Num. 67.

2653

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1935.

Portions of Lands set apart as Provisional State Forests declared to be subject to the Land Act, 1924.

[L.S.] GALWAY, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section twenty of the Forests Act, 1921–22, I, George Vero Arundell, Viscount Galway, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting on the recommendation of the Minister of Lands, do hereby proclaim and declare that the lands described in the First and Second Schedules hereto, being, respectively, portion of a provisional State forest set apart by Proclamation dated the sixteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, and gazetted on the twenty-fifth day of that month, and portion of a provisional State forest set apart by Proclamation dated the fifth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, and gazetted on the eighth day of the last-mentioned month, are required for settlement purposes; and, in accordance with the provisions of the said Act, such lands shall, from and after the day of the gazetting hereof, cease to be provisional State forests, and shall become subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1924.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

All that area containing by estimation 650 acres, more or less, being part of a provisional State forest as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 32 of the 25th March, 1920, at page 927, situated in Blocks VIII and XII, Aorere Survey District: Bounded towards the north by the northern boundary of the aforesaid provisional State forest; towards the east by the western boundary of a track along a dividing ridge; towards the south by the northern boundary of a State forest as described in New Zealand Gazette No. 17 of the 1st February, 1917, at page 386; towards the west by the eastern bank of Fletcher’s Creek. As the same is more particularly delineated on a plan marked L. and S. X/97/34, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

All that area containing by estimation 4,180 acres, more or less, being part of national-endowment provisional State forest as described in New Zealand Gazette No. 65 of the 8th July, 1920, at page 2114, situated in Blocks IV and VIII, Aorere Survey District: Bounded towards the north-east by part of a line running from the mouth of Appo’s Creek to the southernmost corner of Section 17, Block IV aforesaid; by a line therefrom to the westernmost corner of Section 2, Block I, Waitapu Survey District; thence by that section to the western boundary of the said survey district; towards the east by the western boundary of Waitapu Survey District 2700 links, and by a line to the Para Para River on a true bearing of 209°, 2700 links, and by the eastern bank of the said river; towards the south by the southern bank of the said river to a point thereon in the vicinity of Section 8, Block VIII aforesaid; thence by the shortest line to the north-eastern corner of Section 8 aforesaid; thence to the north-western corner thereof; towards the east by the western boundary of Section 8 aforesaid; again towards the north by the southern boundary of Section 8 aforesaid to a road; again towards the east by the western boundary of the said road and by the western boundary of a track along a dividing ridge to the intersection thereof with the southern boundary of the aforesaid national-endowment area; again towards the south by the southern boundary of the said national-endowment area to its intersection with Fletcher’s Creek; towards the west by the eastern banks of Fletcher’s Creek, Slate River, and Aorere River, and by the eastern boundaries of Sections 119, 118, 117, 100, 99, 98, and 18 to the intersection of the eastern boundary of the last-mentioned section with the line herein first mentioned: excepting thereout sections 4 and 132, Block IV; and Sections 7, 13, and 14, Block VIII, Aorere Survey District aforesaid. As the same is more particularly delineated on a plan marked L. and S. X/97/34A, deposited in the 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 11th day of September, 1935.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

(L. and S. X/97/34.)