Dec. 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3495

Notice of Intention to change the Purpose of Portions of a Reserve in the Wellington Land District.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” it is, amongst other things, enacted that the Governor may declare his intention to change or alter the dedication of any public reserve now or hereafter vested in His Majesty or the Governor for any of the purposes named in Class II of the Schedule to the said Act, whether the same be granted or not; and if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to change the purpose of such reserve or any part thereof from the purpose or presumed purpose for which it was set apart to any other purpose, the Governor may, by notice gazetted, declare his intention to make such change, and in such notice declare the manner and terms in which the same is intended to be so made:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” aforesaid, declare my intention to change the specific purpose of the portions of the reserve described in the second column of the Schedule hereto from that named in the first column of the said Schedule to that named respectively in the third column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this seventeenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Opening Settlement Lands in Hawke’s Bay Land District for Selection.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by “The Land Act, 1892,” “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” and their amendments, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the settlement lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Tuesday, the twenty-eighth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and eight, at the rentals mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” and “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900.”

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT. — NORSEWOOD SURVEY DISTRICT. — RAUMATI SETTLEMENT.

• Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £260, repayable in cash or in twenty-one years by half-yearly instalments of £10 2s. 10d. Total half-yearly payment, £54 15s. 2d.

General Description.

Raumati Settlement is situated two miles and a half from Dannevirke, which is the centre of a flourishing dairying and grazing district. It is intersected by the Wellington-Napier Railway, and is within half a mile of the Mangatera, Piripiri, and Matamau Sidings. The whole area was formerly under heavy forest, from which the valuable timber has been removed, and the remainder partly cleared. A large portion of each section is in English grass. The soil is of even quality throughout; the subsoil is clay, on papa formation. Although intersected by many gullies, the range of altitude only varies from 750 ft. to 1,200 ft. above sea-level. When cleared of stumps a large area will be ploughable. The country is well sheltered and warm, and grass comes on early in the spring. Nearly all the sections contain sufficient totara for fencing; building-timber can be obtained from several mills within a mile of the settlement. All the sections are watered, most of them by several streams. Two school-sites and a creamery-site have been reserved.

The right to use the trolley-lines on Sections 50, 51, and 55, Block X, is reserved until the expiry of existing timber-cutting rights.

Improvements on Sections.

There are two cottages on Section 5, Block XVI—one, 30 ft. by 27 ft., containing four main rooms, two verandah rooms, and scullery additions, valued at £160; the other,