Num. 49.

1827

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1912.

Proclaiming Native Land to be Crown Land under Section 368 of the Native Land Act, 1909.

(L.S.) ISLINGTON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section three hundred and sixty-eight of the Native Land Act, 1909 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), it is provided, inter alia, that the Crown may purchase any Native land in pursuance of a resolution of the assembled owners passed and confirmed in accordance with Part XVIII of the said Act, and on the resolution being adopted by the Native Land Purchase Board it shall become a contract of purchase as between the Crown and all persons who are the owners of the land; and the Governor may by Proclamation, at any time after the contract of purchase has been so made, declare that the land so purchased is vested in His Majesty the King, and it shall vest accordingly, and shall become Crown land :

And whereas a resolution was passed by a meeting of assembled owners, and duly confirmed by the Waikato-Maniapoto District Maori Land Board, that the land set out in the Schedule hereto be sold to the Crown : And whereas the Native Land Purchase Board duly considered and adopted the resolution :

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by section three hundred and sixty-eight of the said Act, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare the land set out in the Schedule hereto to be vested in His Majesty the King, and is Crown land subject to the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Pakau-manu Survey District, in the Provincial District of Auckland, containing 1,308 acres 2 roods 14 perches, more or less, and being the land known as Rangitoto-Tuhua No. 26E No. 2 Block.

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-ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

W. D. S. MACDONALD,
Native Minister.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Altering the Middle-line of a Portion of the East Coast Main Trunk Railway.

(L.S.) ISLINGTON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, under the provisions in that behalf of section one hundred and eighty-eight of the Public Works Act, 1908, the middle-line of portions of the East Coast Main Trunk Railway from 39 miles 73 chains to 60 miles were defined by Proclamations dated the fifth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and ten, and twenty-eighth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, respectively, and published in the New Zealand Gazette Nos. 67 and 56, of the seventh day of July, one thousand nine hundred and ten, and sixth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, respectively : And whereas it has been found necessary in the construction of such railway to alter a portion of such line in manner hereinafter appearing :

Now, therefore, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the aforesaid section one hundred and eighty-eight, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, do hereby revoke so much of the Schedules to the said Proclamations as define the middle-line of the said railway between the points marked 54 miles 32·38 chains and 56 miles 75 chains on the plans numbered P.W.D. 26500 and P.W.D. 29559 referred to therein; and in lieu thereof do hereby proclaim and declare that the middle-line of the part of the said railway between the points marked 54 miles 32·38 chains and 57 miles, marked on the plan numbered P.W.D. 31747, shall be as defined and set forth in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

COMMENCING at a point in Section W 21, Block II, Maketu Survey District, which point is marked 54 miles 32·38 chains, on the middle-line of the railway defined in a Proclamation dated the 5th day of July, 1910, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 67, pages 1912/3, of 7th July, 1910; proceeding thence generally in a south-easterly and then north-easterly direction for a distance of about 2½ miles, and passing in, into, through, or over the following lands—viz., Sections W 21 and E 21, Block II, Maketu Survey District; No. 2B Rangiuru Block, Blocks II and III, Maketu Survey District; No. 1A Rangiuru Block, Block III, Maketu Survey District; Pukaingataru Block, Block III, Maketu Survey District; and terminating at a point in the said Pukaingataru Block, marked 57 miles, and intersecting thereat the middle-line defined by a Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 56, of 6th July, 1911, at about 56 miles 75 chains: including all adjoining and inter-