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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 99

with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
said Dominion, doth hereby declare that, in pursuance of
the powers contained in said section twenty-six, and pur-
suant to all other lawful powers enabling him in that behalf,
the area of the land hereinbefore firstly, secondly, thirdly,
and fourthly described that may be acquired by lease by the
said Frederick Delannoy Luckie under this Order in Council
shall be increased from the area set out in said sec-
tion twenty-six to an area of not more than sixty thousand
acres, the Governor in Council being satisfied that it is
advisable to increase to that extent the area of land that
may be acquired under the said section so as to insure the
taking-up of such lands.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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 Re-
serves 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 re-
serve, 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; to-
wards 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, Depart-
ment 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.

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, de-
clare 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.

Volunteer Regulations amended.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred on me by “The Defence Act, 1886,” and its
amendments, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor
of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby amend, in the
manner and to the extent set forth in the Schedule hereto,
such of the General Regulations of the Defence Forces of
New Zealand, made on the eighth day of February, one
thousand nine hundred and six, and published in the New
Zealand Gazette of the same date, as are set forth in the said
Schedule; and I do hereby declare that such amendments
shall come into force on the fourteenth day of November,
one thousand nine hundred and seven.

SCHEDULE.

The following additions to regulations are hereby made:—
Regulation 67. After the word “Militia” add, “and in
regiments of mounted rifles where squadrons are so
scattered that they are seldom mobilised, a captain on
appointment as major on the regimental staff may be per-
mitted by the Council of Defence to retain the command of