Mar. 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1105

Land proclaimed as a Road, and Road closed, in Waioeka Parish, Blocks V and IX, Waiawa Survey District, Auckland Land District.

[L.S.] LIVERPOOL, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section eleven of the Land Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby, with the consents of the owners, lessees, and mortgagee of the land described in the First Schedule hereto, and of the Opotiki County Council, being the local authority in whose district the said land is situated, proclaim as a road the land described in the said Schedule; and also do hereby, with the like consents as aforesaid, proclaim as closed the road described in the Second Schedule hereto, which is not required.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
LAND PROCLAIMED AS A ROAD.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
ROAD CLOSED.

All situated in Waiawa Survey District.

All in the Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 16/457, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

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-first day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

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

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Land in Nelson Land District declared to be subject to Section 127 of the Land Act, 1908.

[L.S.] LIVERPOOL, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the Land Board of the Nelson Land District has recommended that the Crown tenants of the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto should be afforded relief, owing to exceptional circumstances over which they have no control preventing the profitable occupation of such lands:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by section twenty-five of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1911, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare the lands enumerated in the Schedules hereto to be subject to the provisions of section one hundred and twenty-seven of the Land Act, 1908; and I do further fix three years in the case of the lands in the First Schedule, and two years in the case of the land in the Second Schedule, from the dates mentioned in the said Schedules, as the periods for which the said lands shall be exempt from payment of rent.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
(Exempt for Three Years.)

Section 10, Block I, Hope Survey District: 1st January, 1917.

Section 14, Block I, Hope Survey District: 1st January, 1918.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
(Exempt for Two Years.)

Section 1, Block VIII, Hope Survey District: 1st January, 1917.

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-seventh day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

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

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Crown Lands set apart for Selection by Discharged Soldiers, under Ordinary Tenures, in the Hawke's Bay Land District.

[L.S.] LIVERPOOL, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon me by section three of the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that the areas of Crown lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be and the same are hereby set apart for selection by discharged soldiers, under the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE'S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—PATANGATA COUNTY.—PORANGAHAU SURVEY DISTRICT.—MANGAORAPA BLOCK.

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-seventh day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

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

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Allocating Land reserved and taken for a Railway to the Purposes of a Road in the Grey County.

[L.S.] LIVERPOOL, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto forms part of land taken for the purposes of the Springfield to Brunnerton Railway (Greymouth Otira Section), and it is considered desirable to allocate such land to the purposes of a road:

And whereas it has been certified by the Minister of Railways that such land is not required for railway purposes: And whereas such land is situated in the County of Grey, the local authority of which has assented to the issue of this Proclamation:

And whereas His Excellency the Governor is of opinion that the said local authority can conveniently construct and maintain the said road:

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 section one hundred and ninety-seven of the Public Works Act, 1908, and of every other power and