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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 63

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 pursuance and exercise of the powers and
authorities conferred upon me by the Public Reserves and
Domains Act, 1908, aforesaid, declare my intention to ex-
change the reserve described in the first column of the
Schedule hereto for the land described in the second column
of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

First Column.
Description and Purpose
of Reserve intended to
be exchanged.

All that area in the
Westland Land Dis-
trict, containing by
admeasurement 32 per-
ches, more or less, being
Reserve 1288, Town of
Cobden. Bounded to-
wards the north-east by
Section 175, Fox Street,
100 links; towards the
south-east by Section 31,
Bright Street, 200 links;
towards the south-west
by Bright Street, 100
links; and towards the
north-west by Section
33, Bright Street, 200
links: be all the afore-
said linkages more or
less: as the same is
delineated on the plan
marked L. 5530/3A,
deposited in the Head
Office, Department of
Lands, at Wellington,
and thereon coloured
red.

Dedicated as a site for
a library in New Zea-
land Gazette No. 47, of
the 9th September, 1886.

Second Column.
Description of Land to be obtained
in Exchange therefor.

All that area in the Westland
Land District, containing by
admeasurement 2 roods 18 per-
ches, more or less, being Sections
1, 2, and 3 of Town Block I,
Town of Cobden. Bounded as fol-
lows: Towards the north-east by
Bright Street, 296·8 links; to-
wards the south-east by Pitt
Street, 192·54 links and 65·54
links; towards the south-west by
Section 4 of the Town Block I
aforesaid, 223·3 links; and to-
wards the north-west by Residence
Area 7, 271·17 links: be all the
aforesaid linkages more or less:
as the same is delineated on the
plan marked L. 5530/3B, deposited
in the Head Office, Depart-
ment of Lands, at Wellington,
and thereon coloured red.

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

D. BUDDO,
Acting Minister of Lands.

Notifying Land in Southland Land District for Sale by
Public Auction.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred
upon me by the one-hundred-and-twenty-sixth section
of the Land Act, 1908, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder,
Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zea-
land, do hereby appoint Friday, the third day of November,
one thousand nine hundred and eleven, as the time at which
the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by
public auction; and I do hereby fix the price at which the
said land shall be sold as that mentioned in the said
Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WALLACE COUNTY.—JACOBS
RIVER HUNDRED.

Rural Land.

With the exception of a small area of open land of good
quality situated at the north of the section, and a few acres
of low-lying land growing flax at the south end, the whole
of the section is covered with bush, chiefly white-birch of no
value. Distant from Riverton six miles and half by road,
and two miles and three-quarters by water.

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

D. BUDDO,
Acting Minister of Lands.

Opening Lands in Nelson Land District for Selection
on Renewable Lease.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1908, I, John
Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of
the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the
lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for
selection on renewable lease on Monday, the ninth day of
October, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, at the rentals
mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that
the said lands shall be leased under and subject to section
one hundred and thirty-five of the said Act, as they con-
tain, or are supposed to contain, metal, mineral, or valuable
stone.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

Weighted with £61 5s., valuation for improvements.
About 250 acres flat and undulating, remainder rather
steep hills. Twenty-eight acres felled and grassed; balance
all bush, mostly black and brown birch, with some black
and white pine and miro. Good soil, on sandstone forma-
tion; well watered. Distant thirteen miles from Murchi-
son—eight miles by main coach-road and five miles by 9 ft.
metalled road, which passes the section on the opposite side
of the river.

MURCHISON COUNTY.—BURNETT SURVEY DISTRICT.

9 | III | 756 0 0 | 460 0 0 | 9 4 0

About 250 acres flats and terraces, remainder easy to steep
spurs; all bush, consisting mostly of red and brown birch,
with a little white-pine and totara. Granite formation;
well watered. Good soil on flats, fair on hills, would grow
good grass. Distant thirty-two miles from Murchison—by
dray-road to Frog Flat twenty-seven miles, thence by bridle-
track five miles.

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

D. BUDDO,
Acting Minister of Lands.

Commission.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

To all to whom these presents shall come, and to Neil
Dundonald Cochrane, Esq., of Dunedin, Mining En-
gineer; John Dowgray, Esq., of Granity, Miner;
James Sim Evans, Esq., of Nelson, Warden and Sti-
pendiary Magistrate; George Fletcher, Esq., of
Granity, Mine-manager; Herbert Scott Molineaux,
Esq., of Barewood, Mine-manager; William Edward
Parry, Esq., of Waihi, Miner; and Frank Reed,
Esq., of Wellington, Inspecting Engineer of Mines.

WHEREAS it is deemed expedient to appoint a Com-
mission to inquire into and report on the condi-
tions relating to the health and safety of the miners of
New Zealand and the administration of the laws relating
to mining and coal-mines, and to make recommendations
for any amendment of these laws which may be considered
necessary for the better protection of the health and
safety of persons working in mines :