MAR. 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 709

A. R. P.
0 0 25 Allotment 144, Parish of Maungatapere,
Block XVI, Purua Survey District; coloured green.
0 3 11·5 Allotments 97 and 144, Parish of Maungatapere, Block XVI, Purua Survey District; coloured green.

All in the North Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 16/1345, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, under No. 2166, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

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 19th day of March, 1926.
A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.
GOD SAVE THE KING!

Land set apart for Selection.
[L.s.] CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by section forty-seven of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, it is, amongst other things, enacted that in no case shall any moneys be expended under the provisions of the said section forty-seven in connection with any block of land, unless that block is set apart for selection under that section pursuant to Proclamation in that behalf.
Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of every power and authority enabling me in this behalf, and for the purposes of the aforesaid Act, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim the land described in the Schedule hereto as set apart for selection.

SCHEDULE.
NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.-PUKEPOTO BLOCK.
Crown Land.
SECTIONS 1 to 149 (inclusive), Block IV, Ahipara Survey District : Area, 38 acres 2 roods 9·5 perches.

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 17th day of March, 1926.
A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.
GOD SAVE THE KING!

Road closed in Blocks IV and V, Kurow Survey District, Otago Land District.
[L.s.] CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
A PROCLAMATION.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section twelve of the Land Act, 1924, I General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim as closed the road in the Kurow Survey District described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.
APPROXIMATE area of the piece of road closed : 14 acres 0 roods 8 perches.
Situated in Blocks IV and V, Kurow Survey District, and bounded on the north by the Kurow-Omarama Road opposite the southern corner of Section 7, Block V, Kurow Survey District ; on the east by Crown land ; on the south by Section 1, Block XVI, Town of Kurow ; and on the west by Run 9 of 23, Kurow Survey District.
In the Otago Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 8/9/254, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, under No. 2165, and thereon coloured 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 16th day of March, 1926.
A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.
GOD SAVE THE KING!

Settlement Land in Gisborne Land District proclaimed to be Crown Land.
[L.S.] CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by section forty-nine of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, it is enacted that the Governor-General may by Proclamation declare any land acquired under that Act to be, inter alia, ordinary Crown land available for disposal under the Land Act, 1924 :
And whereas it is deemed expedient that the land described in the Schedule hereto, and which was acquired under the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, shall cease to be settlement land and become ordinary Crown land for disposal under the Land Act, 1924 :
Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities so conferred upon me by the aforesaid section forty-nine, I General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that from and after the date of the gazetting hereof the land described in the Schedule hereto, which was acquired under the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, shall be Crown land available for disposal under the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE.
GISBORNE LAND DISTRICT.
SECTION 2, Block XIV, Mata Survey District: Area, 6 acres 0 roods 12 perches.

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 16th day of March, 1926.
A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.
GOD SAVE THE KING!

Amending a Proclamation setting apart Crown Land as and for Provisional State Forests.
[L.s.] CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by a Proclamation dated the twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, and published in the Gazette of the eighth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen (hereinafter referred to as “the said Proclamation”), certain Crown lands in Westland, Marlborough, Otago, and Southland Land Districts were set apart as and for provisional State forests in terms of section thirty-four of the War Legislation and Statute Law Amendment Act, 1918 :
And whereas in the said Proclamation an error was made in the description of the boundaries of an area of one thousand one hundred and sixty acres, more or less in Block I, Cloudy Bay Survey District, and Block IV, Onamalutu Survey District, Marlborough Land District, and it is desirable that the error should be rectified :
Now, therefore, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section three of the Forests Amendment Act, 1925, do hereby amend the said Proclamation by substituting the description of the said area set forth in the Schedule hereto for the description of the said area set forth in the said Proclamation.

SCHEDULE.
MARBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.--NELSON-MARLBOROUGH FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.
Provisional State Forest No. 27.
ALL that area in Block I, Cloudy Bay Survey District, and Block IV, Onamalutu Survey District, containing an area of 1,160 acres, more or less, and bounded as follows : Commencing at the north-west corner, towards the north generally by Sections 1 and 7, Block XIII, Linkwater Survey District ; towards the east by Section 3, Block XIII aforesaid, and Section 10, Block I, Cloudy Bay Survey District ; towards the south generally by a public road, by Run 155A, and Section 12, Block IV, Onamalutu Survey District ; and towards the west generally by S.G.R. 85, Block IV aforesaid, and Section 14, Block I, Cloudy Bay Survey District, to the point of commencement : as the same is more particularly delineated on plan No. 110/1, deposited in the Head Office, State Forest Service, Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

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 16th day of March, 1926.
O. HAWKEN, Commissioner of State Forests.
GOD SAVE THE KING!