AUGUST 30.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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doth hereby authorize the Company to build at Avondale,
on the Whau Creek, Waitemata River, in Auckland Harbour,
for the use, benefit, and convenience of the public, a wharf,
in accordance with the said plan marked M.D. 832, and in
the position shown on the said plan marked M.D. 833, and
to use and occupy such portion of the foreshore, or of any
tidal land or tidal water, as may be necessary for the con-
struction and use of such wharf, subject to the following
conditions, that is to say,―

1. That all persons shall, at all reasonable times, either in
   the day-time or at night, have free and full liberty to use the
   above-mentioned wharf, after the same shall have been com-
   pleted in accordance with the said plans, and to have ingress
   to and upon the said wharf, and egress therefrom, and
   regress thereto, as occasion may require.

2. That every person, authority, or thing exempt from
   harbour dues under the one hundred and thirty-second
   section of the said Act shall also be exempt from all dues
   or payments in respect of the said wharf or the use thereof.

3. That the Company shall maintain and keep the above-
   mentioned wharf and all erections thereon in good order
   and repair, and shall at all times permit to be erected
   and exhibited therefrom any lights for the guidance of
   vessels, and shall maintain at its own cost any such lights:
   Provided that no light shall be exhibited until after it has
   been approved of by the Minister.

4. That any person authorized by the Minister may, at
   all reasonable times, enter upon the said wharf and any
   buildings erected thereon, and view the state of repairs
   thereof; and that, upon such Minister leaving at the
   last known address of the Company a notice in writing of
   any defect or want of repair in such wharf or buildings,
   requiring the Company, within a reasonable time to be
   therein prescribed, to repair the same, the Company shall,
   with all convenient speed, cause such defect to be removed
   or such repairs to be made.

5. That the Company shall not erect or suffer to be
   erected on the said wharf any building or structure what-
   ever, except with the consent of the Minister.

6. That nothing herein contained shall authorize the Com-
   pany to do or cause to be done anything repugnant to or
   inconsistent with any law relating to the Customs, or any
   regulation of the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, or
   with any provisions of "The Harbours Act, 1878," or its
   amendments, or any regulations made thereunder, and that
   are now or may hereafter be in force.

7. That the ballast of all vessels loading at the said wharf
   shall be taken away by the Company, and deposited above
   high-water mark, or at such place as may be approved of by
   the Auckland Harbour Board.

8. That the rights, powers, and privileges conferred by this
   Order in Council shall continue in force for fourteen years,
   computed from the date of this Order in Council, unless in
   the meantime such rights, powers, and privileges shall be
   altered, modified, or revoked by competent authority.

9. That the rights, powers, and privileges conferred under
   or by virtue of this Order in Council may at any time be
   resumed by the Governor without payment of any com-
   pensation whatever, on giving to the Company six calendar
   months' previous notice in writing. Any such notice shall be
   sufficient if given by the Minister, and delivered at or posted
   to the last known address of the Company.

10. The Company shall not sell, mortgage, lease, or
    otherwise part with, charge, or encumber the said wharf, or
    any right or privilege hereby conferred upon it, without the
    consent in writing of the Minister.

11. Nothing contained in this Order in Council shall be
    deemed to prevent its revocation at any time and without
    any notice in case the Company shall-
    (1.) Commit or suffer a breach of the conditions herein-
    before set forth, or any of them;
    (2.) Be in any manner wound up or dissolved; or
    (3.) Cease to use or occupy the said wharf.

And publication in the New Zealand Gazette of an Order in
Council containing such revocation shall be sufficient notice
to the Company, and to all persons concerned or interested
in the said wharf, that this Order in Council, and the rights
and privileges thereby conferred, have been revoked and
determined.

12. In these conditions the term "Minister" means the
    Minister having charge of the Marine Department, as
    defined by "The Shipping and Seamen's Act, 1877," and
    includes any officer, person, or authority acting by or under
    the direction of such Minister.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Suspending certain Provisions of "The Arms Act, 1880."

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-seventh
day of August, 1883.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
vested in him by "The Arms Act, 1880," His Excellency
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said
colony, doth hereby suspend the operation of such of the
provisions of the said Act as provide for the payment of a
fee in respect of the issue of ordinary licenses in the Form
A in the First Schedule to the said Act; and, in exercise of
the like powers, and with the like advice and consent, His
Excellency doth hereby order and declare that, from and after
the date hereof, the fee imposed in respect of the dealers'
license in the Form B in the First Schedule to the said Act
shall be £1 throughout the colony; and doth further declare
that the provisions last aforesaid shall supersede the Order in
Council of the 14th day of June, 1881, published in the New
Zealand Gazette of the 16th June then instant.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Notification of the Payment of Money on and Entry into
Negotiations for the Purchase of Native Lands in the
North Island.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

IN pursuance of the provisions of "The Government Native
Land Purchases Act, 1877," it is hereby notified that
money has been paid by or on behalf of Her Majesty the
Queen for the purchase or acquisition of the block of Native
land in the North Island which is more particularly de-
scribed and mentioned in the Schedule hereto; and, further,
that negotiations in respect of such purchase or acquisition
as aforesaid have been entered into by or on behalf of Her
said Majesty.

SCHEDULE.

TE MAIRE AND TE AWA-O-TUKORAKO.

ALL that parcel of land in the District of Tauranga, in the
Provincial District of Auckland, known as Te Maire and Te
Awa-o-Tukorako, containing by admeasurement 640 acres,
more or less. Bounded towards the North-east by the Bay
of Plenty, from Raketutu to Te Rua-koro-tangi; towards the
South-east by a line from Te Rua-koro-tangi to and by the
Whareroa Block; towards the West by the Tauranga Har-
bour; and towards the North-west by the Hopukiore No. 1
Block.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this twenty-fifth day of August, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-three.

JOHN BRYCE,
Native Minister.

Notice of Intention of Exchange of Land.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Public Reserves Act, 1881," it is,
amongst other things, enacted that the Governor may
declare his intention to make, change, exchange, or alter the
dedication of any public reserve now or hereafter vested in
Her Majesty or the Governor for any of the purposes named
in Class II. of the Schedule to the said Act, whether the
same be granted or not; and, in the case of any reserves
made under the authority of section one hundred and forty-
four of "The Land Act, 1877," if it shall, in the opinion of
the Governor, be expedient to change the purpose of such
reserves or any part thereof from the purpose or presumed
purpose for which it was set apart to any other purpose, or if
it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to
exchange any of the land comprised in such reserve for other
land of equal value, to be dedicated to one or more purposes
named in the said Class II., the Governor may, by notice in
the Gazette, declare his intention to make such change,
exchange, or dedication, as the case may be, and in such
notice declare the manner and terms in which the same is
intended to be so made:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, in