APRIL 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1143

Declaring Road-lines through Land in the Otekaike Settlement to be closed.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS a report has been received from the Surveyor-General from which it appears that the roads described
in the Schedule hereto are unformed and unused, and that they intersect land acquired under “The Land for
Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” and are not suitable for the subdivision of such land :
Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and
in exercise of section sixty-nine of the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this
behalf, do by this notice hereby close the roads hereinafter described, and I do hereby declare that they shall thereupon
become subject to the said Act.

SCHEDULE.
OTEKAIKE SETTLEMENT.

All in the Otago Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked as above mentioned,
deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured
as above noted.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this sixth day of April, one thousand nine hundred
and eight.

ROBERT McNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Appointing Commissioners to classify Rural Lands in Hawke's Bay Land District.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN exercise 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

HENRY TRENT,
THOMAS HYDE, and
EUSTACE LANE

Commissioners to classify and report to me on the rural
lands in the Hawke’s Bay Land District known as Runs
Nos. 15, Mohaka, and 16, Tarawera, as provided by section
one hundred and eighty-nine of “The Land Act, 1892,”
aforesaid.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this fourth day of April, one thousand nine
hundred and eight.

ROBERT McNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Notifying the Proposed Exchange of Crown Land in the Canterbury Land District for other Land.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by section seventy-three of the Land Laws
Amendment Act, 1907, it is enacted that it shall be
lawful for the Governor, whenever he deems it expedient in
the public interest, to grant in fee-simple any area of Crown
land which is subject to the provisions of “The Land Act,
1892,” in exchange for the fee-simple of any other land
which in his opinion is of approximately equal value, and
that all land acquired by the Crown by any such exchange
shall become Crown land, and be subject to the provisions of
“The Land Act, 1892”:
And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient
to exchange the Crown land described in the first column of
the Schedule hereto for the land described in the second
column of the said Schedule, and the owners of the land
described in the second column of the said Schedule have
agreed to such exchange :
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers and
authorities conferred on him by the said section seventy-
three, doth hereby declare that it is his intention to grant in
fee-simple those areas of Crown land described in the first