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mencing at a point 287·5 links due south from the north-east corner of Section No. 1, Block XV, Tarawera Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west generally by lines through Run 79, bearing 85° 59′, 524·8 links; 71° 59′, 604·5 links; 20° 40′, 831·5 links; 66° 51′, 1002·5 links; 59° 8′, 1821 links; 73° 13′, 1398·4 links; 133° 26′, 793·1 links; 46° 45′, 1597·8 links; 78° 4′, 1095·6 links; 67° 18′, 1180·2 links; 62° 31′, 2896·5 links; 54° 19′, 620·9 links; and 10° 34′, 889·2 links: towards the north-east by a line bearing 100° 34′, 375 links, and by Rotomahana Lake: towards the south-east generally by lines through Run 79, bearing 190° 34′, 1060 links; 234° 19′, 808·6 links; 242° 31′, 2958·8 links; 247° 18′, 1170·7 links; 242° 47′, 2136·2 links; 242° 38′, 521·7 links; 264° 32′, 914 links; 282° 30′, 1000 links; 224° 10′, 800 links; 241° 41′, 1282·6 links; 260° 20′, 680 links; 196° 19′, 600 links; 106° 48′, 450·9 links; 63° 58′, 1049·6 links; 153° 45′, 500 links; 243° 45′, 1143 links; 286° 48′, 1053·1 links; 251° 59′, 412·7 links; and 265° 59′, 611·5 links: and towards the west by Section I, Block XV, Tarawera Survey District, 360°, 451 links, to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid bearings and linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. 51799/104A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon edged brown.

SCENIC RESERVES.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 135 acres 3 roods, more or less, being Section 2, Block XV, Tarawera Survey District, commencing at the north-east corner of Section 3, Block XV, Tarawera Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west generally by Run 79, bearing 50° 49′, 6660·8 links; 329° 46′, 637·3 links; 343° 2′, 634·4 links; 25° 35′, 4843·9 links; and 90°, 1000 links: towards the east generally by Rotomahana Lake: and towards the south-east generally by reserve for internal communication, bearing 280° 34′, 375 links; 190° 34′, 889·2 links; 234° 19′, 620·9 links; 242° 31′, 2896·5 links; 247° 18′, 1180·2 links; and 258° 4′, 1095·6 links, to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid bearings and linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. 51799/104B, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 139 acres 2 roods 16 perches, more or less, being Section 4, Block XV, Tarawera Survey District, commencing at a point on the shore of Lake Rotomahana, such point being the north-easternmost extremity of the reserve for internal communication purposes hereinbefore described. Bounded towards the north-west by the said reserve for internal communication a total distance of 13932·6 links; towards the south-west (450·9 links), south-east (1049·6 links), and again towards the south-west (500 links) by the internal communication reserve aforesaid; again towards the south-east by lines through Run 79, bearing 77° 25′, 3877·3 links, and 57° 25′, 8079·3 links, to Lake Rotomahana; and again towards the north-east by the said lake to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid bearings and linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. 51799/104C, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 6 acres 1 rood, more or less, being Section 5A, Block XV, Tarawera Survey District, commencing at the north-east corner of Section 1, Block XV, Tarawera Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west by Run 79, bearing 63° 8′, 1555·7 links; towards the south-east by reserve for internal communication bearing 200° 40′, 831·5 links, 251° 59′, 604·5 links, and 265° 59′, 524·8 links respectively: and towards the west by Section 1, Block XV, Tarawera Survey District, bearing 360°, 287·5 links, to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid bearings and linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. 51799/104D, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 6 acres 1 rood 12 perches, more or less, being Section 3, Block XV, Tarawera Survey District, commencing at the southernmost corner of Section 2, Block XV, Tarawera Survey District. Bounded towards the south-east and south-west by reserve for internal communication, bearing 226° 45′, 1597·8 links, and 313° 26′, 793·1 links respectively; and towards the north-west by Run 79, bearing 72° 28′, 1824·5 links, to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid bearings and linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. 51799/104E, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Boundaries of City of Christchurch altered.

ISLINGTON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of November, 1910.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS a petition has been presented to the Governor, under section one hundred and eighteen of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908, praying the Governor to alter the boundaries of the City of Christchurch, by including therein the area described in the Schedule hereto, and to include the said area in the Linwood Ward of the said city: And whereas a notice showing the proposed alteration in boundaries of the said city has been gazetted and publicly notified, and no objections in writing against such alteration have been lodged:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby declare that, as from the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, the area described in the Schedule hereto shall be included in the said City of Christchurch, and added to the Linwood Ward of the said city.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, bounded towards the north by Woodham or Mile Road from the boundary of the City of Christchurch at the junction of the said Woodham or Mile Road with Linwood Avenue to the extension in a northerly direction of Buckley’s Road; thence towards the east by the said northerly extension of Buckley’s Road, and towards the south-east by Buckley’s Road to the boundary of the City of Christchurch; and thence towards the south-west by the City of Christchurch to the place of commencement.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Empowering Maori Land Board to dispose of Land by way of Lease under the Native Land Act, 1909.

ISLINGTON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of November, 1910.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by Order in Council bearing date the tenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and nine, the blocks or parcels of land named in the Schedule hereto (hereinafter collectively referred to as “the said land”) were declared to be subject to Part I of the Native Land Settlement Act, 1907, and which, by section two hundred and thirty-three of the Native Land Act, 1909, becomes subject to Part XIV of that Act:

And whereas by subsection three of section two hundred and thirty-nine of the Native Land Act, 1909, it is provided that, notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained in this section, the Governor may by Order in Council, on the recommendation of the Board in whose district the land is situated, in any case in which he is of opinion that an equal division of that land in manner aforesaid would be impracticable or inexpedient in the public interest or in the interests of the owners, authorize the division of that land in any other proportion, or authorize the whole of that land to be disposed of either by sale or lease: And whereas the Waikato-Maniapoto District Maori Land Board has recommended that it is expedient that the whole of the said land shall be disposed of by way of lease:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers in this behalf vested in him as aforesaid, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, doth hereby authorize the whole of the said land set out in the Schedule hereto to be disposed of by way of lease; and it is hereby declared that this Order in Council is made under the provisions in that behalf of the Native Land Act, 1909, and shall operate accordingly as a consent of the Governor in Council to the proceedings hereby authorized.