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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Order in Council, and the Appointment of H. W.
Brabant, Esq., a Commissioner thereunder, revoked.

NORMANDY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this
thirtieth day of July, 1878.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by an Order in Council bearing date
the eighth day of April, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-eight, Herbert William
Brabant, Esquire, was appointed a Commissioner
to make a certain inquiry, and with certain powers
in the said Order in Council mentioned: And
whereas it is expedient that the appointment of the
said Herbert William Brabant should be revoked:
Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of all
powers enabling me in that behalf, do hereby, with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of
the colony, revoke the said recited Order in Council,
and the appointment of the said Herbert William
Brabant to be a Commissioner thereunder.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Commissioner under "The Tauranga District Lands
Act, 1867," appointed.

NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this
thirtieth day of July, 1878.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by "The Tauranga District Lands
Act, 1867," and "The Tauranga District
Lands Act, 1868," after reciting that by an Order
in Council made the eighteenth day of May, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and therein
referred to as a Proclamation, it was declared that all
the lands of the tribe Ngaiterangi, described in the
Schedule to the now reciting Acts, should be a dis-
trict within the provisions of "The New Zealand
Settlements Act, 1863," and should be designated by
the name " Tauranga District," therein mentioned
referred to, and it was declared that the said lands
were required for the purposes of "The New Zealand
Settlements Act, 1863," aforesaid, and ordered that
the said lands should be and were thereby set apart
as sites for settlement and colonization, agreeably to
the provisions of the said Act, and that it was ex-
pressed to be ordered that, in accordance with the
promise made by His Excellency the Governor at
Tauranga, on the sixth day of August, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-four, three-fourths in quan-
tity of the said lands should be set apart for such
persons of the tribe Ngaiterangi as should be de-
termined by the Governor after due inquiry should
have been made; it is enacted and declared, amongst
other things, that the whole of the lands specified in
the Schedule to the Act now in recital were, by the
the schedule to the incitale
to be a district within the provisions of "The New
Zealands Settlements Act, 1863," and that the whole
of the said land was duly and effectually set apart,
reserved, and taken under the said Act as sites for
settlement and colonization, and was duly and effec-
tually declared to be required for the purposes of the
said "New Zealand Settlements Act, 1863," and to
be subject to the provisions thereof, and that, for the
purposes of the Act now in recital, the words "due
inquiry" in the said Order in Council should be
deemed and taken to extend to inquiries made and
carried though by persons thereunto appointed by
the Governor: And whereas by "The Commissioners
Powers Act, 1867," provision is made for enabling
Boards or Commissioners, appointed by the Governor
in Council, to examine witnesses on oath, to require
the production of books, papers, writings, deeds, and
other documents, and to exercise the powers and
authorities in the said last-named Act mentioned:
Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of the
powers and authorities vested in me as aforesaid,
do hereby, with the advice and consent of the Execu-
tive Council of the said colony, appoint

JOHN ALEXANDER WILSON,
of Tauranga, Esquire, to be a Commissioner to make
the inquiry required by the said Order in Council,
and by "The Tauranga District Lands Act, 1867,"
and "The Tauranga District Lands Act, 1868," for
the purpose of determining for what persons of the
tribe Ngaiterangi three-fourths in quantity of the
lands in the said Order in Council and in the Acts
last aforesaid shall be set apart, in pursuance of the
said Order in Council and "The Tauranga District
Lands Act, 1867," with all the powers and autho-
rities by "The Commissioners Powers Act, 1867,"
provided, in the case of any Board or Commission
appointed or issued, or to be appointed or issued, by
the Governor in Council.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Judge of Assessment Court under "The Rating Act, 1876," appointed.

NORMANBY, Governor.
IN pursuance and exercise of all powers and authorities vested in me by "The Rating Act, 1876,"
I, George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand,
do hereby appoint the person named in the Schedule hereto to be Judge of the Assessment Court for the
district placed opposite to his name.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-fourth day of July, one thou-
sand eight hundred and seventy-eight.

G. S. WHITMORE.
SCHEDULE.

District.
Judge of Assessment Court.

PROVINCIAL DISTRICT OF OTAGO.
Toetoes Road District .... ...
South Wyndham Road District .... ...
Henry McCulloch, Esq., R.M.
Henry McCulloch, Esq., R.M.