MAY 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1449

Revoking Part of a Proclamation taking Land for Road and Drain in Block III, Cobden Survey District, Grey County.

(l.s.) ISLINGTON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the Public Works Amendment Act, 1909, it is enacted that, if at any time after the issue or making of any Proclamation taking land under the Public Works Act, 1908, and before the payment or award of any compensation in respect of the taking thereof, it is found that any land or any part thereof is not required for the purpose for which it was taken, or that any error in form or substance exists in or in relation to that Proclamation, the Governor may, by a subsequent Proclamation gazetted, revoke the former Proclamation, either wholly or in so far as he thinks necessary :

And whereas it is found that one of the parcels of land taken for the purpose of a road and drain in Block III, Cobden Survey District, Grey County, by a Proclamation made under the Public Works Act, 1908, dated the seventh day of May, one thousand nine hundred and ten (hereinafter termed “the said Proclamation”), and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 46, page 1400, of the twelfth day of the same month, is not required for the purpose for which it was taken : And whereas compensation in respect of the taking of the said land has not been paid or awarded :

Now, therefore, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in me by the Public Works Amendment Act, 1909, and of all other powers enabling me in this behalf, do hereby revoke so much of the said Proclamation as affects the parcel of land aforesaid—viz., 2 acres 2 roods 47 perches—being portion of Section 3, situated in Block III (Square 124), Cobden Survey District (shown in red colour on the plan marked P.W.D. 25292, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District), being part of the land taken by the said Proclamation.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, 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-sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

R. MCKENZIE,
Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Land in the Auckland Land District withdrawn from State-forest Reservation.

(l.s.) ISLINGTON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto is a State forest under the control of the Commissioner of State Forests appointed under the State Forests Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), and the said land is now no longer required for State-forest purposes: And whereas plans showing the extent and position of the said land, and a statement of the reasons why it is no longer required for State-forest purposes, have been laid before both Houses of Parliament for a period of thirty days, and no resolution has been passed by either of such Houses objecting to the issue of this Proclamation :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers conferred by section twenty-eight of the said Act, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the Proclamation specified in the second column of the Schedule hereto, so far as it relates to the land described in the first column of the Schedule hereto, as from the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette; and doth hereby proclaim and declare that, from and after such date the parcel of land described in the first column of the Schedule hereto shall be no longer subject to the provisions of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, 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-fourth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

Approved in Council.

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

THOS. MACKENZIE,
Acting Commissioner of State Forests.

GOD SAVE THE KING!