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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 97

Notice of Intention to change the Purpose of a Portion of a Reserve in the Canterbury 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 portion 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 in the third column of the said Schedule respectively.

SCHEDULE.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-third day of October, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Notice of Intention to define the Purpose of a Reserve in the Canterbury Land District.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by the fifth section of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” it is, amongst other things, enacted that if there shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be any doubt or uncertainty as to the purpose for which a reserve was set apart, he may by notice gazetted define such purpose or purposes as to either the whole or any part of such reserve, subject to the action of the General Assembly, as provided in the seventh section of the said Act:

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 define the specific purpose of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto from a reserve for public purposes to a site for buildings of the Waimakariri Harbour Board.

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 10 acres, more or less, being Section No. 3748 (in red), part of Rural Section No. 6457, Block IV, Christchurch Survey District. Bounded towards the south by the southern boundary of Rural Section No. 6457; towards the west in a northerly direction by Bottle Lake Road, 50 links; easterly by a line parallel to the first-mentioned boundary, 1600 links; thence northerly at right angles, 400 links; thence easterly by a parallel line to the first-mentioned boundary to the 1-chain road along the bank of the Waimakariri River, and southerly by the road to the starting-point: as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 57336/4, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

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

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Appointing Commissioners to classify Pastoral Runs in Otago Land District.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the one-hundred-and-eighty-ninth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

DAVID BARRON,
WILLIAM DALLAS, and
JOHN TOUGH

Commissioners to classify and report to me upon the rural lands in Otago Land District known as Runs Nos. 25 (Wakatipu), 79 (Barewood), 200 and 200A, 243, 258, and Sections Nos. 1, Block VI, and 2 and 3, Block X, Swinburn Survey District; 20, Block II, and 4 to 6, Block III, Cairnhill Survey District; and 27 to 30, Block I, Glenorchy Survey District, and 39, Block I, Upper Wakatipu Survey District, as provided by section 189 of “The Land Act, 1892.”

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

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Amending a Warrant notifying the Hokianga River and its Tributaries under “The Timber-floating Act, 1884.”

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by “The Timber-floating Act, 1884,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby revoke the Warrant of the twenty-seventh day of May, one thousand nine hundred and seven, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the thirtieth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and seven, notifying that the Hokianga River and its tributary streams and branches may be used under license for the purposes of