Jan. 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 5

Land proclaimed as a Road, and Road closed, in Blocks VI and VII, Karioi Survey District, Raglan County.

[l.s.] LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

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-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby, with the consents of the owners, lessee, and mortgagee of the land described in the First Schedule hereto, and of the Raglan County Council, being the local authority in whose district the said land is situated, proclaim as a road the land in Karioi Survey District described in the First Schedule hereto; 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 by reason of the road described in the First Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

LAND PROCLAIMED AS A ROAD.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

ROAD CLOSED.

All situated in Karioi Survey District.

All in the Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 45037, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Member of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Member of the Royal Victorian Order, Knight of Grace of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, Governor-General 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 December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

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-General.

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-General 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-General 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-General 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-General 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 area of the piece of stopped road declared to be Crown land: 1 rood 27 perches.

Adjoining or passing through Sections Nos. 7, 8, 9, and 10, Block IX, South Rangitata township, Block IV, Geraldine Survey District (Canterbury R.D.).

In the Canterbury Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 45188, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured green.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Member of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Member of the Royal Victorian Order, Knight of Grace of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, Governor-General 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 December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Land in Block II, Waihou Survey District, taken for the More Effective Carrying-out of Drainage and other Works in the Hauraki Plains, or for the Better Disposal of Crown Land set apart by the Hauraki Plains Act, 1908.

[l.s.] LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it is provided by subsection one of section nine of the Hauraki Plains Act, 1908, that the Governor-General may from time to time take, under the Public Works Act, 1908, as for a public work, or purchase, whether under the provisions of section twenty of the Maori Land Settlement Act, 1905, or otherwise, any area or areas