JUNE 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1427

Lands proclaimed as a Road, and Road closed, in Block VII, Waitapu Survey District and Village of Clifton, Takaka 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 lessees of the lands mentioned in the First Schedule hereto, and of the Takaka County Council, being the local authority in whose district the said lands are situated, proclaim as a road the lands in Waitapu Survey District and Village of Clifton 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.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

LANDS PROCLAIMED AS A ROAD.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

ROAD CLOSED.

All in the Nelson Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

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 first day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Lands set apart for State Forest Purposes in the Land District of Auckland.

(L.S.) PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

BY virtue and in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by “The New Zealand State Forests Act, 1885,” and of every other power and authority enabling me in that behalf, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby set apart the forest lands described in the Schedule hereto, forming part of the Crown lands in New Zealand, as and for State forests within the provisions of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 1,292 acres, more or less, situated in Block II, Whangaroa Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Sections Nos. 9 and 5, Block II, Whangaroa Survey District, and by a right line in continuation of the southern boundary-line of the last-mentioned section to the western boundary-line of the Taupo Native Reserve; towards the east by the said Taupo Native Reserve, and by a branch of the Wairakau River to the northern boundary-line of Block VI of the said district; towards the south by the last-mentioned boundary-line; and towards the west by the western boundary-line of Block II of the said district: as the same is delineated in the plan marked L. and S. 55239, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 4,160 acres, more or less, situated in Blocks IX and XIII, Takahue Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Section No. 2 of Block IX, Takahue Survey District, 3500 links and 4200 links; towards the east by Section No. 9 of Block XIV of the said district, and by Section No. 2 of Block XIII of the said district; towards the south by Section No. 1A of Block XIII aforesaid; again towards the east by the said Section No. 1A and Section No. 1 of the said Block XIII; towards the south by Section No. 15 of Block VII of the said district, the abutment of a road, by Section No. 49 of the said Block VII, and by a right line in continuation of the northern boundary-line of the last-mentioned section to the north-east boundary-line of the Manukau Block; towards the south-west by the last-named boundary-line in a north-westerly direction a distance of 2000 links; thence towards the west by a right line due north a distance of 400 links; and thence towards the north-west by a right line in a north-easterly direction a distance of 32500 links to the south-western boundary-line of Section No. 2 first mentioned: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 55239A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 8,243 acres, more or less, situated in Blocks XII, XV, and XVI, Takahue Survey District, and Blocks IX and XIII, Maungataniwha Survey District. Bounded towards the north and towards the west by Section No. 150 of the Parish of Maungataniwha; again towards the north by Section No. 146 of the said parish; towards the east by Section No. 147 of the said parish to its southernmost corner; towards the north-east by a right line from the said corner to the westernmost corner of Section No. 1, Block XII, Takahue Survey District, and by that section; again towards the north by the last-mentioned section, by Section No. 3 of the said Block XII to its south-easternmost corner, and by a right line due east for a distance of about 2100 links; thence towards the north-west by a right line in a north-easterly direction to a point on the south side of a public road distant 4657 links; along said road from the north-west boundary-line of the Mangamuka West Block; thence again towards the north by the said public road; towards the east generally by the said Mangamuka West Block to the northern boundary-line of a reserve of 2,600 acres (permanently reserved in the New Zealand Gazette No. 8, 1904, page 310, for the growth and preservation of timber); towards the south and again towards the south by the last-mentioned reserve; again towards the south by the said reserve, by the abutment of a public road, and by Section No. 35 of Block XV, Takahue Survey District aforesaid; again towards the east by the said Section No. 35; again towards the south by Sections Nos. 60, 66, and 67 of Block II, Whangape Survey District, the abutment of a public road, and by Section No. 69 of the said