The reservation over the several parcels of land described in the Schedule to this Act for the several purposes specified in that Schedule is hereby cancelled, and the said lands are hereby declared to be Crown lands available for disposal under the Land Act 1924.

(1) The reservation for the purposes of a public domain over Section 119, Parish of Whangarei, is hereby cancelled, and the appointment of the Kamo Town Board as the Tupua Domain Board is hereby revoked, and the said land is hereby declared to be Crown land available for disposal by way of sale for cash or on deferred payments under the provisions of the Land Act 1924.

(2) A sum or sums equal to the total price realized for such land may be paid, without further appropriation than this Act, out of the Land for Settlements Account as a charge against moneys received by that account from the sale of Crown lands; and may, with the approval of the Minister of Lands, be applied in the purchase of other land for the purposes of a public domain (including costs of survey and other incidental expenses); and the residue (if any) may, with the like approval as aforesaid, be paid to the Domain Board appointed to control such last-mentioned land, to be expended by such Board in the development as a public domain of the land so purchased.

(1) Upon payment by the said Council to the Newmarket Domain Account of such sum as may be fixed by the Valuer-General the Governor-General shall, by Warrant under his hand, cancel the reservation for the purposes of recreation over that portion of the Newmarket Domain described in subsection three hereof and the vesting of the control of such portion in the Newmarket Domain Board, and declare that land to be vested in the Corporation of the Borough of Newmarket in trust without power of sale as a site for municipal buildings.

(2) The Council shall, at any time before the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, be entitled to remove the aforesaid cottage on payment to the Newmarket Domain Account of such amount by way of compensation for the original building converted into the cottage as the Minister of Lands may determine.

(3) The land to which subsection one hereof relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the North Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement two roods thirteen and six-tenths perches, more or less, being portion of Allotment 33, Section 4, Suburbs of Auckland, and bounded as follows: towards the north by a railway reserve, 362.1 links; towards the east by a public street, 168.3 links; towards the south by the south portion of Allotment 33 aforesaid, 241 links; and towards the west by a public street, 263.6 links: be all the aforesaid linkages a little more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L and S 1/246, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured yellow.

(4) Section one hundred and twenty-three of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1921-22, is hereby repealed.

(1) The reservation for scenic purposes over the land hereinafter described is hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby reserved as a permanent State forest.

(2) The land so reserved as a permanent State forest is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement one thousand nine hundred and seventy acres, more or less, being part of Section 8, Block III, Paeroa Survey District, and bounded as follows: towards the north-east by Section 8, Block XV, Tarawera Survey District, and Crown lands, 11840.7 links; towards the south-east by Crown land, 15938.4 links; towards the south-west generally by the Galatea Road; towards the north-west, south-west, and south-east by Section 11, Block III, Paeroa Survey District, 2568.4 links, 1041.5 links, and 1983.7 links; towards the south-west and south-east by Section 7 of the aforesaid Block III, Paeroa Survey District, 2334.9 links and 1099.3 links; again towards the south-west by the aforesaid Galatea Road; and towards the north-west by other part of Section 8, Block III, Paeroa Survey District, 11022.3 links and 2077.1 links: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S 342, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

(1) The reservation for scenic purposes over the land hereinafter described is hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby reserved as a permanent State forest.

(2) The land so reserved as a permanent State forest is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement sixty acres two roods, more or less, being part of Section 5, Block VII, Paeroa Survey District, and bounded as follows: towards the north-east, south-east, and south-west by Crown land, 1870 links, 2701.8 links, and 3475 links respectively; and towards the west and north generally by a line 100 links distant from and on the southern side of the Blue Lake and a stream flowing from it: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S 331, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

Whereas by a Warrant published in the Gazette of the tenth day of November, nineteen hundred and four, Section 2, Paeroa Survey District, Auckland Land District, containing an area of one acre, was reserved as a site for a public pound: And whereas the said land has never been used for the purpose for which it was set apart, and being situated within the boundaries of the Waiotapu Plantation it is expedient that it be set aside for State-forest purposes: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The reservation as a site for a public pound over the aforesaid Section 2, Block VII, Paeroa Survey District, is hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby reserved as a permanent State forest

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in paragraph (b) of section nine of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1914, a lessee of a change-paddock under that section may from time to time, with the consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands appointed under section 12A of the Survey Act 1986 and the approval of the Minister of Lands, transfer or sublet his lease:

Provided that such consent and approval shall not be granted unless the person to whom the lease is to be transferred or sublet is already the holder of a lease of a change-paddock under the said section nine, whether he has since acquired the freehold of his original holding or not, or is eligible under the said section nine to acquire such a lease.

(2) In the case of the transfer of a lease under the foregoing provisions of this section the transferee shall have and may exercise all the rights of the transferor under section nine of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1914, and the lease shall remain subject to the provisions thereof, as varied by this section with respect to the right of transfer and subletting. For the purpose of giving effect to this section the term original holding in the said section nine shall mean the land in the occupation of the transferee by virtue of which he is entitled to obtain a lease of a change-paddock.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Public Reserves and Domains Act 1908, the Governor-General may grant to the Corporation of the Borough of Rotorua a lease over the land described in subsection two hereof for any term not exceeding twenty-one years, with a right of renewal for a further term not exceeding twenty-one years, upon such terms and conditions as he thinks fit to impose.

(2) The land to which this section relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing 1.65 perches, more or less, and being part of Section 4, Block XXIII, Town of Rotorua: bounded on the north by Arawa Street, 22.72 links; on the east by other part of said Section 4, 45.45 links; on the south by other part of said Section 4, 22.72 links; and on the west by Section 3, 45.45 links: be all the aforesaid linkages a little more or less.

(1) The reservation for the purposes of a public domain over Section 4, Block IV, Aroha Survey District, containing one hundred and twenty acres, is hereby cancelled, and the appointment of the Waihi Borough Council as the Domain Board to control portion of the said land is hereby revoked.

(2) The said land shall be available for disposal by way of sale for cash or on deferred payment under the provisions of the Land Act 1924.

(3) A sum or sums equal to the total price realized for such land may be paid, without further appropriation than this Act, out of the Land for Settlements Account as a charge against moneys received by that account from the sale of Crown lands; and may, with the approval of the Minister of Lands, be applied in the purchase of other land for the purposes of a public domain, or paid to the Public Trustee for credit of the sinking fund of the Waihi Beach Loan raised by the Waihi Borough Council in connection with the acquisition of land at Waihi Beach for the purposes of a public recreation and pleasure ground.

(1) The Governor-General may, by Warrant under his hand, cancel the reservation over so much of the reserve for the purposes of electric telegraphs hereinafter described as is not required for such purposes, and may declare the land over which such reservation is so cancelled to be Crown land available for disposal under the provisions of the Land Act 1924.

(2) The reserve to which this section relates was set apart for the purposes of electric telegraph by an Order in Council under the Waste Lands Act 1858, published in the Gazette of the twentieth day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and therein described as follows:—

“All that parcel of land being so much and such part of the waste lands of the Crown in the Province of Auckland as is included between two lines drawn on each side of and parallel to and at a distance of a chain from the line of electric telegraph laid down in the said province from Auckland to Cambridge, Kihikihi, Alexandra, to Napier, is required for purposes of the electric telegraph.”

(1) The said lands are hereby declared to be permanently reserved as an endowment for a secondary school in the Borough of Rotorua.

(2) All moneys standing to the credit of the special deposit account within the Public Account, called the Rotorua College and Grammar School Account, whether derived as revenue from the said lands or by way of refund from the Auckland Provincial District Secondary Education Endowments Deposit Account, and all future moneys from either source credited to the first-mentioned account, shall be applied as follows:—

• (a) The Minister of Finance shall from time to time, without further appropriation than this section, apply such moneys in payment of the cost of erection of a secondary school at Rotorua.

• (b) Any further moneys available from such sources shall from time to time, without further appropriation than this section, be paid by the Minister of Finance to the governing body of the secondary school as aforesaid, to be applied for the purposes of the said secondary school

(3) On the constitution under the Education Act 1914, of the governing body of the secondary school to be established at Rotorua as aforesaid the Governor-General may, by Warrant under his hand, vest the said lands in the said governing body, to be held in trust as an endowment for the said secondary school, but subject to any leases then in existence in respect of the said lands.

(4) Upon the vesting of the said lands in the governing body as aforesaid the revenue from the said lands shall no longer be paid into the Rotorua College and Grammar School Account, but to the said governing body, to be applied by it for the purposes of the trust.

(5) The lands to which this section relates are particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Auckland Land District having a total area of sixteen acres and eighteen perches, more or less, being Blocks XLIII, XLIV, XLV, XLVI, XLVII, Town of Rotorua.

Whereas the Paeroa Borough Council is the Domain Board having control of the Paeroa Domain: And whereas it was authorized by a poll of the ratepayers of the Borough of Paeroa to borrow a sum of two thousand dollars to be expended on the said domain: And whereas by an Order in Council published in the Gazette of the twenty-seventh day of September, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, the rate of interest to be paid in respect of such loan was prescribed to be a rate not exceeding five and three-quarters per centum per annum: And whereas the said Council sold the debentures issued in respect of such loan at such a price as produced to the holders thereof interest at a greater rate than that so prescribed: And whereas the said Council had no authority of law to borrow for such purpose as aforesaid: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act, the Paeroa Borough Council shall be deemed for all purposes to have been lawfully empowered to borrow the said sum of two thousand dollars and to expend the same in its capacity as the Paeroa Domain Board, and the sale by it of debentures in respect thereof at such a rate as produced to the holders interest at a greater rate than five and three quarters per centum per annum is hereby validated.

Whereas the land described in certificate of title, Volume 17, folio 54, Gisborne Registration District, being parts of Blocks V and XII, Waiau Survey District, is an education endowment held under lease numbered 4057 by George Morris Reynolds, of Ormond, sheep-farmer, under the Education Reserves Amendment Act 1910, and the Public Bodies' Leases Act 1908: And whereas the said lessee, having effected improvements of considerable value upon the said land without obtaining the prior consent thereto of the Gisborne Land Board as required by the said lease, is thereby deprived of his right under the said lease to payment for such improvements from any future tenant by way of lease of the said land: And whereas it is considered equitable that the said lessee shall not be penalized for his failure to obtain such consent: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Gisborne Land Board is hereby empowered to give its consent to the improvements effected by the lessee on the aforesaid land, and such consent shall have effect as if it had been given under the covenants of the hereinbefore-mentioned lease prior to such improvements having been effected.

(1) The lessees hereinafter named are hereby granted exemption from all conditions as to residence imposed by their respective leases or by the Land Act 1924, but such exemption shall not apply to their successors in title, whether Native or European.

(2) The lessees to whom this section relates, and the lands in the Mangaoporo Survey District, Gisborne Land District, in respect of which exemption from residential conditions is granted to them as aforesaid, are as follows:—

(1) The reservation for the purposes of a public domain over Section 31, Block II, Ohura Survey District, containing nineteen acres three roods thirty-seven perches, and known as the Niho Domain, is hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby declared to be Crown land available for disposal for cash or on deferred payment under the Land Act 1924.

(2) The Board controlling the said land and known as the Niho Domain Board is hereby dissolved.

(3) A sum or sums equal to the total price realized for such land may be paid, without further appropriation than this section, out of the Land for Settlements Account as a charge against moneys received by that account from the sale of Crown lands, and shall be applied in or towards the purchase of other land for the purposes of a public domain (including costs of survey and other incidental expenses), and the residue of such moneys (if any) shall be paid to the Domain Board that may be appointed to control any land so purchased, to be expended by it in the development of such land as a public domain.

Schedule 1 to the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1925, is hereby amended as from the date of the passing thereof by omitting from the item numbered six in that Schedule the description of the land referred to in that item, and substituting the following description, namely:—

All that area in the Taranaki Land District, being Lot 1 of Section 2, Block II, Kapara Survey District, containing by admeasurement one hundred and thirty-three acres, more or less, and bounded as follows: commencing at a point on the west side of Rotokohu Road adjacent to survey peg No XXI, and proceeding thence generally westerly, 2695.6 links; thence generally northerly, 7738.3 links; thence generally easterly, 2728.7 links (maintaining a distance of not less than ten chains from Rotokohu Lake) to the eastern boundary of Section 2, Block II, Kapara Survey District (scenic reserve), as described in Gazette No 58, page 1504, of the twenty-second day of June, nineteen hundred and five; thence generally southerly along the east boundary of the said Section 2 to the point of commencement: excluding all that portion of Rotokohu Road contained within this description: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S 262A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered green.

(1) The reservation for scenic purposes over the land hereinafter described is hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby declared to be Crown land available for disposal under the Land Act 1924.

(2) The land to which this section relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement five acres two roods sixteen perches, more or less, situated in Block V, Ruahine Survey District: bounded towards the west and north generally by the Rangitane Road; towards the east by Section 2A (forest and scenic reserve), Block V, Ruahine Survey District; and towards the south and south-east generally by a road reserve along the right bank of the Kawatau River: as the same is delineated on a plan marked 235/8, deposited in the Wellington District Office, Department of Lands and Survey, and thereon coloured green.

(3) Section one hundred and nine of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1924, is hereby repealed.

(1) Upon payment by the Postmaster-General to the State Advances Account of the sum of two thousand dollars the Governor-General may, by Warrant under his hand, declare the said land to be permanently reserved as a site for an automatic telephone exchange.

(2) The land to which this section relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Wellington Land District situated in the City of Wellington, containing by admeasurement thirty-four and thirty-four hundredths perches, be the same a little more or less, being Part 2 of Lot 1 of Block VIII on deposited plan 6174, and being part of Sections 9 and 13, Watts Peninsula Registration District, Blocks VII and XI, Port Nicholson Survey District: as the same is more particularly delineated on plan numbered 256/5, deposited in the Wellington District Office of the Department of Lands and Survey, and thereon bordered blue.

(1) The reservation for signal-station purposes over the land hereinafter described is hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby reserved as a site for a post-office.

(2) The land to which this section relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area situated in the City of Wanganui, in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement one rood and eight and fifty-six hundredths perches, more or less, being Part 2 of Lot 102 on deposited plan 264, Town of Castlecliff, and bounded as follows: towards the north-west by Cross Street, 100 links; towards the east generally by other part of Lot 102, 169.1 links and 169.1 links; towards the south-west by Heads Road, 100 links; and towards the west generally by Part 1 of Lot 102, 134.4 links and 134.4 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L and S 6/3/352, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Wanganui River Trust Act 1891, and the Public Reserves and Domains Act 1908, and the amendments of those Acts, the timber growing on the land hereinafter described may be disposed of by way of sale, subject to the conditions hereinafter mentioned.

(2) For the purpose of disposing of the said timber and supervising the milling operations in connection with the removal of the same from the said land the Commissioner of State Forests shall have all the powers conferred on him by and under the Forests Act 1921-22, in respect of State forests.

(3) There shall be paid into the State Forests Account a sum equal to ten per centum of the sum or sums realized from the disposal of such timber in full satisfaction of all costs incurred by the Commissioner of State Forests in connection with such disposal and supervision as aforesaid.

(4) The remainder of the sum or sums so realized shall be used in or towards the purchase by the Wanganui River Trust Domain Board for domain purposes of other lands approved by the Minister of Lands or in or towards the improvement, maintenance, and protection of the domain or other lands now or hereafter placed under the control of the management of the said Board, and until so used shall be invested in such manner as the Minister of Finance may from time to time approve.

(5) Moneys derived by way of interest from any investments under this section shall be available for expenditure as ordinary revenue of the Domain Board.

(6) The provisions of section 17 of the Finance Act 1924, and section 357 of the Land Act 1924, shall not apply to the proceeds derived from the sale of any timber pursuant to the powers conferred by this section.

(7) The land to which this section relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement forty-seven acres, more or less, being Reserve E, Wanganui River Trust Domain, situated in Block I, Hunua Survey District: as the same is delineated on plan numbered 270/20H, deposited in the Wellington District Office, Department of Lands and Survey, and thereon bordered blue.

(1) The said appointment by Letters Patent is hereby validated, and the Public Trustee shall hold the land hereinafter described, together with the premises erected thereon and all rights appurtenant thereto or held in connection therewith, in trust for His Majesty in respect of the Government of New Zealand, according to the tenor of the said Letters Patent.

(2) The land to which this section relates is all that land situate at the corner of Agar Street and The Strand, in the City of London, in the County of Middlesex, England, being an area having a frontage of fifty feet to The Strand by a depth of one hundred feet to Agar Street.

(1) The land hereinafter described is hereby vested in the Nelson Harbour Board in trust as an endowment, and the Governor-General may, by Warrant under his hand, authorize the issue to the said Board of a certificate of title in respect of the said land.

(2) The land to which this section relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Nelson Land District, containing by admeasurement one acre three roods eighteen perches, more or less, being Section 1132, City of Nelson, and bounded as follows: on the north-east by portion of the Nelson Harbour Board's endowment known as the Boulder Bank, 216 links; on the south-east by high-water mark of Nelson Haven; on the south-west by portion of the aforesaid Boulder Bank, 229 links; and on the north-west by high-water mark of Tasman Bay: be all the aforesaid linkages a little more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L and S 22/2124A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

(1) The reservation for scenic purposes over the hereinafter-described portion of the said Reserve 1191 is hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby set apart as a resting-place for travelling stock.

(2) The land so set apart as a resting-place for travelling stock is particularly described as follows:—

All that parcel of land in the Westland Land District, containing by admeasurement twenty-three acres, more or less, being part of Reserve 1191, situated in Block III, Mount Bonar Survey District, and bounded on the north by other part of Reserve 1191, 954 links; on the east by the other part of Reserve 1191, 2489.2 links; on the south by Section 3143, 1014 links; on the west by the Main South Road, 628.1 and 1272.3 links; again on the north by Reserve 887, 250 links; again on the west by Reserve 887, 300 links; on the south by Reserve 887, 250 links; and again on the west by Main South Road, 267.8 and 39.8 links: be all the aforesaid linkages a little more or less: as the same is more particularly delineated on plan marked L and S 578/2, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

(1) The reservation for the purposes of a public domain over the land hereinafter described and the vesting of the control thereof in the Minister of the Crown for the time being having the administration of the Tourist and Health Resorts Control Act 1908, are hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby declared to be Crown land subject to the provisions of the Land Act 1924.

(2) The land to which this section relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement six acres three roods thirty-two perches, more or less, and being part of Reserve 3656, situated in Blocks I and II, Lyndon Survey District, and bounded as follows: towards the north by Section 21, Hanmer Plains, 250.6 links; towards the east generally by the Christchurch-Hanmer Road, 562.3, 1828.7, and 564.1 links; towards the south-west and west generally by other part of Reserve 3656, 250, 458.5, 1644.6, and 501.3 links: 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.

(1) On provision being made to the satisfaction of the Minister charged for the time being with the administration of the Scenery Preservation Act 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the Minister), for relieving from liability as guarantors all persons who have guaranteed payment to the Bank of New Zealand of moneys owing to it by the Summit Road and Reserves Association (Incorporated), the Governor-General may revoke the vesting in the Summit Road Scenic Reserves Board of the control of the reserves described in subsection five hereof and vest such control in the Board of Trustees of the Port Hills - Akaroa Summit Road Public Trust (Incorporated), hereinafter called the Trustees, subject to the following conditions, namely:—

• (a) The Trustees shall maintain and keep in good order, condition, and repair the said reserves and the buildings and improvements for the time being thereon in accordance with the Scenery Preservation Act 1908, and the regulations for the time being in force thereunder.

• (b) The houses and buildings for the time being on the said reserves shall be maintained and administered by the Trustees as places of public resort for persons using the Port Hills-Summit Road.

• (c) The net income derived from the said reserves, including the profits arising from the places of public resort thereon, shall be applicable to—

  • (i) Any of the purposes mentioned in section one hundred and four of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1921-22:

  • (ii) The keeping-down of rabbits and noxious weeds on the land, fencing and other purposes relating to protection of the reserves, payment of caretakers' salaries, and making pathways for giving access to scenic attractions:

  • (iii) Such other purposes as may from time to time be approved by the Minister.

• (d) The Audit Office shall be the auditor of the Trustees, and shall have the same powers and duties in respect of the moneys and accounts of the Trustees in respect of their control of the said reserves and of every person dealing with them in connection with those reserves as if the Trustees were a local authority within the meaning of the Public Revenues Act 1910.

• (e) The Trustees shall keep such accounts, and in such form as the Audit Office approves, of all moneys received and expended by them in respect of their control of the said reserves.

(2) The Trustees, in respect of their control of the said reserves, shall for all purposes be deemed to be a special Board constituted by the Governor-General for the purposes of the Scenery Preservation Act 1908, and the powers exercisable by them pursuant to the last preceding subsection shall be in addition to and not in substitution for any powers conferred on them by that Act.

(3) While the control of the said reserves is vested in the Trustees as aforesaid the Minister may, on the recommendation of the Trustees, grant to any person or persons a lease of the whole or any part of any of the said reserves for any period not exceeding twenty-one years, subject to such terms and conditions as he thinks fit to impose. All moneys payable by the lessee under any such lease shall be paid to the Trustees, and shall be applicable by them to any of the purposes mentioned in paragraph (c) of subsection one hereof.

(4) If at any time the Trustees fail to comply to the satisfaction of the Minister with any of the conditions subject to which the control of the said reserves is vested in them pursuant to subsection one hereof, the Governor-General may, by Warrant under his hand, revoke such vesting, and thereupon the Trustees shall pay into the Public Account all moneys then held by them in connection with their control of the said reserves.

(5) The scenic reserves to which this section relates are the following reserves in the Canterbury Land District:—

(1) The reservation as a General Government reserve for military purposes over the land hereinafter described is hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby vested in the Corporation of the Borough of Timaru as a place of public recreation and enjoyment for the inhabitants of the said borough and the public generally, to be held under and subject in all respects to the provisions of the Timaru Public Park and Garden Domain Reserve and Otipua Domain Reserve Vesting Act 1895.

(2) Upon application in that behalf being made by the Timaru Borough Council the District Land Registrar for the Canterbury Land Registration District shall issue to the said Corporation a certificate of title in respect of the said land.

(3) The land to which this section relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement two acres three roods twenty-six perches, more or less, being Lot 2 of Reserve 102, Borough of Timaru, and bounded as follows: towards the west by the Great Southern Railway, 535.7 links; towards the north by other part of Reserve 102, 726.7 links; and towards the south-east and south by a road reserve, 704.1 and 319 links respectively: be all the aforesaid linkages a little more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L and S 6/11/35, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

(1) The existing reservation over all the lands hereinafter described and the vesting in the Mackenzie County Council in trust as a gravel reserve of the land thirdly so described are hereby cancelled, and the said lands are hereby vested in the Corporation of the Mackenzie County in trust for forestry purposes, subject to the following Conditions:—

• (a) The Mackenzie County Council shall, within six months after the passing of this Act, prepare a general forest working-plan of future operations to cover a period of not less than five years; such working-plan shall specify fully the silvicultural operations proposed to be carried on during the currency of the plan and such other matters as the Director of Forestry thinks fit.

• (b) It shall not be lawful for the said Council to carry on such silvicultural operations unless and until such plan has been approved by the Commissioner of State Forests, and all such operations shall be carried on according to such plan as approved by the said Commissioner and under the supervision of the Director of Forestry.

• (c) The Council may dispose of, by private sale, tender, or auction, any timber, trees, tree-seeds, firewood, or any forest-produce on or from the reserves herein referred to.

• (d) All moneys received as rents, fees, proceeds of sale of forest-produce, or otherwise from the said reserves shall be spent solely on the administration, management, and development for forestry purposes and other purposes incidental thereto of any reserves vested in the Corporation of the said county for forestry purposes or any freehold lands held by the said Corporation.

• (e) The said Council, with the consent of the Governor-General first had and obtained, may exchange any area of land subject to this section for the fee-simple of any other land which is deemed to be more suitable for forestry purposes, and on any such exchange may pay or receive by way of equality of exchange any sum not exceeding twenty-five per centum of the estimated value of the land so exchanged.

• (f) The said Council may from time to time make such by-laws, not inconsistent with this section, as may be deemed necessary for the more efficient control and administration of the said reserves, and such by-laws may provide for a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars for any breach of any such by-laws. No such by-law shall have force or effect unless and until approved by the Commissioner of State Forests and until a notice of such approval has been published in the Gazette.

• (g) In April of each year the said Council shall furnish to the Commissioner of State Forests a report for the year ending on the preceding thirty-first day of March, presenting in complete detail full particulars of the technical operations, and of the administration of all the reserves vested hereby in the said Corporation, and of the financial operations relating thereto, and shall at the same time submit a plan of operations and management for the ensuing year, which shall be effective on approval by the Commissioner of State Forests.

(2) The lands to which this section relates are particularly described as follows:—

Firstly, all that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement sixty-nine acres three roods thirty perches, more or less, and being part of Reserves 1896 and 1708, situated in Block VIII, Opawa Survey District, and Blocks V and IX, Pareora Survey District, and bounded as follows: towards the north-west by Rural Section 19254; towards the north-east by the Timaru-Fairlie Road and Railway; towards the east by Rural Section 21176; and again towards the south-west by Rural Sections 25376, 25372, 25105, 25178, 25120, 28725, and 27876: save and except thereout parts of Reserves 1708 and 1709 and the intersecting roads.

Also all that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement eight acres two roods thirty-four perches, more or less, and being other part of Reserve 1896, situated in Block VIII, Opawa Survey District, and bounded as follows: towards the north-east by the Timaru-Fairlie Road and Railway; towards the south-east by a public road; and again towards the south-west and north-west by Rural Section 18805: save and except thereout the intersecting road.

As the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S 47270, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured violet.

Secondly, all that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement four acres one rood thirty-seven perches, more or less, and being part of Reserve 1709, situated in Block V, Pareora Survey District, and bounded as follows: towards the north-east by the Mackenzie Road; towards the south-east by Reserve 1896; again towards the south-east, towards the south-west, and towards the north-west by Rural Section 25372, and again towards the north-west by other part of Reserve 1896: save and except the intersecting road: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S 47270A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

Thirdly, all that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement four acres one rood ten perches, more or less, and being part of Reserve 1708, situated in Block VIII, Opawa Survey District, and bounded as follows: towards the north-east by other part of Reserve 1708; towards the south-east by Reserve 1896; again towards the south-east, towards the south-west, and towards the north-west by Rural Section 25120; and again towards the north-west by other part of Reserve 1896: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S 47270B, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in section one hundred and thirty-four of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1922, the Mackenzie County Council may apply the whole or any part of the revenue derived from the reserves vested under that section towards the cost of administration, management, and development for forestry purposes and other purposes incidental thereto of any reserves vested in the said Corporation for forestry purposes or any freehold lands held by the said Council.

The reduction of the capital value of Sections 1A and 7A, Conical Hills Settlement, in the Otago Land District, to three thousand two hundred dollars for the purpose of facilitating their disposal under the Land for Settlements Act 1925, on renewable lease is hereby declared to have been lawfully made by the Minister of Lands, anything to the contrary in section fifty-four of the said Act notwithstanding.

(1) The Governor-General may, by Warrant under his hand, authorize the issue of a certificate of title to the Cromwell Athenaeum in respect of the areas described in subsections two and three hereof, and thereupon the said areas shall be subject to all the provisions of the Cromwell Athenaeum Reserves Act 1877, as if they had been included in the Schedules to that Act, and the area described in the said subsection three shall be deemed to be discharged from any previous reservation affecting the same.

(2) The portion of Crown land hereinbefore referred to is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement sixteen-hundredths of a perch, more or less, being part of Section 4, Block III, Town of Cromwell: bounded towards the north-west by other part of Section 4, 10 links; towards the north-east by part Section 38, 10 links; towards the south-east by other part of Section 4, 10 links; and towards the south-west by other part of Section 4, 10 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked PWD 65621, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, and thereon edged blue.

(3) The portion of the reserve for sites for public buildings or other purposes of the General Government hereinbefore referred to is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement ten and seven-tenths perches, more or less, being part of Section 38, Block III. Town of Cromwell, and bounded as follows: towards the north-west by Section 7, Block III, Town of Cromwell, 100 links; towards the north-east by Section 37, 66.67 links; towards the south-east by other part of Section 38, 100 links; and towards the south-west by Sections 5 and 6, 66.67 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan referred to in the last preceding subsection and thereon edged red.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section fifty-four of the Land for Settlements Act 1925, any unoccupied allotment of land in the Clifton, Wairuna, or Westcott Settlements, in the Otago Land District, may be offered for selection on renewable lease at such capital value as may be fixed by the Minister.

(1) The Land Board of the Otago Land District is hereby authorized and empowered to accept the surrender of the existing lease of any allotment of land in Clifton or Westcott Settlements and to grant to the holder thereof a new renewable lease under the Land for Settlements Act 1925, over such area of land in the same settlement as is, in the opinion of the said Board, sufficient for the maintenance of the holder and his family.

(2) The rental of any renewable lease granted under the authority of this section shall be at the annual rate of four dollars and fifty cents per centum on such capital value as may be fixed by the Minister.

(1) An application by the lessee of any land hereinafter described for a revaluation of the land comprised in his lease may, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in subsection (6) of section 216 of the Land Act 1924, be received at any time after the commencement of the term of the lease, and, subject to the next succeeding subsection, be dealt with under that section as if it had been received within the period fixed in that behalf by the said subsection (6).

(2) If on a revaluation of land under this section the value as then determined, exclusive of the value of improvements effected by the lessee, is less than the capital value of the land on which the rent is based, the rent payable under the lease shall, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in subsection (4) of the said section 216, be proportionately reduced as from the first day of January, nineteen hundred and twenty-six.

(3) The lands to which this section relates are the following lands in the Otago Land District:—

(1) The Otago Harbour Board may agree with the Minister of Public Works to accept a surrender of the aforesaid lease, and to grant to the Crown in lieu thereof a lease over the land hereinafter described for the remainder of the term for which such first-mentioned lease was granted and upon the same conditions as in that lease.

(2) All costs and expenses incurred in connection with such surrender and grant shall be borne by the said Board, which shall also pay to the Crown such sum, not exceeding three hundred dollars, as may be agreed on as the cost of removing improvements and material from the land in respect of which such lease as aforesaid is surrendered to the land in respect of which such lease in lieu thereof is granted.

(3) The land to which this section relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area of land in the City of Dunedin, Otago Land District, comprising two acres two roods thirty and thirty-six hundredths perches, more or less: bounded on the south-west by Wickliffe Street, on the south-east by Sturdee Street, on the north-west by Jutland Street, and on the north-east by a line parallel to Halsey Street; the said streets being more particularly delineated on the plan marked PWD 67052, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.

(1) The Gore Borough Council may, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act, transfer to His Majesty the King the land described in subsection three hereof freed and discharged from any reservation theretofore affecting the same, and thereupon the Governor-General shall, by Order in Council,—

• (a) Declare that land to be a recreation reserve subject to the provisions of Part 2 of the Public Reserves and Domains Act 1908, and to form part of the Gore Domain; and

• (b) Cancel the reservation for domain purposes over the land described in subsection four hereof and declare it to be vested in the Corporation of the Borough of Gore in trust without power of sale as a municipal endowment.

(2) All revenue derived by the Gore Borough Council from the land referred to in paragraph (b) of the last preceding subsection shall be paid by it into the Gore Domain Account, and shall be applied, subject to the provisions of the Public Reserves and Domains Act 1908, in or towards the maintenance and improvement of the said domain.

(3) The land that may be transferred to His Majesty by the Gore Borough Council as aforesaid is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Southland Land District, being Section 25, Block XVI, Town of Gore, containing by admeasurement six acres three roods seven perches, more or less: bounded on the north by Section 26, Block XVI aforesaid; on the east by Main Street; on the south by Section 24, Block XVI aforesaid; and on the west by Broughton Street.

(4) The land which may be vested in the Corporation of the Borough of Gore pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection one hereof is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Southland Land District in the Town of Gore, containing by admeasurement four acres two roods thirty and two-tenths perches, more or less: bounded towards the north by Oldham Street, 803.4 links; towards the east by Gorton Street, 505 links; towards the south by Hyde Street, 1077.2 links; and towards the north-west by railway reserve, 574 links.