Nov. 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3757

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

[l.s.] LIVERPOOL, 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 Aotea 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 con-
sidered 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, Arthur William de Brito
Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of
New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare the land set
out in the Schedule hereto to be Crown land subject to the
Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

TAUMATAMAHOE 2B 2B No. 18 Block: Approximate area, 3,172
acres 3 roods 24 perches; Mahoe and Kiri Survey Dis-
tricts.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right
Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile,
Earl of Liverpool, Knight Grand Cross of the
Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George, Member of the Royal Victorian
Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over His Majesty’s Dominion of New Zea-
land and its Dependencies; and issued under
the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Govern-
ment House at Wellington, this second day of
November, in the year of our Lord one thousand
nine hundred and fifteen.

W. H. HERRIES,
Native Minister.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

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

[l.s.] LIVERPOOL, 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 taken, purchased, or acquired for a Government
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 the purposes of roads: And whereas such
roads have been stopped, 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, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl
of Liverpool, 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 disposed of under that
Act accordingly.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of stopped roads declared to
be Crown land:—

A. R. P. Adjoining or passing through
22 1 25 .. Rural Sections 29261, 30100, 30101.
0 1 15 .. " Section 29261.

Situated in Block XIII, Coleridge Survey District (Can-
terbury R.D.).

In the Canterbury Land District; as the same are more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 38408,
deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at
Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and
thereon coloured green.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right
Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile,
Earl of Liverpool, Knight Grand Cross of the
Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George, Member of the Royal Victorian
Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over His Majesty’s Dominion of New Zea-
land and its Dependencies; and issued under
the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Govern-
ment House at Wellington, this eighth day of
November, in the year of our Lord one thousand
nine hundred and fifteen.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Land taken for the Purposes of a Post-office in Block XV,
Waikohu Survey District.

[l.s.] LIVERPOOL, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto
is required to be taken, under the Public Works
Act, 1908, for a certain public work—to wit, for the pur-
poses of a post-office in Block XV, Waikohu Survey Dis-
trict:

And whereas all the conditions precedent required by
law to be observed and performed prior to the taking of
such land for the purposes hereinbefore specified have been
observed and performed:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of
Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand,
in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
vested in me by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of every
other power and authority in anywise enabling me in
this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the land
described in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for the
purposes of the said post-office; and I do also hereby
declare that this Proclamation shall take effect on and
after the twentieth day of November, one thousand nine
hundred and fifteen.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land taken:—

A. R. P.
0 0 37·3, portion of Sec. 14, formerly part of Section 4.
0 0 2·7 " " closed road.

Situated in Block XV, Waikohu Survey District (Poverty
Bay R.D.).

In the Hawke’s Bay Land District; as the same are more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 38885,
deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works
at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and
thereon edged pink.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right
Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile,
Earl of Liverpool, Knight Grand Cross of the
Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George, Member of the Royal Victorian
Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over His Majesty’s Dominion of New Zea-
land and its Dependencies; and issued under
the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Govern-
ment House at Wellington, this eighth day of
November, in the year of our Lord one thousand
nine hundred and fifteen.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!