SEPT. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3301

Redefining certain Ridings in the County of Waiau.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council dated the fifth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and seven, made under the Counties Act 1886 Amendment Act, 1895, the boundaries of the Counties of Opotiki and Waiau were altered, and a certain area thereby added to the County of Waiau:

And whereas it is expedient to include the area so added to the County of Waiau in the Matakaoa and Piritarau Ridings of the said county:

Now, therefore, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers vested in me by the Counties Act, 1908, do hereby declare that the area added to the County of Waiau shall be included in the Matakaoa and Piritarau Ridings, and that the boundaries of the said ridings shall be those described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

MATAKAOA RIDING.

ALL that area in the Waiau County bounded towards the north and north-east generally by the sea from Cape Runaway to East Cape; thence towards the south-east generally by the Awanui Riding, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 61 of the 16th August, 1894, to the westernmost corner of that riding; thence by the Wairongomai Block and Section No. 1, Block VIII, Raukumara Survey District, to the western boundary of the said Waiau County; and thence towards the west generally by the western boundary of that county to Cape Runaway, the place of commencement.

PIRITARAU RIDING.

All that area in the Waiau County bounded towards the north generally by the Matakaoa Riding hereinbefore described from the western boundary of the said Waiau County to the westernmost corner of the Awanui Riding as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 61, of the 16th August, 1894; thence by the said Awanui Riding to the sea; thence towards the east by the sea to the north-eastern corner of Waipiro Riding as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 104, of the 12th December, 1901; thence towards the south generally by the said Waipiro Riding to Hikurangi Trig. Station; thence by a right line to Kapua Trig. Station on the county boundary; and thence towards the north-west by the western boundary of the said Waiau County to the place of commencement.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-sixth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and ten.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Notice of Intention to change the Purpose of Portion of a Reserve in the Hawke’s Bay Land District.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

WHEREAS by the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, it is, amongst other things, enacted that the Governor may declare his intention to change, exchange, 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 Second Schedule to the said Act, whether the same be granted or not; and in the case of any reserve made under the authority of section three hundred and twenty-one of the Land Act, 1908, 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, or if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to exchange any of the land comprised in such reserve for other land of equal value, to be dedicated to one or more purposes named in the said Class II, the Governor may, by notice gazetted, make such change, exchange, or dedication, as the case may be, and in such notice declare the manner and terms in which the same is intended to be so made:

Now, therefore, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, 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 and Domains Act, 1908, 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.

SCHEDULE.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twentieth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and ten.

D. BUDDO,
For Minister of Lands.

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

ISLINGTON, Governor.

WHEREAS by the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, it is, amongst other things, enacted that the Governor may declare his intention to change, exchange, 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 Second Schedule to the said Act, whether the same be granted or not; and in the case of any reserve made under the authority of section three hundred and twenty-one of the Land Act, 1908, 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, or if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to exchange any of the land comprised in such reserve for other land of equal value, to be dedicated to one or more purposes named in the said Class II, the Governor may, by notice gazetted, make such change, exchange, or dedication, as the case may be, and in such notice declare the manner and terms in which the same is intended to be so made:

Now, therefore, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, 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 and Domains Act, 1908, aforesaid, declare my intention to change the specific purpose of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto from Government purposes to a river-conservation reserve.

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