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Reserves and Other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1906 No 60 (as at 03 September 2007), Public Act – New Zealand Legislation
Reserves and Other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1906
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Public Act 1906 No 60
2 Transfer to Pacific Cable Board authorised
3 Recreation-ground, Kohukohu
4 Transfer of lease, Nilson to Brien, validated
5 Mrs ME Beale's claim for a land order, Auckland
6 Exchange with Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Association
7 Alteration of line of bridge across Symonds Street Cemetery, Auckland
8 Addition to Buffalo Domain, Coromandel County
9 Reserves for drill-shed, Courthouse, police-station, and Borough Council, Waihi
10 Tauranga Showground
11 School-site reserve, Maketu Survey District
12 By-laws for Whakatane Harbour validated
13 Reserve for drill-shed, Cambridge East
14 Road on bank of Waikato River may be closed and other road provided
15 Power to lease reserve sections, Patetere Survey District
16 Transfer of lease, Midgley to Clark, validated
17 Paritutu closed roads
18 Reserve cancelled, Hangaroa Survey District
19 Forfeiture cancelled, Nuhaka Survey District
20 Site for dairy factory, Weber Survey District
21 Pungarehu post-office site
22 Reserve for drill-shed, Rangitikei District
23 Foxton reserves [Repealed]
24 Apiti school-site, Pohangina
25 Reserve may be transferred to Kiwitea County Council
26 Apiti Domain and Cemetery exchanged
27 Forest reservation cancelled, Pohangina Survey District
28 Reserve cancelled and homestead-site provided, Tiriraukawa Survey District
29 Rubbish reserve cancelled, Mangaweka
30 Municipal and gravel reserves, Mangaweka
31 Gravel reserve cancelled, Aohanga Survey District
32 Public-hall site, Makoura Village
33 School-site, Mangahao Survey District, Wellington
34 Gravel reserve cancelled, Makuri Survey District
35 Reserve cancelled, Mangaone Survey District
36 Forest reservation cancelled, Mangaone Survey District
37 Metal reserve cancelled, Mount Cerberus
38 Masterton Park
39 Exchange of reserves, Carterton
40 Levin Courthouse
41 Forest reservation cancelled, Kaitawa Survey District
42 Cemetery-site, Awaroa
43 Reserve cancelled, Tararua Survey District
44 Acquisition and exchange of land for Rimutaka State forest
45 Transfer to Salvation Army for Rescue Home, Wellington
46 Alteration of boundaries of Wellington City and Onslow Borough
47 Reserve changed, Picton
48 Dumgree Run exchange, Marlborough District
49 Christchurch abattoir-site
50 Old bed, River Avon
51 Repayment out of loan moneys to Selwyn County Council by Ellesmere Lands Drainage Board
52 Exchange of lands, Canterbury
53 Site for reservoir, Town of Geraldine
54 Westport Courthouse-site
55 Unclaimed land, Kanieri Survey District, Westland
56 Hokitika Racecourse Reserve [Repealed]
57 Pastoral-agricultural lands, Westland, may be resumed
58 Endowment for municipal buildings, Oamaru
59 Oamaru municipal endowment
60 Exchange of lands, Oamaru Borough and Waitaki High School Board
61 Dunstan Racecourse Reserve
62 Removal of reservation of school-site, Maniototo Survey District
63 Middle Island half-caste grant (Rodden)
64 Water of Leith, Dunedin
65 Ferry reserve cancelled, Waitahuna West Survey District
66 School-site reserve cancelled, Tiger Hill Survey District
67 Reserve cancelled, Papatowai
68 Cemetery reserve cancelled, Lower Hawea
69 Governor may acquire Section 8, Nenthorn Survey District, Otago
70 Addition to school-site, Kensington, Otago
71 Police-reserve cancelled, Macrae's Township
72 Menzies' Ferry Recreation Reserve, Southland
73 Transfer of small portions of road, Campbelltown
74 Sale and leasing of certain State-forest lands validated
75 Taringatura Gravel Reserve
76 Execution of deeds to give effect to Act
Site for a volunteer drill-shed.
An Act to provide for the Exchange, Sale, Reservation, and other Disposition of certain Reserves, Crown Lands, other Lands, and Endowments, and to confer certain Powers on certain Public Bodies.
The Short Title of this Act is The Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1906.
Whereas an area of land in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement fifteen acres two roods sixteen perches, more or less, situated in Block IV, Mangonui Survey District, and more particularly described in the Gazette of the twelfth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and one, on page 2356, as temporarily reserved as a site for a cable-station, was by warrant appearing in the Gazette of the thirteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and two, permanently reserved for the said purpose: And whereas the Board of Management of the Pacific Cable have paid the sum of sixty-four dollars for the said land, and cleared and fenced the same, and desire to erect buildings thereon, but the land being a reserve cannot be granted to the said Board: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The reservation of the aforesaid land is hereby cancelled, and the Governor is hereby authorised and empowered to execute a warrant for the issue of a Land Transfer certificate of title to the Board of Management of the Pacific Cable (known as the Pacific Cable Board) in lieu thereof.
The expression “sixty-four dollars” was substituted, as from 10 July 1967, for the expression “thirty-two pounds” pursuant to section 7(1) Decimal Currency Act 1964 (1964 No 27).
Whereas Thomas Hartley, William Brownlee, and Alfred Cook Yarborough, as trustees for the inhabitants of Kohukohu, were by Order in Council published in the Gazette of the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety seven, licensed to occupy a portion of the foreshore of the Hokianga Harbour, in the Auckland Land District, in order to use the same as a recreation-ground and to erect a wall round a portion thereof to keep the water out: And whereas the present trustees and the inhabitants of the Town of Kohukohu have expended money thereon and are now desirous of having the said land, containing ten acres, more or less, reserved for public recreation and brought under the provisions of Reserves Act 1977 but it being a portion of the foreshore and subject to Harbours Act 1950 there is no power to give effect to their request: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The Governor is hereby authorised and empowered to have a survey made of the said land, and, after a plan thereof has been approved by the Minister of Marine, to reserve the same by notice in the Gazette for purposes of public recreation, and by subsequent Order in Council may bring it under the provisions of Reserves Act 1977.
The reference to the Public Domains Act 1881 was substituted, as from 4 August 1908 pursuant to section 1(2) Public Reserves and Domains Act 1908 (1908 No 156). That reference was in turn substituted, as from 1 April 1929, by a reference to the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act 1928 pursuant to section 103 Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act 1928 (1928 No 36). That reference was in turn substituted, as from 1 April 1954, by a reference to the Reserves and Domains Act 1953 pursuant to section 107(1) Reserves and Domains Act 1953 (1953 No 69). That reference was in turn substituted, as from 1 April 1978, by a reference to the Reserves Act 1977 pursuant to section 125(1) Reserves Act 1977 (1977 No 66).
The reference to the Harbours Act 1878 was consolidated, as from 4 August 1908, by section 1(2) Harbours Act 1908 (1908 No 75). That Act was repealed, as from 1 January 1924, by section 259(1) Harbours Act 1923 (1923 No 40). That Act was in turn repealed, as from 15 October 1950, by section 269(1) Harbours Act 1950 (1950 No 34).
Whereas the Auckland Land Board approved on the twenty-sixth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and six, of an application to transfer lease in perpetuity No 1295 over Section No 8, Block IX, Opuawhanga Survey District, in the Auckland Land District, containing forty acres two roods sixteen perches, from Nils August Nilson to David Brien, of Marua, settler, for the sum of forty dollars: And whereas the said David Brien states that he is unable to complete the transfer owing to the absence of the said Nils August Nilson in Norway: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The District Land Registrar of the Auckland Land Registration District is hereby empowered to accept and register a transfer of the said lease, signed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Auckland Land District, in favour of the said David Brien.
The expression “forty dollars” was substituted, as from 10 July 1967, for the expression to “twenty pounds sterling” pursuant to section 7(1) Decimal Currency Act 1964 (1964 No 27).
The Governor may authorise the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Auckland Land District to inquire into the claim of Mary Eleanor Beale, as administratrix of her husband's estate, for a grant of two hundred and twenty acres of land under The Auckland Waste Lands Act 1858, and, if he is satisfied that such claim has not been satisfied, may authorise a land order to be issued in satisfaction of such claim, which order may be exercised not later than the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and eight.
Whereas the land described in Part 1 of Schedule 1 hereto was granted to the Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Association under section forty-nine of The Reserves and other Lands Sale, Disposal, and Enabling and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1901, subject to certain conditions, and it has been agreed to exchange the said land for land described in Part 2 of Schedule 1 hereto, being land acquired under The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act 1900: And whereas the exchange is for the mutual advantage of the Government and the said association: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
(a) The Governor may grant the land described in Part 2 of Schedule 1 hereto to the Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Association, subject to the provisions of The Agricultural and Pastoral Societies Act 1877, in exchange for the land described in Part 1 of Schedule 1 hereto, which shall be deemed to be land acquired under The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act 1900.
(b) Section forty-nine of The Reserves and other Lands Sale, Disposal, and Enabling and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1901, is hereby repealed.
Whereas by The Auckland Cemetery Bridge and City Borrowing Act 1905, the Auckland City Council was authorised and empowered to erect a bridge across that portion of the Symonds Street Cemetery described in the Schedule thereto, and also to disinter and remove any bodies buried therein: And whereas it has been found expedient to move the centre line of the said bridge a short distance to the southward of the original proposed centre line, and in order to enable the bridge to be erected in the new position it will be necessary to disinter and remove bodies buried in graves other than those included in the above-mentioned portion of the said cemetery: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The Auckland City Council is hereby authorised and empowered to disinter and remove bodies from such portion of the said cemetery to the south of the land described in the Schedule to the said Act as shall be considered necessary by such City Council in and about the construction and erection of such bridge according to the centre line as altered, and the provisions of sections two to four of the said Act shall apply thereto accordingly.
Whereas Allotment No 31 of the Town of Buffalo, in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement two acres two roods twenty-five perches, more or less, was permanently reserved for hospital purposes in the Auckland Provincial Gazette No 43, of one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, and by Order in Council in the New Zealand Gazette of the seventeenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety, was vested in the Coromandel County Council in trust for the said purposes: And whereas the said allotment is not now required for hospital purposes, as the Coromandel Hospital Board has acquired a larger and more suitable site on which it has erected a hospital, and the Coromandel County Council has applied to have the said allotment set apart as an addition to the present Buffalo Domain, but there is no power to give effect to its wishes: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The reservation of Allotment No 31, Town of Buffalo, and its vesting in the Coromandel County Council for hospital purposes, are hereby cancelled, and the said allotment is hereby declared to be set apart and reserved as an addition to the Buffalo Domain.
Whereas section numbered 31 of the Town of Waihi, in the Auckland Land District, containing three roods sixteen perches, was by notice in the Gazette of the eleventh day of September, one thousand nine hundred and two, permanently reserved as a site for a Courthouse: And whereas section numbered 32 of the said Town of Waihi, containing one acre, was by the same notice permanently reserved as a site for a police-station: And whereas a portion of the said Section No 31 has since been further reserved as a site for Borough Council buildings, and a certificate of title issued therefor to the Corporation of the Borough of Waihi, and such further reservation was not made in accordance with the provisions of The Public Reserves Act 1881, by a change of purpose as therein prescribed, and it is desired to validate the said reservation for Borough Council buildings, and to set apart a further portion of the said sections numbered 31 and 32 as a site for a drill-shed and other Volunteer purposes: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The reservations of Sections Nos 31 and 32 as aforesaid are hereby cancelled, and in lieu thereof the several areas of land described in Schedule 2 hereto are set apart as sites for a Volunteer drill-shed, Courthouse, police-station, and Borough Council buildings respectively; and for the purpose of validating the certificate of title issued for the last-mentioned area such reservation shall be deemed to have been made as from the date of the certificate:
Provided that the reserve for a Volunteer drill-shed shall be subject to the provisions of The Volunteer Drill-sheds and Lands Act 1888, and any amendments thereof.
Whereas the piece of land, being allotment numbered 401A in the Parish of Te Papa, in the Auckland Land District, and containing twelve acres, more or less, was, by Order in Council dated the twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, vested or intended to be vested in the Tauranga Farmers' Club and Acclimatisation Society for a show-ground: And whereas such society was at that time an unincorporated body, and no trustees were appointed, and the said Order in Council was inoperative: And whereas the Tauranga Farmers' Club and Acclimatisation Society subsequently became incorporated under The Agricultural and Pastoral Societies Act 1877, under the name of the Tauranga Agricultural and Pastoral Association; and it is expedient that the said piece of land should be legally vested in the said association: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The said piece of land is hereby vested in the Tauranga Agricultural and Pastoral Association in trust for show-grounds.
Whereas Section No 20, Block VIII, Maketu Survey District, containing an area of nineteen acres and thirty perches, was by notice in the Gazette of the thirtieth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety, permanently reserved as a school-site, under the control of the Education Board of the District of Auckland: And whereas the School Commissioners of the Provincial District of Auckland have in error leased the same by public tender to JA McGhie, and it is desirable that such lease should be validated: And whereas in order to do so it is necessary that the purpose of the reserve be changed, and that the land be placed under the control of the School Commissioners for the Provincial District of Auckland: And whereas the said land is not required by the Education Board as a school-site: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
Section No 20, Block VIII, Maketu Survey District, is hereby changed from a reserve as a school-site under the control of the Education Board of the District of Auckland to that of a reserve for primary education under the control and administration of the School Commissioners of the Provincial District of Auckland; and, for the purpose of validating the said lease, such change shall be deemed to have been made from the date of the lease.
(1) The by-laws made by the Whakatane County Council, acting as the Whakatane Harbour Board, for the regulation of the management of the Whakatane Harbour and wharves, and the payment of dues by vessels trading to the Port of Whakatane, to come into force on the ninth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and two, and the by-laws made as aforesaid for the management of the Whakatane wharves and sheds, and the regulation of the charges for receiving and shipping cargo, to come into force on the thirtieth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and four, are hereby confirmed and validated.
(2) All acts and proceedings, including the imposition and levy of dues and fees, done and taken heretofore under the said by-laws are hereby confirmed and validated; but this shall not affect any proceedings taken in any Court of justice or any action now pending.
Whereas sections numbered 28 and 29, Town of Cambridge East, in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement two acres, more or less, were by notice in the Gazette of the fifteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, permanently reserved for police purposes: And whereas it is desired to change the purpose of the said reserve to a site for a Volunteer drillshed, but there is no power to alter the said reservation: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
Sections Nos 28 and 29, Town of Cambridge East, are hereby changed from a reserve for police purposes to that of a reserve for a drill-shed and other Volunteer purposes, subject to the provisions of The Volunteer Drill-sheds and Lands Act 1888, and any amendment thereof.
Whereas the road described in Schedule 3 hereto (hereinafter termed the original road) was laid off near the bank of the Waikato River to give access to the sections through which it passes, but owing to its low and swampy position it cannot be constructed as a road throughout its entire length, and considerable deviations parallel and close to the original road have been laid off and constructed on higher and drier ground, and it is desirable to close the parts of the original road not now required; but whereas, owing to the washing-away of the river-bank, some parts of the original road now touch the river, and the road is therefore held to be a river-bank road within the meaning of section one hundred and twenty-nine of The Public Works Act 1905, and such road cannot be closed: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
His Excellency the Governor in Council is hereby authorised to close such parts of the original road as are not now required; and the Raglan County Council may thereupon dispose of the land comprised in such closed road in the manner provided by The Public Works Act 1905.
The Land Board of the Auckland Land District may lease the sections enumerated in Schedule 4 hereto, which have been set apart as a sanatorium for cattle suffering from the bush sickness, for any term not exceeding fourteen years, and subject to such conditions as to occupation and cultivation thereof as the Minister approves:
Provided that all substantial improvements of a permanent character effected by the lessee of any such section during the term of his lease shall, in accordance with the provisions of sections seventy-two to seventy-seven inclusive of The Land Act 1892, be valued at the termination of the lease of such land and paid over to the outgoing lessee by the incoming lessee as therein provided.
Whereas Section No 21, Block X, Patetere Survey District, in the Auckland Land District, containing one thousand and sixty-five acres, more or less, was allotted in December, one thousand nine hundred and five, on the lease-in-perpetuity tenure, to Samuel Hawksworth Midgley, who, finding the land unsuitable for his purposes, immediately requested the permission of the Auckland Land Board to transfer his interest therein to William Robert Clark, who had also applied for the said section, and executed a stamped agreement to that effect; and the said Board duly approved of the said transfer: And whereas the lease of the land has not yet been signed by the said Samuel Hawksworth Midgley, whose whereabouts cannot be ascertained though inquiries have been made and he has been advertised for, and it is desirable to authorise the issue of a title to the land in favour of the said William Robert Clark, who has been in occupation of the said land and effected considerable improvements thereon: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The Auckland Land Board are hereby empowered to issue a lease in perpetuity for the said land direct to William Robert Clark upon the same terms and conditions as were expressed or implied in the lease proposed to be issued to the said Samuel Hawksworth Midgley.
Whereas the Superintendent of the late Province of Taranaki, by notice in the Provincial Gazette of Taranaki dated the eleventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in pursuance of clause two of The Road Diversion Ordinance (Taranaki) 1870, notified the road-lines mentioned in Schedule 5 hereto to be closed road-lines, but the said road-lines were omitted to be proclaimed closed road-lines as prescribed by clause three of the said Ordinance: And whereas the Taranaki Land Board has from time to time sold for cash or disposed of by way of exchange the said road-lines under the authority of the Land Acts: And whereas the said road-lines not being legally closed it is not now possible to issue titles therefor, and it is desirable that the sales and exchanges of the said road-lines be validated, and that relief be granted as hereinafter mentioned: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
(a) The lands described in Schedule 5 hereto are hereby declared to be closed road-lines under the provisions of the Public Works Act 1981; and the sales or exchanges of the same are hereby ratified and confirmed.
(b) The District Land Registrar is hereby empowered and directed to issue certificates of title to the persons mentioned in Schedule 5 hereto, for the areas set opposite their names, on the receipt from the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Taranaki Land District of a certificate that the purchase-moneys have been paid and all the conditions of sale or exchange of the said lands have been fully complied with.
The reference to the Public Works Compilation Act 1905 (1905 No 53), Appendix B of the repealing Act replaced the 1894 Act with a compiled Act enacted under the title of The Public Works Act 1905, was in turn consolidated, as from 4 August 1908, by section 1(2) Public Works Act 1908 (1908 No 160). That Act was in turn repealed, as from 6 October 1928, by section 346 Public Works Act 1928 (1928 No 21). That Act was in turn repealed, as from 1 February 1982, by section 248(1) Public Works Act 1981 (1981 No 35).
Whereas Section No 50, Block XIV, Hangaroa Survey District, in the Hawke's Bay Land District, containing twenty acres, was by notice in the Gazette of the twenty-fifth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, permanently reserved for travelling stock, but is not required for that purpose: And whereas the said land is overgrown with ragwort and noxious weeds, and the Hawke's Bay Land Board has recommended its sale to enable the section to be cleared of weeds and utilised: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The reservation of Section No 50, Block XIV, Hangaroa Survey District, is hereby cancelled, and the said section is hereby declared to be Crown land and may be dealt with under the Land Act 1948.
The Land Act 1892 (1892 No 37) was consolidated, as from 4 August 1908, by section 1(2) Land Act 1908 (1908 No 94). That Act was in turn repealed, as from 1 January 1925, by section 390 Land Act 1924 (1924 No 31). That Act was in turn repealed, as from 1 April 1949, by section 185(1) Land Act 1948 (1948 No 64).
Whereas the Hawke's Bay Land Board, by resolution dated the thirteenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and six, recommended the forfeiture of Tieme Mete's interest in Occupation-with-right-of-purchase License No 191, over Section No 4, Block VIII, Nuhaka Survey District, in the Hawke's Bay Land District, containing five acres, on the grounds of his non-residence, and by notice in the Gazette of the second day of August, one thousand nine hundred and six, the license was duly forfeited; but by evidence subsequently furnished to the Lands Committee of the House of Representatives it appeared that the Land Board had inadvertently been guilty of an injustice, and the Committee accordingly recommended the cancellation of such forfeiture: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The said notice of forfeiture of Tieme Mete's license is hereby cancelled, and the District Land Registrar for Hawke's Bay is hereby empowered to delete such notice of forfeiture from the Register, to enable the said license to be held by the said Tieme Mete under the same terms and conditions as previously.
(1) Whereas the Weber-Waione Co-operative Dairy Company (Limited) is desirous of acquiring all that area of Crown land in the Hawke's Bay Land District containing by admeasurement four acres, more or less, being section numbered 71, Block V, Weber Survey District, as a site for a dairy factory, but there is no power to dispose of it to the said company for that purpose: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The Hawke's Bay Land Board is empowered to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of the above-mentioned land under the provisions of the Land Act 1948, to the Weber-Waione Co-operative Dairy Company (Limited) as a site for a dairy factory, on such terms as may be determined upon by the Board with the approval of the Minister of Lands.
(2) Section twenty-eight of The Reserves and other Lands Sale, Disposal, and Enabling and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1901, is hereby repealed.
Whereas Section No 132, Block VIII, Cape Survey District, in the Taranaki Land District, was permanently set aside as a gravel reserve, but is no longer required for that purpose: And whereas it is desirable to change the purpose of the said reserve to a site for a post and telegraph office: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The Governor may by notice in the Gazette change the purpose of the said reserve from a gravel reserve to a site for a post and telegraph office.
Whereas part of Section No 18, Rangitikei Agricultural Reserve, containing by admeasurement twenty-four perches, more or less, and described in Deed No 16398 recorded in the Deeds Registry Office, Wellington, was on the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, conveyed by Pennington James Richardson to William Jarvis Willis, Commanding Officer for the time being of the Militia and Volunteer Forces in the Rangitikei District, upon trust as a site for a drill-shed for the use and purposes of the said Militia and Volunteer Forces, or if at any time the said Militia and Volunteer Forces should cease to exist in the said district, then to be held by the last person who should have been Commanding Officer as aforesaid, in trust for such public purposes as he should think fit until there should be Militia and Volunteer Forces existing in the said district: And whereas there is no Commanding Officer as aforesaid, nor are there any Militia Forces in existence at the present time in the said district, so that the trust for public purposes is now in operation, and it is desirable that the said land should be used for the purposes for which it was originally conveyed: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The piece of land described in Schedule 6 hereto is hereby set apart as a reserve for a Volunteer drill-shed, subject to the provisions of The Volunteer Drill-sheds and Lands Act 1888.
23 Foxton reserves
Section 23 was repealed, as from 20 October 1978, by section 2(1)(b) Reserves and Other Lands Disposal Act 1978 (1978 No 77).
Whereas Section No 41, Block XII, Apiti Survey District, in the Wellington Land District, was set apart for a gravel reserve by notice in the Gazette of the twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, page 937, and vested in the Pohangina County Council by Order in Council published in the Gazette of the tenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred: And whereas the Wanganui Education Board is desirous of acquiring the same as a site for a public school, and the Pohangina County Council has agreed to the same: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The vesting of the aforesaid reserve in the Pohangina County Council is hereby revoked, and the purpose of the reserve is changed from a gravel reserve to one for a public-school site, and the reserve is hereby vested in the Wanganui Board of Education.
Whereas Section No 108, Block XIV, Apiti Survey District, in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement thirty-seven acres two roods, more or less, was by Order in Council in the Gazette of the twenty-seventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, vested in the Pohangina County Council: And whereas it now appears that the said land is situated within the Kiwitea County and should be vested in the Kiwitea County Council, and the Pohangina County Council has no objection thereto: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The vesting of the said Section No 108 in the Pohangina County Council is hereby revoked, and the Governor may, by Order in Council in the Gazette, vest the same in the Kiwitea County Council, in trust for road and ferry purposes.
Whereas Section No 51, Block XI, Apiti Survey District, in the Wellington Land District, containing five acres, was reserved for cemetery purposes in Gazette No 46 of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, on page 905, but is found to be unsuitable for that purpose, and the Cemetery Trustees have in consequence acquired Section No 41B of the same block and district as a cemetery-site, and desire to acquire an extension of the same out of Section No 41A adjoining: And whereas Section No 41A was made a public domain by Order in Council published in the Gazette of the nineteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and one, page 1840, and is under the control of the Apiti Domain Board, which is willing to give up an area of four and a half acres for cemetery purposes provided four acres out of the aforesaid Section No 51 are given in exchange, and it is desirable to give effect to the proposal: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The Governor may by notice in the Gazette change the purpose of that portion of the Apiti Domain described in Part 1 of Schedule 7 hereto from a public domain to a cemetery-site as an addition to the present cemetery, and by the same notice change the purpose of the reserve described in Part 2 of the said Schedule from a cemetery-site to an addition to the Apiti Domain.
Whereas Section No 48, Block VII, Pohangina Survey District, in the Wellington Land District, containing one thousand acres, more or less, was permanently reserved for forest-conservation by notice in the Gazette of the sixth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, on page 891: And whereas the forest has been felled or otherwise destroyed on the portion of the said section described in Schedule 8 hereto, which is no longer suitable for the purpose for which it was reserved, and it is desirable to withdraw it from reservation and open it for settlement under the provisions of the Land Act 1948: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The reservation of Section No 48, Block VII, Pohangina Survey District, is hereby cancelled so far as relates to the portion described in the said Schedule, and the said land is hereby declared to be Crown land, and may be dealt with under the Land Act 1948.
Whereas Section No 10, Block III, Tiriraukawa Survey District, in the Wellington Land District, containing ten acres, was by notice in the Gazette of the thirteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, page 1311, permanently reserved for deposit of road-material, but the whole of the section is not now required for such purpose: And whereas there is no suitable site for a homestead on the adjoining Section No 24, Block VII, in the same district, and it is desirable to provide one out of the aforesaid Section No 10: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The reservation of that part of Section No 10 described in Schedule 9 hereto is hereby cancelled, and the Wellington Land Board is empowered to dispose of the said land to the present lessee of Section No 24, Block VII, Tiriraukawa Survey District, on such terms and conditions and at such price or rental as may be recommended by the said Board and approved by the Minister of Lands.
Whereas Section No 97 of the Town of Mangaweka was set apart permanently as a rubbish reserve by notice published in the Gazette of the eighth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six: And whereas the said section is no longer required as a reserve: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The reservation of Section No 97, of the Town of Mangaweka, is hereby cancelled, and the said section is hereby declared to be Crown land, and may be dealt with under the Land Act 1948.
Whereas Sections 3 and 9, Block V, Town of Mangaweka, in the Wellington Land District, were permanently reserved for municipal and gravel purposes respectively by notice published in the Gazette of the thirteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and two: And whereas the lands are now desired to be used for the purposes of the Department of Agriculture: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The reservation of Sections 3 and 9, Block V, Town of Mangaweka, is hereby cancelled, and the said sections are hereby declared to be Crown lands, and may be reserved for the purposes of the Department of Agriculture or otherwise dealt with under the Land Act 1948; and the Governor is hereby authorised and empowered to set aside other Crown lands in the Town of Mangaweka as municipal and gravel reserves in lieu thereof.
Whereas Section No 31, Block I, Aohanga Survey District, containing by admeasurement two acres three roods twenty-two perches, has been set aside as a gravel reserve, and is found not to be suitable for that purpose: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The reservation of Section No 31, Block I, Aohanga Survey District, in the Wellington Land District, is hereby cancelled, and the said section is hereby declared to be Crown land, and may be dealt with under the Land Act 1948.
Whereas by notice in the Gazette of the twenty-fourth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and one, Section No 8, Makoura Village, in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement two roods, more or less, was permanently reserved as a public-hall site: And whereas it is now desired to vest the aforesaid Section No 8 in trustees or in a local authority in trust for the above purpose, but there is no power to do so: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The Governor is hereby authorised and empowered to vest the said land in trustees or in a local authority in trust for a public-hall site:
Provided, however, that there shall be reserved to the Governor power to resume the land in the event of the trust not being satisfactorily performed in the public interest; the Governor to be the sole judge as to whether or not it is satisfactorily performed.
Whereas Section No 88 of Block X, Mangahao Survey District, Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement three acres, more or less, was set apart for a gravel-pit and vested in the Pahiatua County Council: And whereas the said land is not now required for such purpose, and has been applied for by the Education Board of the Provincial District of Wellington as a school-site, and the Pahiatua County Council has assented to the exchange, but there is no power to alter the purpose of the reservation or to vest the land in the said Education Board: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The Governor may by notice in the Gazette change the purpose of the said reserve, being Section No 88, Block X, Mangahao Survey District, from a gravel-pit to a school-site.
Whereas Section No 17, Block XV, Makuri Survey District, containing by admeasurement five acres three roods twenty-one perches, has been set aside as a gravel reserve, and is found not to be suitable for that purpose: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The reservation of Section No 17, Block XV, Makuri Survey District, in the Wellington Land District, is hereby cancelled, and the said section is hereby declared to be Crown land, and may be dealt with under the Land Act 1948.
Whereas Section No 178, Block XIII, Mangaone Survey District, in the Wellington Land District, containing nine acres, more or less, was permanently reserved for road purposes in the Gazette of the eighth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, on page 880, and subsequently vested in the Mauriceville County Council by notice in the Gazette of the twentieth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and five: And whereas the land is not required for the purpose for which it has been reserved, and the Mauriceville County Council has, by resolution on the twenty-ninth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and five, relinquished in favour of His Majesty all its rights and interests in the said land: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The reservation of Section No 178, Block XIII, Mangaone Survey District, is hereby cancelled, and the Wellington Land Board are empowered to dispose of the said land to the owner of the adjoining section, No 183, Block XIII, Mangaone Survey District, under the provisions of section one hundred and fourteen of the [Land Act 1948].
Whereas Sections 7 and 11, Block I, Mangaone Survey District, and Section 12, Block VII, Tararua Survey District, all in the Wellington Land District, containing a total area of six hundred and one acres and nine perches, were permanently reserved for forest purposes by a notice in the Gazette of the sixth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight: And whereas the timber on the said lands has all been milled or sold, and the land is not now required for the purpose for which it has been reserved, but is well adapted for subdivision and settlement and the Wellington Land Board has recommended that it be so dealt with: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The reservation of Sections 7 and 11, Block I, Mangaone Survey District, and Section 12, Block VII, Tararua Survey District, is hereby cancelled, and the said lands are hereby declared to be Crown land, and may be dealt with under the Land Act 1948.
Whereas Section No 28, Block II, Mount Cerberus Survey District, containing by admeasurement six acres two roods, has been set apart as a metal reserve, and is found not to contain any metal: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The reservation of Section No 28, Block II, Mount Cerberus Survey District, in the Wellington Land District, is hereby cancelled, and the said section is hereby declared to be Crown land, and may be dealt with under the Land Act 1948.
Whereas Section No 104, Block I, Otahoua Survey District, Wellington Land District, has been set apart as a reserve for primary education and vested in the School Commissioners for the Provincial District of Wellington: And whereas the Borough Council of Masterton is desirous of having twenty acres of the said reserve, valued at eight hundred and ninety dollars, changed from its present purpose and added to the Masterton Park, and the said Commissioners have approved of the change of purpose on condition that Section No 79, Block VII, Mikimiki Survey District, valued at eight hundred and thirteen dollars, is reserved for primary education in lieu thereof, and the Borough Council pay in cash the difference in value between the two areas: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The Governor may set apart as a reserve for primary education all that area of Crown lands containing by admeasurement five hundred and forty-two acres, more or less, being Section No 79, Block VII, Mikimiki Survey District, and by notice in the Gazette change the purpose of the north-eastern portion of Section No 104, Block I, Otahoua Survey District, containing by admeasurement twenty acres, more or less, as the same is delineated upon the plan marked SG 26195/19, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged pink, from a reserve for primary education to a reserve for public recreation, and may vest the said twenty acres in the Corporation of the Borough of Masterton in trust as an addition to the public recreation and pleasure grounds vested by The Masterton Public Park Management Act 1901, provided that the said Corporation shall first pay to the said School Commissioners the sum of seventy-seven dollars to be placed to the credit of the Commissioners' Land Purchase Fund.
The expressions “eight hundred and ninety dollars” , “eight hundred and thirteen dollars” , and “seventy-seven dollars” were substituted, as from 10 July 1967, for the expressions “four hundred and forty-five pounds” , “four hundred and six pounds ten shillings” , and “thirty-eight pounds ten shillings” pursuant to section 7(1) Decimal Currency Act 1964 (1964 No 27).
Whereas part of Reserve No 3, in the Borough of Carterton, has been set apart for a police-station, and another part thereof has been granted to the Corporation of the Borough of Carterton in trust for a Town Hall: And whereas it is expedient to make the exchange hereinafter mentioned: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The Governor may grant to the Corporation of the Borough of Carterton, as a site for a Town Hall, such portion as he thinks fit of that part of the said Reserve No 3 fronting High Street which has been set apart for a police-station, in exchange for that part of the said reserve granted to the Corporation of the Borough of Carterton in trust for a site for a Town Hall.
Whereas Section No 8, Block IX, Town of Levin, in the Wellington Land District, containing one rood, was permanently reserved for municipal purposes in the Gazette of the eighth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, on page 881, but has not been used for such purpose: And whereas a Courthouse has now been erected on the said land, and it is desirable to change the purpose of the said reserve to that of a site for a Courthouse: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The Governor may by notice in the Gazette change the purpose of the said reserve from that of a municipal reserve to that of a site for a Courthouse.
Whereas Section 61, Block X, Kaitawa Survey District, in the Wellington Land District, containing thirteen acres three roods, was by notice in the Gazette of the second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, permanently reserved for scenery-preservation and forest purposes, but as the greater part of the bush thereon has been destroyed by fire the land is no longer suitable for such purposes, and the Wellington Land Board has accordingly recommended that the land be withdrawn from reservation and disposed of for settlement purposes: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The reservation of Section 61, Block X, Kaitawa Survey District, is hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby declared to be Crown land, and may be dealt with under the Land Act 1948.
Whereas the parcel of land being Section No 2, Block VI, Totaranui Survey District, containing eighty-eight acres two roods, more or less, was by notice in the Gazette of the eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, permanently reserved for a landing-place: And whereas it is expedient to change the purpose of portions of the said reserve to a cemetery-site and a road approach thereto: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The Governor may by notice in the Gazette change the purpose of such portions of the said reserve as are described in Schedule 10 hereto from a landing-place to a cemetery-site and road approach thereto.
Whereas Section No 1, Block IV, Tararua Survey District, in the Wellington Land District, was by notice in the Gazette of the fifth day of July, one thousand nine hundred, permanently reserved for the growth and preservation of timber: And whereas the milling-timber on the section has now been felled and removed, and the section is no longer suitable for the purpose for which it was reserved, but is well adapted for settlement, and it is desirable to cancel the said reservation to enable the land to be opened for selection: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The reservation of Section No 1, Block IV, Tararua Survey District, is hereby cancelled, and the said section is hereby declared to be Crown land, and may be dealt with under the Land Act 1948.
Whereas by a Proclamation in the Gazette of the twenty-ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, certain Crown lands were set apart as a State forest: And whereas it is expedient to consolidate the boundaries of such reserve near Kaitoke, and for that purpose to acquire certain lands situated between the said forest reserve and the reserve for the Wellington and Masterton Railway, and to exchange certain portions of the forest reserve which have been denuded of trees by fires: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
(a) The Governor may acquire from the owner thereof the land described in Part 1 of Schedule 11 hereto, at such sum as may be agreed on between such owner and the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Wellington Land District on behalf of His Majesty, or as, in default of agreement, is fixed by two valuers to be appointed for that purpose by such owner and the said Commissioner. The said land when so acquired shall be deemed to form part of the said forest reserve.
(b) The Governor, on being satisfied that the land described in Part 2 of Schedule 11 hereto has been conveyed by the owner thereof to His Majesty in fee-simple free from incumbrances, may grant to the said owner in exchange therefor the land described in Part 3 of the said Schedule for an estate in fee-simple. The land described in Part 2 of the said Schedule shall, when so conveyed to His Majesty, be deemed to form part of the said forest reserve.
Whereas part of Town Acre No 128 of the City of Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, containing six and five-tenths perches, more or less, and described in Schedule 12 hereto, is occupied by the Salvation Army in connection with its Rescue Home in Cuba Street, having been conveyed for that purpose by the apparent owner thereof: And whereas it has been found that the said land belongs to the Crown, and consequently the Salvation Army has no legal title to the same, but it is desirable to confirm its occupation, as it has expended money on its improvement and the erection of buildings thereon, and is using it solely for charitable purposes: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The Governor is hereby authorised and empowered to execute a warrant for the issue of a Land Transfer certificate of title for the land specified in the said Schedule to William Booth, of London, England, General in the Salvation Army.
The Governor in Council may, in the manner prescribed by section one hundred and seventy-six of The Municipal Corporations Act 1900, alter the boundaries of the City of Wellington and the Borough of Onslow by including in the city any portion of the borough, notwithstanding that by reason of such alteration the city does not possess the qualification as to area required by section five of that Act.
Whereas reserve numbered 1136, in the Town of Picton, containing thirty perches, was reserved as a landing-place, and the land not being now required for that purpose it is desirable that the purpose be changed to recreation, and the land be added to the existing recreation-ground vested in the Picton Borough Council by The Picton Recreation Reserve Act 1896, in trust as a public recreation-ground: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The Governor may by notice in the Gazette change the purpose of reserve numbered 1136, in the Town of Picton, from a landing-place to a public recreation-ground, and thereupon the said reserve shall vest in the Picton Borough Council in trust as a recreation-ground.
Whereas part of Section No 49, Taylor Pass Survey District, was by notice in the Marlborough Provincial Gazette of the twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, page 21, set aside as a cemetery reserve, and therein stated to contain fifteen acres three roods, but upon subsequent survey was found to contain twenty-eight acres two roods seventeen perches: And whereas the said land has never been used, and is no longer required for the purpose for which it was set apart, and it is expedient to exchange the same for an area of Dumgree Run which has been purchased for the purpose of a forest plantation: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The reservation of the said cemetery-site is hereby cancelled, and the Governor is hereby empowered to issue a title therefor to the owner or owners of Dumgree Run, in exchange for land of equal value already conveyed to His Majesty out of the Dumgree Run for plantation purposes.
Whereas all that parcel of land being reserve numbered 106 in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement ten acres, more or less, was granted by the Crown to the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury by a Crown grant dated the twenty-fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, registered in the Deeds Registry at Christchurch as instrument No 12712, and recorded 23 D 555: And whereas by an Order in Council dated the twenty-first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, the said parcel of land was vested in the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Selwyn, in trust for an abattoir: And whereas the Christchurch City Council has lately erected and furnished an abattoir at Sockburn, near the City of Christchurch, within the said County of Selwyn, which is known as the Christchurch City Abattoir: And whereas the said parcel of land is not required by the Selwyn County for the purpose of an abattoir: And whereas the Selwyn County Council and the Christchurch City Council are both desirous that the said parcel of land should be vested in the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of Christchurch for use in connection with the said Christchurch City Abattoir, but there is no existing power to give effect to such desire: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
(a) The aforesaid Order in Council is hereby revoked, and the said parcel of land shall, from and after the coming into operation of this Act become and be vested in the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of Christchurch, upon trust for use in connection with the said Christchurch City Abattoir.
(b) The District Land Registrar for the District of Canterbury shall, on the deposit with him of a copy of this Act by the Christchurch City Council, enter the same in his Register-book as a folium thereof, and issue a certificate of title to the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of Christchurch in respect of the said land, and thereupon the said Crown grant so issued to the said Superintendent shall be and be deemed to be cancelled.
Whereas the land described in Schedule 13 hereto forms part of an area of eight hundred and seven acres comprised in Reserve No 1579 in the Canterbury Land District, which is vested in the Selwyn County Council for planting purposes, and it is desirable that the control of the said land should be transferred to the New Brighton Borough Council, to which the Selwyn County Council has agreed: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The Governor may, by Order in Council gazetted, revoke the Order in Council dated the fourteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, and published in the Gazette of the sixteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, in so far as it vests the land described in Schedule 13 hereto in the Selwyn County Council, and thereupon the said land shall vest in the New Brighton Borough Council in trust for planting purposes.
(1) The Ellesmere Lands Drainage Board is hereby empowered to repay to the Selwyn County Council out of moneys which it is authorised to raise by The Ellesmere Lands Drainage Act 1905, any moneys which the said Council may have lawfully expended in respect of drainage-works constructed in the drainage district before the coming into operation of the said Act.
(2) The powers and authorities of the Selwyn County Council in connection with any loans raised for the purposes of the said drainage district shall be deemed to be transferred to the Drainage Board; and such Board shall take all such steps as may be necessary for collecting and recovering the special rate, or for making any further rate or rates that may be required to meet the charges or interest from time to time payable with respect to such loans.
Whereas the land described in Part 1 of Schedule 14 hereto forms a portion of a State forest reserve in the Canterbury Land District, but the bush thereon having been destroyed the land is no longer suitable for that purpose: And whereas the land described in Part 2 of the said Schedule is of an estimated equal area and value, and is covered with valuable native forest, which it is desirable to preserve, and is held as an estate in fee-simple by Mr John O'Halloran, who is willing to exchange the same for the land described in Part 1 aforesaid: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
(a) The Governor may grant to Mr John O'Halloran for an estate in fee-simple the land described in Part 1 of Schedule 14 hereto, on receiving from him a conveyance in fee-simple to His Majesty of the land described in Part 2 of the said Schedule free from incumbrance:
Provided that the said conveyance shall be prepared by and at the expense of the said John O'Halloran, who shall also bear one-half of the cost of any survey necessary to enable the exchange hereby sanctioned to be carried out.
(b) Upon the execution and registration of the necessary conveyance such last-mentioned land shall thereupon be deemed to be Crown land, and may be set apart as a reserve for State forest purposes under the provisions of the Forests Act 1949.
The New Zealand State Forests Act 1885 was consolidated, as from 4 August 1908, by section 1(2) State Forests Act 1908. That Act was repealed, as from 1 April 1922, by section 65(1) Forests Act 1921-22 (1921 No 43). That Act was in turn repealed, as from 1 January 1950, by section 73(1) Forests Act 1949 (1949 No 19).
Whereas Section No 2716, Town of Geraldine, in the Canterbury Land District, containing sixty-eight acres one rood eight perches, more or less, was permanently reserved for recreation purposes by notice in the Gazette of the fourteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, and by Order in Council published in the Gazette of the twenty-eighth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, was brought under the provisions of The Public Domains Act 1881: And whereas the Geraldine Borough Council desires to obtain a site for a reservoir out of the said Section 2716, and has selected an area of one acre for that purpose, but has no legal title thereto: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The reservation of the said Section No 2716, Town of Geraldine, is hereby cancelled so far only as relates to the area of land described in Schedule 15 hereto, which is hereby reserved as a site for a reservoir, and the Governor may, by Order in Council gazetted, vest the same in the Geraldine Borough Council in trust for the said purpose.
The Public Domains Act 1881 was substituted, as from 4 August 1908 pursuant to section 1(2) Public Reserves and Domains Act 1908 (1908 No 156). That reference was in turn substituted, as from 1 April 1929, by a reference to the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act 1928 pursuant to section 103 Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act 1928 (1928 No 36). That reference was in turn substituted, as from 1 April 1954, by a reference to the Reserves and Domains Act 1953 pursuant to section 107(1) Reserves and Domains Act 1953 (1953 No 69). That reference was in turn substituted, as from 1 April 1978, by a reference to the Reserves Act 1977 pursuant to section 125(1) Reserves Act 1977 (1977 No 66).
Whereas the land described in Schedule 16 hereto was on the seventeenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, reserved for the purposes of a site for a school of mines under Class III of The Public Reserves Act 1881: And whereas it is desirable to change the purpose of the said reserve to that of a site for a Courthouse: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The Governor may by notice in the Gazette change the purpose of the said reserve from that of a site for a school of mines to that of a site for a Courthouse.
Whereas Section No 1777, Block X, Kanieri Survey District, containing twenty acres, more or less, has been reported to the Public Trustee as land which should be brought under the provisions of The Unclaimed Lands Act 1894: And whereas the registered title to the said land shows the same to have been the property of a company now defunct, incorporated in New Zealand under the title of the Kanieri Lake Water-race Company (Limited), and the Public Trustee is therefore unable to say that he believes, as required by the said Act, that the owner of the said land is not in the colony: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—An averment by the Public Trustee that he believes the said company to be defunct shall be deemed to be a sufficient compliance with the requirement aforesaid, and the provisions of the said Act in so far as they relate to the said land are hereby modified accordingly.
56 Hokitika Racecourse Reserve
Section 56 was repealed, as from 27 November 1953, by section 24(4) Reserves and Other Lands Disposal Act 1953 (1953 No 107).
For the purpose of subdivision and closer settlement of pastoral lands in the Westland Land District, whether occupied or unoccupied, it is hereby enacted that all such lands at present held under Part 6 of The Land Act 1892, shall, when classified under the provisions of section one hundred and eighty-nine of the said Act as pastoral-agricultural lands, and notified in the Gazette accordingly, be capable of being resumed under section one hundred and ninety-two of the said Act, and the provisions of this section shall apply to all runs in the Westland Land District which have, prior to the coming into operation of this Act, been classified as pastoral-agricultural lands subsequent to their selection under Part 6 of the said Act.
Whereas the land described in Schedule 17 hereto is part of an area which was, on the twentieth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, reserved for a site for public buildings or other purposes of the General Government, and it is desirable that the said land should be vested in the Corporation of the Borough of Oamaru as a municipal endowment: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The land described in Schedule 17 hereto is hereby granted to and vested in the Corporation of the Borough of Oamaru for an estate in fee-simple as a municipal endowment, without power of sale, but with power to let or lease any portion of the said land or buildings thereon, or to be erected thereon, in manner provided by the Municipal Corporations Act 1954.
The reference to the Municipal Corporations Act 1900 (1900 No 50) was consolidated, as from 4 August 1908, by section 1(2) Municipal Corporations Act 1908 (1908 No 124). That Act was in turn repealed, as from 1 April 1921, by section 385(1) Municipal Corporations Act 1920 (1920 No 48). That Act was in turn repealed, as from 20 December 1933, by section 393(1) Municipal Corporations Act 1933 (1933 No 30). That Act was in turn repealed, as from 1 April 1955, by section 413 Municipal Corporations Act 1954 (1954 No 76). That Act was in turn repealed, as from 1 April 1980, by section 9(1) Local Government Amendment Act 1979 (1979 No 59).
Whereas Sections No 5 of Block LVI, Nos 4 and 14 of Block LVII, No 9 of Block LVIII, and No 6 of Block LIX of the Town of Oamaru were formerly vested in the Superintendent of the Province of Otago for purposes of public utility, and it is desirable that they should be vested in the Corporation in the Borough of Oamaru as a municipal endowment: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The Governor may grant Sections No 5 of Block LVI, Nos 4 and 14 of Block LVII, No 9 of Block LVIII, and No 6 of Block LIX, Town of Oamaru, to the Corporation of the Borough of Oamaru for an estate in fee-simple as a municipal endowment without power of sale.
Whereas an exchange of lands as hereinafter mentioned has been agreed upon between the Oamaru Borough Council and the Waitaki High School Board, but legal difficulties have arisen, and the said Council is therefore unable to carry out its part of the agreement: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The Corporation of the Borough of Oamaru is hereby empowered to convey to the Waitaki High School Board, for the general purposes of the Board, sections numbered respectively 9 and 19, Block XVI, in the Town of Oamaru, containing two roods, more or less; and the Waitaki High School Board is hereby empowered to convey to the Corporation of the Borough of Oamaru, in trust, for purposes of public utility of the inhabitants of the said borough, sections numbered respectively 11 and 12, Block IX, in the Town of Oamaru, containing two roods, more or less.
Whereas Section No 72, Block I, Leaning Rock Survey District, in the Otago Land District, containing one hundred and forty-five acres three roods four perches, was by The Reserves Management Ordinance (Otago) 1872, vested in the trustees of the Dunstan Racecourse: And whereas, pursuant to section twenty-four of The Reserves and Crown Lands Disposal and Enabling Act 1896, the Governor by warrant in the Gazette dated the seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, resumed possession of the said section as a reserve for experimental purposes in connection with fruit-culture and other like industry: And whereas the land is no longer required for this purpose, and it is desirable to vest the same in the trustees of the Dunstan Racecourse as a recreation reserve for the purposes of a racecourse: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The Governor may by notice in the Gazette change the purpose of the aforesaid reserve from that of a reserve for experimental purposes in connection with fruit-culture and other like industry to a recreation reserve, and the said reserve shall thereupon vest in the trustees of the Dunstan Racecourse in trust for such purpose.
Whereas Section No 24, Block XVI, Maniototo Survey District, in the Otago Land District, containing twenty-seven acres one rood five perches, more or less, was by warrant in the Gazette dated the fourteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, permanently reserved for a public-school site: And whereas another section—namely, Section No 3 of the said Block XVI, Maniototo Survey District, containing eleven acres and thirty-nine perches—was by warrant in the Gazette dated the twenty-eighth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, permanently reserved for a public-school site in lieu of the first-mentioned section, the reservation whereof it is desirable to remove: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The reservation of Section No 24, Block XVI, Maniototo Survey District, aforesaid is hereby cancelled, and the said section is hereby declared to be Crown land, and may be dealt with under the Land Act 1948.
The Governor is hereby authorised and empowered to execute a warrant for the issue of a Land Transfer certificate of title to the half-caste mentioned in Schedule 18 hereto, or to his legally appointed successors, for the land specified in the said Schedule, subject in all respects as is provided in The Middle Island Half-caste Grants Act 1877, and the several Acts amending the same, the name of the person mentioned in the said Schedule having been inadvertently omitted from Schedule B of the first-mentioned Act.
Whereas the areas of land described in Schedule 19 hereto form part of the bed of the Water of Leith, lying between Leith Street and Clyde Street, in the City of Dunedin: And whereas the bed of the Water of Leith between the said streets to the middle line thereof is claimed by Frederick Wilhelm Lyders as the owner in fee-simple of the block of land lying between Leith Street, Union Street, and Clyde Street, under and by virtue of the grants from the Crown to his predecessors in title, and by the Corporation of the City of Dunedin under the grant from the Crown to the Superintendent of the late Province of Otago, as modified by The Public Reserves Vesting and Sale Act 1892, of the Shingle Reserve and of Sections Nos 42 and 43, Block XXVII, Town of Dunedin: And whereas it is impossible now to ascertain the true line of the middle of the stream at the time when the said Crown grants were issued, and the said parties have agreed that the said areas of land shall be divided so that the portion thereof described in Part 1 of the said Schedule shall be vested in the said Corporation as an endowment for the City of Dunedin, and that the portion described in Part 2 of the said Schedule shall become the property in fee-simple of the said Frederick Wilhelm Lyders: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
(a) The parcels of land described in Part 1 of Schedule 19 hereto shall be and the same are hereby vested in and transferred to the Corporation of the City of Dunedin as an endowment for the said city.
(b) The Governor may issue a Crown grant for the parcel of land described in Part 2 of the said Schedule to the said Frederick Wilhelm Lyders, as the owner thereof in fee-simple, freed from any trusts under the aforesaid grant from the Crown to the Superintendent of the late Province of Otago, or the said Public Reserves Vesting and Sale Act 1892.
Whereas Sections 1 of 44 and 2 of 44, Block III, Waitahuna West Survey District, in the Otago Land District, were by notice in the Gazette of the thirteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred, permanently set aside as a ferry reserve: And whereas the said land is not now required for the purpose for which it was reserved: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The reservation of Sections 1 of 44 and 2 of 44, Block III, Waitahuna West Survey District, is hereby cancelled, and the said lands are hereby declared to be Crown land, and may be dealt with under the Land Act 1948.
Whereas Section No 37, Block V, Tiger Hill Survey District, in the Otago Land District, is a reserve for a school-site, and is no longer required for that purpose, the school for which the site was reserved having been erected upon other land: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The reservation of Section No 37 aforesaid is hereby cancelled, and the said section is hereby declared to be Crown land, and may be dealt with under the Land Act 1948.
Whereas Section No 78 in the Town of Papatowai, containing by admeasurement one acre and ten perches, was set aside as a site for a cottage hospital, but is not now required for that purpose: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The reservation of Section No 78 in the Town of Papatowai, in the Otago Land District, is hereby cancelled, and the said section is hereby declared to be Crown land, and may be dealt with under the Land Act 1948.
Whereas Section No 50, Block I, Lower Hawea Survey District, containing ten acres, more or less, has been permanently set apart as a site for a cemetery: And whereas the said land has never been used, and is no longer required for cemetery purposes: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The reservation of Section No 50, Block I, Lower Hawea Survey District, in the Otago Land District, is hereby cancelled, and the said section is hereby declared to be Crown land, and may be dealt with under the Land Act 1948.
Whereas Section No 8, Block I, Nenthorn Survey District, in the Otago Land District, containing fifty acres, is held in fee-simple by James Elliott, and is situated within Section No 7, Block I, Nenthorn Survey District, leased as Small Grazing-run No 17 to the said James Elliott: And whereas the said James Elliott has offered the first-mentioned section, together with the buildings thereon, to the Crown, and it is considered expedient that the same should be purchased by the Crown and included within the aforesaid small grazing-run: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
(a) The Governor may acquire the freehold of Section No 8, Block I, Nenthorn Survey District, Otago Land District, together with the buildings thereon, at a value to be assessed by two competent valuers, who shall be selected by agreement between the seller and the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Otago Land District on behalf of the Crown.
(b) The said James Elliott shall be entitled to the use and occupation of the land so acquired until the expiry of his lease, at a rent equal to five per centum on the amount of the said valuation.
Whereas by conveyance dated the third day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, the Superintendent of the late Province of Otago acquired certain lands in the Township of Kensington: And whereas the said Superintendent subdivided the said lands into allotments, as shown upon a plan of the Kensington immigrant cottages sites in the Survey Office, Dunedin, and in connection therewith laid off a right-of-way, also shown in the said plan, over, inter alia, the land described in Schedule 20 hereto, and hereinafter called the said right-of-way: And whereas by virtue of The Special Powers and Contracts Act 1879, the Education Board of the District of Otago became entitled to the lands adjoining the said right-of-way on the north-eastern and south-eastern boundaries thereof as a site for a school, and the Kensington School has been erected thereon: And whereas the said Board has recently acquired the land adjoining the said right-of-way on the south-western boundary thereof, and has consequently acquired all the land served by the said right-of-way: And whereas by The Abolition of Provinces Act 1875, the said right-of-way became vested in the Crown, and it is expedient that the same should be vested in the said Board as an addition to the said school-site: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The Governor may convey, without purchase, the fee-simple of the parcel of land described in Schedule 20 hereto to the Education Board of the District of Otago, as an addition to its school-site in the Township of Kensington, and free from all rights of way over the same.
Whereas Section No 44, Block I, Macrae's Township, in the Otago Land District, was permanently reserved for police purposes in the Gazette of one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, on page 630, but is no longer required for that purpose: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The reservation of Section No 44, Block I, Macrae's Township, is hereby cancelled, and the said section is hereby declared to be Crown land, and may be dealt with under the Land Act 1948.
Whereas the land described in Schedule 21 hereto was reserved by warrant in the Gazette dated the fifth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, for purposes of recreation, but has never been used for the purposes for which it was set apart, and it is desirable to withdraw it from reservation and open it for settlement under the provisions of the Land Act: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The reservation of the land described in Schedule 21 hereto is hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby declared to be Crown land, and may be dealt with under the Land Act 1948.
Whereas it is expedient that the small portions of land described in Schedule 22 hereto lying between the allotments therein mentioned and the Bluff Parade and Point Road, Campbelltown, should be granted to the owners of such allotments respectively: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The said portions of land described in the several Parts of Schedule 22 hereto are hereby granted to the respective owners of the allotments mentioned in such Parts respectively; and the District Land Registrar is hereby authorised and directed to amend the certificates of title to those allotments accordingly.
Whereas certain lands which were with other lands set apart as State forests by Proclamation dated the twenty-fourth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, have been disposed of by sale or lease without having been withdrawn from The New Zealand State Forests Act 1885: And whereas the lands so disposed of have since, by Proclamation dated the twenty-ninth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and four, published in the Gazette of the first day of September, one thousand nine hundred and four, been declared to be no longer subject to the said Act, and it is expedient to validate such dispositions: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
All dispositions by way of sale or lease of any of the lands referred to in the Schedule to the said Proclamation dated the twenty-ninth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and four, shall be as valid to all intents and purposes as if such lands had been sold or leased since the gazetting of the last-mentioned Proclamation.
Section forty-seven of The Reserves and other Lands Sale, Disposal, and Enabling and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1901, is hereby amended by repealing the word “lease,” and substituting in lieu thereof the word “sell” ; and by repealing the word “leased,” and substituting in lieu thereof the words “sold by the Southland Land Board as Crown land.”
All deeds and instruments of assurance necessary for the purpose of giving effect to the exchanges and other dispositions of land authorised or declared by this Act may be executed by the bodies or persons respectively concerned.
ALL that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, situated in Block I, Otahuhu Survey District, and known as part of Lot 7A, Section 12, Suburbs of Auckland, containing by admeasurement 25 acres 1 rood 36.5 perches, more or less: bounded towards the north-east by part of the north-east portion of Lot 59, Section 12, Suburbs of Auckland, the crossing of the Main Trunk Railway, and Subdivisions 1 to 22 inclusive of Lots 7 and 59 of Section 12 aforesaid, 2525.7 links; towards the south-east by a public road 50 links wide, 1100 links; towards the south-west by part of Lot 17, Section 12 aforesaid, the crossing of the Main Trunk Railway, and again by Lot 17 aforesaid, 2760.1 links; and towards the north-west by a public road 100 links wide, known as Jubilee Road, 980.8 and 17.4 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: save and except that portion of the Main Trunk Railway which intersects the area herein described: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan numbered 19340B, deposited in the Head Office of the Lands and Survey Department, at Wellington, and thereon edged with red.
All that piece or parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, comprising portion of Fairburn's Grant (Old Land Claim No 269A), being part of Section 210, Parish of Manurewa, and containing by admeasurement 61 acres 3 roods 7 perches, more or less: bounded towards the north by the Manukau Harbour; towards the east by the Main Trunk Railway, Otahuhu Railway-station ground, and a road, 2023 links, 50 links, 393.9 links, 300 links, and 545.5 links respectively; towards the south by other part of Fairburn's Grant, 38.6, 169, 135.3, 70.2, 109, 327, 225.9, 321.1, 108.8, and 104 links, and by the mouth of a small creek; and towards the west by the Manukau Harbour: be all the aforesaid measurements more or less.
Also all that other piece or parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, comprising portion of Fairburn's Grant (Old Land Claim No 269A), being part of Section 210, Parish of Manurewa, and containing by admeasurement 1 rood 24 perches, more or less: bounded towards the north by Allotment 9 of Eccleston No 2 Settlement, 351.5 links; towards the east by a road, 113.8 links; towards the south by Allotment 12 of Eccleston No 2 Settlement, 351.5 links; and towards the west by the Main Trunk Railway, 113.8 links; be all the aforesaid measurements more or less.
Also all that piece or parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, comprising portion of Fairburn's Grant (Old Land Claim No 269A), being part of Section 210, Parish of Manurewa, and containing by admeasurement 2 roods 36.5 perches, more or less: bounded towards the north by a road, 200 links; towards the east by the Otahuhu Railway-station ground, 364 links; towards the south by other portion of Fairburn's Grant, 200 links; and towards the west by a road, 364 links: be all the aforesaid measurements more or less:
As the same are more particularly delineated on the plan numbered 19340C, deposited in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged in green.
Site for a drill-shed and other volunteer purposes.
ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, being allotments numbered 31B and 32A of the Town of Waihi, containing by admeasurement 1 rood 12 perches, more or less: bounded towards the north-east by Haszard Street, 20 links; towards the south-east by allotments numbered 31 and 32 of the Town of Waihi, 400 links; towards the south-west by allotments numbered 12A and 12B of the Town of Waihi, 120 links; towards the north-west by allotments numbered 14, 15, and 16 of the Town of Waihi, 250 links; and towards the north-east and north-west by allotment numbered 31A of the Town of Waihi, 100 links and 150 links respectively, to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.
Site for a courthouse.
All that area in the Auckland Land District, being allotment numbered 31 of the Town of Waihi, containing by admeasurement 3 roods 1 perch, more or less: bounded towards the north-east by Haszard Street, 380 links; towards the south-east by Kenny Street, 200 links; towards the south-west by allotment numbered 32 of the Town of Waihi, 380 links; and towards the north-west by allotment numbered 31B of the Town of Waihi, 200 links, to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.
Site for a police-station.
All that area in the Auckland Land District, being allotment numbered 32 of the Town of Waihi, containing by admeasurement 3 roods 1 perch, more or less: bounded towards the north-east by allotment numbered 31 of the Town of Waihi, 380 links; towards the south-east by Kenny Street, 200 links; towards the south-west by allotment numbered 12A of the Town of Waihi, 380 links; and towards the north-west by allotment numbered 32A of the Town of Waihi, 200 links, to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.
Site for Borough Council buildings.
All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 24 perches, more or less, being section numbered 31A, Town of Waihi: bounded towards the north-east by Haszard Street; towards the south-east and south-west by section numbered 31 of the Town of Waihi; and towards the northwest by sections numbered 16 and 17 of the said town: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.
ALL that area of land known as the Huntly West-Churchill Road, in the Auckland Land District: commencing at the north-east corner of Section 9, Block XV, Rangiriri Survey District, and running generally in a northerly direction parallel and close to the left bank of the Waikato River through the Parishes of Pepepe and Whangape to the south-eastern boundary of Section 62, Block III, Rangiriri Survey District, for a distance of 9 miles 20 chains or thereabouts: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked R 415, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured green.
Patetere North Survey District;
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As the said road-lines are delineated on the plan marked SG 29679, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.
ALL that parcel of land in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 24 perches, more or less, being part of Section No 18 Rangitikei Agricultural Reserve, Block III, Rangitoto Survey District: bounded towards the north-west by Broadway, commencing at a point distant 332 links from the southern boundary of the said Section No 18, and thence along the said road 100 links; towards the north-east by Lot No 1A of the said Section No 18 for 150 links; towards the south-east by Lot No 1A for 100 links: and towards the south-west by Lot No 1A for 150 links, to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.
ALL that parcel of land in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 4 acres 2 roods, more or less, being Subdivision No 1 of Section No 41A, Block XI, Apiti Survey District: bounded towards the north by Section No 41B for 1107.6 links; towards the east by a public road 100 links wide for 353.3 links; towards the south by part of Section No 41A for 1526.6 links; and towards the west by a public road 100 links wide for 474.5 links to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated upon the plan marked L and S 21434/19, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged pink.
All that parcel of land in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 4 acres, more or less, being part of Section No 51, Block XI, Apiti Survey District: bounded towards the north-west by Section No 20 for 500 links on a bearing of 42° 37′; towards the north-east by Section No 20 for 600 links on a bearing of 132° 37′; towards the south-east by Section No 51A for 250 links on a bearing of 222° 37′; again towards the north-east by Section No 51A for 400 links on a bearing of 132° 37′; again towards the south-east by the Oroua Valley Road for 250 links on a bearing of 222° 37′; and towards the south-west by Subdivision No 1, part of Section No 19, for 1000 links on a bearing of 312° 37′ to the place of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L and S 21434/19, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged green.
ALL that parcel of land in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 317 acres and 20 perches, more or less, being part of Section No 48, Block VII, Pohangina Survey District: bounded towards the east by the Opawe Road and Section No 64; towards the south-east and south by other portion of Section No 48; and towards the west and north-west by the Pohangina Valley Road and by other portion of Section No 48 to the point of commencement: as the same is delineated on plan numbered L and S 45662/12, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.
ALL that parcel of land in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 3 acres, more or less, and being Section No 22, formerly part of Section No 10, Block III, Tiriraukawa Survey District: bounded towards the north by the East Taheke Road; towards the east by a river-bank reserve along the right side of the Mangapapa Stream; towards the south by the said river-bank reserve and by a stream; and towards the west by the East Taheke Road to the point of commencement: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L and S 54449/6, deposited in the Head Office of the Lands and Survey Department, at Wellington, and thereon edged pink.
ALL that parcel of land in the Nelson Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 acre 3 roods 14 perches, more or less, being Section No 8, Block VI, Totaranui Survey District, and bounded as follows: towards the north-eastward, 336 links, by a public road; towards the south-eastward, 485 links, by a public road; towards the south-westward, 426 links, by Section No 2, Block VI, Totaranui Survey District; and towards the north-westward, 503 links, by said Section No 2. Also a strip of land lying between the said Section No 8 and high-water mark of Awaroa Inlet, described as a public road. As the same are delineated on plan numbered 35, Totaranui Survey District folio, deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Nelson.
ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 37 acres, more or less, being the part of Section No 29, Block XV, Akatarawa Survey District, lying to the eastward of the Wellington-Masterton Railway Reserve.
All that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 156 acres, more or less, being the part of Section No 438, Block XV, Akatarawa Survey District, lying to the eastward of the Wellington-Masterton Railway Reserve.
All that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 142 acres and 37 perches, more or less, being Section No 9, Block XV, Akatarawa Survey District, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No 81, of the 7th September, 1905.
ALL that parcel of land in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 6 5/10 perches, more or less, being part of Section No 128, City of Wellington: bounded towards the north-east by other part of original Section No 128, 90 links; towards the south-east by private way, 45.1 links; towards the south-west by other part of original Section No 128, 90 links; and towards the north-west by other part of original Section No 128, 45.1 links; be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan numbered 53/27, deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Wellington.
ALL that parcel of land in the Provincial District of Canterbury, containing by admeasurement 56 acres and 12 perches, more or less, being part of Reserve 1579, Block VIII, Christchurch Survey District: bounded towards the northward by a road-line, 1787.5 links; towards the eastward by Section No 33181, 2313.5 links; towards the south-eastward by a road-line, 2093 links; and towards the westward by Section Nos 30925 and 6856, 3375.3 links.
Also all that parcel of land containing by admeasurement 36 acres and 36 perches, more or less, being part of Reserve 1579, Block VIII, Christchurch Survey District: bounded towards the north-westward by Section No 17323, 2093 links; towards the eastward by Sections Nos 32858, 32857, and 34846, 1808.6 links; towards the south-eastward by Section No 16012, 2094.5 links; and towards the south-westward by Section No 18090, 1813.7 links.
Also all that parcel of land containing by admeasurement 13 acres, more or less, being part of Reserve 1579, Block I, Sumner Survey District: bounded towards the northward by Sections Nos 15836 and 16033; towards the eastward by Section No 32478, 2643.6 links; towards the south-eastward by a road-line, 1300 links; and towards the westward by the road reserved along the River Avon.
Also all that parcel of land containing by admeasurement 46 acres 3 roods 1 perch, more or less, being part of Reserve 1579, Block I, Sumner Survey District: bounded towards the north-westward by a road-line fronting the River Avon, 664.1 links; towards the eastward generally by Section Nos 14342 and 31482, 7171.3 links; towards the southward by a road-line, 1521.4 links; and towards the westward by a road along the estuary of the Avon and Heathcote Rivers.
Also all that parcel of land containing by admeasurement 38 acres 2 roods 3 perches, more or less, being part of Reserve 1579, Block I Sumner Survey District: bounded towards the northward by a road-line, 1559.4 links; towards the eastward by Section Nos 30854 and 23574, 3274.8 links; towards the south-westward and westward by the road along the estuary of the Avon and Heathcote Rivers.
Be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same are delineated on the plan marked SG 49449, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged pink.
ALL that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 91 acres, more or less, being part of Reserve No 3272, situate in Block XIII, Mount Thomas Survey District: commencing at a point on the western boundary of Section No 33170, the said point being distant south-easterly 2808.8 links from the north-western corner thereof; thence southerly by the said Section No 33170, 8568.4 links; thence in a northerly direction by lines bearing respectively 143° 59′, 174.8 links; 315° 31′, 123.7 links; 337° 13′, 149.6 links; 311° 54′, 425.6 links; 157° 45′, 741.2 links; 132° 5′, 486 links; 108° 27′, 534.1 links; 124° 14′, 136.3 links; 144° 6′, 197.6 links; 168° 45′, 2949.3 links; 147° 35′, 505.5 links; 170° 12′, 239.3 links; 181° 7′, 1462.6 links; 201° 39′, 1200.6 links; 239° 3′, 183 links, to the commencing-point: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked SG 47788, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged pink.
All that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 91 acres, more or less, being the north-western portion of Rural Section No 33170, situate in Block XIII, Mount Thomas Survey District: bounded towards the north by Reserve No 3272, 4846.5 links: towards the south-east by said Section No 33170, by lines bearing respectively 199° 12′, 1336.7 links; 221° 27′, 1685.3 links; 239° 3′, 2771.1 links; and towards the west by the said Reserve No 3272, 2808.8 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked SG 47788, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged green.
ALL that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 acre, more or less, being part of Section No 2716, situate in the Town of Geraldine: commencing at a point on the northern side of Bridge Street, distant 704.8 links in a north-easterly direction from its junction with Forest Street; thence along a line in a north-westerly direction at right angles to the said Bridge Street for a distance of 400 links; thence along a line at right angles in a north-easterly direction for a distance of 246.7 links; thence along a line at right angles in a south-easterly direction for a distance of 427.95 links to the said Bridge Street; thence south-westerly by the said Bridge Street 250.7 links to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is more particularly delineated upon the plan marked L and S 38131/37, deposited in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged green.
ALL that parcel of land in the Nelson Land District, containing by admeasurement 23 perches, more or less, situated in the Town of Westport, and being part of the reserve of 13 acres 1 rood described in the New Zealand Gazette No 3, of the 20th January, 1869, page 28, as a site for public buildings or other purposes of the General Government: bounded towards the south-east by Wakefield Street, and towards the north-east, north-west, and south-west by the other part of the said reserve: as the same is more particularly delineated upon the plan marked SG 18230, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.
ALL that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 2 roods 4.5 perches, more or less, being Section No 6 of 7, Block XCV, Town of Oamaru: bounded towards the north-east by Section No 2 of 7, 226.5 links, bearing 109° 56 ½′: towards the south-east by Thames Street, 180.7 links, bearing 199° 56 ½′: towards the south-west by part of Section No 7 and by Section No 7 of 7, 272.9 links, bearing 109° 56 ½′, and by Section No 7 of 7, 95.5 links, bearing 155° 15 ½′: and towards the north-west by Severn Street, 160 links, bearing 245° 15 ½′: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L and S 52832/10, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.
TOM RODDEN, Section No 45, Block I, Hawksbury Survey District, containing 10 acres, more or less, being a subdivision of original Section No 43 of the said block.
ALL that piece of land situated in the City of Dunedin, and containing by admeasurement 2.2 perches, more or less, bounded as follows: commencing at a point on the eastern side of Leith Street a distance of 161.5 links from the south-west corner of Section 1, Block XXXVI, City of Dunedin: bounded on the north-east by Shingle Reserve, 100 links, on the south-west by the present course of the Water of Leith, 100 links, on the north-west by Leith Street, 45 links, to the starting-point.
All that piece of land situated in the City of Dunedin, being part of the old bed of the Leith, containing by admeasurement 1 rood 3 perches, more or less, bounded as follows: commencing at a point on the eastern side of Leith Street 36.5 links from the south-west corner of Section 1, Block XXXVI, Dunedin: bounded on the north generally by a line bearing 100° 20′, 320 links; on the south generally by Shingle Reserve, by an irregular line, 305 links; again on the north generally by an irregular line, 480 links; again on the south and south-west by a right line, 65 links, and an irregular line, 450 links; on the north-west by Leith Street, 21° 38′ 42″, 80 links, to the starting-point.
All that piece of land situated in the City of Dunedin, being part of the old bed of the Water of Leith, and containing by admeasurement 1 rood 17.8 perches, more or less: commencing at the south-west corner of Section 1, Block XXXVI, City of Dunedin, and bounded on the north by Sections 1, 3, 4, 5, and part of Section 6 of the said Block XXXVI, by lines 88° 11′, 171.2 links; 92°, 104.1 links; 101° 27′, 101.6 links: 90° 31′, 127.6 links: 111° 39′, 26 links, respectively; on the south-east by Clyde Street, 201° 38′ 42″, 90 links; on the south by Shingle Reserve, by lines 286° 30′, 120 links; 269, 45 links; 249° 30′, 34 links, respectively; also by other part of land included in old bed of Water of Leith, 280° 20′, 320 links; and on the north-west by Leith Street, 21° 38′ 42″, 36.5 links, to the starting-place.
ALL that parcel of land in the Otago Land District, containing 4.1 perches, more or less, being that part of the subdivision of parts of Sections 20, 21, 22, and 23, Township of Kensington, marked Right of Way on the plan of the Kensington immigrant cottages sites, deposited in the Survey Office at Dunedin, which said parcel of land is bounded towards the north-west by Grosvenor Street, 29.5 links; towards the north-east by Allotment 9 and part of Allotment 8 on the said plan, 87 links; towards the south-east by other part of said subdivision, 29.5 links; and towards the south-west by Allotment 4 on the said plan, 87 links.
ALL that parcel of land in the Southland Land District, containing 132 acres 1 rood, being Sections Nos 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, and 45, Block IV, Menzies' Ferry Township: bounded on the north by Exeter Street, 3468.8 links; towards the east by Matta Road, 4167.2 links; on the south by Sections Nos 35 and 34 of the said block, 3211.9 links; and towards the west by Athens Road, 228.5 links and 3954.6 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.
ALL that parcel of land, containing 0.4 perches, more or less, situated in the Township of Campbelltown East, being part of the road forming the northern boundary of Section 7, Block I, on the Crown-grant record map of the Campbelltown Hundred, and being also the parcel of land particularly shown on plan of part of the said township, deposited in the Lands Registry Office at Invercargill as No 225, lying between part of the northern boundary of Allotment 1, Block I, on the said deposited plan and Bluff Parade: as delineated and coloured brown on the said deposited plan.
All that parcel of land, containing 4.7 perches, more or less, situated in the Township of Campbelltown East, being part of the road forming the northern boundary of Section 7, Block I, on the Crown-grant record map of the Campbelltown Hundred, and being the parcel of land particularly shown on the plan of part of the said township, deposited in the Lands Registry Office at Invercargill as No 225, lying between the northern boundary of Allotment 2, Block I, on the said deposited plan and the Bluff Parade: as delineated and coloured brown on the said deposited plan.
All that parcel of land, containing 5.5 perches, more or less, situated in the Township of Campbelltown East, being part of the road forming the northern boundary of Section 7, Block I, on the Crown-grant record map of the Campbelltown Hundred, and being also the parcel of land particularly shown on plan of part of the said township, deposited in the Lands Registry Office at Invercargill as No 225, lying between the northern boundaries of Allotments 3 and 4, Block I, on the said deposited plan and Bluff Parade: as delineated and coloured brown on the said deposited plan.
All that parcel of land, containing 6 perches, more or less, situated in the Campbelltown Hundred, being part of the road forming the northern boundary of Section 6, Block I, on the Crown-grant record map of the said hundred, and being the parcel of land shown on plan deposited in the Lands Registry Office at Invercargill as No 420, as fenced and occupied with that part of the said Section 6 coloured green on the said deposited plan, but extending east and west respectively as far as the eastern and western boundaries produced of the said part of Section 6, coloured green.
All that parcel of land, containing 6 perches, more or less, situated in the Campbelltown Hundred, being part of the road forming the northern boundary of Section 6, Block I, on the Crown-grant record map of the said hundred, and being the parcel of land shown on plan deposited in the Lands Registry Office at Invercargill as No 535, as fenced and abutting on Allotments 18, 19, and 21 on the said deposited plan, but extending west only as far as the western boundary of said Allotment 18 produced.