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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1869.

VICTORIA, by the Grace of God of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen,
Defender of the Faith, and so forth:

To Our Trusty and Loving Subject, George
Williams, Doctor of Medicine, Greeting:

WHEREAS on the fifteenth day of September,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine,
Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross
of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael
and St. George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
in and over Our Colony of New Zealand, did issue
in Council a Commission in Our name appointing
certain persons named therein to inquire into and
report upon the Manufacture of New Zealand Flax,
as well as the Cultivation of other varieties of Flax,
and to recommend the best means of promoting that
Manufacture in the Colony of New Zealand:

And whereas it is desirable to appoint an addi-
tional person to the aforesaid Commission:

Now know ye that We, reposing great trust and
confidence in your knowledge and ability, have
authorized and appointed, and by these presents do
authorize and appoint you,

GEORGE WILLIAMS,

to be an additional Commissioner for the purposes
and with the powers specified in the said Commis-
sion, which Commission continues in full force and
virtue, anything herein notwithstanding.

In testimony whereof We have caused these Our
Letters to be made Patent, and the Seal of Our
said Colony to be hereunto affixed.

Witness Our Trusty and Well-beloved Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George, Our
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Our Colony of New Zealand
and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral
of the same; and issued at Auckland, in
New Zealand aforesaid, on the second
day of November, in the year of Our

Lord, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-nine, and in the thirty-third year
of Our reign.
G. F. BOWEN.

Approved in Council.
HENRY D. PITT, Captain, R.A.,
Private Secretary
(for Clerk of the Executive Council).

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the fourth clause of "The Native
Lands Act, 1867," it is made lawful for the
Governor of New Zealand, by Proclamation, to define
Districts within which the operation of "The Native
Lands Act, 1865," and "The Native Lands Act,
1867," or any of the provisions thereof, shall be sus-
pended:

Now I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, G.C.M.G.,
Governor of New Zealand, in Council, do hereby
proclaim and declare that the provisions of the
above-mentioned Acts shall be suspended, and are
suspended, within the district described in the
Schedule hereto appended.

Given under the Hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, at the Government
House, at Auckland; and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, this four-
teenth day of October, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-nine.

DONALD MCLEAN.

SCHEDULE.

All that land supposed to be the property of the
Native Raku Raku, containing three thousand acres,
and situated in the Waimana Block, as the same was
recently surveyed by Messrs. Simpson and Pitcairn.