In the Land District of Hawke's Bay; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked W.R. 17148, deposited in the office of the Minister of Railways, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured 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, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty's Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Government House, at Wellington, this sixteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine.

J. A. MILLAR,
Minister of Railways.

(GOD SAVE THE KING !

Cancelling a Proclamation taking Land in Block V, Paikakariki Survey District, Hutt County, for the Purposes of a Road.

(L.S.) PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION .

WHEREAS by the twenty-third section of "The Public Works Act, 1908," it is enacted that in any case where a Proclamation has been issued taking land for any public work, and where before such Proclamation has been registered by the District Land Registrar it is found that such Proclamation incorrectly describes the land purporting to be taken, or that any other error in form or substance exists in or in relation to such Proclamation, the Governor may by a subsequent Proclamation cancel and annul such first-mentioned Proclamation, or any part thereof: And whereas a Proclamation made under "The Public Works Act, 1908," dated the tenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and nine, taking land in Block V, Paikakariki Survey District, Hutt County, for the purposes of a road, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 39, page 1285, of the thirteenth day of the same month, incorrectly describes a part of the land mentioned in the Schedule thereto, and such Proclamation has not been registered by the District Land Registrar, as provided by the said Act:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by "The Public Works Act, 1908," do by this Proclamation hereby cancel and annul the said Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette aforesaid, taking land in Block V, Paikakariki Survey District, for the purposes of a road. And it is hereby declared that such Proclamation shall be absolutely void and of none effect as from the date of the same.

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 Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Government House, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine.

R. McKENZIE, Minister of Public Works.

(GOD SAVE THE KING !

Land proclaimed as a Road, and Road closed, in Blocks XVI and XII, Upper Waitara Survey District, Whangamomona County.

(L.S.) PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCL AMATION .

N pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred by section eleven of "The Land Act, 1908," I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby, with the consent of the lessee of the Crown land mentioned in the First Schedule hereto, and of the Whangamomona County Council, being the local authority in whose district the said land is situated, pro-

claim as a road the land in Upper Waitara 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 mentioned in the First Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

LAND PROCLAIMED AS A ROAD.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

ROAD CLOSED.

All in the Taranaki 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 Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial 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 Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-third day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine.

R. McKENZIE, Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING !

Land proclaimed as a Road, and Road closed, in Steward Settlement, Block VI, Papakaio Survey District, Waitaki County.

(L.S.) PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION .

N pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred by section eleven of "The Land Act, 1908," I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby, with the consent of the lessees of the Crown land mentioned in the First Schedule hereto, and of the Waitaki County Council, being the local authority in whose district the said land is situated, proclaim as a road the land in Papakaio 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 described in the First Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

LAND PROCLAIMED AS A ROAD.