Aug. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2455

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 pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the land in the Wellington Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, for a public recreation-ground.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 8 acres and 16 perches, more or less, being Section 140, Town of Manunui. Bounded towards the north-west by the abutment of a road and by Crown land, 737·6 links; towards the north-east generally by a road and river-bank reserve, 609·8 links, 398·3 links, and 484·7 links; towards the south generally by Sections 75 and 76, by the abutment of a public road, and by Section 144, 388·2 links, 314 links, and 750·27 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 418/33, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this third day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands.

Notice of Intention to change the Purpose of Portion of a Reserve in Waitahuna West Survey District, Otago Land District.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

WHEREAS by the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, it is, amongst other things, enacted that the Governor may declare his intention to change, exchange, or alter the dedication of any public reserve now or hereafter vested in His Majesty or the Governor for any of the purposes named in Class II of the Second Schedule to the said Act, whether the same be granted or not; and in the case of any reserve made under the authority of section three hundred and twenty-one of the Land Act, 1908, if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to change the purpose of such reserve or any part thereof from the purpose or presumed purpose for which it was set apart to any other purpose, or if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to exchange any of the land comprised in such reserve for other land of equal value, to be dedicated to one or more of the 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 change the specific purpose of the portion of the reserve described in Part II of the Schedule hereto from that named in Part I of the said Schedule to that named in Part III of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

PART I.

Description and Purpose of Original Reserve.

ALL that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 3 roods 19 perches, more or less, being Section 28, Block I, Waitahuna West Survey District.

Permanently reserved for a public hall by Warrant in Gazette No. 98, of the 31st December, 1891.

PART II.

Description of Portion of Reserve the Purpose of which it is intended to change.

All that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 rood, more or less, being that part of Section 28, now known as Section 182, Block I, Waitahuna West Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by a public road, 218·3 links; towards the south by a public road, 132 links; towards the south-west by part of Section 28 of aforesaid Block I, 181·7 links; and towards the north-west by other part of aforesaid Section 28, 125·1 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 1911/807, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

PART III.

Intended Purpose.

Site for a public building, to be used for a library and other purposes, for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Tuapeka Mouth and surrounding district.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this third day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands.

Notifying Lands in Taranaki 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 Zealand, do hereby appoint Friday, the twenty-seventh day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, as the time at which the lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction; and I do hereby fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

Section 2—Flat ground, covered with logs after bush fire; a little damp. Section 14—Flat land; bush felled some years, but logs remaining. Section 15 is low-lying, with a public drain through it, which must be left open. Section 5—Partly terrace slope; bush felled some years ago, but logs still on ground. Sections 9, 10, and 11—Partly low ground and partly on a low terrace slope close to Mangaparare Stream.

RURAL LAND.

Ohura County.—Ohura Survey District.

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Situated on the Ohura River, about half a mile up stream from the Roto Road Bridge, and about two miles from the Tokirima Post and Telephone Office. Access from Ongarue, about forty-one miles distant—by a dray-road for thirty-nine miles and a half, and horse-track for one mile, and surveyed road for the remaining distance. From Whangamomona, forty-one miles distant, the access is dray-road thirty miles, ten miles and a half horse-track, and half a mile surveyed road only. From Taumarunui, twenty miles distant, there is a horse-track except the last half mile. The section comprises easy slopes, terraces, flat, and swampy land, mostly covered with a fairly heavy forest of rata, rimu, matai, kahikatea, tawa, &c., with a fairly dense undergrowth of raurekau, supplejacks, nettles, mahoe, kotukutuku, punga, and other ferns. The soil is of very good quality, resting on a papa formation; well watered.

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

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands.