May 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1251

Now, therefore, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by section one hundred and sixty-two of the Land Act, 1924, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby order and declare that portion of the Te Kopuru No. 4 Kauri-gum Reserve, as described in the Schedule hereto, shall, from the tenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two, cease to be subject to the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908.

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SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District, Hobson County, situate in Block V, Tokatoka Survey District, containing by admeasurement 74 acres 1 rood 10 perches, more or less, being Allotment 112, Kopuru Parish, and being portion of Te Kopuru No. 4, Kauri-gum Reserve, as described in New Zealand Gazette, 1902, No. 103, page 2698. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 9/2764, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red. (North Auckland plan No. 2814A.)

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

(L. and S. 9/2764.)

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Declaring Land in the North Auckland Land District to be subject to the Land for Settlements Act, 1925.

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BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section one hundred and five of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the area of Crown land described in the Schedule hereto shall be subject to the provisions of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, and shall hereafter form part of the Waimata Settlement.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District, Hobson County, containing by admeasurement 18 acres 2 roods 15 perches, more or less, being a road through Waimata Nos. 1A No. 1, 1A No. 2, 1B No. 1, 1B No. 2, 1B No. 3, closed by Proclamation No. 4723, published in New Zealand Gazette of the 25th September, 1919. As the same is more particularly delineated on plan marked L. and S. 21/171, deposited under No. 2568, in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured green. (North Auckland plan 18296, blue.)

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 9th day of May, 1932.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 21/171.)

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Members appointed to Papatawai Scenic Board.

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BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by a Warrant dated the twenty-third day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, and published in the Gazette of the twenty-eighth day of that month, the control of certain reserves in the Otago Land District, known as the Papatawai Bush, Tahakopa Beach, and McLennon River Scenic Reserves, was vested in certain persons therein named, who were by the said Warrant constituted a special Board by the name of the Papatawai Scenic Board, in pursuance of section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908: And whereas it is desirable that Donald McLeod Little should be appointed a member of the said Board in place of Erroll Wright, left the district:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, doth hereby appoint the said Donald McLeod Little to be a member of the Papatawai Scenic Board constituted by the Warrant dated the twenty-third day of November, hereinafter referred to in place of the said Erroll Wright, left the district; and in pursuance of the said section thirteen doth hereby appoint Innis McKay as an additional member of the Board.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 4th day of May, 1932.

E. A. RANSOM,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

(L. and S. 4/422.)

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Exempting Crown Lands from certain Provisions of the Mining Act, 1926.

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BLEDISLOE, 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 Second Schedule hereto shall, subject to all existing registered mining privileges, be exempted from the provisions of the Mining Act, 1926, and its amendments, set out in the First Schedule hereto:

Now, therefore, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance 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 Second Schedule hereto from the provisions of those sections of the Mining Act, 1926, mentioned in the First Schedule hereto, subject to all existing registered mining privileges; and do also hereby declare that such exemption shall take effect from the date of the publication of this notice in the Gazette.

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FIRST SCHEDULE.

The Mining Act, 1926: Sections 70, 77, 81, 87, 89, 100, 106, 129, 144, 154.

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SECOND SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Nelson Land District, containing approximately 530 acres, and bounded by a line commencing at the northernmost corner of Section 3, Block XV, Howard Survey District; thence to and along the left bank of Mand Creek to a point in line with the north-western boundary of Section 2, Lake Settlement, Block XI, Howard Survey District; thence to and along that boundary to its intersection with the western boundary of the land described in New Zealand Gazette, No. 17, 1932, page 481; thence south-easterly along the western boundary of that land to its south-western corner; thence along a line bearing 254° for a distance of 60 chains; thence along a line bearing 344° to its intersection with the north-western boundary of Section 3, Block XV, Howard Survey District; thence north-easterly along that boundary to its northernmost corner, the point of commencement. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan numbered 12/38, and deposited in the Head Office of the Mines Department, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General this 10th day of May, 1932.

CHAS. E. MACMILLAN, Minister of Mines.

(Mines N. 12/38.)