2496
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 90

Land temporarily reserved in the Marlborough Land District
for River-protection.

JELLICOE, 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:

Now, therefore, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the land in the Marlborough Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, for river-protection.

SCHEDULE.

ALL those parcels of land in the Marlborough Land District, containing approximately 72 acres, being portions of the old bed of the Kowhai River, situated in Block VI, Mount Fyffe Survey District, bounded as follows: Commencing at the north-west corner, being the continuation of the road forming the northern boundary of Section 59, Kaikoura Suburban, to the bank of the Kowhai River as at present date; thence in an easterly direction by the said road, 1050 links; thence in a south-easterly direction by the road reserve one chain wide along the old bank of the Kowhai River to the River Banks' Protection Reserve proclaimed in the Marlborough Gazette of the 16th November, 1866; thence in a southerly direction by the said reserve, 884 links, to the left bank of the Kowhai River as at present date; thence in a westerly and north-westerly direction by the left bank of the Kowhai River as at present date to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid measurements more or less: and excepting from the above description the public road one chain wide intersecting the said block, for which due allowance has been made in the above area. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 17/140, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 6th day of October, 1921.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Inspector of Scenic Reserves appointed.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section four of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

JOHN JAMES RODGERSON

to be an Inspector under the said Act in respect to the scenic reserve described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

RAINBOW MOUNTAIN SCENIC RESERVE.

SECTION 8, Block III, Paeroa Survey District, Auckland Land District: Area, 2,974 acres.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 5th day of October, 1921.

D. H. GUTHRIE,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

Opening Land in Auckland Land District for Sale or Selection.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1908, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare and provide as follows, that is to say:—

1. The rural lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto are hereby set apart for disposal by way of sale or selection on Friday, the sixteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, at the respective prices specified in the said Schedule, and shall be deemed to be “light-bush land.”

2. The said land may be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase, or on renewable lease.

3. After the first half-year’s rent has been paid by the selector the further instalments of rent payable by him for a period of three years shall not be demanded; provided that if at any time during the first five years of his occupancy the selector disposes of his interest in the land the rent so conceded shall be paid by him in full, and thereupon the land Board may remit such instalments of rent payable by the incoming tenant, not exceeding in the aggregate the amount of rent previously conceded to the selector, as the Board shall think fit.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—CROWN LAND.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

West Taupo County.—Wharepapa Survey District.—Wharepuhunga Block.

(Exempt from Rent for Three Years.)

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 7th day of October, 1921.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Warrant vesting Control of the Bridge on the Great North Road at Avondale over the Whau Creek in the New Lynn Town Board, and apportioning the Cost of Maintenance.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby direct that the bridge on the Great North Road at Avondale over the Whau Creek (as more particularly described in the First Schedule hereto) shall, on and after the date of the gazetting hereof, be under the exclusive care, control, and management of the New Lynn Town Board.

And, in further pursuance and exercise of the powers aforesaid, I do hereby fix and determine that the cost of repairing the said bridge to the extent mentioned in the Second Schedule hereto, and the cost of maintaining the said bridge, shall be borne by the Auckland City Council, the Waitemata County Council, the New Lynn Town Board, the Avondale Road Board, the Mount Albert Borough Council, and the Mount Eden Borough Council in the following proportions—viz., the Auckland City Council shall pay twenty-seven decimal five per centum, the Waitemata County Council shall pay twenty-five per centum, the New Lynn Town Board shall pay twenty-five per centum, the Avondale Road Board shall pay fifteen per centum, the Mount Albert Borough Council shall pay four per centum, and the Mount Eden Borough Council shall pay three decimal five per centum of such cost respectively; and I do hereby further direct that any contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Auckland City Council, the Waitemata County Council, the Avondale Road Board, the Mount Albert Borough Council, and the Mount Eden Borough Council shall be paid from time to time, in the proportion hereinbefore prescribed, out of the funds of the said Councils and Board, within a period of one month after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the New Lynn Town Board, and such payments shall be made from time to time to the Town Clerk, New Lynn Town Board, for and on account of the said Councils and Board.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

THAT bridge over the Whau Creek, on the Great North Road at Avondale, in the North Auckland Land District. As the site of the said bridge is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 49452, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.