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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, and 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 the area 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 area of Crown land described in the Schedule hereto shall be a reserve under the said Act. Schedule. All that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 37 acres|2 roods 28 perches, more or being Section No. 40, Block XII, Tautuku Survey District. Bounded towards the northeast by Section No. 4, Block XII, Tautuku Survey District; towards the east and towards the southeast by Section No. 2of the said Block XII; towards the south-west by the Catlin's-Waikawa Main Road ; and towards the north-west by Section No. 3 of Block XII aforesaid : as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 53568/8, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon bordered red. Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable William Lee, Baron Plunket, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, 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-fourth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six. Jas. McGowan, I 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 peisons, 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, and conserved intact a,s 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 the area of Crgwn 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 area of Crown land described in the Schedule hereto shall be a reserve under the said Act. Schedule. All that area in the Southland Land District, containing by admeasurement 46 acres, more or less, being part of Section No. 5, Block 11, Alton Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west by a public road ; towards the north-east by Section No. 4, Block 11, Alton Survey District; towards the south-east by a road reserve along the right bank of the Waiau River ; and towards the south-west by Section No. 3, Block 111, of the said district. Also all that area in the Southland Land District, containing by admeasurement 103 acres, more or less, being Section No. 6, Block 11, Alton Survey District. Bounded towards the north by a public road ; towards the east by Section No. 5, Block 11, Alton Survey District; towards the south by a public road ; and towards the west by Crown land. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 54072/3, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon bordered red.

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