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under the provisions of the said section sixty-three in connection with any block of land, unless that block is set apart for selection under that section pursuant to Proclamation in that behalf:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of every power and authority enabling me in this behalf, and for the purposes of the aforesaid Act, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim the land described in the Schedule hereto as set apart for selection.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

Manawapou Block (Education Reserve).

SUBDIVISIONS 6 and 7, Section 189, Patea District, Block IX, Hawera Survey District: Area, 7 acres 0 roods 27 perches.

As the same is delineated upon the plan marked L. and S. 5/95, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged green.

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 thirtieth day of May, 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 tenant of the land enumerated in the Schedule hereto should be afforded relief, owing to exceptional circumstances over which he has no control preventing the profitable occupation of such land:

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 land enumerated in the Schedule hereto to be subject to the provisions of section one hundred and twenty-seven of the Land Act, 1908; and I do further fix four years from the date mentioned in the said Schedule as the period for which the said land shall be exempt from payment of rent.

SCHEDULE.

SECTION 4, Block II, Waiotapu Survey District: 1st January, 1918.

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 fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

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

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Revoking the Reservation over Portion of a Scenic Reserve in the Southland Land District.

[L.S.] LIVERPOOL, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by Proclamation dated the tenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the eighteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, certain lands in the Southland Land District were taken for scenic purposes under the Public Works Act, 1908, the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, and the Scenery Preservation Amendment Act, 1910:

And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto (being part of the lands so taken) is no longer suitable for scenic purposes by reason of its swampy nature and the absence of bush thereon:

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 conferred on me by section eight of the Scenery Preservation Amendment Act, 1910, do hereby revoke the reservation for scenic purposes over the land described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Southland Land District, containing by admeasurement 27 acres 0 roods 22 perches, more or less, being portion of Section 1, Block XIX, Jacob’s River Hundred, and bounded as follows: Commencing at the south-western corner of said Section 1, thence northerly along its western boundary for a distance of 3858·6 links, thence at a bearing of 140° 1′ 40″ for a distance of 1528·7 links, thence at a bearing of 173° 49′ 10″ for a distance of 1602·9 links, thence at a bearing of 198° 28′ 40″ for a distance of 1036·6 links, thence at a bearing of 218° 35′ for a distance of 118·4 links; thence westerly along the south boundary of said Section 1 to the commencing-point, a distance of 433·5 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 214/36A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

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 thirtieth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

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.

WHAKAIHUWAKA C No. 4 Block: Approximate area, 1,171 acres; Mahoe and Taurakawa Survey Districts.

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

W. H. HERRIES,
Native Minister.

GOD SAVE THE KING!