JULY 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2195

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

All that area in the Taranaki Land District, containing by admeasurement 10 acres 2 roods, more or less, being Section 31, Block V, Ohura Survey District. Bounded towards the north, east, and south-east generally by the Mangakara Stream; and towards the south-west by the Mangaroa Road, 1269·2 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. I/575A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red. For a public recreation-ground.

All that area in the Taranaki Land District, containing by admeasurement 10 acres 2 roods, more or less, being Section 32, Block V, Ohura Survey District. Bounded towards the north generally by the Mangaroa River; towards the east generally by the Mangaroa River; towards the south generally by the Mangaroa River and Crown land (proposed railway reserve), 180 links; and towards the north-west by Crown land (proposed railway reserve), 1260 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. I/575B, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red. For a public recreation-ground.

All that area in the Taranaki Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 acre, more or less, being Section 9, Block VII, Ohura Township. Bounded towards the north-west by the Ohura Road, 140 links; towards the north-east by the Mangaroa River; towards the south-east by Tui Street, 160 links; and towards the south-west by Sections 1 to 5, and 8, Block VII, Ohura Township, 894·78 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. I/575C, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red. For a public recreation-ground.

All that area in the Taranaki Land District, containing by admeasurement 3 acres 2 roods, more or less, being Section 1, Block XXII, Ohura Township. Bounded towards the north generally by the Mangaroa River; towards the east by Ohura Road, 50 links; towards the south by Tongaporutu Road, 2256·3 links; and towards the west by Tongaporutu Road, 100 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. I/575D, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red. For a public recreation-ground.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

All that area in the Nelson Land District, containing by admeasurement 241 acres 2 roods, more or less, being Section 16, Block IV, Matiri Survey District. Bounded towards the north and north-west generally by Section 17, towards the north-east generally by Section 15, towards the south-east and south-west generally by Section 1, and towards the west generally by a road 1 chain wide along the left bank of Johnston’s Creek; as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. VI/1 (72), deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red. For an endowment for primary education.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Notice of Intention to change the Purpose of a Reserve in the Town of Tokomaru, Wellington Land District.

LIVERPOOL, 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 for which such reserve 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, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, 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 purpose of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto from a site for a post and telegraph office to a site for a police-station.

SCHEDULE

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 3 roods 20 perches, more or less, being Section No. 2, Town of Tokomaru. Bounded towards the north-west by Matipo Street, 500 links; towards the north-east by Tawa Street, 175 links; towards the south-east by Section No. 4, 500 links; and towards the south-west by Section No. 68, 175 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fourth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Notifying the Proposed Exchange of Crown Land in the Canterbury Land District for other Land.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and forty-two of the Land Act, 1908, as amended by section seventeen of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, whenever he deems it expedient in the public interest, to grant in fee-simple any area of Crown land which is subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, in exchange for the fee-simple of any other land, and on any such exchange to pay or receive by way of equality of exchange any sum not exceeding twenty-five per centum of the estimated value of the Crown land so granted:

And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient to exchange the Crown land described in the First Schedule hereto for the land of equal value described in the Second Schedule hereto, and the owner of the land described in the Second Schedule has agreed to such exchange:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the aforesaid powers and authorities, doth hereby declare that it is his intention to grant in fee-simple the area of Crown land described in the First Schedule hereto in exchange for the fee-simple of the land described in the Second Schedule.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF CROWN LAND AUTHORIZED TO BE EXCHANGED.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 36 acres 3 roods 5 perches, more or less, being Section 36757, Block V, Oxford Survey District, and bounded as follows: On the north-west by Section 26115, 2050·5 links; on the north-east and again on the north-west by Section 26116, 1001·5 links and 2670·3 links respectively; on the south-east by Section 34781, 3600 links; and on the south-west by a public road, 283·9 links, 288·8 links, 646·6 links, 534·7 links, 324 links, 162·8 links, and 316·2 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 37915/139A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF LAND TO BE OBTAINED IN EXCHANGE THEREFOR.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 28 acres, more or less, being parts of Sections 30681 and 31166, Block V, Oxford Survey District, and bounded as follows: On the north-east by a public Road, 752 links, 247·9 links, and 1013·2 links; on the south-east by other part of Section 30681, 1136·7 links; on the south-west by other parts of Sections 30681 and 31166, 2296·8 links; and on the north-west by other part of Sections 31166 and 30681, 1412·8 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 37915/139B, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey at Wellington, and thereon bordered green.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-fifth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.