Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the fourth section of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, doth hereby declare that, from and after the day of the date hereof, the reserve described in the Schedule hereto shall become vested in the Corporation of the South Rakaia Road District, in trust, for a public pound.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 4 acres O roods 36 perches, more or less, being Lot 1 of Reserve 2446, Rakaia Suburbs, and bounded as follows: On the north-west by Baker Road, 1,069 links; on the north-east by Lot 2 of Reserve 2475, 400 links; on the south-east by Lot 3 of said Reserve 2446, 1046·5 links; and on the south-west by Hardy Road, 400·6 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same are delineated on the plan marked L. and S. VI/I (14), deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

LIVERPOOL, Governor ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of March, 1915.

Present:

His Excellency THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Commission appointed under the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908, to inspect and classify kauri-gum reserves, in its report dated the third day of July, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, printed in parliamentary paper C.-12 (1914), recommended that the reservation should be uplifted over certain areas in certain kauri-gum reserves as therein specified:

And whereas by section five of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1914, it is enacted that the Governor may, by Order in Council gazetted, declare that the lands specified in the last column of the schedule of reserves set out in the above-recited report of the Commission shall as from a date to be specified in the said Order in Council cease to be subject to the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908, and on and after the date so specified, the lands to which the Order in Council relates shall become subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, and in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by section five of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1914, do hereby order and declare that from and after the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, the lands described in the Schedule hereto shall cease to be subject to the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement about 600 acres, being the Otumaroki Kauri-gum Reserve. Bounded towards the north by Sections Nos. 3, 4, and 5, Block XVI, Muriwhenua Survey District; towards the north-west by part of the south-eastern boundary of Te Kao No. 3 Block; and that boundary produced to the Ngatumaroki Pa; thence towards the west by a line running due south 40 chains; thence towards the south by a line running in an easterly direction 120 chains; and thence towards the east by a line running due north to the south-eastern corner of Section No. 3 aforesaid.

Also all that area in Blocks VII and XI, Rangaunu Survey District, containing by admeasurement 339 acres, more or less, being portion of the Pairatahi Kauri-gum Reserve. Bounded towards the north by the Omataite River ; towards the east by Section No. 3, Block VII aforesaid, and Old Land Claim No. 31; and again towards the east, and also towards the south-west and west, by the Mangatete River.

Also all that area in the Rangaunu and Mangonui Survey Districts, containing by admeasurement 665 acres, more or less, being part of the Parapara Kauri-gum Reserve. Bounded
towards the north by a right line from the north-eastern corner of Allotment No. 3, Kaiaka Parish, to the trig. station near the south-western corner of Section No. 1, Block VIII, Mangonui Survey District; thence by a right line to the said south-western corner and by the said Section No. 1, Block VIII; towards the south-east by the Paranui Stream; towards the south by Crown land and a public road; and towards the south-west by Allotment No. 3 aforesaid.

Also all that area in the Mangonui Survey District, containing by admeasurement 1,830 acres, more or less, being the Taipa Kauri-gum Reserve, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 93, of the 21st December, 1898, page 2073; and the Taipa Kauri-gum Reserve Extension, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 32, of the 13th April, 1899, page 756; excepting an area of 20 acres withdrawn from the reserve by Order in Council published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 45, of the 14th June, 1906, page 1518.

Also all that area in the Maungataniwha Survey District, containing by admeasurement 153 acres, more or less, being the Peria Kauri-gum Reserve, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 36, of the 11th April, 1901, page 868.

Also all that area in the Whangape Survey District, containing by admeasurement 800 acres, more or less, being the Warawara Kauri-gum Reserve, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 93, of the 21st December, 1898, page 2074.

Also all that area in the Maungataniwha and Mangamuka Survey Districts, containing by admeasurement 1,000 acres, more or less, being the Omahuta Kauri-gum Reserve, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 93, of the 21st December, 1898, page 2074.

Also all that area in the Mangamuka and Omapere Survey Districts, containing by admeasurement 5,450 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the north generally by Crown lands, a forest reserve, and the southern boundary of Block X, Omapere Survey District; towards the east by the Waihanga Stream; thence towards the south generally by the northern boundary of Section 1, Block XIV, Omapere Survey District, about 45 chains; thence by a line due north about 60 chains; thence by a line due west to a stream which flows into the Rakauwhahi Stream; thence by that stream, the Rakauwhahi Stream, and the Mangatoa Stream to the south-western corner of Section No. 1 aforesaid; thence by a line running due west to the western boundary of the Punakitere Kauri-gum Reserve, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 72, of the 31st August, 1899, page 1592; and thence towards the west generally by the western boundary of that reserve.

Also all that area in Block I, Punakitere Survey District, containing by admeasurement 650 acres, more or less, being part of the Punakitere Kauri-gum Reserve. Bounded by a line commencing at the north-western corner of Pahekeheke Block; thence along the north-western boundary of that block, and of Native Reserve numbered 4004, along the northern boundaries of Sections Nos. 3 and 2, Block I aforesaid, and along the north-eastern boundaries of Pakihi-iti and Rangiawhia No. 1 Blocks to the south-eastern corner of Section No. 18, Block IV, Waoku Survey District; thence along the eastern boundary of that section to its north-eastern corner; thence along a right line running easterly to a point due north of and about 28 chains distant from the north-western corner of Pahekeheke Block aforesaid; and thence by a right line to the place of commencement.

Also all that area in the Kaeo Survey District, containing by admeasurement 4,000 acres, more or less, being the Maunganaparuerua Kauri-gum Reserve Extension, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 52, of the 23rd May, 1901, page 1167; excepting an area of 640 acres on the southern side of the reserve, to be defined by survey.

Also all that area in the Kaeo Survey District, containing by admeasurement 770 acres, more or less, being that portion of the Pungaere Kauri-gum Reserve Extension, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 43, of the 25th May, 1899, page 1010; lying on the south-east of a right line running north-easterly from a point on a public road near the north-easternmost corner of Section No. 16, Block XVI, Kaeo Survey District, to a point on the road passing through the aforesaid reserve, and in line with the north-western corner of Section No. 8, Block XII, of the said district.

Also all that area in the Kaeo and Kerikeri Survey Districts, containing by admeasurement 11,948 acres, more or less, being the Kapiro Kauri-gum Reserve, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 46, of the 9th May, 1901, page 1020: excepting an area of 352 acres withdrawn from the reserve by an Order in Council published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 71, of the 25th September, 1913, page 2886; an area of 1,500 acres situated in the northern middle of the reserve, to be defined by survey; and an area of 400 acres on the western side of the reserve, to be defined by survey.

Also all that area in Block V, Hukerenui Survey District, containing by admeasurement 400 acres, more or less, being