MAY 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1655

for the purposes hereinbefore specified have been observed and performed:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities in me vested by “The Public Works Act, 1905,” “The Scenery Preservation Act, 1903,” and “The Scenery Preservation Amendment Act, 1906,” and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for scenery-preservation purposes as aforesaid. And it is hereby declared that this Proclamation shall take effect on and after the thirty-first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

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SCHEDULE.

THE parcel of land taken:—

In the Land District of Hawke’s Bay; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 22322, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured 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, 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-fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven.

JAMES McGOWAN,
For Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

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Altering Boundaries of Taranaki and Whanganui Maori Council Districts under the Provisions of “The Maori Councils Act, 1900.”

(L.S.) PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section three of “The Maori Councils Act, 1900” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor may proclaim any district a Maori district for the purposes of the said Act, and at any time may alter or revoke such Proclamation: And whereas by Proclamation dated the twenty-sixth day of December, one thousand nine hundred, the Governor proclaimed certain districts to be Maori districts for the purposes of the said Act: And whereas it is expedient to alter the boundaries of certain of the districts so proclaimed:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by the said Act, do hereby amend the said recited Proclamation by altering the boundary between the Taranaki and Whanganui Maori Council Districts so as to include the area described in the Schedule hereto in the Taranaki Maori Council District, and to exclude the said area from the Whanganui Maori Council District.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land bounded as follows: Commencing on the north-east by Blocks V and VI, Nukumaru Survey District, from the point where the southern boundary of the said Block V strikes the Waitotara River to the Okehu Stream; thence by Rangitatau No. 1c Block (Tarapuruhi Block) to the Karemu Stream; thence by Koatanui and Kaiwhatu Blocks to a point in line with the north-western boundary of Section No. 220, Block XVI, Nukumaru Survey District; thence towards the south-east by a right line to the north-western corner of that section; thence by Block XVI aforesaid, and by Blocks I and IV, Westmere Survey District, to the sea; thence on the south-west by the sea to the Waitotara River, and on the west by that river to the point of commencement.

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-fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven.

J. CARROLL,
Minister of Native Affairs.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

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Lands set apart for Lease as a Village Settlement in the Wellington Land District.

(L.S.) PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-sixty-eighth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that the allotments of Crown lands respectively described in the Schedule hereto shall be and the same are hereby set apart as a village settlement.

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SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—EKETAHUNA COUNTY.—NIREAHA VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

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-seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE KING!