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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 20

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

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Southland Land District, containing
by admeasurement 46 acres, more or less, being part of
Section No. 5, Block II, Alton Survey District. Bounded
towards the north-west by a public road; towards the
north-east by Section No. 4, Block II, Alton Survey Dis-
trict; towards the south-east by a road reserve along the
right bank of the Waiau River; and towards the south-
west by Section No. 3, Block III, of the said district.

Also all that area in the Southland Land District, contain-
ing by admeasurement 103 acres, more or less, being Section
No. 6, Block II, Alton Survey District. Bounded towards the
north by a public road; towards the east by Section No. 5,
Block II, Alton Survey District; towards the south by a
public road; and towards the west by Crown land.

As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S.
54072/3, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands
and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District,
and thereon bordered red.

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, Go-
vernor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His
Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its De-
pendencies; and issued under the Seal of the said
Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington,
this twelfth day of March, in the year of our
Lord one thousand nine hundred and six.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
For Minister in Charge of Tourist and Health
Resorts Department.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

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Crown Lands reserved under “The Scenery Preservation Act,
1903.”

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(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 re-
served 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 parcels of Crown lands described in the Schedule hereto
should be permanently reserved as scenic reserves: 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 parcels
of Crown lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be
reserves under the said Act.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Southland Land District, containing
approximately 123 acres, being the island known as Tuata-
pere or Manuka Island, situated in the bed of the Waiau
River, and being Section No. 28, Block III, Alton Survey
District.

Also all that area in the Southland Land District, con-
taining approximately 400 acres, being numerous small
islands in the bed of the Waiau River, as shown on the plan
hereinafter referred to, and situated in Blocks XV and XVII,
Longwood Survey District.

As the same are delineated on the plan marked L. and S.
54073/18, deposited in the Head Office, Department of
Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land
District, and thereon bordered red.

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, Go-
vernor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His
Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its De-
pendencies; and issued under the Seal of the said
Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington,
this twelfth day of March, in the year of our
Lord one thousand nine hundred and six.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
For Minister in Charge of Tourist and Health
Resorts Department.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

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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 Commis-
sion 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 per-
manently reserved as scenic, thermal, or historic re-
serves; 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 in-
alienable 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 Go-
vernor and recommended that the parcel of Crown
land described in the Schedule hereto should be per-
manently 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.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Southland Land District, containing
by admeasurement 380 acres 3 roods 14 perches, more or
less, being Sections Nos. 35 and 36, Block IV, Longwood
Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Section
No. 32, Block IV, Longwood Survey District, and by a
public road; towards the east by a public road, by Section
No. 33 of the said Block IV, and again by a public road;
towards the south by Sections Nos. 6, 5, and 31 of the said
Block IV; and towards the west by Sections Nos. 34 and 30
of Block IV aforesaid: as the same is delineated on the