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Schedule of Proposed Reserves.

WBSTLAND. Department of Lands and Survey, District Office, Hokitika, 22nd May, 1902. Circular No. 507, Preservation of Native Forest. I have the honour to forward a report upon the above subject, in accordance with your circular instructions. The matter was placed before the Land Board yesterday, when it was unanimously resolved that my report be adopted and the reserves noted be approved. Pressure of sundry urgent matters has prevented an earlier reply. G. J. EOBEBTS, The Surveyor-General, Wellington. Commissioner of Crown Lands.

District. Section. Block. Area. Tenure. Purpose and Class and Remarks. Maungatapu, Whakapuaka, Tapamutu A. B. P. 6,700 0 0 Crown lands Scenic reserve. Being a block of land commencing at trig, station, Maungatapu, and extending along the eastern side of dividing range to Saddle Hill, with a width of half a mile, and from northern boundary Section 1, Block II., Maungatapu Survey District, and extending along the western side of said range to Mount Duppa, with a width of one mile, and thence extending along the western said range to Raia saddle with a width of half a mile. Forest-reserve (Class A). Scenery - preservation (Class B, scenio). Cobb Valley. Scenery-preservation (Class B). For half a mile round the shore of Lake Rotorua. Scenery-preservation (Class B). For half a mile round the shore of Lake Roto-iti. Forest - reserve (Class A), climatic. Round the spring on North Branch of Riwaka River. /Scenery-preservation (Class B). Purchased by the Natives who hold a certificate of occupation, j but as far as known no improvements effected. These sections with section 13 embrace the bush-clad sea-face from Totaranui Bay to the \ north point of Waiharakeke Bay. Scenery - preservation (Class B). The gorge of Gorge Creek. Scenery-preservation (Class B). The Waikoropupu springs. Forest-reserve (Class A). At the head of Rainy River. Scenery-preservation (Class B). Ten miles up the Mokihinui River, for 20 chains on either bank. Scenery - preservation (Class B). Eight miles up Rough and Tumble Creek, for 20 chains on either bank. Scenery-preservation (Class B). Part railway reserve, seven miles up the Ngakawau River to junction with Blackburn River, for 20 chains on either bank. Scenery-preservation (Class B). Three miles up the Waimangaroa River to junction of north and south branches, for 20 chains on either bank. Scenery-preservation (Class B). Part Buller Coalfields Reserve, part Mining Reserve No. 7, fifteen miles along the course of the Buller River from south • east corner of Section 9, Block II., to north-west corner of Section 35, Block IV., Inangahua, for 20 chains on either bank. Scenery - preservation (Class B). Part Mining Reserve No. 7 and part Mining Reserve No. 8, sixteen miles along Buller River from south-west corner of Lyell Township to junction with Jecklyn's Creek, Fern Flat, for 20 chains on either bank. Scenery-preservation (Class B). Six miles and a half up the River Nile from south-east corner of Section 1, Block VII., to the boundary of the Waitakerei District, for 20 chains on either bank. Scenery-preservation (Class B). Part Mining Reserve No. 6, from the mouth of Fox's River, five miles up to the junction with Dilemma Creek, for 20 chains on either bank. Tadmor, Howard Mount Arthur 3,815 0 0 ■25,000 0 0 It Rotorua 6,000 0 0 Roto-iti 5,000 0 0 Kaiteriteri VII. 630 0 0 Totaranui IV. 256 0 0 Freehold .. 6,7, 11, 12 13 119 0 0 Crown lands Takaka IV., VII. 2,000 0 0 Waitapu Pt. 44 V. 27 1 0 Freehold .. Motupiko, Howard .. 11,580 0 0 Crown lands Mokihinui 1* XVI. 3,200 0 0 Marina 2* 2,660 0 0 Ngakawau 3 II., III., VIII. 2,240 0 0 Kawatiri 4 VI. 960 0 0 Ohika and Inangahua 5 4,800 0 0 Lyell and Maruia .. 5,120 0 0 Waitakere 4,800 0 0 Brighton 1,600 0 0 leference numl >er.