JULY 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1993

SCHEDULE.
NORTHCOTE SCENIC RESERVE.
ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by
admeasurement 23 acres 3 roods 39 perches, more or less,
being Section No. 8, Block XII, Waitemata Survey District
(Parish of Takapuna). Bounded towards the north-west by
Lots 4, 3, 2, and 1 of Original Allotment 9 of the Parish of
Takapuna, 1452 links; towards the north-east by Allot-
ment 12 and Lot 25 of Original Allotment 11 of the aforesaid
parish, 844·7 and 852·5 links; towards the south-east by
Lots 29 and 30 and other parts of Original Allotment 7 of
the aforesaid parish, 1447·6 links; and towards the south-
west by Lot 4 of Original Allotment 4, and Lot 3 of Original
Allotment 6, of the aforesaid parish, 1618 links: be all the
aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on
the plan marked L. and S. 52698/44, deposited in the Head
Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, in the Welling-
ton Land District, and thereon edged 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 twenty-eighth day of June, in the year of
our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven.
ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands.
GOD SAVE THE KING!

Lands taken for a Road through Block XIII, Matakoe
Survey District, Matakoe Road District.

(L.S.)
PLUNKET, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the lands mentioned in the Schedule
hereto are required to be taken, under “The
Public Works Act, 1905,” for a certain work, to wit, for
the purpose of a road in Matakoe Survey District:
And whereas the Matakoe Road Board has laid before
the Governor the memorial, accompanied by a map, and also
the statutory declaration, as required by the said Act:
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,” and of all other power
and authority in anywise enabling me in that behalf, do
hereby proclaim and declare that, from and after the date of
the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, the lands
mentioned in the Schedule hereto are hereby taken for the
purposes of the said road.

SCHEDULE.

All in the Auckland 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, 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 twenty-ninth day of June, in the year of
our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven.
JAMES MCGOWAN,
For Minister for Public Works.
GOD SAVE THE KING!

Native Land proposed to be taken for a Gravel-pit in
Owhatiura South Block, Block I, Tarawera Survey District.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this seventh
day of June, 1907.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto
is required to be taken for a public work, to wit,
for the purpose of a gravel-pit in Owhatiura South Block,
Block I, Tarawera Survey District:
And whereas the said land is held or occupied by Native
owners under a title which is not derived from the Crown:
And whereas a map in duplicate has been prepared of the
said land, as required by the eighty-ninth section of “The
Public Works Act, 1905”:
Now, therefore, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers
vested in him by the eighty-ninth section of the said Act,
and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this
behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby declare
that the land shown upon such map, and described in the
Schedule hereto, shall be deemed to be taken for the pur-
poses of the said gravel-pit; and the said land shall vest in
His Majesty the King as from the twenty-fifth day of July,
one thousand nine hundred and seven.

SCHEDULE.

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is 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.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Abolishing the Komakorau Drainage District, County of
Waikato.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-
fourth day of June, 1907.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council made under “The
Land Drainage Act, 1904,” dated the second day
of February, one thousand nine hundred and six, and pub-
lished in the New Zealand Gazette of the eighth day of
February, one thousand nine hundred and six, the area
described in the Schedule to the said Order in Council was
constituted a drainage district under the said Act, to be
called the Komakorau Drainage District:
And whereas a petition, signed by a majority of the rate-
payers in the said drainage district, has been presented
to the Governor praying that the said district may be
abolished:
And whereas it is expedient to give effect to the said
petition:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
power and authority contained in the said “Land Drainage
Act, 1904,” and acting by and with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby
abolish the said Komakorau Drainage District as from the
date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.