SEPT. 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3213

SCHEDULE.
PEEL FOREST SCENIC RESERVE.
ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 142 acres 2 roods 17 perches, more or less, being Reserve No. 3796, situated in Block II, Orari Survey District, and being formerly Rural Section 18281 and Rural Sections 2680, 2713, and 4035 (less the public road one chain in width as now existing, intersecting the same), and that portion of 3683 lying to the west of the road intersecting the said section; and closed roads adjacent to Rural Sections 3683, 2680, 2713, 4035, and 18281.

Also all that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 328 acres 3 roods 2 perches, more or less, being Reserve No. 3797, situated in Blocks I and II, Orari Survey District, and being formerly Rural Sections 23477, 23421, 22900, 22814, 22903, 22899, 23066, 23009, 23008, 23420, 23478, 22469, and the portions of 1972 and 3208 on the western side of the public road as at present existing, intersecting same, and closed roads adjacent to Rural Sections 1972 and 3208.

Also all that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 40 acres 0 roods 5 perches, more or less, being Reserve No. 3899, situated in Block II, Orari Survey District, and being formerly Rural Sections 1414, 1415 (less the public road as at present existing, intersecting the latter section), and closed roads adjacent to Rural Section 1415.

As the above areas are delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 221/167, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered pink.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this seventh day of September, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

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

Warrant vesting Control of the Brooklyn Road Bridge in the Waitemata County Council.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and twenty of the Public Works Act, 1908 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), it is, inter alia, enacted that the Governor-General may, by Warrant under his hand, publicly notified and gazetted, direct that any bridge already constructed, or which may hereafter be constructed, over or across any river or arm of the sea respectively shall, from and after the date to be fixed in such Warrant, be under the exclusive care, control, and management of such local authority as shall be mentioned in that behalf in such Warrant; and may by any such Warrant as aforesaid fix and determine whether all or any, and, if so, what part, of the cost, whether theretofore incurred or thereafter to be incurred, of maintaining, repairing, improving, or reconstructing any such bridge is to be provided and paid by the local authority or local authorities, and, if so, by what local authority or local authorities; and may by any such Warrant as aforesaid direct how, when, and to whom any such payment is to be made:

And whereas a road-bridge, known as the Brooklyn Road Bridge, has been erected by the Minister of Public Works over the Nihotapu River, and it is considered expedient to make provision under the said Act for the purposes and in the manner hereinafter set forth:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby direct that the bridge known as the Brooklyn Road Bridge, as described in the Schedule hereto, shall, from and after the date of the gazetting hereof, be under the exclusive care, control, and management of the Waitemata County Council; and, in further pursuance and in exercise of the aforesaid powers and authorities, I do hereby fix and determine that the cost of maintaining, repairing, improving, or reconstructing the said bridge shall be borne by the Waitemata County Council.

SCHEDULE.
That bridge situated in the Auckland Land District, Waitemata County, known as the Brooklyn Road Bridge, over the Nihotapu River, usually known as Big Muddy Creek, on the Titirangi-Huia Road, at the south-west corner of Section 33, Block VI, Titirangi Survey District, being also on the boundary between the parishes of Waikomete and Karangahape. As the site of the said bridge is more particularly delineated on the plans marked P.W.D. 41475 and 43122, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this third day of September, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

Lands permanently reserved.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-twenty-first section of the Land Act, 1908, it is enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:

And whereas by the three-hundred-and-twenty-second section of the said Act it is provided that land temporarily reserved under the said three-hundred-and-twenty-first section may, at the expiration of one month but not later than six months after the publication in the Gazette of notice of such temporary reservation, be permanently reserved, and that notice of such permanent reservation shall be published in the Gazette:

And whereas the lands specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto were, by the Warrants the dates of which are specified in the third column of the said Schedule, and the notifications of which were published in the Gazettes specified in the fourth column, temporarily reserved under the authority of the said Acts for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the said Acts, do hereby permanently reserve the lands so temporarily reserved as aforesaid, and enumerated in the first column of the Schedule hereto, for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule, being the same purposes for which the said lands were so temporarily reserved as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

First Column. Second Column. Third Fourth Column.
DESCRIPTION OF RESERVES. Column.
Land District. Locality. Section. Block. Area Purpose for which Date of Gazette.
Land reserved. Warrant.

Taranaki .. Rangi S.D. .. 13 II A. R. P. Site for an explosives 1918. 1918.
" .. 14 " 3 3 24 magazine 28 June No. 96, 4 July.
" .. 0 1 13
Nelson .. Kawatiri S.D. .. 13 VI 368 2 13 Rifle range 28 "
Westland .. Mahinapua S.D... Reserve 758 IV 1 0 0 Gravel purposes 30 May No. 81, 6 June.
Otago .. Upper Taieri S.D. 59 I 0 1 4 Site for a post-office 30 "

• Survey District.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this sixth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

D. H. GUTHRIE,
Minister of Lands.