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Schedule.

In the Canterbury Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked ±\ W.U. 21406, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured green. Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable William Lee. Baron Plunket Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor and Commandor-in-Chief in and over His Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies ; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this sixteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five. Wμ. Hall-Jones, Minister for Public Works. God save the King !

Crown Land reserved under " The Scenery Preservation Act, 1903.' Plunket, Governor.—A Proclamation. W t hereas by " The Scenery Preservation Act, 1903 " (hereinafter referred to as " the said Act") it is, inter aha, enacted that the Governor may from time to time appoint such suitable persons, not exceeding five, as he thinks fit to be a Commission under the said Act; such Commission may, if it deems necessary, inspect any lands possessing scenic or historic interest, or on which there are thermal springs and shall make inquiries respecting the same and report to the Governor, and shall from time to time recommend what lands, whether Crown, private, or Native lands, in their opinion should be permanently reserved as scenic, thermal, or historic reserves ; and that the Governor may from time to time, by Proclamation, declare that any lands so recommended to be reserved shall be a reserve under the said Act and thereupon such lands shall be inalienable unless by special Act of Parliament passed in that behalf, and no person shall cut or remove timber or in any way interfere with such lands, or damage the scenic features thereof ; and such lands may be fenced, preserved, conserved intact as and for an inalienable patrimony of the people of New Zealand : And whereas the Governor has, in pursuance of the powers conferred by the said Act, appointed certain persons to be a Commission for the purposes thereof : And whereas the said Commission has after making inquiries respecting the same, reported to the Governor and recommended that ths parcel of Crown land described in the Schedule hereto should be permanently reserved as a scenic reserve : And whereas it is expedient that the said recommendation should be given effect to : Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities aforesaid, do hereby proclaim and declare that from and after the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, the parcel of Crown land described in the Schedule hereto shall be a reserve under the said Act. Schedule. All that area in the Taranaki Land District, containing approximately 700 acres, being Section No 2 Block 11, Kapara Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west by Section No. 9 (State Forest Reserve), Block 11, Kapara Survey District; towards the east generally by the Poheka Stream, by the Rotokohu Lake, by the Rotokohu Stream and Road, and by the left bank of the Waitotara River ; and towards the south-west by Crown land : as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 53623/5. deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged with red. Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable William Lee, Baron Plunket, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies ; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and five. T. Y. Duncan, For Minister in Charge of Tourist and Health Resorts Department. God save the King !

Crown Land reserved under " The Scenery Preservation Act, 1903." Plunket, Governor.—A Proclamation. Whereas by " The Scenery Preservation Act, 1903 " (hereinafter referred to as " the said Act"), it is, inter alia, enacted that the Governor may from time to time appoint such suitable persons, not 'exceeding five, as he thinks fit to be a Commission under the said Act; such Commission may, if it deems

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Approximate Area of the Parcel of Land taken. Being Portion of Situated in Block No. Situated in the Survey District of A. 62 E. 0 P. 35 R.S. Section 7554 IX Opihi.