New Zealand Gazette – 1940 – No. 1

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✨ Land Notices

JAN. 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 13

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

GALWAY, 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 Schedule hereto shall be exempted from the provisions of section sixty-six (f) of the Mining Act, 1926, and its amendments, and regulations one hundred and five and one hundred and six of the regulations thereunder:

Now, therefore, I, George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on 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 Schedule hereto from the provisions of section sixty-six (f) of the Mining Act, 1926, and regulations one hundred and five and one hundred and six of the regulations thereunder, and do also hereby declare that such exemption shall take effect from the date of the publication of this notice in the Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Nelson Land District, Inangahua County, containing 792 acres, more or less, being Section 166, Block II, Waitahu Survey District, and parts of Provisional State Forests Nos. 92 and 132, situated in Block XIV, Reefton Survey District, and Block II, Waitahu Survey District, and bounded generally as follows: Towards the north-west by Section 8, Block XIV, Reefton Survey District, and another part of Provisional State Forest No. 132 aforesaid, by a line bearing 245° 49′ 1769·9 links; towards the north-east by another part of Provisional State Forest No. 132 by lines bearing 154° 45′ 507 links, 92° 45′ 578 links, 161° 30′ 668 links, 147° 1487 links, 72° 390 links, 112° 656 links, and 93° 20′ 370 links, to the western boundary of Section 10, Block II aforesaid; by Section 10 aforesaid to Trig. L, and by another part of Provisional State Forest No. 92 aforesaid, by lines bearing 60° 5′ 219 links, 91° 15′ 701 links, 136° 281 links, 71° 280 links, 64° 15′ 157 links, 81° 15′ 363 links, 48° 199 links, 125° 40′ 246 links, 91° 30′ 225 links, and 140° 40′ 1850 links to the edge of the bush and by the edge of the bush for approximately 37 chains; towards the south-east by another part of Provisional State Forest 92 aforesaid, by lines bearing 247° 15′ 177 links, 205° 30′ 379 links, 281° 383 links, 273° 225 links, 284° 15′ 132 links, 242° 15′ 1543 links, and 245° 45′ 402 links, and by Road License No. 8551; and towards the south-west by the Reefton–Big River Road; save and excepting the intersecting public road. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked N. 6/8, deposited in the Head Office of the Mines Department at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 4th day of January, 1940.

P. C. WEBB, Minister of Mines.

(Mines N. 6/8.)

Lands temporarily reserved in the North Auckland, Auckland, Gisborne, Hawke’s Bay, Wellington, Westland, and Southland Land Districts.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section three hundred and fifty-nine of the Land Act, 1924, I, George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby temporarily reserve the lands in the North Auckland, Auckland, Gisborne, Hawke’s Bay, Wellington, Westland, and Southland Land Districts described in the Schedule hereunder written for the purposes specified in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

Locality.	Section	Block	Area.	Purpose for which Land reserved.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.
Whangape S.D.*	80	III	A. R. P.	Primary education endowment.
			21 2 27
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.
Maungatautari S.D.	2 and 3	XIV	5 1 10·4	Public school-site (Wharepapa).
Te Kuiti Native Township	Allotments 2, 4 to 9 inclusive, and Lot 1 of Allotment 3	V	2 0 5·8	Public school-site.
Otanake S.D.	..	III
GISBORNE LAND DISTRICT.
Hangaroa S.D.	30	X	66 1 20	Plantation.
Uawa S.D.	4	III	12 1 20	,,
HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.
Norsewood S.D.	48R	VI	0 0 1·5	Gravel.
	49R, 50R, and 51	VI	1 2 38·3	Plantation.
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.
Manganui S.D.	9	XV	3 1 0	Gravel.
Town of Pongaroa	3, 5, and 6	V	1 2 0	Plantation.
WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.
Bruce Bay S.D.	Reserve 1208	IX	3 0 0	Public school-site.
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.
Oteramika Hundred	45	IX	7 0 18	Gravel.

*Survey District.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 22nd day of December, 1939.

W. LEE MARTIN,
For the Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 22/4177.)

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🗺️ Exemption of Crown Land from Mining Act Provisions

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated4 January 1940
KeywordsCrown Land, Mining Act, Exemption, Nelson Land District
👩‍💼 Officials

George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, Governor-General
P. C. Webb, Minister of Mines

🗺️ Temporary Reservation of Lands in Various Districts

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated22 December 1939
KeywordsLand Reservation, North Auckland, Auckland, Gisborne, Hawke’s Bay, Wellington, Westland, Southland
👩‍💼 Officials

George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, Governor-General
W. Lee Martin, For the Minister of Lands

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