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road to its junction with the Sea View Road; on the south
by that road to the sea; and on the east by the sea to the
point of departure.
2. All those areas at Waitakerei, Nihotapu, and Huia, in
the County of Waitemata, vested in or under the control of
the Auckland City Council for the purposes of waterworks,
recreation, or the conservation of the native flora and fauna.
3. Little Barrier Island, Hauturu, Auckland (see New Zealand Gazette No. 104, of the 14th December, 1899, page 2266).
4. Hen and Chickens Islands.
5. All that area within a radius of three miles from the
General Post-office, Auckland.
6. The Rangiriri (or Karaka) Lake, Waikato. (See New Zealand Gazettes of 26th June, 1919, and 6th May, 1921.)
7. St. John's Lake and area adjacent (see New Zealand Gazette No. 43, of the 2nd May, 1901, page 986).
8. All that section, containing by admeasurement
141 acres, more or less, being the Hamilton Domain, including the Rotoiti or Hamilton Lake, Borough of Hamilton.
9. Fresh-water Lake, known as Lake Hakanoa, near Huntly, Waikato, and an area of five chains in width surrounding the said lake.
10. All that part of the Waihou River between the Waio-rongomai Bridge and the Mangaiti Bridge over such river.
11. Great Barrier Island County.
12. Auckland Acclimatization Society's Game Farm at Cambridge.
13. Area near Te Kuiti (see New Zealand Gazette No. 20, of the 24th February, 1916, page 568).
14. Certain land at Tuakau, Waikato (see Gazette No. 81, of 10th May, 1917, page 1987).
15. Certain additional area at Tuakau (Waikato), (see New Zealand Gazette No. 120, of 5th September, 1918, page 3129).
16. Certain area, Parish of Manurewa (see New Zealand Gazette No. 92, of 27th October, 1921, page 2560).
17. All lands notified or set apart as sanctuaries or reserves for the preservation of imported or native game.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 14th day of November, 1921.
WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Declaring Road-line intersecting Land in Huia Settlement,
Taranaki Land District, to be closed.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS a report has been received from the Surveyor-General, from which it appears that the road described in the Schedule hereto is unformed and unused, and that the said road intersects land acquired under the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, and is not suitable to the subdivision of such land:
Now, therefore, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of section eighty of the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, as amended by section twenty-eight of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1920, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do by this notice hereby close the road hereinafter described;
and I do hereby declare that the said road shall thereupon become subject to the Land for Settlements Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

HUIA SETTLEMENT.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of road to be closed: 1 acre 3 roods 15.8 perches.

Passing through Mangaroa B 2B Section 2, Block VI, Ohura Survey District.

In the Taranaki Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 16/910, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, under No. 1939, and thereon coloured green.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 9th day of November, 1921.
D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Notice of Exchange of Reserve for Land of Equal Value pursuant to Section 6 of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section six of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as "the said Act"), the Governor-General is empowered, in the case of any public reserve vested in His Majesty or the Governor-

General for any of the purposes comprised in Class II in the Second Schedule to the said Act, to exchange any of the land comprised in such reserve to be dedicated to one or more of the purposes comprised in the said Class II:
And whereas the land described in Part I of the Schedule hereto was duly set apart as a site for a police-station, being a purpose within Class II in the Second Schedule to the said Act, and it is expedient that the said land should be exchanged for the Crown land of equal value described in Part II of the Schedule hereto, and that the land last referred to should be dedicated as a site for a police-station:
Now, therefore, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby, in pursuance of the powers conferred on me by section six of the said Act as aforesaid, declare that the land described in Part I of the Schedule hereto is hereby exchanged for the land of equal value described in Part II of the Schedule hereto; and, further, that the land described in Part II of the Schedule hereto is hereby dedicated as a site for a police-station (being a purpose comprised in Class II of the Second Schedule of the Act). And I do hereby further declare that this notice is issued subject to the provisions of section seven of the said Act, and shall take effect according to the provisions of that section.

SCHEDULE.

PART I.
Section 15, Block VII, Matamata Township, Auckland Land District : Area, 1 rood.

PART II.
Section 19, Block VIII, Matamata Township, Auckland Land District : Area, 1 rood.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 27th day of October, 1921.
D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Opening National - endowment Lands in the Auckland Land District for Selection by Discharged Soldiers on Renewable Lease.

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 that the national-endowment lands described in the Schedule hereto, which have been set apart for selection by discharged soldiers, shall be open for selection by discharged soldiers on renewable lease on Monday, the twenty-third day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, at the rentals mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Act and the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.-NATIONAL ENDOWMENT.-SECOND-CLASS LAND.
West Taupo County.-Block III, Piopiotea Survey District.

SECTION 3: Area, 273 acres 1 rood 14 perches; capital value, £1,040; half-yearly rent, £20 16s.
Section 5: Area, 196 acres 1 rood 8 perches; capital value, £820; half-yearly rent, £16 8s.
Section 6: Area, 194 acres 3 roods 1 perch; capital value, £700; half-yearly rent, £14.
Section 7: Area, 160 acres 2 roods 11 perches; capital value, £580; half-yearly rent, £11 12s.
Section 8: Area, 237 acres 0 roods 8 perches; capital value, £940; half-yearly rent, £18 16s.
Section 9: Area, 196 acres 0 roods 16 perches; capital value, £740; half-yearly rent, £14 16s.
Situated from one mile to four miles and a half from Manunui, of which one mile is by formed dray-road, and provision has been made for the construction of the remainder of the distance. Level to undulating and hilly land of good quality, mostly ploughable. The sections are mostly covered with light bush, principally tawa, rata, rimu, kahikatea, and totara (from which the milling-timber has been removed), with a light undergrowth of mahoe, makomako, konini, &c. There are patches of fern and tea-tree scrub on the western sections, and about 25 acres of Section 6 is raupo swamp capable of being easily drained. Soil a fair to good loam, on papa formation; watered by springs and streams. Altitude, 1,000 ft. to 1,500 ft.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 9th day of November, 1921.
D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.