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and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section nine of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, doth hereby declare that, from and after the day of the date hereof, the reserve described in the First Schedule hereto shall become vested in the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Oamaru, in trust, for recreation purposes, and the reserves described in the Second Schedule hereto shall become vested in the Marlborough Hospital Board, in trust, for a site for a public hospital.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Otago Land District.

ALL that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 7 acres 3 roods 2 perches, more or less, being Reserve "B," Town of Oamaru, and bounded as follows:
Towards the east by Towe Street, 1820 links; towards the south-west by a public street, 1050 links; and towards the north-west by a closed portion of Severn Street, 1480 links. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 6/1/397, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

(L. and S. 6/1/397.)

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Marlborough Land District.

SECTION 1148, Town of Picton : Area, 7 acres 3 roods 15 perches, more or less.
Also Section 1167, Town of Picton : Area, 34·5 perches, more or less.

(L. and S. 6/8/46.)

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

Revoking Sanctuaries under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921-22, and declaring certain Areas to be Sanctuaries, Rotorua Acclimatization District.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by section six of the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921-22 (hereinafter referred to as the "said Act"), I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby revoke the Warrant made under the said section on the twentieth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, and published in the Gazette on the twenty-first day of the same month, at page 445, declaring certain areas to be sanctuaries under the said Act in so far as that Warrant relates to the areas described under the heading "Rotorua Acclimatization District." And in further pursuance of the said powers do hereby revoke the Warrant made under the said section on the twenty-third day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, and published in the Gazette on the twenty-sixth day of the same month, at page 716, declaring the area described in the Schedule thereto, being part of Section 5, Block IV, Waiau Survey District, to be a sanctuary under the said Act.

And in further pursuance of the said powers do hereby notify and declare the respective areas described in the Schedule hereto to be sanctuaries for the purposes of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

Rotorua Acclimatization District.

1. AREA at Waikaremoana: All that area of land and water in the Auckland and Hawke’s Bay Land Districts, bounded towards the north-west generally by the summit of the range leading from Whakatakaua Trig. Station at the headwaters of the Whakatane River to Maungapohatu Trig. Station near the headwaters of the Waikare Stream; thence towards the east generally by the summit of the range leading to Manuaha Trig. Station; thence by the main range leading east of Lake Waikareiti round to Ngamoko Trig. Station; thence by a right line in a northerly direction to the mouth of the Aniwaniwa Stream; thence by the south-western, southern, and western shores of Lakes Waikaremoana and Waiaumoana to the mouth of the Waiharuru Stream near Te Puna; thence by a right line in a north-westerly direction to Whakatakaua Trig. Station, the place of commencement.

2. Rotorua Lake Sanctuary: All that area in the Auckland Land District, bounded by a line commencing at a point (Puarenga) on the south-western shore of Lake Rotorua; thence along a right line to Te Papa-o-Reamaoa Spring on the south-eastern shore of Lake Rotorua; thence south-westerly and northerly generally along the shore of Lake Rotorua to the point of commencement.

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3. Nuhaka Reserve: All that area in the Nuhaka North Subdivision, Section 14, Block XV, containing about 580 acres, and described as a thermal-spring reserve.

4. Area at Hamurana: All that area comprising the Hamurana Stream and that portion of Lake Rotorua within a radius of half a mile from where such stream enters the said lake.

5. Certain areas in the Rotorua Acclimatization District: All that area in the Auckland Land District, being Section 108A, Matata Parish, in Block III, Awa-o-te-Atua Survey District, containing 570 acres, more or less, including the Kohika Lagoon and all other lagoons thereon.

6. Matata Lagoon: All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 108 acres, being Section 4, Block VI, Awa-o-te-Atua Survey District, known as Matata Lagoon.

7. All that area in the Gisborne Land District, being part of Section 5, Block IV, Waiau Survey District, commencing at a point on the left bank of the Waikaretaheke River where it is intersected by the southern boundary of the Forest Reserve; thence easterly along the southern boundary of the said Forest Reserve to a point in line with the surge chamber of the Waikaremoana Hydro-electric Works; thence towards the south-east by a right line bearing 200 degs. to the left bank of the Waikaretaheke River; thence in a north-westerly direction by the said left bank of the Waikaretaheke River to the Forest Reserve boundary, the place of commencement.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 14th day of September, 1931.

P. A. DE LA PERRELE,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 25/5/136.)

Declaring Road-lines adjoining and intersecting Land in Wairakau Settlement, Auckland Land District, to be closed, and the Land comprised therein to be subject to the Land for Settlements Act, 1925.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS a report has been received from the Surveyor-General, from which it appears that the roads described in the Schedule hereto are unformed and unused, and that the said roads are adjacent to or intersect land acquired under the Land for Settlements Act, 1925 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), and are not suitable to the subdivision of such land:

Now, therefore, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section one hundred and six of the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities in anyway enabling me in this behalf, do hereby close the roads hereinafter described; and I do hereby declare that the land comprised in the said roads shall thereupon become subject to the Land for Settlements Act, 1925.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the pieces of roads to be closed :-

A. R. P.
4 0 14 Adjoining Sections 31A, 33A, 33B, 33C, 33D, and passing through Sections 35, 37, and 39, Block XII, Aroha Survey District.
3 0 3 Passing through Sections 41, 43, and part 45, Block XII, Aroha Survey District.

In the Auckland Land District ; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 21/149/1152, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, under No. 2511, and thereon coloured green.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 10th day of September, 1931.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 21/149/1152.)

Notifying Land in Taranaki Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section one hundred and thirty-two of the Land Act, 1924, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Wednesday, the twenty-first day of October, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, as the time at which the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction for cash or on deferred payments, and I do hereby fix the price at which the said land shall be sold as that mentioned in the said Schedule hereto.