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TAKING LAND FOR LANDING-PLACE, STORAGE-SHEDS, AND ROAD AT MAUKE. No. 28. Sir, — Rarotonga, 3rd October, 1907. 1 Lave the honour to forward attached a draft Proclamation taking land for landing and storage-sheds at the Island of Mauke, as also the land for the main road into the interior of the island, for which I ask the approval of His Excellency the Governor. . I have also to request that the regulations for the management of landing-place and storagesheds hereunto attached may be approved. I have, &c, W. E. GtTDGEON, Resident Commissioner. The Hon. Jas. McGowan, Minister administering Islands.

No. 29. Sui, — Cook and other Islands Administration, Wellington, 19th November, 1907. 1 have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 3rd October last, forwarding draft notice taking lands for a lan ding-place and storage-shed- and road at Mauke, also draft regulations relating to the management of the landing-place and storage-shed. I return herewith the notice and the regulations duly signed by His Excellency the Governor. You do not mention the probable amount of compensation payable, but I presume that it will not be large. I have, &c, The Resident Commissioner, Rarotonga. James McGowan.

Enclosure. Lands taken for Landing-place and Storage-sheds and Road at Maukk, Cook Islands. Plunket, Governor. Whereas the lands respectively mentioned in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken, under " The Cook and other Islands Government Act Amendment Act, 1904," for certain public works, to wit, for a landing-place and storage-sheds and a road at Mauke, Cook Islands: Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities in me vested by the said Act, and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby notify that, on the date of the publication hereof in the Cool: Islands Gazette, the lands respectively mentioned in the Schedule hereto are hereby taken for the purposes of a landing-place and storage-sheds and a road respectively, as mentioned in the said Schedule. Schedule. Land for landing-place and storage-sheds: All that piece of land at Tauuganui,: Island of Mauke, being section No. 6, containing 20 ars, more or less, exclusive of main road, starting from concrete block No. 5, near the southern side of the main road; thence southerly 76 meters to an iron bolt; thence westerly 71"5 meters to high-water mark; thence northerly along high-water mark 41 meters; thence easterly 675 meters to an iron bolt; thence southerly 326 meters to concrete block 5, at the starting-point. Land for road : All that piece of land in the Island .of Mauke, 10 meters wide, starting from a point at high-water mark which is westerly 70 meters from concrete block No. 5, on the eastern boundary of the Taunganui Landing-place ; thence easterly 80 meters ; thence south-easterly 72 meters to concrete block No. sa; thence south-easterly 465 meters to concrete block No. 4; thence south-easterly 305 meters; thence south-easterly 235 meters; thence south-easterly 200 meters to the south-west corner of Section 5; thence easterly 115 meters; thence easterly 120 meters to concrete block No. 1; on the junction of roads; thence easterly 850 meters; thence southerly 270 meters to concrete block No. 21 ; thence southerly 220 meters to concrete block No. 22, on the western side of the said main road. Area, 243 hectare, more or less. The said lands are more particularly delineated in the plan deposited in the office of the Cook and other Islands Land Titles Court, at Avarua, Rarotonga. As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this nineteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and seven. James McGowan.

Regulations as to tub Administration ov Landing-place and Storage-sheds at Taunganui, Section 6, Island of Mauke. Plunket, Governor. Whereas by section three of " The Cook and other Islands Government Act Amendment Act, 1904," it is enacted that the Governor may make regulations prescribing generally whatever he thinks necessary in order to give full effect to the said section : And whereas by virtue of the said section the Governor has notified that certain land, being Section No. 6, Island of Mauke, has been taken under the provisions of the said Act for certain public works, to wit, for a landing-place and storage-sheds:

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