Aumb. 81.

Proclaiming Native Land to have become Crown Land.

[L.S.] CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section fourteen of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1914, it is provided, inter alia, that on being satisfied that the purchase of any Native Land has been duly completed by or on behalf of the Crown under the authority of the Native Land Act, 1909, the Governor-General may issue a Proclamation that such land has become Crown land:

And whereas the purchase of the Native land set out in the Schedule hereto has been duly completed by or on behalf of the Crown, under the authority of the Native Land Act, 1909, and its amendments:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority so conferred upon me by section fourteen of the Native Land Act, 1914, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim that the Native land set out in the Schedule hereto has become Crown land.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Hawke's Bay Land District, situated in Block LI, Waimarama Survey District, and Block X, Kidnapper Survey District, being part of Waimarama No. 3A 6B 6A Block, and containing by admeasurement 193 acres, more or less. Commencing at a peg No. VIII, being the north-west corner of Waimarama 3A 6B 6B Block (now Crown land), and bounded towards the south-west generally by the said Waimarama 3A 6B 6B Block, a distance of 699.8 links, and by other part of Waimarama 3A 6B 6A Block (now Crown land) by a line bearing 98° 28', and passing through Trig. D to a road reserve 100 links wide on the sea-coast; towards the north-east generally by the said road reserve and by Lot 1 of D.P. 4280, for a distance of 3126.9 links from the south-eastern corner of said Lot 1; thence towards the north-west by other part of Waimarama 3A 6B 6A Block by a line to a peg on a public road being the south-eastern corner of Waimarama 3A 6B 2; thence towards the west generally by a public road to the point of commencement, a distance of 2087.3 links: be all the aforesaid linkages a little more or less.

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 11th day of November, 1925.

J.G. COATES, Native Minister.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Declaring a certain Area added to the County of Geraldine to be included in Geraldine Riding thereof.

[L.S.] CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council dated the first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the fourth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, the boundaries of the Borough of Geraldine were altered by the exclusion of a certain area from the Borough of Geraldine and the inclusion of such area in the County of Geraldine:

And whereas it is desirable that the area so added to the County of Geraldine should be included in the Geraldine Riding of that county:

Now, therefore, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section twenty-one of the Counties Act, 1920, do hereby declare that the area included as aforesaid in the County of Geraldine shall be included in the Geraldine Riding of the said county, and that the boundaries of that riding shall be those set forth in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

GERALDINE RIDING, GERALDINE COUNTY.
ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District bounded on the north-east by a line down the middle of the Rangitata River from a point in line with Bridge Road, Arundel Township, forming the southern boundary of Reserve 2582 to the railway bridge over the Rangitata River; thence south-westerly along the South Island Main Trunk Railway to the road forming the southern boundaries of Sections 5, 43, and 44; thence westerly along that road to and across the Waihi River; thence along the road forming the northern and western boundaries of Rural Section 9031, Block XIV, Geraldine Survey District, to Boundary Road; thence westerly along Boundary Road, crossing the Hae Hae Te-Moana River to Kakahu River; thence westerly along the road forming the northern boundaries generally of Rural Sections 9180 and 9162, and Sections 4 and 3, Block XIII, Geraldine Survey District, Section 2, Block XVI, Opihi Survey District, Sections 21, 20, and 9, Rakitairi Settlement, to its intersection with the eastern boundary of Section 19, Rakitairi Settlement; thence by the south-eastern boundary of the said Section 19 to its south-eastern corner; thence by the production of the said south-eastern boundary to Gully Bush Road; thence by that road to the middle of the Opihi River; thence up the middle of the Opihi River to its confluence with the Opuha