Sept. 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2943

Section 16, Block XV: Nineteen miles from Awanui, three miles and a half from Pukenui Wharf. About 70 acres sandy hills with small swamps and swampy flats, 45 acres old native cultivation partly cleared and grassed, and raupo swamp.

Section 17, Block XV: Nineteen miles from Awanui or three miles and a half from Pukenui Wharf. About 50 acres swamps and sandy hills, 55 acres raupo swamp and old native cultivation, mostly overgrown with heavy manuka.

Section 2, Block III, Opoe Survey District: Eighteen miles from Awanui or four miles from Pukenui Wharf. About 60 to 70 acres sandy manuka flats with small raupo and wiri swamps; balance sandy hills and small shallow lakes.

Section 3, Block III: Eighteen miles from Awanui, or four miles from Pukenui. About 100 acres easily drained raupo and wiri swamp, 15 acres easy rolling country; balance sandy ridges.

Section 4, Block III: Seventeen miles from Awanui, or five miles from Pukenui Wharf. About 40 acres wiri and manuka swamp, balance manuka flats and easy hills.

NOTE.—This section is weighted with the sum of £152 5s. valuation for improvements consisting of 7 acres of grassing, 58 chains of fencing (poor quality), 74 chains draining, four-roomed house (corrugated iron with timber frame), shed (25 ft. by 9 ft.), and 3 acres vineyard and orchard. Payable in cash.

Section 5, Block III: Seventeen miles from Awanui or five miles from Pukenui Wharf. About 85 acres shallow soil over outcrop of sandstone, and a few acres of swampy flat.

Section 15, Block IV: Sixteen miles from Awanui, or eight miles from Pukenui Wharf. About 25 acres sandy flats and easy hills, nearly all ploughable; balance good flax and raupo swamp, partly drained and grassed, and capable of carrying fair amount of stock in its unimproved state.

Section 3, Block IX: Sixteen miles from Awanui, or ten miles and a half from Pukenui Wharf. About 85 acres good raupo and wiri swamp; balance poor sandy hills.

Section 4, Block IX: Sixteen miles from Awanui, or ten miles and a half from Pukenui Wharf. About 90 acres good raupo and wiri swamp; balance sandy hills and low sandy flats of fair quality.

Section 5, Block IX: Sixteen miles from Awanui, or ten miles from Pukenui Wharf. About 65 acres good raupo swamp; balance sandy hills of fair quality.

Special Conditions.

(1) Each selector shall, on his application being approved, petition the Governor-General, under the provisions of section 168 of the Counties Act, 1920, to constitute and declare the area shown on this sale plan a drainage district. The Mangonui County Council to act as the Drainage Board.

(2) The Crown will, on the formation of the said drainage district, provide £1,000 for the construction of the external drains, such sum to be spent under the supervision of the Chief Drainage Engineer.

(3) On completion of the above-mentioned external drains, each selector shall forthwith construct and thereafter maintain and securely fence the drains through the section selected by him in accordance with the plans and specifications drawn up by the Chief Drainage Engineer in that behalf, such plans and specifications being available for inspection at the office of the Chief Drainage Engineer, Law Court Buildings, High Street, Auckland, or at the Land Office, Kaitaia.

(4) The Crown shall not be liable for any loss which may at any time be occasioned by the encroachment of sand.

(5) All kauri-gum in the several sections is reserved to the Crown.

(6) The Crown shall be exempt from liability for the construction or maintenance of all drains within or without the area shown on this sale plan, except as to the provision referred to in clause 2 above.

(7) The decision of the Commissioner of Crown Lands on any matter affecting the drainage of any lot shall be final and conclusive.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 16th day of September, 1927.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

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Vesting Control of certain Scenic Reserves in the Board of Trustees of the Port Hills—Akaroa Summit Road Public Trust (Incorporated).

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by subsection one of section twenty-six of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal Act, 1926, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby revoke the vesting in the Summit Road Scenic Reserves Board of the control of the reserves described in the Schedule hereto, and do hereby vest such control in the Board of Trustees of the Port Hills—Akaroa Summit Road Public Trust (Incorporated), subject to the conditions set forth in the said subsection.

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SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 21st day of September, 1927.

O. HAWKEN,
For Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

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Lands permanently reserved in the Wellington Land District for Recreation Purposes.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-fifty-ninth section of the Land Act, 1924, it is enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time set apart temporarily as reserves, 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:

And whereas by the three-hundred-and-sixtieth section of the said Act it is provided that land temporarily reserved under the said three-hundred-and-fifty-ninth section may, at the expiration of one month, but not later than six months, after the publication in the Gazette of notice of such temporary reservation, be permanently reserved, and that notice of such permanent reservation shall be published in the Gazette:

And whereas by the seventy-first section of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, it is further provided that the Governor-General may from time to time, as he thinks fit, set aside reserves for any specified public purpose out of lands acquired under the last-mentioned Act, provided that no land so acquired shall be set aside for endowments:

And whereas the lands described in the Schedule hereto were, by Warrant dated the thirteenth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, and published in Gazette of the eighteenth day of that month, temporarily reserved under the authority of the said Acts for recreation purposes:

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 the said Acts, do hereby permanently reserve the lands described in the Schedule hereto for recreation purposes for which the said lands were so temporarily reserved as aforesaid.

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SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—BOROUGH OF LOWER HUTT.

ALL that area containing by admeasurement 1 acre 2 roods 39·5 perches, more or less, being Section 148 of Block 1 of the Hutt Valley Settlement, and being portion of Section 11, Hutt Registration District, Block XIV, Belmont Survey District: As the same is delineated on plan numbered 42/91, deposited in the Wellington District Office, Department of Lands and Survey, and thereon bordered green.

Also all that area containing by admeasurement 3 roods 29·5 perches, more or less, being Section 194, Block X, Hutt Valley Settlement, and being portion of Section 18, Hutt Registration District, Block XIV, Belmont Survey District: