Reserves and Other Lands Disposal

This PUBLIC BILL originated in the HousE of REPRESENTATIVES, and, having this day passed as now printed, is transmitted to fhe LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL Or ilS CORCUTTBRCe. House of Representates. 7th November, 1931.

Hon. MT. Ransom.

RESERVES AND OTHER LANDS DISPOSAL.

ANALYSIS. Title. 1. Short Title. 12. Authorizing cancellation of reservation as 2. Altering the boundaries of certain reserves in provisional State forest over certain land the Parish of Whangarei. in Waiwhero and Mawheranui Survey 3. Authorizing the Wellsford Agricultural and Districts, and the setting apart of same Pastoral Society (Incorporated) to sell for the purposes of the Coal-mines Act, Section 38, Block XVI, Otamatea Survey 1925. District, and apply proceeds towards 13. Empowering Selwyn Plantation Board to purchase of other land. purchase land for plantation purposes, and 4. Cancelling reservation as a domain over providing for the more effective carrying Lots B and D, Block I, Hunua Survey on of the Board's operations. District, and declaring the same to be 14. Adding certain Crown land in Block II, reserved for scenic purposes. Lyndon Survey District, to Hanmer Town 5. Authorizing the Raglan Town Board to sell area. a certain reserve. 15. Authorizing the Peel Forest Board to grant 8..Section 18 of Reserves and other Lands leases of special areas set apart for the Disposal Act, 1927, amended. purpose. 7. Validating lease granted by Hutt Park 16. Validating a certain payment by the Waikaka Committee over portion of Hutt Park Domain Board. Recreation Reserve. 17. Providing for certain expenditure out of 8. Cancelling State - forest reservation over North Island Experimental Dairy School certain land in Nelson Land District and Account. setting the same apart as a scenic reserve. 18. Extending provisions of section 124 of the 9. Authorizing the issue of a certificate of title Land Act, 1924, to the holders of leases of in the name of His Majesty the King for certain lands. Section 19, Block XIII, Wai-iti Survey 19. Bringing under the Tourist and Health District. Resorts Control Act, 1908, certain portions 10. Nelson Harbour Act, 1905, amended. of the Tongariro National Park. 11. Authorizing the issue of a certificate of title 20. Authorizing Tongariro -National Park Board in the name of His Majesty the King for to appoint committees. Section 20, Block XV, Wai-iti Survey 21, Authorizing the vesting of certain lands in the District. Taieri River Trust as endowments.

A BILL INTITULED AN AcT to provide for the Sale, Reservation, and other Disposition Title. of certain Reserves, Crown Lands, Endowments, and other Lands, and to validate certain Transactions. 5 BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :- 1. This Act may be cited as the Reserves and other Lands Short Title. Disposal Act, 1931. 10 2. Whereas by section eighty-two of the Reserves and other Lands Altering the boundaries of certain Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1920, part of the Kauri- reserves in the Parish hohore Public Cemetery, comprising Allotment 238 of the Parish of of whangareL Whangarei, containing by admeasurement one rood tbirty-eight and No. 88-3. 2 Reserves and other Lands Duposal. six twenty-fifths perches, more or less, was vested in the body corporate known as the Presbyterian Church Property Trustees (hereinafter referred to as the Church Trustees) constituted under the Presbyteriati Church Property Act, 1885 : And whereas it is desirable that the boundaries of the land so vested should be amended by adding thereto the land 5 described in subsection fouT hereof, which now forms part of the Kauri- hohore Public Cemetery hereinbefore referred to, and by excluding therefrom the area described iR siibsection jive hereof : And whereas it is desirable that the portion of an adjoining public-school site described in subsection six hereof should be added to the said Kaurihohore Public 10 Cemetery : And whereas the Church Trustees, the Trustees of the Kaurihohore Public Cemetery (hereinafter referred to as the Cemetery Trustees) and the Education Board of the District of Auckland have agreed to such adjustment of boundaries : Be it therefore enacted as follows :- 15 (1) The reservation for the .purpose of a public cemetery over the land described in subsection four hereof and the vesting of the maintenance and care thereof in the Cemetery Trustees are hereby revoked, and the said land is hereby vested in the Church Trustees, to be held by the Church Trustees as set forth and declared in and by the said 20 Presbyterian Church Property Act, 1885. (2) The vesting of the land described in subsection jive hereof in the Church Trustees pursuant to section eighty-two of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1920, is hereby revoked, and the said land is hereby declared to form part of 25 the Kaurihohore Public Cemetery, and the maintenance and care thereof is hereby vested in the Cemetery Trustees. (3) The reservation as a public-school site over the land described in subsection six hereof and the vesting thereof in the Education Board of the District of Auckland are hereby revoked, and the said land is 30 hereby declared to form part of the Kaurihohore Public Cemetery, and the maintenance and care thereof is hereby vested in the Cemetery Trustees. (4) The land to which subsection one hereof relates is particularly described as follows :- 35 All that area in the North Auckland Land District, Whangarei County, containing by admeasurement five and nine-tenths perches, more or less, being part of Allotment 23B, Whangarei Parish : bounded, commencing at a point on a public road, which point is distant 508·6 links in a north-westerly direction from the south-eastern corner of 40 Allotment 238 aforesaid, on the south-east and south-west by another part of Allotment 238 aforesaid, by lines bearing 236' 8*, distance 162·8 links ; bearing 325° 24', distance 3·9 links ; on the 11 orth-west» by another part of Allotment 23B aforesaid by a line bearing 43° 11', distance 166·7 links ; on the north-east by the aforementioned public 45 road by a line bearing 145' 24', distance 41·3 links, to the point of commencement : be all the aforesaid measurements more or less : as the same is more particularly delineated on Plan Number 26477 (blue), - deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, at Auckland, and thereon coloured blue. 50 i./1 1 Reserves and other Lands Disposal. 3 1 * ,

(5) The land to which subsection two hereof relates is particularly described as follows :- All that area in the North Auckland Land District, Whangarei County, containing by admeasurement two and four-tenths perches, 6 more or less, being part of Allotment 238, Whangarei Parish : bounded, commencing at a point on a public road, being the south-east corner of Allotment 23A, Whangarei Parish, on the east, by the aforementioned public road by a line bearing 145° 24', distance 25·0 links ; on the south-east by another part of Allotment 23B aforesaid by a line bearing 10 234' 46', distance 121·7 links ; on the north-west by part Allotment 23A, Whangarei Parish, by a line bearing 43° 11', distance 124·5 links, to the point of commencement : be all the aforesaid measurements more or less : as the same is more particularly delineated on Plan Number 26477 (blue), deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, at Auckland, and 15 thereon coloured yellow. (6) The land to which subsection three hereof relates is particularly described as follows :-- All that area in the North Auckland Land District, Whangarei County, containing by admeasurement one rood one and three-tenths 20 perches, more or less, being part of Allotment 23A, Whangarei Parish : bounded, commencing at a point on a public road, being the south-east corner of Allotment 23.A aforesaid, on the south-east by parts of Allotment 238, Whangarei Parish, by a line bearing 223° 11', distance 513·0 links ; on the south-west by Allotment 23, Whangarei Parish, 25 by a line bearing 325° 24', distance 103·0 links ; on the north-west by another part of Allotment 23A aforesaid, by a line bearing 540 46', distance 501·4 links, to the point of commencement : be all the aforesaid measurements more or less : as the same is more particularly delineated on Plan Number 26477 (blue), deposited in the omce of the 30 Chief Survevor, at Auckland, and thereon coloured red. 3. Whereas by an Order in Council dated the eleventh day of Authorizing the Wellsford January, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, and published in the Agricultural and Gazette of the twelfth day of the same month, the land described in Pastoral Society subsection four hereof was vested in the Wellsford Agricultural and 1!1(&Eir&e#J to 35 Pastoral Society (Incorporated) in trust for an agricultural and pastoral Block XVI, showground and a public recreation-ground : And whereas the said District,Otamatea and Surveyapply land is unsuitable for the purposes for which it has been set apart : proceeds towards purchase of other And whereas the land described in subsection five hereof is suitable land. for the said purposes, and the said society has entered into an agreement 40 to purchase the same : And whereas it is expedient that the said society should be authorized to sell the land firstly hereinbefore referred to and to apply the proceeds of such sale towards the purchase of the land secondly hereinbefore referred to : Be it therefore enacted as follows :- 45 (1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, or any other Act, the Wellsford Agricultural and Past;oral Society (Incorporated) may sell either by public auction or by private treaty the land described in subsection four hereof upon such terms and conditions as the Minister of Lands may 50 approve. (2) The proceeds of such sale shall be applied towards the purchase of the land described in subsection jive hereof. 4 Reserves' tank other Lands Duposat

Upoil dompletion/Bf the purchase of tha' land ddbribed in subsectiont,five herebf 'thd said land shall be cdnveyed to 1Its Matjesty the Kih g as areser*e for an agricultural and pastoral shdwground' and a public recreation-ground. (4)' Thd'land to which subsection one hereof relates is particularly 5 descr'fbed 46 followd :_2 All.that area in the North Auckland Land District, eontahillig by admeasurement twenty-two acres one rood thirteen perches, more or less, being Section 38, Block XVI, Otamatea Survey District. (5) The land to which subsection two hereof relates is particularly 10 described as follows :- All that area in the North Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement three acres and twenty-eight and three-tenths perches, more or less, being Lot 1 on the plan deposited in the Land Transfer Office at Auckland under Number 22800, and being part of the western 15 portion of Section 31, Block XVI, Otamatea Survey District : as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 22/462, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red. Cancelling 4. Whereas by section nine of the Wanganui River Trust Act, 1891, 20 reservation as a domain over the Governor-General is empowered to declare by Proclamation any Lots B and D, lands within the district under the jurisdiction of the Wanganui River Block I, Hunua Survey Trust to be a public domain: And whereas, by Proclamation published ]District, and in the Gazette of the twenty-ninth day of December, eighteen hundred declaring the same to be reserved for and ninety-two, the lands described in the Schedule to the said Proclama- 25 scenic purposes. tion, comprising thirty-three thousand and thirty-three acres, more or less, were set apart as a public domain and placed under the control of the said Trust: And whereas it is expedient that the portions of the said public domain hereinafter described should be reserved for scenic purposes and brought under the operation of the Scenery Preservation 30 Act, 1908 : Be it therefore enacted as follows:- (1) The reservation as a public domain over the lands hereinafter described and the vesting of the control thereof in the Wanganui River Trust are hereby cancelled, and the said lands are hereby declared to be reserved for scenic purposes and to be subject to the provisions of 34 the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908. (2) The lands so declared to be reserved for scenic purposes are particularly described as follows :- All that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement three acres and twenty-five perches, more or less, 40 being Lot B, Block I, Hunua Survey District. Also all that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement one acre and twenty-one perches, more or less, being Lot D, Block I, Hunua Survey District. As the same are delineated on the plan marked 270/2OH, deposited 46 in the office of the Chief Surveyor, at Wellington, and thereon co'oured red.

Authorizing the 5. Whereas by an Order in Council issued pursuant to section Raglan Town Board to sell a certain four of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, dated the twenty- reserve. ninth day of August, nineteen hundred and eleven, and published in 50 the Gazette of the thirty-first day of the same month: the land hereinafter described was vested in the Raglan Town Board, in trust, as an endowment or for the use of the said Town Board: And whereas it Resen?es al#l otlFr Lmtil* Disposal. 5 4 4

is expedient that the Raglan Town Board, should hav4 power toi sell the said land and te apply the proceeds of such sale in lihe development of other. reserves 4 the Jlag]Bn. Town District : .Be it therefore enacted as follows :- 5 (1),Notwitlistanding anything to. the contrary in Z any Act, the Raglan Town Board may sell the said land freed and discharged frB]b the reservation aforesaid. (2) The net proceeds of such sale shall be applied in the development of other reserves vested in the Raglan Town Board. 10 (3) The land to which this section relates is particularly described as follows:- All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement two roods eighteen perches, more or less, being Lot 13, Block VIII, Town of Raglan.

15 6. Section eighteen of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal SeotionReserves 18 andof other Act, 1927, is hereby amended by inserting in the preamble, before the Lands Disposal Act, words " referred to as the lessees ", the words " with their executors, 1927. amended. administrators, and assigns", and by repealing subsections one and two thereof, and substituting the following subsections:- 20 " (1) (a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act, the Auckland Land Board is hereby empowered to accept with the consent in writing of the encumbrancers (if any) the surrender of the lease hereinbefore referred to, and to issue in substitution therefor a renewable lease under Part III of the Land Act, 1924, over such 25 parts of the lands described in subsections three and four hereof as may be mutually agreed upon by the said Board and the lessees, at a rent calculated on such value, exclusive of improvements, as the Board may see fit to fix. " (b) The said renewable lease shall be subject to such special 30 conditions as may be mutually agreed upon by the Land Board and the lessees, and to all existing encumbrances, liens, and interests (if any) registered against the surrendered lease, and the District Land Regis- trar shall record on the new lease all such encumbrances, liens, and interests accordingly in the order of their registered priority. 35 " (c) The provisions of sections one hundred and twenty-three, one hundred and thirty-six to one hundred and forty-one, and one hundred and seventy-nine of the Land Act, 1924, shall not apply to the owner of a renewable lease granted pursuant to this section. " (2) For the purpose of fixing the rental to be reserved by any 40 renewed lease granted in terms of a lease granted pursuant to this section no account shall be taken of any improvements existing at the time of such renewal that have been effected or that have been paid for by the lessees." 7. Whereas the Hutt Park Committee, by deed bearing date the Validating lease granted by Hutt 45 first day of October, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, leased or pur- Park Committee ported to lease to Walter Alexander Cairns, of Lower Hutt, storekeeper, over portion of the piece of land hereinafter described : And whereas the said piece tlZt Reserve. of land is separated by a road from the area commonly known as the Hutt Park and used for purposes of public recreation, and is not ,50 required or adapted for recreation purposes : And whereas doubts have arisen as to whether the committee could lawfully make and enter into the said deed: Be it therefore enacted as follows:- (1) The said deed shall be deemed to have been lawfully made and entered into by the Hutt Park Committee and the said Walter 55 Alexander Cairns. 6 Reserves ad other Lcmds Disposal.

(2) The land to which this section relates is particularly described as follows:- All that piece or parcel of land in the Borough of Lower Hutt, situated in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement twenty-three and forty-nine fiftieths perches, more or less, being part of 6 the land known as the Hutt Park Recreation Reserve, part Section 12, Hutt Registration District, Block XIV, Belmont Survey District, and bounded by a line commencing at the intersection of Randwick Road with Park Road, and proceeding in a south-easterly direction along the south-western side of the said Park Road for a distance of 10 188·53 links ; thence along the south-western side of Seaview Road for a distance of 31·84 links ; thence in a westerly direction, on a bearing of 248° 6' 37", and for a distance of 138-38 links, to the eastern side of Randwick Road ; and thence in a north-easterly direction along the eastern side of Randwick Road, for a distance of 258·72 links, to 15

.hy + 7 its intersection with Park Road, the place of commencement. Cancellibg State· 8. Whereas the land hereinafter described forms portion of a pro- forest reservation over certain land in visional State forest reserve set apart by Proclamation published in Nelson Land Gazette of the eighth day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty, and District and setting the same apart as a portion of a permanent State forest reserve set apart by Proclamation 26- scenic reserve. published in Gazette of the ninth day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, and the said land is now subject to the provisions of the Forests Act, 1921-22 : And whereas it is desirable that the said land should be set apart as a scenic reserve subject to the provisions of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, as recommended by the Board 25 constituted under that Act : Be it therefore enacted as follows :- (1) The reservation for provisional and permanent State forest purposes over the land hereinafter described is hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby set apart as a scenic reserve subject to the provisions of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908. 30 (2) The land to which this section relates is particularly described as follows :- All that area in the Nelson Land District, containing three thousand two hundred and ninety acres, more or less, situated in Blocks II, IV, V., and VII, Mazingatapu Survey District, and bounded by a line 35 commencing at the eastern corner of Section 6, Square 18, and running along the south-eastern boundary of the said section ; thence along the eastern boundary of Section 2, Square 18, the south-eastern boundaries of Sections 5,4, and 3 of Square 18, and the south-western boundaries of the said Section 3 and of Section 1, Square 18, and the southern 40 boundary of Section 1, Block IV, Maungatapu Survey District, to the south-western corner of the said Section 1 ; thence in an easterly direction along the top of a spur to Trig. Station D.A. ; thence in a south-easterly direction along the top of a ridge to Trig. H. (Rocks) ; thence generally in a north-easterly direction along the summit of the 46 range through Trig. Station C. (Dun Mountain) and Little Twin to id .e'rT·3899 It.*i Trig. Station K.H. (Maungatapu) ; thence in a north-westerly direction by a straight line to the point of commencement : as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. X/97/16, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at 50 Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

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9. Whereas the land described in subsection two hereof is portion Authorizing the f of a closed road : And whereas the said closed road passes through 5Zf it t2135' land vested in His Majesty subject to the Discharged Soldiers Settle- of His Majesty the King for Section 19, ment Amendment Act, 1921-22, being all that parcel of land com- Block XIII, Wai-iti 5 prised in certificate of title, Volume 69, folio 143, Nelson Registry : Survey District, And whereas it is desirable to authorize the issue to His Majesty of a certificate of title in respect of the said piece of closed road : ' Be it therefore enacted as follows :- (1) The District Land Registrar for the Land Registration District 10. of Nelson is hereby empowered and directed to issue, free of cost, a certificate of title in the name of His Majedty the King in respect of the closed-road area described in subsection two hereof, such parcel of land to be held by His Majesty the King in like manner to the land vested in him by virtue of certificate of title, Volume 69, folio 143, 15 Nelson Registry, and to be subject to all the rights and privileges conferred by the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Amendment Act, 1921-22, and any amendments thereof ; and notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any Act, such certificate of title shall be subject to the same restrictions, charges, leases, and encumbrances (if any) as 20 those to which the certificate of title, Volume 69, folio 143, hereinbefore referred to is subject. (2) The land in respect of which such certificate of title shall be issued is particularly described as follows :- All that area, in the Nelson Land District, containing by admeasure- 25 ment one acre one rood thirty-three perches, more or less, being Section 19, Block XIII, Wai-iti Survey District : as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan numbered 29/86, deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor of the Nelson Land District, at Nelson, and thereon coloured red. 30 10. Whereas by the Nelson Harbour Act, 1905, the Nelson Harbour Nelson Harbour Board was endowed with the foreshore of the Nelson lIarbour, the Act. 1905, amended Waimea mud-fiats and the flats within the harbour as described in the First Schedule to the said Act: And whereas the description of the land so vested was incorrectly set forth in the said Schedule, and it is 35 desirable that the error of description should be rectified : Be it therefore enacted as follows :- The First Schedule to the Nelson Harbour Act, 1905, is hereby amended as from the commencement of that Act by adding to the second paragraph thereof the words " and Sections 80,83, and 84, all 40 in Suburban South Original District, in Block III, Waimea Survey District ". 11. Whereas the land described in subsection two hereof is portion Authorizing the of a closed road : And whereas it is desirable to authorize the issue to issue of a certificate of title in the name His Majesty of a certificate of title to the said land and to incorporate of His Majesty the

45 the same in the lease registered under Number 55377 in the Nelson King forBlock Section XV, Wai-iti 20, Registry of the lands (being lands vested in His Majesty subject to the Survey District. Discharged Soldiers Settlement Amendment Act. 1921-22) comprised in certificate of title, Volume 69, folio 91, Nelson Registry, the said lease having been granted under the said Act: Be it therefore enacted as 60 follows :- (1) The District Land Registrar for the Land Registratibn District of Nelson is hereby empowered and directed to issue, free of cost, a 8 Reserves ad other Lands Disposal.

certificate of title in the name of His Majesty the King in respect of the closed-road area described in subsection tu.o hereof, such parcel of land to be held by His Majesty the King in like manner to the lands vested in him by virtue of certificate of title, Volume 69, folio 91, aforesaid, and to be subject to all the rights and privileges conferred 5 by the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Amendment Act, 1921-22, and any ' amendments thereof ; and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any Act, such certificate of title shall be subject to the same restrictions, charges, leases, and encumbrances (if any) as those to which the certificate of title, Volume 69, folio 91, 10 hereinbefore referred to is subject. (2) The land in respect of which such certificate of title shall be issued is particularly described as follows:- All that area in the Nelson Land District, containing by admeasure ment one rood thirty-one and four-fifths perches, more or less, being 15 Section 20, Block XV, Wai-iti Survey District (formerly part of Section 78, Square 4) : as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan numbered 726R, deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor of the Nelson Land District, at Nelson, and thereon coloured green. Authorizing 12. Whereas the land hereinafter described forms portion of an 20 cancellation of reservation as area of national-endowment land set apart by Proclamation dated the provisional State eleventh day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty, and published forest over certain land in Waiwhero in the Gazette of the fourteenth day of that month, as and for a and Mawheranui provisional State forest, and is now subject to the provisions of the Survey Districts, Forests Act, 1921-22 : And whereas it is desirable that the said land 25 and the setting apart of same for should be set apart for the purposes of Part III of the Coal-mines Act, the purposes of the 1925 : Be it therefore enacted as follows :- Coal-mines Act, 1925. (1) The Governor-General may by Order in Council cancel the reservation as a provisional State forest over the land hereinafter described, and set apart the said land for the purposes of Part III of the 30 Coal-mines Act, 1925. (2) Upon the issue of any Order in Council pursuant to this section there shall be paid from the State Coal-mines Account to the Consolidated Fund, National-endowment Revenue, such total sum or such annual allocation of revenue derived from the said land as may be determined 35 by the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Mines. (3) The land to which this section relates is particularly described as follows :- All that area of national-endowment land in the Westland Land District, containing by admeasurement two hundred and forty-eight 40 acres, more or less, being part of Provisional State Forest Number 1592, situated in Block XIV, Waiwhero Survey District, and Block II, Mawheranui Survey District, and bounded as follows : commencing at the northernmost corner of Section 2, Block II aforesaid, and proceeding 40 chains on a bearing of 320° ; thence 34 chains on a bearing of 240° ; 45 thence 65 chains on a bearing of 203° to the north-western boundary of Section 1, Block II aforesaid ; thence 92 chains along the north-western boundaries of Sections 1 and 2 aforesaid to the point of commencement : as the same is more particularly delineated on Plan Number I 19/24, deposited in the Head Office of the State Forest Service at Wellington, 50 and thereon bordered red. Reserve and olher Lands Duposal. 9 9

13. (1) The Selwyn Plantation Board (hereinafter referred to as Empowering set the Board), constituted by section seventy-seven of the Reserves and 32fZBEffor other Lands Disposal aild Public .Bodies Empowering Act, 1910.(herein- plantation purposes, and providing for after referred to as the said · section), may, with the consent of the the more effective 5 Minister of Lands first had and obtained, apply any portion of its: funds carrying on of the towards. the purchase of, lands suitable for planta,tion purposes. , : Board's operations. (2)· Any·, land se purchased shall .be conveyed or, traasferned to His Majesty, and the Governor-General may thereupon, by Order in Council, vest the same in the Board in trust for plantation purposes, 10 and such land shall be subject to the provisions of the said section, and any amendments thereof. (3) The Board is hereby declared to be a body corporate under the name of the Selwyn Plantation Board, with perpetual succession and a common seal, and to be capable of doing and suffering all such acts 15 and things as bodies corporate may lawfully do and suffer. The Board sha'l establish and maintain and publicly notify an office at whbh notices and other documents may be served on the Board. (4) The author ty conferred on the Governor-General by paragraph (b) of the said section to appoint one member of the Board shall be 20 deemed to include and at all times heretofore to have :ncluded authority so to appoint the holder for the time being of any office in the Public Service, and it sha 1 not be necessary to appoint or to have appointed any such person by name. (5) The power to make regulations conferred on the Governor- 25 General in Council by paragraph (c) of the said section shall include power to make regulations for all or any of the purposes for which a Domain Board may make by-laws under subsection one of section jifty-five of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928. All regulations made under the power hereby conferred shall 30 be published by being painted on boards or printed on paper or linen, and displayed and kept displayed at one or more of the principal entrances to every reserve to which they relate. 14. (1) The land hereinafter described is hereby declared to form Adding certain part of the Hanmer Town area, and to be subject to the provisions of Crown land in Block II, Lyndon 35 the Hanmer Crown Leases Act, 1928. Survey District, to (2) The land to which this section relates is particularly described Hanmer Town area. as follows :- All that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement eighty-three acres two roods seventeen perches, more 40 or less, situated in Block II, Lyndon Survey District : bounded by a line commencing at a point on the south-east side of the Hanmer- Christchurch Main Road, being the south-west corner of Reserve 3941 ; thence north-easterly and north-westerly along the south-east and north- east sides of that road to Block V, IIanmer Springs Township ; thence 45 north-easterly and north-westerly along the south-east and north-east boundaries of the said block, the abutment of a road, and north- westerly and north-easterly along the north-east and south-east boundaries of Block IV of the said township to Leamington Street ; thence south-easterly along the south-west side of that street to Reserve 3745 ; 60 thence south-westerly, south-easterly, north-easterly, and north-westerly along the north-west, south-west, south-east, and north-east sides of that reserve to Scarborough Terrace ; thence north-easterly generally 2 10 Reserves atul other Lads Disposal.

along the south-east sides of that terrace and Jollies Pass Road to a point 64·1 links distant from the north-east corner of Reserve 3941 aforesaid ; thence south-westerly generally along a line 50 links north- west of and parallel to the south-east side of Reserve 3941 to a public road ; thence south-westerly along the north-west side of that road to 5 the .south-west corner of Reserve 3941, the point of commencement : as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 9/796, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red. Authorizing the Peel 15. The Peel Forest Board may, with the consent of the Governor- 10 Forest Board to General, set apart leasing areas within the Peel Forest Park, and may grant leases of special areas set grant leases thereof, or any part thereof, on such terms as may be apart for the approved by the Minister for the time being charged with the adminis- purpose. tration of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908. Validating a certain 16. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Public 15 payment by the Waikaka Domain Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, or any other Act, Board. the payment during the financial year ended the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty, by the Waikaka Domain Board to Robert Hill Gardyne, Chairman of the said Board, of the sum of fifteen pounds four shillings and sevenpence for certain material supplied 20 by him is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made by the said Board and to have been lawfully received by the said Robert Hill Gardyne.

Providing for certain 17. There may be paid out of the North Island Experimental expenditure out of North Island Dairy-school Account an amount not exceeding two hundred and 25 Experimental Dairy twenty pounds for the purpose of reimbursing the Consolidated Fund School Account. for expenditure on replanting (including cost of fencing and all other costs incidental to such replanting) a shelter-belt on the endowment for the establishment of an experimental dairy-school for the North Island, known as Section 534, Patea District, Block XI, Hawera 30 Survey District, Taranaki Land District. Extending 18. The provisions of section one hundred and twenty-four of the provisions of section 124 of the Land Act, 1924, are hereby extended so as to apply to the holder of Land Act, 1924, to any lease granted pursuant to the provisions of section one hundred the holders of leases of certain and thirty of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies 35 lands. Empowering Act, 1924, and of section twelve of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal Act, 1928. Bringing under the 19. (1) As from the passing of this Act the several parcels Tourist and Health Resorts Control of land described in subsection three hereof (being portions of the Act, 1908, certain Tongariro National Park, and hereinafter called the said parcels) shall, 40 portions of the Tongariro National notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Tongariro National Park. Park Act, 1922, be subject to the Tourist and Health 1Resort)s Control Act, 1908 (hereinafter in this section referred to as the said Act), and shall thereafter be administered under the said Act. (2) The Minister of the Crown (hereinafter referred to as the 45 Minister) for the time being having the administration of the said Act shall in respect of the said parcels have and may exercise all the powers conferred by the said Act and its amendments, and, in particular, the powers conferred by section seventeen of tlie Finance Act, 1926, and shall, in addition, have power to do all things that the lessee had power 60 to do under the provisions of two deeds of lease relating to the said parcels, each made between the Tongariro National Park Board (herein- Reserues and othm Lands Disposal. 11

after called the Board) of the one part and the Tongarito Park Tourist Company, Limited, of the other part, and bearing date respectively the ninth day of November, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, and the twenty-fourth day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty. 6 (3) The said parcels are more particularly described as follows :-- All that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement fifty-seven acres three roods thirty perches, more or less, known as the hostel-site, Tongariro National Park, being part Okahukura Number 8 Block, situated in Block III, Ruapehu Survev 10 District, and being the whole of the area numbered 1 on Plan 89/5/R, deposited in the Wellington District Office, Department of Lands and Survey, and thereon bordered red. Also all that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement one acre three roods seventeen perches, more or less, 1.5 known as the Whakapapa Huts site, Tongariro National Park, being part Okahukura Number - 8 Block, situated in Block III, Ruapebu Survey District, and being the whole of the area numbered 2 on Plan 89/5/R, deposited in the Wellington District Office, Department of Lands and Survey, and thereon bordered red. 20 Also all that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement two roods, more or less, known as the Mangatepopo Huts site, Tongariro National Park, being part Okahukura Number 7 Block, situated in Block XVI, Tongariro Survey District, and being the whole of the area numbered 3 on Plan 89/5/R, deposited in the 25 Wellington District Office, Department of Lands and Survey, and thereon bordered red. Also all that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement two acres and thirty-six perches, more or less, known as the Ohakune Hut site, Tongariro National Park, being part 30 Rangataua North Number 1 Block, situated in Block XIV, Ruapehu Survey District, and being the whole of the area numbered 4 on Plan 153/2, deposited in the Wellington District Office, Department of Lands and Survey, and thereon bordered red. Also all that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by 35 admeasurement two roods, more or less, known as the Waihohonu Hut site, Tongariro National Park, being part Hangipo North Number GA Block, situated in Block I, Kaimanawa Survey District, and being the whole of the area numbered 5 on Plan 153/3, deposited in the Wellington District Office, Department of Lands and Survey, and 40 thereon bordered red. Also all that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement eighty-four acres one rood thirty-eight perehes, more or less, being portion of the Tongariro National Park, and being part Okahukura Number 8 Block, situated in Block III, Ruapehu Survey 45 District, being the whole of the area numbered 6 on Plan 153/4, deposited in the Wellington District Office, Department of Lands and Survey, and thereon bordered red. Also all that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement three roods thirty-eight perches, more or less, being 60 portion of the Tongariro National Park, and being part Okahulcura Number 8 Block, situated in Block III, Ruapehu Survey District, 12 Reserves a„d other Lands Disposal.

being the whole of the area numbered 7 on Plan 89/6/R, deposited in the Wellington District Office, Department of Lands and Survey, and thereon bordered red. Also all that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement three perches, more or less, being portion of the 5 Tongariro National Park, and being part Okahukura Number 8 Block, situated in Block III, Ruapellu Survey District, being the whole of the area numbered 8 on Plan 89/6/R, deposited in the Wellington District Office, Department of Lands and Survey, and thereon bordered red. 10 (4) Any movable property belonging to the Board being in or upon or used in connection with any of the said parcels may be assigned to and vested in the Minister to be used by him for the purposes of this section upon such terms as may from time to time be agreed upon between the Minister and the Board. 15 (5) Nothing herein contained shall affect the rights of the Public Trustee as holder of certain securities issued under the authority of section thirty-six of the Finance Act, 1928, and section forty-five of the Finance Act, 1929, but the Public Trustee may exercise all the rights enjoyed by him under the said securities as if tbis Act had not 20 been passed. (6) The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, bring under the provisions of the said Act any other area or areas comprised within the Tongariro National Park which the Board by resolution declares to be required for the purpose of providing 25 camping or recreation grounds or sites, for the erection of lodges and huts, or for other purposes connected with the management and administration of the buildings erected upon the said parcels. Authorizing 20. The Tongariro National Park Board constituted under the Tongariro National Park Board to Tongariro National Park Act, 1922, may from time to time appoint 30 appoint committees. standing or special committees of two or more persons (being members of the Board), and may by resolution delegate to anjr such committee any of the powers and duties of the Board, and every committee to which any powers or duties are delegated as aforesaid may, without the necessity of confirmation by the Board, exercise or perform the 35 same with the same effect as if the Board itself exercised or performed the same : Provided that every such committee shall be subject in all things to the control of the Board, and shall carry out all directions, general or special, of the Board given in relation to such committee or its 40 affairs ; but no person, being a party to any contract entered into by the Board through such committee, shall be concerned to inquire into any direction so given by the Board or be affected by notice of any such direction or the terms thereof. Authorizing the 21. Whereas the beds of Lakes Waipori and Tatawai are by section 46 vesting of certain lands in the Taieri nineteen of the Taieri River Improvement Act, 1920, vested in the River Trust as Taieri River Trust (hereinafter referred to as the said Trust) as an endowments. endowment (hereinafter referred to as the lake-beds endowment) : And whereas surrounding the beds of the said lakes are certain lakeside reserves and unused road-lines (hereinafter referred to as the said 50 reserves), as the said reserves are more particularly described in subsection sice hereof : And whereas there are situated in Lake Tatawai, Reserves and other Ibluls Disposal. 13

in Lake Waipori, and in the connecting channel between the two said lakes certain islands which are more particularly described in subsection seven hereof (hereinafter referred to as the said islands) : And whereas it is considered desirable to vest the said reserves and the 6 said islands in the said Trust as endowments : Be it therefore enacted as follows :- (1) The Governor-General may at any time, by Order in Council, cancel the existing reservation over each of the said reserves or from time to time over any part of any of the said reserves, and by the 10 same or a subsequent Order in Council vest in the said Trust as an endowment the land affected by such cancellation, and may in like manner vest the said islands in the said Trust as an endowment (all such endowments being hereinafter collectively referred to as the said endowments). 15 (2) The said Trust shall in respect of each of the said endowments vested in it under the last preceding subsection be a leasing authority within the meaning of the Public Bodies' Leases Act, 1908. (3) All revenue derived from the said endowments, and the proceeds of any sale pursuant to the power conferred by the next succeeding sub- 20 section of any land forming part of any of the said endowments, and any moneys received by way of equality of exchange in respect of any such land, shall be applied by the said Trust towards payment of interest and other charges on any loan or loans raised by the said Trust for the purpose of improving the waterway of the Waipori River and extension 25 of the contour-channel and channels running through the said lakes, or by way of expenditure on any work or works pertaining to the said endowments or the beds of the said lakes. (4) Notwithstanding anything contained in this section or in any other Act, the said Trust for the purpose of correcting, adjusting, and more 30 fully determining the boundaries between the said endowments and the lake-beds endowment and adjoining privately-owned lands may from time to time sell to the owner of any such adjoining land any land forming part of any such endowment, or may exchange any such endowment land for any adjoining privately-owned land (and in connection with 35 any such exchange give or receive any money by way of equality of exchange). (5) Any land so sold or given in exchange by the said Trust shall thereupon be freed and discharged from the reservation theretofore afiecting it, and any land acquired by the said Trust by way of 40 exchange shall become part of the particular endowment from which the land given by the said Trust was taken. (6) The said reserves are more particularly described as follows :- All that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement thirteen acres three roods, more or less, being the road reserve 45 along the shore of Lake Waipori adjoining Sections 32 and 33, Block VII, Clarendon Survey District, and the road and lakeside reserves between Sections 1 of 1, 2 of 1, and 2, Block VI, Maungatua Survey District, and Lake Waipori ; and bounded as follows : Commencing at the south-west corner of Section 33, Block VII, Clarendon Survey 50 District ; thence by said section and two public roads intersecting the same, by Section 32, Block VII, Clarendon Survey District, 1 of 1, 2 of 1, and 2, Block VI, Maungatua Survey District, to a point on the 14 Rese,ves and othm Lands Dhposal. road forming the south bolindary of said Section 2 opposite peg 7, as sho#ti on Plan 10, 'Maimgatua, deposited in the oilice of the Chief Surveyor, Dunedin, 8170 links ; thence by a right line bearing 181° 2' 30", 250 links, to the Waipori Lake ; thence by the said lake to the point where the production of the west boundary of Section 33, Block 5 VII, Clarendon, Survey Distriet, touches·the lake, 8600 links ; thence by the production of said section line, 110 links, to the point of commencement; be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. Also all that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement fifty-eight acres two roods, being the lakeside reserve 10 along the shore of Lake Tatawai and part of the lakeside reserve and road reserve along the shore of Lake Waipori, together with the reserves on the east and west banks of the channel connecting the two lakes, and bounded as follows : Commencing at the south-west corner of Section 9, Block VI, Maungatua Survey District, thence by said Section 9, the 15 crossing of a public road, a public road: Sections 8, 54,47, 39, and 84, 16572 links ; again by Section 84, 557-5 links ; by a public road 100 links ; by Sections 46,45,44,43, a public road, Sections 42, 41,40, a public road, Section 21, the reserve along each bank of Bull Creek and the crossing of the said creek by Sections 12 and 10, Block VI, Maunga- 20 tua, Survey District, to a point opposite peg 47, as shown on Plan 10, Maungatua, deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Dunedin, 24600 links ; thence by a line bearing 76' 24', 156·7 links, to said peg 47 and by the production of this line to the shore of Lake Waipori, 60 links ; thence by the shore of said lake, by the east 25 bank of the channel connecting Lake Waipori with Lake Tatawai, by the shore of the last-mentioned lake, and by the west bank of the before- mentioned channel, and by the shore of Lake Waipori and a branch of the Waipori River to peg 6 at the most southern point of the road forming the west boundary of Section 9, Block VI, Maungatua Survey 30 District, as shown on ·Plan 10, Maungatua, deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Dunedin, 44800 links; thence by said road, 58' 7', 188 links, to the point of commencement; and excepting such parts of the Berwick-Henley Road as intersect the above-described parcel of land, a deduction for which has been made from the area ; be all the 35 aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 15/102, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red. (7) The said islands are more particularly described as follows :- 40 All those areas in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement seven acres, more or less, being an island near the south end of Lake Tatawai and two islands situated in the channel connecting Lake Tatawai with Lake Waipori, and excepting such parts of the Berwick-Henley Road as intersect the above-described parcels of land, 45 a deduction for which has been made from the area. Also all those areas in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement eleven acres, more or less, being the islands in the Waipori Lake lying to the east of Section 5, Block XXIII, Waihola Survey District, and to the north of Section 10, Block VI, Maungatua 50 Survey District. Reserves and other Layuls Disposal. 15

As the same are more particularly shown on t4e plan marked L. and S. 15/102, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured green.

By Authority: W. A. G. SKINNER; (3(warnment Printer, Wellington.-1931