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

BLEDISLOE, 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, and has agreed to
pay to the Crown a sum of money by way of equality of ex-
change:

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 upon payment by the
owner thereof of the sum of money hereinbefore referred to
by way of equality of exchange.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF LAND AUTHORIZED TO BE EXCHANGED.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by
admeasurement 2 acres 2 roods ,18 perches, more or less,
being Lot 1 of Allotment 96, Rangitaiki Parish : Bounded
towards the north-west and north-east by Lot 1 of Allotment
98, Rangitaiki Parish, 676-6 links and 642-5 links ; towards the
south by Lot 2 of Allotment 96, Rangitaiki Parish, 654-7 links
and 300-4 links : be all the aforesaid linkages a little more or
less. 'As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan
marked L. and S. 26/10322, deposited in the Head Office,
Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon
edged red. (Auckland Survey Office plan No. 25470, blue.)

SECOND SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF LAND TO BE OBTAINED IN EXCHANGE
THEREFOR.

All that area in the Auckland Land District containing by
admeasurement 1 rood 36-4 perches, more or less, being Lot 2
of Allotment 98, Rangitaiki Parish : Bounded towards the
north by Lot 1 of Allotment 98, Rangitaiki Parish, 450-2
links; towards the south-east by a public road, 367-7 links;
towards the south-west by Lot 2 of Allotment 96, Rangitaiki
Parish, 259-8 links : be all the aforesaid linkages a little more
or less. As the same is more particularly delineated on the
plan marked L. and S. 26/10322A, deposited in the Head
Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and
thereon edged red. (Auckland Survey Office Plan No. 25470,
blue.)

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 17th day of April, 1930.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

Opening Education Reserve Lands in Auckland Land District
for Selection on Renewable Lease.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred on me by the Land Act, 1924, and section
twenty-two of the Education Reserves Act, 1928, I, Charles,
Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New
Zealand, do hereby declare that the land described in the
Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable
lease on Friday, the 20th day of June, one thousand nine
hundred and thirty, 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 provisions of the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—EDUCATION RESERVE.—THIRD-
CLASS LAND.

Waitomo County.—Maungamangero Survey District.

Section 10, Block VI : Area, 575 acres. Capital value,
£200. Half-yearly rent, £4.

Grazing property, situated thirty-one miles from Te Kuiti
Railway-station, sixteen miles from Pio Pio Post-office, store,
and saleyards, fourteen miles of which is metalled and two
miles clay road; four miles from Haku School. Well watered
by running streams. Steep and broken country, about 115
acres felled and grassed (now mostly reverted); balance of

460 acres in standing bush. Ragwort is getting a hold.
There are no buildings on this property.

NOTE.-This section is offered conjointly with Lot 2 of
Section 9, Block VI, Maungamangero Survey District, ad-
joining; the successful applicant being required to take over
both areas.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 17th day of April, 1930.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

Vesting the Control of a Scenic Reserve in the Tapuinikau
Pa Scenic Board.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

N pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon him by section thirteen of the Scenery
Preservation Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor-General
of the Dominion of New Zealand, doth hereby vest the control
of the reserve described in the Schedule below (being a
scenic reserve under the said Act), for the period of five years
from the date hereof (unless previously altered or revoked
under the said Act), in the undermentioned persons, namely—
The Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Taranaki
Land District, ex officio,
Rangi Tekiri,
Tiriti Wharepouri,
Kape Whiti te Hohoki,
Henry Nixon Chapman, and
William Batten Smith,
who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board
by the name of the Tapuinikau Pa Scenic Reserve Board
(herein referred to as “the Board”), in trust, for the pre-
servation of scenery, and with the powers and subject to the
conditions hereinafter contained, that is to say,—

1. The Board shall meet for the transaction of business on
   the fourth Monday in the months of April and October in
   each year, at four o'clock p.m., at the District Lands and
   Survey Office, New Plymouth, or at such other time or place
   as may from time to time be fixed by the Board. The first
   meeting shall be held on Monday, the twenty-eighth day of
   April, one thousand nine hundred and thirty.

2. The Commissioner of Crown Lands shall be the Chairman
   of the Board. He may join in the discussion, and shall have
   an original as well as a casting-vote.

3. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman,
   provided that two days' notice of such meeting be given to
   each member, specifying the business to be transacted at
   such special meeting; and no other business than that so
   specified shall be transacted at such meeting.

4. Any four members of the Board shall form a quorum.
   Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.

5. All questions shall be determined by the majority of
   votes of the members of the Board present at a meeting.

6. If at any meeting the Chairman is not present at the
   time appointed for holding the same, the members present
   shall choose one of their number to be chairman of such
   meeting.

7. If by resignation, death, incapacity, or otherwise the
   seat of any member shall be or become vacant, or if any
   member absents himself, without reasonable cause, from
   three consecutive meetings of the Board, the Governor-
   General shall have power to appoint any other person to
   be a member of the Board in his stead.

8. The Board shall prepare and submit at an annual meet-
   ing to be held in the month of April in each year a report of
   the proceedings of the Board for the previous year ending on
   the thirty-first day of March, together with a statement of
   the receipts and expenditure of the Board for such year. A
   copy of every such report and statement, certified by the
   Chairman to be correct, shall be sent to the Minister charged
   with the administration of the said Act as soon as possible
   after each annual meeting.

9. The Board shall control the said reserve in accordance
   with the provisions of the said Act and of the regulations
   made thereunder.

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Taranaki Land District, containing by
admeasurement 2 acres 2 roods 25 perches, more or less, being
Tapuinikau A Block, Block IX, Cape Survey District :
Bounded towards the north, east, and west by Tapuinikau
B 2 Block, Block IX, Cape Survey District, 1641-1 links, and
towards the south by the Teikaparua Stream; as the same is
delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 4/504, deposited in
the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Welling-
ton, and thereon coloured pink.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 16th day of April, 1930.

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