Feb. 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 337

Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this eleventh day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.

JOHN BRYCE,
Minister for Native Affairs.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece of land situated in the County of Whakatane, containing 20 acres, more or less, being Allotment No. 26 of the Parish of Waiotahi, and being the whole of the land referred to in Vol. xviii., folio 159, of the Register-book at Auckland.

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Notice under “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1883.”

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(L.S.) Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the lands described in the Schedule hereto are vested in certain aboriginal natives of New Zealand, subject to certain restrictions on the alienation of such lands, and applications have been made for the removal of such restrictions:

It is hereby notified that it is the intention of His Excellency the Governor, immediately after the expiration of sixty days from the publication of this notice in the Gazette and in the Kahiti, to remove the said restrictions on the alienation of the said lands.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece of land situated in the Parish of Waiotahi, Opotiki Survey District, containing 20 acres, more or less, and being Allotment No. 10 of the said parish, and comprising the whole of the land mentioned and included in certificate of title, Vol. xviii., folio 204, of the Register-book.

All that piece of land situated in the Parish of Waiotahi, Opotiki Survey District, containing 21 acres, more or less, and being Allotment No. 9 of the said parish, and comprising the whole of the land mentioned and included in certificate of title, Vol. xviii., folio 252, of the Register-book.

All that piece of land situated in the Parish of Waiotahi, Opotiki Survey District, containing 20 acres, more or less, and being Allotment No. 64, and comprising the whole of the land mentioned and described in certificate of title, Vol. xviii., folio 102, of the Register-book.

All that piece of land situated in the Parish of Waiotahi, Opotiki Survey District, containing 20 acres, more or less, and being Allotment No. 68 of the said parish, and being the whole of the land included and described in certificate of title, Vol. xviii., folio 149, of the Register-book.

All that piece of land situated in the Parish of Waiotahi, Opotiki Survey District, containing 22 acres, more or less, and being Allotment No. 355 of the said parish, and comprising the whole of the land mentioned and included in certificate of title, Vol. xviii., folio 186, of the Register-book.

All that piece of land situated in the Parish of Waiotahi, Opotiki Survey District, containing 20 acres, more or less, being Allotment No. 346 of the said parish, and being the whole of the land included and described in certificate of title, Vol. xviii., folio 190, of the Register-book.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, Lieutenant-General in Her Majesty’s Army, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at Dunedin, this eighteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.

WM. ROLLESTON,
(for the Minister for Native Affairs.)

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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Notice under “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1883.”

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(L.S.) Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto is vested in certain aboriginal natives of New Zealand, subject to certain restrictions on the alienation of such land, and application has been made for the removal of such restrictions:

It is hereby notified that it is the intention of His Excellency the Governor, immediately after the expiration of sixty days from the publication of this notice in the Gazette and in the Kahiti, to remove the said restrictions on the alienation of the said land.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, Lieutenant-General in Her Majesty’s Army, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this eleventh day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.

JOHN BRYCE,
Minister for Native Affairs.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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SCHEDULE.

ALLOTMENTS Nos. 14 and 28 of the Parish of Matata, containing respectively 1,660 acres and 1,160 acres, as delineated on plans of the Bay of Plenty District, deposited in the Survey Offices at Tauranga, Auckland, and Wellington.

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Proclaiming Native Rating Districts under “The Crown and Native Lands Rating Act, 1882.”

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(L.S.) Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by “The Crown and Native Lands Rating Act, 1882,” I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby revoke the two several Proclamations of the twenty-first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, issued under the authority of the said Act, and published in the New Zealand Gazette number fourteen, of the second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four; and in exercise of the like power and authority, and with the like advice and consent, I do hereby proclaim and declare that the several districts in the colony described in the Schedule hereto shall, as from the date hereof, be Native rating districts under the said Act.

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SCHEDULE.

In this Schedule, unless otherwise expressed, the references to counties shall be deemed to refer to the boundaries of such counties, as the same exist at the date of the foregoing Proclamation.

The County of Mongonui.

The County of Bay of Islands.

The County of Hokianga.

The County of Whangarei.

The County of Hobson.

The County of Rodney.

The County of Waitemata.

The County of Eden.

The County of Manukau.

The County of Coromandel.

The County of Thames.

The County of Raglan.

The County of Waikato.

The County of Waipa.

The County of Piako.

The County of Tauranga, exclusive of the outlying districts of Maketu and Rotorua Ridings.

The County of Whakatane, exclusive of that portion of the outlying district of Omataroa Riding comprised within the following boundaries: Towards the North by the ocean; towards the East by the Whakatane River; towards the South by the confiscation boundary-line; and towards the West by the County of Tauranga.

The County of Cook.

The County of Wairoa.

The County of Hawke’s Bay.

The County of Waipawa.

The County of Taranaki.

The County of Hawera.

The County of Patea,