Oct. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2541

Lands in Auckland Land District declared to be subject to Section 127 of the Land Act, 1908.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the Land Board of the Auckland Land District has recommended that the Crown tenants of the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto should be afforded relief, owing to exceptional circumstances over which they have no control preventing the profitable occupation of such lands:

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, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare the lands 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 one year from the dates mentioned in the said Schedule as the period for which the said lands shall be exempt from payment of rent.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—BLOCK II, WAIHI SOUTH SURVEY DISTRICT.

SECTION 22 . . . . . . . . 1st July, 1923.
" 35 . . . . . . . . " "
" 36 . . . . . . . . " "
" 50 . . . . . . . . " "
" 51 . . . . . . . . " "
" 37 . . . . . . . . 1st January, 1923.
" 38 . . . . . . . . "

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 27th day of September, 1923.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
For Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Land proclaimed as ceasing to be set apart as National-endowment Land.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section eleven of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1920, it is enacted that the Governor-General may, by Proclamation approved in Executive Council, declare that any national-endowment land held as a small grazing-run under a lease issued pursuant to the Land Act, 1892, or issued before the passing of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1918, pursuant to the Land Act, 1908, shall cease to be national-endowment land:

And whereas it is deemed expedient that the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto which is held as a small grazing-run as aforesaid should cease to be national-endowment land:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities so conferred upon me by the aforesaid section eleven, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby proclaim and declare that from and after the date hereof the land described in the Schedule hereto, which was set apart as national-endowment land under the provisions of section two hundred and fifty-eight of the Land Act, 1908, shall cease to be national-endowment land.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SMALL Grazing-run 25, Blocks IV and V, Kerikeri Survey District: Area, 3,900 acres.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand; and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 1st day of October, 1923.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
For Minister of Lands.

Approved in Council.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Constituting the Kaipara Electric-power District.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it is provided by section three of the Electric-power Boards Act, 1918, that any area or areas of land may be constituted an electric-power district or outer area of such district under the said Act, and in the manner therein provided:

And whereas a petition praying that the area described in the First Schedule hereto may be constituted an electric-power district under the said Act, and that the area described in the Second Schedule hereto may be constituted an outer area of such electric-power district, was presented to the Governor-General on the thirteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three:

And whereas such petition was publicly notified in the New Zealand Herald and the Kaipara and Waitemata Echo dated the eighth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, being newspapers circulating in the proposed electric-power district:

And whereas, after due inquiry, the Governor-General is of opinion that the petition should be granted, subject to the proposed boundaries of the district being altered as hereinafter appears:

Now, therefore, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by section three of the Electric-power Boards Act, 1918, do hereby alter the proposed boundaries, and proclaim the district, with the altered boundaries as described in the Third Schedule hereto, to be an electric-power district, and I hereby assign to such district the name of the “Kaipara Electric-power District,” and I do further proclaim that the area described in the Second Schedule hereto shall be an outer area of such electric-power district.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

ALL that land situated in the North Auckland Land District, in the County of Waitemata, being portion of the Mairetahi Riding of the said County, bounded towards the north-west by the Tarawera Road to the Shelly Beach Road; thence in a south-easterly direction along the Shelly Beach Road to the Otakanini Road; thence along the Otakanini Road to the Kaipara Harbour; thence by the Kaipara Harbour and the Kaipara River in a southerly direction generally to the junction of the Kaipara River and the Waipatukatu Stream; thence by that stream to the boundary-line between Ongarahu E and the Ururua No. 3 Blocks; thence along the northern boundary-lines of Ururua No. 3, west portion No. 1A and west portion No. 2 Blocks, and then on this straight line to the west coast; thence in a northerly direction along the west coast to the Tarawera Road first mentioned.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

OUTER AREA.

ALL that area of land in the North Auckland Land District, being the whole of the Waitemata County as at present constituted, less the area described in the Third Schedule.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District, being portion of the Mairetahi Riding in the County of Waitemata, and bounded—commencing at the westernmost corner of Section 12, being a subdivision of the Otakanini Block, Block XII, Kaipara Survey District, towards the north-west generally by the Tarawera Road to its junction with the Shelly Beach Road, by the said Shelly Beach Road to a point in line with the production of the southern side of the Otakanini Road; across the said Shelly Beach Road and by the aforesaid Otakanini Road to the Kaipara Harbour; towards the north generally by the said Kaipara Harbour to its confluence with the Kaipara River; towards the east generally by the left bank of the said Kaipara River to its confluence with the Waipatukahu Stream, and by the left bank of that stream to the north-western boundary of Ururua No. 3B; towards the south-east by the north-western boundaries of Ururua No. 3B No. 1A No. 1 and part of the north-western boundary of Ururua No. 2D No. 2, 1391 links, bearing 246° 55′, and by a right line being the production of the aforesaid north-west boundary of Ururua No. 2D No. 2 to the Tasman Sea; thence towards the south-west generally by the said Tasman Sea to the point of commencement. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 56808, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged green.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand; and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 29th day of September, 1923.

F. H. D. BELL, for Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!