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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 54

from and after the day of the date hereof the land described
in the Schedule hereto shall become vested in the Chairman,
Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Wairoa for
tree-planting purposes, subject to the special conditions
hereinafter contained, that is to say,—
(1) The Wairoa County Council shall, within six months of
the date hereof, or within such extended period as the Com-
missioner of State Forests may decide, prepare a general
forest working-plan of future operations to cover a period
of not less than five years; such working-plan shall fully
specify the silvicultural operations proposed to be carried on
during the currency of the plan and such other matters as
the Director of Forestry thinks fit.
(2) It shall not be lawful for the said Council to carry on
such silvicultural operations unless and until such plan has
been approved by the Commissioner of State Forests, and all
such operations shall be carried on according to such plan as
approved by the said Commissioner and under the supervision
of the Director of Forestry.
(3) Any officer of the State Forest Service shall have free
access to the said land at all times for the purpose of inspect-
ing planting or other forestal operations, or for the purpose of
reporting on proposed forest activities.
(4) The said Council shall, as soon as practicable after the
date hereof, appoint some fit person to supervise and manage
all tree-planting operations which may be undertaken by the
said Council, and generally to advise the said Council on all
matters pertaining to its forestry operations.
(5) The said Council may dispose of, by private sale,
tender, or auction, any timber, trees, tree-seeds, firewood,
or other forest produce on or from the said land.
(6) The payment of expenses of administration, manage-
ment, and development of the said land for forestry and
other purposes incidental thereto (including any expenses of
supervision incurred by the State Forest Service) shall be a
first charge on all moneys received therefrom, whether by
way of rent, fees, proceeds of sales of forest produce, or from
any other source whatsoever.
(7) In April of each year the said Council shall furnish to
the Commissioner of State Forests a report for the year
ending on the preceding 31st day of March, presenting in
complete detail full particulars of the technical operations,
and of the said administration of the land hereby vested in
the said Council and the financial operations relating thereto,
and shall at the same time submit a plan of operations and
management for the ensuing year, which shall be effective on
approval by the Commissioner of State Forests.

SCHEDULE.
HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.
SECTION 22, Block III, Mahanga Survey District: Area,
81 acres 2 roods 16 perches.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Exempting Crown Land in Hauraki Mining District from
Mining under the Mining Act, 1926.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section twenty of the Mining Act, 1926,
it is, inter alia, enacted that the Governor-General
may from time to time, by notice in the Gazette, exempt any
Crown lands from mining, or from any specified mining
purpose, or from that Act, or any specified provisions of that
Act; and that the lands to which any such notice relates
shall be specified therein by words of particular description :
And whereas it is desirable that the Crown land specified
in the Schedule hereto shall, subject to all existing registered
mining privileges, be exempted from mining :
Now, therefore, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet,
Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pur-
suance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred
upon me by section twenty of the Mining Act, 1926, and of all
other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in that
behalf, do hereby exempt the land particularly described in
the Schedule hereto from mining under the provisions of that
Act, subject to all existing registered mining privileges;
and do also hereby declare that such exemption shall take
effect from the date of the gazetting hereof.

SCHEDULE.
ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by
admeasurement 220 acres 3 roods 34 perches, more or less,
being Section 14c and part 15, Block IX, Aroha Survey
District: Bounded towards the north-west by Section 116,
Block IX, Aroha Survey District, 2901 links; towards the

south-west by Sections 116 and part 15, Block IX, Aroha
Survey District, 3010 links; again towards the north-west
and again towards the south-west by part Section 15, Block
IX, Aroha Survey District, 1614 and 1807 links; again
towards the north-west by Section 14A, Block IX, Aroha
Survey District, 1604·5 links; towards the north-east by
State Forest Reserve (Gazette, 1900, page 6) 6398 links;
towards the south-east by part Section 14D, Block IX, Aroha
Survey District, 6095·7 links; and towards the south-west
by Sections 1, 2, and 3, Block LXV, Te Aroha Township,
829·5 links: Be all the aforesaid linkages a little more or
less. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan
marked Mines N. 12/263, deposited in the Head Office of the
Mines Department at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 28th day of June, 1928.

J. G. COATES, for Minister of Lands.

(Mines, N. 12/263.)

Notifying the proposed Exchange of Crown Land in the North
Auckland Land District for other Land.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and sixty of the Land
Act, 1924, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor-General, whenever he deems it expedient in the
public interest, to grant in fee-simple any area of Crown land
which is subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1924, in
exchange for the fee-simple of any other land, and on any
such exchange to pay or receive any sum by way of equality
of exchange :
And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor-General, it
is expedient to exchange the Crown land described in the First
Schedule hereto for the land described in the Second Schedule
hereto, and the owner of the land described in the Second
Schedule has agreed to such exchange :
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the
Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the aforesaid powers
and authorities, doth hereby declare it is his intention to grant
in fee-simple the area of Crown land described in the First
Schedule hereto in exchange for the fee-simple of the land
described in the Second Schedule.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
DESCRIPTION OF LAND AUTHORIZED TO BE EXCHANGED.
ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District containing
by admeasurement 7 acres 1 rood 20 perches, more or less,
being Section 65, Block XVI, Tokatoka Survey District ;
as the same is more particularly delineated on plan marked
L. and S. 9/531, deposited in the Head Office, Department
of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.
(North Auckland Plan No. 24741, blue.)

SECOND SCHEDULE.
DESCRIPTION OF LAND TO BE OBTAINED IN EXCHANGE
THEREFOR.
ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District containing
by admeasurement 2 acres 2 roods 7 perches, more or less,
being portion of Section 54, Block XVI, Tokatoka Survey
District; as the same is more particularly delineated on a
plan marked L. and S. 9/531A, deposited in the Head Office,
Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon
edged red. (North Auckland Plan No. 24657, blue.)

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 29th day of June, 1928.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Opening Settlement Land in Otago Land District for Selection.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1924, and the
Land for Settlements Act, 1925, I, General Sir Charles
Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of
New Zealand, do hereby declare that the settlement land
described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection
on renewable lease on Monday, the sixth day of August,
one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, at the rental
mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that
the said land shall be leased under and subject to the pro-
visions of the said Acts.