Aug. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2427

Lands reserved under the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908,
in the Marlborough Land District.

(L.S.) ISLINGTON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908
(hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), a
Scenery Preservation Board is constituted, and it is enacted
that such Board shall, when so directed by the Minister
charged for the time being with the administration of the
said Act, inspect any lands possessing scenic or historic
interest, or on which there are thermal springs, and make
inquiries respecting the same, and report to the Governor;
and shall from time to time recommend what lands, whether
Crown or private, shall be permanently reserved as scenic,
thermal, or historic reserves: And whereas the said Board
was duly directed to inspect and report on the lands described
in the Schedule hereunder, and has recommended that the
said lands should be permanently reserved for scenic pur-
poses, and it is expedient to give effect to such recom-
mendation:

Now, therefore, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron
Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in
pursuance and exercise of the powers contained in the said
Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that the lands described
in the Schedule hereunder shall be scenic reserves under
the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, and subject to the pro-
visions thereof.

SCHEDULE.

RONGA SCENIC RESERVE.

ALL that area in the Marlborough Land District, contain-
ing by admeasurement 42 acres, more or less, being Sec-
tion 51, Block I, Wakamarina Survey District. Bounded
towards the north-west by a public road, 2490 links; and
towards the east, south, and west generally by a 1-chain
reserve along the Opouri and Ronga Rivers: as the same
is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 626/1A, de-
posited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and
Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

RAI RIVER-BANK SCENIC RESERVE.

All that area in the Marlborough Land District,
containing by admeasurement 12 acres, more or less,
being Section 52, Block I, Wakamarina Survey District.
Bounded towards the north-west by a 1-chain reserve along
the Rai River; towards the east by a public road, 886·5
links; towards the south generally partly by the Rai
River and partly by the 1-chain reserve along the Rai
River: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L.
and S. 626/1B, deposited in the Head Office, Department
of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered
red.

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 first day
of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand
nine hundred and twelve.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Declaring Land taken for a Public Work and not required
for such Public Work to be Crown Land.

(L.S.) ISLINGTON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it is provided by section thirty of the
Public Works Act, 1908, that if it is found that
any land held, taken, purchased, or acquired at any time
under this or any other Act or Provincial Ordinance, or
otherwise howsoever, for any public work is not required
for such public work, the Governor may, by an Order in
Council publicly notified and gazetted, cause the same to
be sold under the conditions therein mentioned:

And whereas it is further provided by section five of
the Public Works Amendment Act, 1909, that in the case
of any land so purchased, taken, or acquired for a Go-
vernment work and not required for that purpose, the
Governor may, on the recommendation of the Minister, and
without complying with any other requirements of the
aforesaid section thirty, by Proclamation declare such
land to be Crown land subject to the Land Act, 1908, and
thereupon the land may be administered and disposed of
under that Act accordingly:

And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto
was taken for a road: And whereas such road has been
closed, and it is desirable to declare the land contained
therein to be Crown land: And whereas a plan has been
prepared, and the Minister has recommended the Governor
to declare such land to be Crown land:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
and authorities conferred upon me by the above-in-part-
recited Acts, and of all other powers in anywise enabling
me in this behalf, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder,
Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New
Zealand, do hereby declare the land described in the
Schedule hereto to be Crown land subject to the Land Act,
1908, and that such land may be administered and dis-
posed of under that Act accordingly.

SCHEDULE.

The parcel of land declared to be Crown land :—

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more par-
ticularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as
above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Minister
of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provin-
cial District.

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 thir-
tieth day of July, in the year of our Lord one
thousand nine hundred and twelve.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Land proclaimed as a Road in Block VIII, Motueka Survey
District.

(L.S.) ISLINGTON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by
section eleven of the Land Act, 1908, I, John Poynder
Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the
Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby, with the consents of
the owner of the land described in the Schedule hereto,
and of the Waimea County Council, being the local authority
in whose district the said land is situated, proclaim as a
road the land in Motueka Survey District described in the
Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.