New Zealand Gazette – 1911 – No. 45

Page 1803

✨ Land Reservations and Exchanges

JUNE 1. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1803

SCHEDULE.

First Column.	Second Column.	Third Column.
Description and	Portion which it	Intended
Purpose of	is intended to change.	Purpose.
Original Reserve.
--------------------------------	------------------------------------	----------------------
DESCRIPTION.	All that area in the	For municipal
All that area in the	Southland Land District,	purposes.
Southland Land District,	containing by admeasure-
containing by ad-	ment 0·66 perches, more
measurement 1 acre	or less, situated in the
2 roods 34 perches,	Borough of Invercargill,
more or less, situated	being portion of the In-
in the Borough of In-	vercargill Public Offices
vercargill, being por-	Site, as described in the
tion of the Invercargill	First Schedule of the In-
Public Offices Site, as	vercargill Public Offices
described in the First	Site Act, 1875. Bounded
Schedule of the In-	towards the north by
vercargill Public	other part of said site,
Offices Site Act, 1875.	15·2 links; towards the
Bounded towards the	east by Dee Street, 27·3
north by Esk Street,	links; towards the south
367·4 links; towards	by the Invercargill
the east by the Inver-	Athenæum Reserve, as
cargill Athenæum Re-	described in the Fourth
serve, 101·5 links;	Schedule of the above-
again towards the	quoted Act, 15·2 links;
north by the said Ath-	and towards the west by
enæum Reserve, 132·6	other part of said In-
links; again towards	vercargill Public Offices Site,
the east by Dee Street,	27·3 links: be all the
297 links; towards the	aforesaid linkages more
south by Invercargill	or less: as the same is
Athenæum Reserve,	delineated on the plan
132·6 links; again to-	marked L. 5506/1, de-
wards the east by the	posited in the Head Office,
said Athenæum Re-	Department of Lands, at
serve, 83·5 links; and	Wellington, and thereon
towards the south-west	bordered red.
and west generally by
the Crescent, 651 links:
be all the aforesaid link-
ages more or less: as
the same is delineated
on the plan marked L.
5506/3, deposited in the
Head Office, Depart-
ment of Lands, at Wel-
lington, and thereon
bordered red.
--------------------------------	------------------------------------	----------------------
PURPOSE.
For public offices or
for the purpose of other
public buildings for use
of the General Govern-
ment of the Colony.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this fifth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

D. BUDDO,
Acting Minister of Lands.

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

ISLINGTON, Governor.

WHEREAS by section eleven of the Scenery Preservation Amendment Act, 1910, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, whenever he deems it expedient for the purposes of scenery-preservation, to grant in fee-simple any area of Crown land in exchange for the fee-simple of any other land which in his opinion is of approximately equal value, and that such exchange may be made under the provisions of section one hundred and forty-two of the Land Act, 1908:

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 owner of the land described in the second column of the said Schedule has 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 eleven of the Scenery Preservation Amendment Act, 1910, and section one hundred and forty-two of the Land Act, 1908, doth hereby declare that it is his intention to grant in fee-simple the area of Crown land described in the first column of the Schedule hereto in exchange for the fee-simple of the area of land described in the second column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

First Column.	Second Column.
Description of	Description of
Crown Land authorized	Land to be obtained in
to be exchanged.	Exchange therefor.
----------------------------------------	-----------------------------------------
All that area in the Wel-	All that parcel of land in
lington Land District, con-	the Wellington Land District,
taining 156 acres 2 roods,	containing by admeasurement
more or less, being Sections	60 acres 1 rood 12 perches,
Nos. 3, Block IX, and 46,	more or less, being Section
Block XIII, Wairarapa Sur-	No. 1, Block IX, Wairarapa
vey District. Bounded as fol-	Survey District. Bounded
lows: Commencing at the	towards the east and south-
south-eastern corner of Sec-	east generally by a public
tion No. 77, Block IX,	road, 778·9 links, by the
Wairarapa Survey District;	crossing of the Western Lake
towards the west generally	Road, by that road, 278 links,
by Section No. 76, Block IX,	by Section No. 76, 4385 links,
Wairarapa Survey District,	to a public road, and by that
960 links, 3579 links, 11088	road, 3309·1 links; towards
links, 7980 links, and by Sec-	the south-west and north-
tions Nos. 75 and 20, Block II,	west generally by Section
Onoke Survey District, 3339	No. 76, 225·5 links, by the
links, 353 links, 1934 links,	crossing of the Western Lake
2041 links, 2915 links, 1582	Road, by that road, 2770·2
links, 1206 links, 600 links;	links, and again by Section
towards the south by Sec-	No. 76, 10047·4 links: be all
tion No. 47, Block XIII, Wai-	the aforesaid linkages more
rarapa Survey District, 1830	or less: save and except that
links; towards the east gene-	portion of the Western Lake
rally by a public road, 220	Road which intersects the
links, 2230·7 links, 2759·7	area, also four right-of-ways
links, 2094·9 links, 750·5	on the western side of the
links, 1793 links, 1047·5 links,	said road and one upon the
2373·1 links, 1730·7 links,	eastern side.
6013·6 links, 3134·8 links,
8035 links, 2020·8 links, 1753·6	Also all that parcel of land in
links, 1030 links; and by	the Wellington Land District,
Crown land, 140 links: be all	containing by admeasurement
the aforesaid linkages more	14 acres 2 roods 11 perches,
or less: as the same is de-	more or less, being Section
lineated on the plan marked	No. 2, Block IX, Wairarapa
L. 540/10, deposited in the	Survey District. Bounded to-
Head Office, Department of	wards the south-west, north-
Lands, Wellington, and	west, and north-east gene-
thereon bordered red.	rally by Section No. 76,
	4336·7 links; and towards the
	south-east generally by the
	Western Lake Road, 3642·1
	links: be all the aforesaid
	linkages more or less: save
	and except two right-of-ways
	to the said road:
	As the above areas are de-
	lineated on the plan marked
	L. 540/8, deposited in the
	Head Office, Department of
	Lands, Wellington, and there-
	on edged red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this twenty-third day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

D. BUDDO,
Acting Minister of Lands.

Land temporarily reserved for a Site for a Public School in the Auckland Land District.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-twenty-first section of the Land Act, 1908, it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:

Now, therefore, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the land in the Auckland Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, for a site for a public school.

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1911, No 45

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✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🗺️ Change of Purpose for Public Offices Site in Invercargill

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated5 May 1911
KeywordsLand Reserve, Invercargill, Public Offices Site, Municipal Purposes
👩‍💼 Officials

D. Buddo, Acting Minister of Lands

🗺️ Proposed Exchange of Crown Land for Private Land in Wellington

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated23 May 1911
KeywordsCrown Land Exchange, Wellington Land District, Scenery Preservation, Land Act
👩‍💼 Officials

D. Buddo, Acting Minister of Lands

🗺️ Temporary Reserve for Public School Site in Auckland

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
KeywordsLand Reserve, Public School Site, Auckland Land District, Land Act
👩‍💼 Officials

John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, Governor

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