MAY 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1315

Revoking the Reservation over Part of a Scenic Reserve in the Canterbury Land District.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section fifty-six of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1918, certain lands in the Canterbury Land District were declared to be reserves under the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908 :

And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto (being part of the land so set apart) is no longer suitable for scenic purposes by reason of the absence of bush of scenic value thereon :

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 eight of the Scenery Preservation Amendment Act, 1910, do hereby revoke the reservation for scenic purposes over the land described in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District containing by admeasurement 40 acres 2 roods 25 perches, more or less, being part of Reserve No. 2788, situated in Block VI, Akaroa Survey District, and bounded as follows: Towards the north by other part of Reserve No. 2788, 1700·8 links; towards the south-east by Rural Sections Nos. 35345 and 31260, 3027·1 links; towards the south by Rural Section No. 34299, 1015·8 links; and again towards the west by Rural Section No. 34351, 2930 links. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 4/433A, deposited in Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at 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 27th day of April, 1929.

GEO. W. FORBES,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

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Amending Regulations under the Prisons Act, 1908, and Amending Act, and Crimes Amendment Acts, 1910 and 1920.

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CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this 24th day of April, 1929.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the Prisons Act, 1908 (as amended by section sixteen of the Statute Law Amendment Act, 1917), by the Prisons Amendment Act, 1912, by the Prisons Amendment Act, 1919, and by the Crimes Amendment Act, 1910 (as amended by the Crimes Amendment Act, 1920), and of all other statutory and other powers enabling him in that behalf, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke, as from the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, Regulation No. 389 of the regulations made under the above-recited Acts, and published in the Gazette of the twenty-fourth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, and doth make in lieu thereof the regulations contained in the Schedule hereto, and doth hereby declare that such regulations shall come into force on the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine.

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SCHEDULE.

389. ANY prisoner who escapes from custody and is recaptured and returned to prison, or who has once been released upon probation, and is re-arrested and returned to prison, either for a breach of the conditions of his probationary license, or for a further offence, shall not be eligible for the earning of pay marks until four months after his reception, unless the Controller-General otherwise directs.

389A. Subject to the approval of the Controller-General, the value of any article of departmental property, wilfully damaged, destroyed, or lost, through carelessness on the part of any prisoner, may be deducted from the accumulated earnings of such prisoner. If the prisoner concerned has at the time no earnings standing to his credit, the Controller-General may direct that the deduction be made whenever the prisoner earns sufficient to liquidate the debt.

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

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Directing Sale of Railway Land, at East Town, under the Public Works Act, 1928.

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CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 24th day of April, 1929.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the thirty-fifth section of the Public Works Act, 1928 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that if it is found that any land held, taken, purchased, or acquired at any time under this or any other Act or Provincial Ordinance, or otherwise howsoever, for any public work is not required for such public work the Governor-General may, by an Order in Council publicly notified and gazetted, cause the same to be sold under the condition set forth in the said Act :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and direct the sale of the land described in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land: 3 acres 3 roods 35·5 perches.

Portion of Railway Reserve, Proclamation No. 1563 (part Section 90, L.B. Wanganui River), Block I, Ikitara Survey District, City of Wanganui. (S.O. 2462.)

In the Wellington Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L.O. 205, deposited in the office of the Minister of Railways at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

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

(L.O. 13388.)

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Extending Prohibition of Alienation of certain Native Land other than Alienation in favour of the Crown.

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CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 24th day of April, 1929.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

ON the recommendation of the Native Land Purchase Board, referred to in section three hundred and sixty-three of the Native Land Act, 1909, and in exercise of the power in this behalf conferred upon him by that section, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, doth hereby extend for a further period of six months the Order in Council dated the tenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, and gazetted the twenty-fourth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, prohibiting all alienation of the Native land specified in the Schedule hereto other than alienation in favour of the Crown.

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SCHEDULE.

BLOCKS VIII AND XIV, HUKATERE SURVEY DISTRICT.

Block. Approximate Area.
A. R. P.

Pouto 2E 4C .. .. .. .. 350 0 0
,, 2E 4D .. .. .. .. 320 0 0

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