PROVINCE OF WESTLAND GAZETTE.

SCHEDULE.

Reserve No. 98.

Two acres and thirty-eight perches, more or less, situate in the Town of Hokitika; bounded on the North-eastward by Park street, for five hundred links; on the South-eastward by Sale street, for four hundred and fifty links; on the South-westward by Sections 1063 and 1038, for four hundred and sixty-three links, and by Haast street for forty-nine links; and on the North-westward by Brittan street, for four hundred and sixteen links, and including Sections 1034, 1035, 1036, 1037, 1038, 1039, 1040, 1041, and 1042—for General Government purposes.

Reserve No. 99.

Two acres and twenty perches, more or less, situate in the Town of Hokitika; bounded on the North-eastward by Park street, for five hundred links; on the South-eastward by Rolleston street, for four hundred and fifty links; on the South-westward by Sections 381 and 1075, for five hundred links; and on the North-westward by Sale street, for two hundred and fifty links by southern boundary of Municipal Reserve No. 541 (in red), two hundred and fifty links; southern boundary of said reserve, fifty links; north-eastern boundary, two hundred and fifty links; and by other part of Sale street aforesaid, one hundred and fifty links, to Park street, and comprising Sections numbered 383, 385, 391, 389, 387, 377, 375, 373, 371, and 1076—for General Government purposes.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Most Honorable George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and Baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the County of York, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave of New Ross, in the County of Wexford, in the Peerage of Ireland; a Member of Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council; Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; at Wellington, this thirty-first day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.

H. A. ATKINSON.

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette No. 48, of the 26th August, 1875.]

Changing Purpose of Reserve in Westland.

NORMANBY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington this twenty-fourth day of August, 1875.

Present:
His Excellency THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by “The Westland Waste Lands Act, 1870,” it is, among other things, enacted, that reserves theretofore or thereafter to be made of waste lands shall be managed and administered by the Governor in Council: And it is also enacted, that the specified purposes for which any reserves shall be held may be changed, and any such reserves may be leased, mortgaged, or sold, either in whole or in part, by the Governor in Council as therein mentioned: And whereas the parcel of land described in the Schedule hereto was, on the date and in the manner therein mentioned, declared to be a reserve for the purposes therein set forth, and such reserve is now subject to the provisions of the said Act: And whereas it is expedient that the purpose of such reserve should be changed:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him by the hereinbefore in part recited Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Colony, doth hereby order that the purpose for which the said reserve was originally made shall be changed, and the same shall be and become a reserve for the purposes of a public racecourse; and the lands in the Province of Westland, the boundaries whereof are described in the said Schedule hereunto annexed, are hereby reserved accordingly for a racecourse.