Transfer of Unformed Legal Road and Declaring the Areas Transferred and Other Land to be Held for Conservation Purposes 1. Pursuant to section 323 of the Local Government Act 1974, the Minister for Food, Fibre, Biosecurity and Border Control, hereby declares that the land in the First Schedule hereto has been transferred to the Crown by the Southland District Council, pursuant to the said section 323, and shall cease to be road and shall be deemed to be Crown land, subject to the Land Act 1948. 2. Further, pursuant to section 7 (1) of the Conservation Act 1987, the Minister of Conservation and the Minister for Food, Fibre, Biosecurity and Border Control, being the Minister responsible for the department of State that has control of the land, jointly declare the land in the First Schedule hereto, having been deemed to be Crown land in terms of 1. above, and the land in the Second Schedule hereto, to be held for conservation purposes and the areas shall be so held. 3. Pursuant to section 7 (1a) of the Conservation Act 1987, the Minister of Conservation, hereby declares the land in the Third Schedule hereto, excluding the beds of the Waitutu and Wairaurahiri Rivers already declared to be held for conservation purposes in terms of 2. above, to be held for conservation purposes and it shall be so held. Southland Land District Southland District First Schedule 222.8000 hectares, more or less, being all that area of road; shown as ``A'' on S.O. Plan 12308. 1.7000 hectares, more or less, being all that area of road; shown as ``B'' on S.O. Plan 12308. 92.7000 hectares, more or less, being all that area of road; shown as ``C'' on S.O. Plan 12308. 3.6000 hectares, more or less, being all that area of road; shown as ``D'' on S.O. Plan 12308. Second Schedule That part of the bed of the Waitutu River from the boundary of the Fiordland National Park, being 40 metres downstream from the outlet of Lake Poteriteri in the north, to the line of Mean High Water Springs at the mouth of the said river in the south, and more particularly as shown within the area marked as ``A'' on S.O. Plan 11763 and being situated within the Waitutu Survey District. That part of the bed of the Wairaurahiri River from the boundary of the Fiordland National Park (S.R. 1978/333) in the north, to a line across the bed of the said river, such line be a prolongation of the line of the northern boundary of Section 8, Block XII, Rowallan Survey District in the south and more particularly shown within the area marked ``A'' on S.O. Plan 11763 and being situated in the Rowallan and Waitutu Survey Districts. The bed of Lake Innes more particularly shown as Parcel ``B'' on S.O. Plan 11763 and containing 70.4000 hectares and being situated in the Hakapoua Survey District. Third Schedule 46507.2000 hectares, more or less, being all that parcel of land; shown as ``A'' on S.O. Plan 11763. 1203.2000 hectares, more or less, being all that parcel of land; shown as ``C'' on S.O. Plan 11763. 419.2000 hectares, more or less, being all that parcel of land; shown as ``D'' on S.O. Plan 11763. Dated at Wellington this 1st day of July 1999. Hon. JOHN LUXTON, the Minister for Food, Fibre, Biosecurity and Border Control. Hon. NICK SMITH, Minister of Conservation. (DOC C.O. NAT 008)1CL