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1949 NEW ZEALAND

DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEY SCENERY PRESERVATION REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st MARCH, 1949, TOGETHER WITH STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURE AND SCHEDULE OF LANDS ACQUIRED AND RESERVED DURING THE YEAR UNDER THE SCENERY PRESERVATION ACT

Presented to Both Houses of the General Assembly Pursuant to Section 17 of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908

Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, 22nd July, 1949. Sir,I have the honour to submit herewith a report on scenery preservation for the year ended 31st March, 1949. I have, &c., D. M. Greig, Director-General of Lands. The Hon. the Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation, Wellington.

REPORT Proclamations issued during the year setting apart land as scenic reserves under tlie Scenery Preservation Act throughout the Dominion covered a total area of 3,902 acres. In the North Auckland Land District an area of about 6 acres (formerly quarry reserve) comprising a bold bluff overlooking a main road and the Waikato River near Tuakau was set aside as a scenic reserve and placed under the control of the Tuakau Town Board. It adjoins the old Alexandra Redoubt and is clothed in light native bush. Scenic and historic values are happily intermingled in this instance. An exchange of areas was arranged in the Waipu District whereby the reservation over an open portion