DEC. 24.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
1371

"THE NATIVE LANDS FRAUDS PREVENTION ACT 1881
AMENDMENT ACT, 1888."—PROHIBITED DEALINGS WITH
NATIVE LANDS.

5. It shall not be lawful for any person to negotiate, either
   on his own behalf or as agent or trustee for any other per-
   son, for the purchase, conveyance, transfer, lease, exchange,
   or occupation of any Native land, or of any land, or any
   estate, right, title, or interest therein, or for any agency or
   authority to deal therewith or in relation thereto, unless
   such land is now owned under Crown grant, memorial of
   ownership, or certificate of title issued under either a Native
   Land Court Act or a Land Transfer Act to not more than
   twenty Natives, or unless such land shall hereafter become
   and shall have been so owned for forty days.

6. Forthwith upon any land hereafter becoming owned by
   not more than twenty Natives as aforesaid, it shall be a duty
   of the Chief Judge to notify the same in the Gazette, and
   also the name and description of the land, and the time
   when the said forty days will expire.

7. Any person who, on his own behalf or as agent or
   trustee for any other person, shall take or accept any con-
   veyance, lease, transfer, gift, or other assurance from any
   Native, whether to himself solely or to himself and others,
   of any Native land or of any land not heretofore owned as
   aforesaid, or which, becoming hereafter so owned, shall not
   have been owned for forty days as aforesaid, or who shall be
   a party to any negotiation, agreement, contract, or promise
   for the making to him, or to him and others, or to any other
   person, of any such conveyance, lease, transfer, gift, or
   other assurance, or for the accepting or giving of any such
   agency or authority, shall forfeit and pay a penalty not
   exceeding five hundred pounds, to be recovered in a summary
   way.

Every such conveyance, lease, transfer, gift, and other
assurance, agreement, contract, promise, agency, and autho-
rity shall, except as hereinafter provided, be illegal and
void :

Provided that no person shall be convicted of any offence
aforesaid except on the information or complaint of some
person duly authorised in that behalf by the Governor, either
generally or in respect of some particular case.

“THE NATIVE LANDS FRAUDS PREVENTION ACTS AMEND-
MENT ACT, 1889.”

3. The words " to not more than twenty Natives" in sec-
   tion five of "The Native Lands Frauds Prevention Act 1881
   Amendment Act, 1888" (hereinafter called the said Act"),
   shall not apply to land owned by Natives under Crown grant,
   memorial of ownership, or certificate of title under either a Native
   Land Court or a Land Transfer Act issued before the
   passing of the said Act, or in respect to which an order had
   been made by the Native Land Court for the issue of a Crown
   grant, certificate of title, or memorial of ownership, or an
   order under "The Native Land Court Act, 1886," declaring
   the owners or person entitled on investigation of title or par-
   tition, before passing of the said Act :
   (1.) If such land does not exceed five thousand acres in
   area; or
   (2.) If a contract in writing for the alienation of such land
   of any area, or any part thereof, had been made and
   not completed before the passing of the said Act.

And the said section shall be read and construed in respect
of such lands as though the said words "to not more than
twenty Natives" had been omitted therefrom: Provided
that nothing in the said fifth section shall be deemed to
prevent a lease of land so owned or the subject of such order
as aforesaid not exceeding ten thousand acres.

SCHEDULE.

TOWNSHIP OF LEVIN, HOROWHENUA BLOCK.

Crown Lands Notices.

Sections, Town of Levin, to be sold by Auction.

Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 20th December, 1889.

IT is hereby notified, in terms of "The Land Act, 1885,"
that the sections in the Town of Levin enumerated in
the accompanying Schedule will be offered for sale for cash
by public auction, at the Crown Lands Office, Wellington,
on Friday, the 31st January, 1890, at noon.

Plans and particulars can be obtained at this office.

One-fifth of the purchase-money must be deposited on the
fall of the hammer, and the balance within thirty days, or
the deposit will be forfeited.

There are no limitations or restrictions incumbent upon
purchasers of town lands for cash.

All sections unsold at the auction will be withdrawn till
further notice.

J. W. A. MARCHANT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.