Numb. 9. 241

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 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.

BREAM HEAD MOUNTAIN.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 185 acres, more or less, being Section No. 77 and the eastern portion of Section No. 76, both of the Parish of Manaia. Bounded towards the north by a public road; towards the east by Section No. 79A of the Parish of Manaia; towards the south by Bream Bay; and towards the west by the western portion of Section No. 76 of the Parish of Manaia to the public road aforesaid: as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 52871, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged with red.

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 third day of January, 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!

Land taken for a Road through Section 30, Block I., Whakatane Survey District, Whakatane County.

(L.S.) PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken, under “The Public Works Act, 1894,” for a certain work, to wit, for the purpose of a road through Section 30, Block I., Whakatane Survey District:

ERRATA.—In Order in Council dated 23rd December, 1904, declaring Waiohine Valley Road a county road, published in Gazette No. 2, pages 11 and 12, for Section 4, Block IV., “Tiffin,” read “Waiohine” Survey District.

In notice of intention to take land for a road in Block VI., Paeroa Survey District, published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 2, page 33, for the words “All in the Wellington Land District,” read “All in the Auckland Land District.”

In New Zealand Gazette No. 4, of the 19th January, 1905, page 82, list of Officiating Ministers, Notice No. 1, under “The Marriage Act, 1904,” for “Mr. Robert Murray Grant McDonald,” of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, read “Mr. Robert Murray Grant McDowall,”