272 acres, being Sections Nos. 12, Block X., and 21, Block XI., Longwood Survey District. Commencing at a point on the County Road distant 60 chains, or thereabouts, south-east of the junction of the said road with the western boundary of the said Block X.; bounded north-easterly by that road to the north-eastern corner of Section No. 2, Block X.; thence by the northern boundary of that section to Lake George; thence by Lake George to the north-eastern corner of Section No. 14, Block XI.; thence by the northern boundaries of that section and Section No. 15, Block XI., to the north-western corner of the last-mentioned section; thence by a line due north for a distance of 50 chains; thence by a straight line to the point of commencement.

Also all that parcel of land in the Southland Land District, containing by admeasurement 43 acres, more or less, situated in Block XI., Longwood Survey District, being Sections Nos. 10 and 11. Bounded towards the north and north-west by a public road along the shore of Lake George, 5350 links; towards the south-east by a public road, 3938·8 links; towards the south by a public road, 2196 links; and towards the west by Section No. 12 in the said block, 1998·5 links.

Be all the aforesaid linkages a little more or less. As the same are more particularly delineated on the official map in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Invercargill.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable William Lee, Baron Plunket, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, 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 twenty-second day of September, 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!

Lands proclaimed as a Road, and Road closed, Subdivisions of Matemateonga, in Block IX., Omona Survey District, Hawera County.

(L.S.) PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred by section thirteen of “The Land Act, 1892,” and its amendments, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, with the consent of the owners and mortgagee of the lands mentioned in the First Schedule hereto, and with the consent of the Hawera County Council, being the local authority in whose district the said lands are situated, proclaim as a road the lands in Omona Survey District described in the First Schedule hereto; and also do hereby, with the like consents as aforesaid, proclaim as closed the road described in the Second Schedule hereto, which is not required by reason of the road first hereinbefore proclaimed.