THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

the Governor in Council may make orders from time
to time, directing that the provisions thereinafter in
that part of the said Act contained, or any of them, be
put in force in New Zealand, or in such parts thereof
or in such places therein as in such orders respectively
may be expressed, and may in like manner revoke or
renew any such order; and, subject to revocation or
renewal as aforesaid, every such order shall be in
force for six calendar months from the publication of
such order, or for such shorter period as in such order
shall be expressed, and no longer; and every such
order shall be published in the General Government
Gazette, and such publication shall be conclusive
evidence of such order to all intents and purposes;
and none of the said provisions shall be in force in
any part of New Zealand until an order directing the
same to be put in force shall have been made and
published as aforesaid: And whereas by an Order in
Council bearing date the seventeenth day of Septem-
ber, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three,
last, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of
the eighteenth day of September, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-three, His Excellency the
Governor did thereby, in exercise and pursuance
of all power and authority in that behalf in him
vested, direct that the provisions contained in the
sections of the said Act numbered from twenty-one to
forty-five, both inclusive, should be put in force in
those districts of the Province of Canterbury men-
tioned in the Schedule to the said Order in Council:
And whereas the period of six calendar months within
which the said Order in Council should remain in
force has expired, and it is desirable and expedient
to renew the same:
Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council, and
in exercise and pursuance of the power and authority
aforesaid, doth hereby direct that the said Order in
Council shall be and the same is hereby renewed.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Lands in Westland reserved for a Racecourse.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twentieth day of October, 1874.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

W HEREAS by "The Westland Waste Lands Act,
1870," it is, among other things, enacted that
reserves theretofore or thereafter to be made of
waste lands shall be managed and administered by
the Governor in Council: And it is also enacted
that the specified purposes for which any reserves
shall be held may be changed, and any such reserves
may be leased, mortgaged, or sold, either in whole
or in part, by the Governor in Council, as therein
mentioned: And whereas the parcel of land de-
scribed in the Schedule hereto was, on the date and
in the manner therein mentioned, declared to be a
reserve for the purposes therein set forth, and such
reserve is now subject to the provisions of the said
Act: And whereas it is expedient that the purpose
of such reserve should be changed:
Now therefore, His Excellency Sir James Fergus-
son, Baronet, the Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority vested in him by the hereinbefore in part
recited Act, and by and with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of the said Colony, doth
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hereby order that the purpose for which the said
reserve was originally made shall be changed, and
the same shall be and become a reserve for the pur-
poses of a racecourse; and the lands in the Province
of Westland, the boundaries whereof are described
in the said Schedule hereunto annexed, are hereby
reserved accordingly for a racecourse.

SCHEDULE.
SIX acres three roods and eight perches, more or less,
situate near the south bank of the River Grey, and
being a portion of certain land reserved for railway
purposes, as proclaimed in the New Zealand Gazette,
No. 44, of the 20th of July, 1868, and numbered
4 (in red), commencing at a line drawn through said
Reserve No. 4 (in red) from the southernmost corner
of Section 1420, to the northernmost corner of
Section 1419 and thence extending south-westerly
through Reserve No. 34 (in red), a distance of 34
chains with a width of two chains to Omotomotu
Creek.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Assent of Natives ascertained to bringing Land under
"Native Reserves Act, 1856."

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this
twentieth day of October, 1874.

PRESENT:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

W HEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The Native Re-
serves Amendment Act, 1862," it is, amongst other
things, provided that where, under the provisions of
"The Native Reserves Act, 1856," the assent of the
aboriginal inhabitants is required to bringing land
under the operation of the said "Native Reserves
Act, 1856," the Governor may, by Order in Council,
declare such assent to have been ascertained, and
thereupon the title of the aboriginal inhabitants in
the land to which the same shall relate shall be
deemed to be extinguished, and the land shall from
the date of such Order in Council vest in Her
Majesty for the purposes and subject to the provi-
sions of the said "Native Reserves Act, 1856," as
altered by the recited Act, and that as effectually as
if the same had been ceded and conveyed by such
aboriginal inhabitants to Her Majesty:
Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council, doth hereby declare that the assent of the
aboriginal inhabitants to the bringing the piece of
land described in the Schedule hereunder written
under the operation of "The Native Reserves Act,
1856," has been ascertained.

SCHEDULE.
ALL that piece of land situate at Waiwakaiho, in the
Province of Taranaki, and marked C. Bounded-on
the North by Section No. 204 and waste lands,
4600 links; on the East by the Manganaha Stream;
on the West by Section marked D and Native Re-
serves E, F, F1, G, H, and I, 7150 links, excepting
the Dorset Junction Road, as marked on plan.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.