Dec. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 4101

Land withdrawn from State-forest Reservation.

[L.S.] LIVERPOOL, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land specified in Part I of the Schedule hereto is a State forest under the control of the Commissioner of State Forests appointed under the State Forests Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), and the said land is now no longer required for State-forest purposes: And whereas plans showing the extent and position of the said land, and a statement of the reasons why it is no longer required for State-forest purposes, have been laid before both Houses of Parliament for a period of thirty days, and no resolution has been passed by either of such Houses objecting to the issue of this Proclamation:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section twenty-eight of the said Act, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the Proclamation specified in Part II of the said Schedule, so far as it relates to the land described in Part I of the said Schedule, as from the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette; and doth hereby proclaim and declare that from and after such date the parcel of land described in Part I of the said Schedule shall be no longer subject to the provisions of the said Act.

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SCHEDULE.

PART I.

ALL that area in the Southland Land District, containing 340 acres, more or less, being abandoned Sawmill Areas 467 and 467A, situated in Block II, Oreti Hundred, and bounded towards the north generally by Sections 21, 12, 27, and the abutment of two roads; towards the east by a road; towards the south-west, south-east, west, and south by Section 65, the abutment of a road, and Section 13; and again towards the west by Section 14 and the abutment of a road: all in Oreti Hundred, and being all the State forest in the said Oreti Hundred. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. XXII/801D, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

PART II.

Proclamation dated the 24th day of February, 1886, and published in New Zealand Gazette No. 11, of the 4th day of March, 1886.

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 Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Government House at Wellington, this twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Commissioner of State Forests.

Approved in Council.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

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Proclaiming a Road in Rangitoto-Tuhua No. 68h No. 2 and 68g, Block IX, Mapara Survey District.

[L.S.] LIVERPOOL, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance of an order of the Native Land Court under section ten of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1912, made on the eleventh day of November, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and in exercise of the powers conferred by the said section, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim as a public road the road-line laid down by the said order of the Native Land Court and described in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

AREA of land proclaimed as a public road: 11 acres 1 rood 23 perches.

Portions of Rangitoto-Tuhua 68h No. 2 and Rangitoto-Tuhua 68g, Block IX, Mapara Survey District.

In the Taranaki Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked 68g and 68h 2, No. 4687, deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor at New Plymouth.

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 Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Government House at Wellington, this fifteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

W. H. HERRIES,
Native Minister.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

[NOTE.—Published in lieu of Proclamation appearing on page 4050, New Zealand Gazette No. 143, of 16th December, 1915.]

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Declaring Land purchased 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 purchased for the purpose of a prison: And whereas such land is not now required for such purpose, and it is desirable to declare the said land 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 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 accordingly.

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SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land declared to be Crown land: 3 acres 3 roods 19 perches.

Being portion of Lot 6, Prison Reserve (formerly Drayton Settlement).

Situated in Block XII, Rolleston Survey District.

In the Canterbury Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 39224, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured purple.

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 Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Government House at Wellington, this twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!