1770
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 62

Proclaiming Native Land to be Crown Land under Section 374 of the Native Land Act, 1909.

[l.s.] LIVERPOOL, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section three hundred and seventy-four of the Native Land Act, 1909 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), and by section fourteen of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1914, it is provided, inter alia, that, on being satisfied that the purchase of any Native land has been duly completed by or on behalf of the Crown under the authority of the said Act, the Governor may issue a Proclamation that such land has become Crown land:

And whereas the purchase of the Native land set out in the Schedule hereto has been duly completed by or on behalf of the Crown under the authority of the said Act:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by section three hundred and seventy-four of the said Act, and by section fourteen of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1914, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim the land set out in the Schedule hereto to be Crown land.

SCHEDULE.

SECTION 2, Block I, Cape Survey District, being the whole of the land in Okato Grant No. 3839, West Coast Settlement Reserves, containing by admeasurement 127 acres.

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 seventeenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

W. H. HERRIES,
Native Minister.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Defining the Middle-line of a Further Portion of the North Auckland Railway (Waiotira and Tauraroa Sections).

[l.s.] LIVERPOOL, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS a further portion of the North Auckland Railway—namely, from McCarroll’s Gap to the left bank of the Wairoa River, in Block VII, Maungaru Survey District (hereinafter termed “the said railway”)—is a railway the construction of which is authorized by the Railways Authorization Act, 1911: And whereas it has been determined to construct and maintain the portion of the said railway described in the Schedule hereto:

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 conferred upon me by section one hundred and eighty-eight of 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 middle-line of the said further portion of the said railway shall be that defined and set forth in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

COMMENCING at a point in E.R. 37, Block IV, Matakoe Survey District, marked 101 miles, which point is near the point of termination of the railway marked 100 miles and described in a Proclamation dated the 6th day of September, 1915, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 107, page 3165, of the 9th day of the same month, and proceeding thence in a northerly and north-westerly direction generally for a distance of about fourteen miles, and passing in, into, through, or over the following lands, &c.—viz., Section E.R. 37, Blocks IV and III, Matakoe Survey District; Sections S. 38, 36, N. 38, S. 39, N. 39, M. 30, 29, S. 24, N. 24, S.W. 42, N.W. 42, E.R. 43, and N.E. 45, Block III, Matakoe Survey District; Section S.W. 45, Block III, Matakoe Survey District, and Block XV, Tangihua Survey District; Sections 47, N.E. 46, M. 61, 59, 62, 60, S.E. 63, W. 63, M. 58, N.W.M. 58, N.W. 58, 57, 54, 56, N.W. 13, S.E. 16, M. 16, N.W. 16, and N.E. 14, Block XV, Tangihua Survey District; Section S.E.M. 14, Blocks XV and XIV, Tangihua Survey District; Sections M. 14, S.W.M. 14, N.E. 15, M. 15, 17, S. 12, 18, E. 19, M. 19, W. 19, 20, 85, S.E. 163, and 87, Block XIV, Tangihua Survey District; M. 88, Blocks XIV and X, Tangihua Survey District; Sections N.W. 88, S. 89, M. 89, N.W. 89, and 90, Block X, Tangihua Survey District; Sections S.E. 93 and N.W. 93, Blocks X and VII, Tangihua Survey District; Sections 92, E.R. 144, E.R. 143, 40, 39, 38, 34, 35, 36, Block VII, Tangihua Survey District; Section 37, Block VII, Tangihua Survey District, and Block XII, Maungaru Survey District; Omana Block, Block XII, Maungaru Survey District; and terminating at a point in the said Omana Block, Block XII, Maungaru Survey District, marked 115 miles: including all adjoining and intervening places, lands, reserves, roads, tracks, lakes, rivers, streams, and watercourses: all in the Land District of Auckland. As the same is delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 38984, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District.

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 twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

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 a road: And whereas such road has 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 road declared to be Crown land:—

A. B. P.
18 2 0, adjoining or passing through Run 224D.
4 1 0 " Runs 224V & 224W.

Situated in Block XXI, Blackstone District.

In the Otago Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 39580,