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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 beal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twelfth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six. T. Y. Duncan, For Minister in Charge of Tourist and Health Resorts Department. God save the King !

Crown Lands 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, enacted that the Governor may from time to time appoint such suitable persons not exceeding five, as he thmks 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 Znd 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 IS t\r<\l%* A UUnP ° n SU f ~l ands shall be tenable 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 hi after making inquiries respecting the same, reported to the Governor and recommended that the parcels of Crown lands described in the Schedule hereto should be permanently reserved as scenic reserves 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 parcels of Crown lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be reserves under the said Act. Schedule. All that area in the Southland Land District, containing approximately 123 acres, being the island ttsfissszjssi** si,aaled - th ° bed o, fc w - i " rL - » d *• s -°» ■£* Also all that area in the Southland Land District, containing approximately 400 acres being numerous small islands in the bed of the Waiau River, as shown on thTplan hereinafter referred to and situated m Blocks XV and XVII, Longwood Survey District eienea to, As the same are delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 54073/18, deposited in the Head Office Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon bordered 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 Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies ; and issued under the beal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twelfth day ot March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six 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 Art ") 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 necessary inspect any lands possessing scenic or historic interest, or on which there are thermal springs, and shall make mqumes respecting the same and report to the Governor, and shall from tim to time recommend what lands, whether Crown, private, or Native lands, in their opinion should Te 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 land? or damage the scenic features thereof;' and such lands may be fenced, preserved, and conserved intaS as and for an inalienable patrimony of the people of New Zealand : «i<^t And whereas the Governor has, in pursuance of the powers conferred 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 parcel

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