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1882. NEW ZEALAND.

EXCHANGE OF LAND (PAPERS RELATIVE TO AN).

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly in pursuance of Section 148 of " The Land Act, 1877."

Exchahge of Land in the Pbovincial Disteict of Castteebtjby.

James Peendeegast, Administrator of the Government. "Wheeeas by the one hundred and forty-eighth section of " The Land Act, 1877," power is given to the Governor to exchange any land set apart as a reserve for other land of equal value as he may think fit, and to make a Crown grant thereof accordingly : Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, Chief Justice of the Colony of New Zealand, and Administrator of the Government thereof, in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the said Act, do hereby declare that the land mentioned in the first column of the Schedule hereto shall be exchanged for the land mentioned in the second column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE. Description and Purpose of Reserve intended to be Description of Land to be Obtained in Exchanged. ■ Exchange therefor. Section No. 1429 (in red) in the Ashburton District, Pro- All that parcel of land in the Hinds vincial District of Canterbury. For a gravel-pit. Described Survey District, Provincial District of in the Provincial Government Gazette, dated 18th February, Canterbury, containing 13 acres and 36 1874, as containing 12 acres, and found on survey to con- perches, more or less, being part of Sectain 14 acres 3 roods 20 perches. Of which it is proposed tion No. 8402. Bounded—Northward to exchange 13 acres and 36 perches. Bounded —North- by Reserve No. 1429 (in red) ; Eastward ward by Sections Nos. 6811 and 16855, 1104 and 448 links by the Longbeach Eoad, 964 links ; respectively ; Eastward by the Longbeach Eoad, 1012 links; Southward by a road-line; and WestSouthward by a line at right angles to the eastern boundary; ward by Section No. 6812. and Westward by Section No. 6812.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, this nineteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one. ¥m. Eolleston, Minister of Lands.

Authority: Q-eoeqb Didsotjby, Government Printer, Wellington.—lBB2.