1875. 8 February.Whanganui District.This Deed made the eighth day of February one thousand eight hundred and seventy five Between Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the War DepartmentQueen's Park. of the one part and Her Most Gracious Majesty of the other part, whereas by letters patent or bearing date the third day of April one thousand eight hundred and fifty two under the hand of Sir George Grey then being the Governor in Chief and Commander in Chief of Her Majesty's territory of New Zealand and Governor of the Province of New Munster in the said territory and issued under the Seal of the said Province All that parcel of land therein and hereafter particularly described with all rights and appurtenances thereto belonging was granted by Her said Majesty unto the principal officers of Her Majesty's Ordnance for and on behalf of Her Majesty Her Heirs and successors for the service of the said Ordnance Department or such other public service as Her Majesty Her Heirs or successors should from time to time by order in Council be pleased to direct as therein mentioned, And Whereas Her Majesty in or about the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty five was pleased to revoke the letters patent of the said Principal officers of the Ordnance and to transfer all their duties to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the War Department, And Whereas in and by the 18 and 19 Vic. c. 117 all the lands and hereditaments then vested in the said principal officers of the late Board of Ordnance were transferred to and vested in Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the War Department in trust for Her Majesty aforesaid, And whereas the Fee simple of the said parcel of' land is now vested in Her Majesty or in the said Principal Secretary of State of the War Department and as it is no longer required to be vested in the said Principal Secretary of State it is proposed that he should surrender such estate and interest (if any) as may be vested in him to Her Majesty to the intent that the same and the freehold and inheritance thereof may vest in Her said Majesty in like manner as Reserves for General Government purposes are now vested in Her in Her said Colony of New Zealand, Now this Deed witnesseth that in consideration of the premises the said Principal Secretary of State for the War Department doth hereby convey surrender and assure unto Her said Majesty Queen Victoria her heirs and successors All that parcel of land situate in the town of Wanganui in the Province of' Wellington Colony of New Zealand containing by admeasurement nine acres one rood eight perches more or less being part of the land formerly known as the Queen's Park in the said townBoundaries.[9a. 1r. 8p.] and bounded as follows, commencing at a point on the Western side of Ridgeway street two hundred and fifty links from the North East corner of section number one hundred and seventy two in the said town thence towards the South West by Reserves A and E in the said town one thousand two hundred links, thence towards the North West and North East by the said Reserve E seven hundred and seventy five links and one thousand two hundred links respectively, and thence towards the South East by Ridgeway Street seven hundred and seventy five links to the commencing point as the same is more particularly delineated upon the map of the same town of Wanganui in the Provincial Survey Office Wellington aforesaid and upon the plan drawn in the margin hereof with all the rights and appurtenances whatsoever thereunto belonging, to hold the same with the appurtenances unto Her said Majesty Queen Victoria her heirs and successors to the intent and in the manner hereinbefore set forth. In page 257 Witness whereof Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the War Department hath hereunto set his hand and seal.

I, Herbert George Deedes, of the War Office, Pall Mall, in the County of Middlesex,Declaration of Lt.-Col. Herbert George Deedes Lieutenant-Colonel in Her Majesty's Army, Private Secretary to the Right Honorable Gathorne Hardy, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for War, do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows:—First, I was present and did see the Right Honorable Gathorne Hardy, named and described in the annexed Deed of Conveyance marked A bearing date the eighth day of February, 1875, duly sign, seal, and as his act and deed deliver the said Deed. Secondly, that the name Gathorne Hardy set opposite to the seal affixed at foot of the said Deed as the party executing the same, and the name Herbert George Deedes subscribed to the docquet of attestation thereon as witness to such execution, are veritably the signatures and proper handwritings of the said Right Honorable Gathorne Hardy and of me the declarant respectively. And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of an Act made and passed in the sixth year of the reign of His Majesty King William the Fourth intituled " An Act to repeal an Act of the present session of Parliament intituled ' An Act for the more effectual abolition of oaths and affirmations taken and made in various departments of the State, and to substitute declarations in lieu thereof, and for the more entire suppression of voluntary and extra-judicial oaths and affidavits, and to make other provisions for the abolition of unnecessary oaths.' "

To all to whom these present sall come: I, Tobias Gainsford Ridgway of London,Certificate of notary public. Notary Public, by Royal Authority duly admitted and sworn (and by the statute 5th and 6th William the Fourth, chapter 62, especially empowered in this behalf), do hereby certify that on the day of the date hereof, before me at the War Office, Pall Mall, London, personally came and appeared Henry George Deedes, named and described in the foregoing declaration, being a person well known and worthy of full credit, and by solemn declaration which the said Herbert George Deedes then made before me he did solemnly and sincerely declare to be true the several matters and things mentioned and contained in the said declaration.