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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 74

Lands proclaimed as a Road, and Road closed, through Blocks 21, 40, and 55, Waipukurau Crown-grant District, Blocks II, III, and VI, Motuotaria Survey District, Waipukurau Road District, Waipawa County.

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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 mortgagee of the lands mentioned in the First Schedule hereto, and of the Waipukurau Road Board, being the local authority in whose district the said lands are situated, proclaim as a road the lands in Motuotaria Survey District 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 Hawke’s Bay 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 sixteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven.

JAMES McGOWAN,
Acting Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Additional Land in the Otanake Survey District taken for the Purposes of the North Island Main Trunk Railway.

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PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it has been found desirable for the use, convenience, and enjoyment of the North Island Main Trunk Railway to take further land in the Otanake Survey District, in addition to land previously acquired for the purposes of the said railway:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by sections twenty-nine and one hundred and eighty-eight of “The Public Works Act, 1905,” and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto are hereby taken for the purposes above mentioned.

SCHEDULE.

The parcels of land mentioned hereunder:—

All in the Land District of Auckland; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked 15661, deposited in the office of the Minister for Railways, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured purple and green.

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 sixteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven.

J. G. WARD,
Acting for Minister for Railways.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Lands reserved under “The Scenery Preservation Act, 1903,” and “The Scenery Preservation Amendment Act, 1906.”

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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 appoint a Commission who may inspect any lands possessing scenic or historic interest, or on which there may be thermal springs, and report thereon to the Governor, with recommendations as to what lands should be reserved as scenic, thermal, or historic reserves: And whereas such Commission was duly appointed, and, after inspection, recommended that the parcels of land described in the Schedule hereunder should be permanently reserved for scenic purposes, and it is expedient to give effect to such recommendation:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers contained in the said Act, and of “The Scenery Preservation Amendment Act, 1906,” do hereby proclaim and declare that the parcels of land described in the Schedule hereunder shall be reserved under and subject to the provisions of the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

LAKE MAHINAPUA SCENIC RESERVE.

All that area in the Westland Land District, containing by admeasurement 430 acres, more or less, being Reserve No. 1055, situated in Blocks VII and XI, Mahinapua Survey District, and bounded as follows: Starting from a point on the eastern side of the Hokitika-Ross Railway Reserve, at the intersection of the south boundary of the endowment for aged and infirm miners; thence by that boundary to the reserve along Mahinapua Lake; thence by that reserve to the road running along the north boundary of the Hokitika Harbour Board Endowment No. 146 and known as the Ruatapu Road; thence by that road to Roberts’s Sawmill-site No. 1697, and by that site on the north-west and on the south, 10 chains and 5 chains respectively, to the east boundary of the before-mentioned railway reserve; thence