May 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 755

Declaring Kaipara Oyster-fishery within which Oysters may be taken.

GLASGOW, Governor.

IN pursuance of the power and authority vested in me by section fifteen of “The Sea-fisheries Act, 1894,” I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby declare the bays, estuaries, and tidal waters of Kaipara Harbour inside a straight line drawn from the lighthouse on the North Head to Pukitu on the south side of such harbour to be a fishery under the name of “The Kaipara Oyster-fishery.”

And I do hereby further declare and prescribe that it shall be lawful to take oysters within the period prescribed in that behalf in such oyster-fishery.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fifth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

T. THOMPSON.

Duty to be levied on the United Asbestos Patent Salamander Decorations.

GLASGOW, Governor.

WHEREAS a certain article of merchandise known as “The United Asbestos Patent Salamander Decorations” is imported into New Zealand, which article, in the opinion of the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, is apparently a substitute for paperhangings (the latter being a dutiable article under “The Customs and Excise Duties Act, 1888”), and which can be used for a similar purpose as paperhangings :

Now, therefore, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by the seventeenth section of “The Customs and Excise Duties Act, 1888,” do hereby direct that there shall be levied on the material known as “The United Asbestos Patent Salamander Decorations” a duty of fifteen per cent. ad valorem, such duty being equivalent to the duty on paperhangings.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fifth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

T. THOMPSON.

Governor’s Order No. 150.]

Shooting Season for Native Game, Westland County.

GLASGOW, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that native game, excepting native pigeon, tui, huia, white heron, and crested grebe, may be taken or killed within the Westland County (excepting Lake Mahinapua and the road reserve around the shores of the said lake, and Mahinapua Creek and the road reserves on either side of the said creek), from the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, both inclusive (subject, nevertheless, to the restrictions in the said Act mentioned). And I do further notify that licenses to sell native game shall be issued on payment of the sum of five pounds each; and the Chief Postmaster at Hokitika is hereby appointed to sign and issue the said licenses.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fifth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

J. CARROLL.

Removal of Restrictions on Alienation of Native Land.

GLASGOW, Governor.

WHEREAS application has been made to the Governor by the owner of the land described in the Schedule hereto, praying that the restrictions on the alienation of such land contained in the Crown grant bearing date the eleventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy, may be removed: And whereas inquiry has been duly made by the Native Land Court, and the said Court has recommended that such restrictions be removed:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by the fifty-second section of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” and in accordance with the recommendation of the Native Land Court, doth hereby order and declare that all restrictions imposed by the said Crown grant on the alienation of the said land are hereby removed.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, containing 100 acres, being Lot 15A, Block B, Otago Heads Native Reserve, held under Crown grant dated 11th April, 1870, Registered No. 36958, in favour of Ria Moheko, and containing the following restrictions : “Inalienable by sale, or by lease for a longer period than twenty-one years, or by mortgage, except with the consent of the Governor being previously obtained to every such sale, lease, or mortgage.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fifth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

R. J. SEDDON.

Land temporarily reserved in the Land District of Auckland.

GLASGOW, Governor.

WHEREAS by the two hundred and thirty-fifth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned :

Now, therefore, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the lands in the Land District of Auckland described in the Schedule hereunder written, for the purposes in the said Schedule specified at the end of the description of the lands so intended to be temporarily reserved.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND.

ALL that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, situated partly in Thames Survey District and partly in Tairua Survey District, containing 600 acres, more or less, and containing about 3,600,000ft. of kauri timber. Bounded towards the north by Taparahi No. 2 Block; towards the south-east by Pakirarahi No. 2 Block; towards the south by Block XIII., Thames Survey District; towards the west by the northern portion of Owhataroa No. 1 Block; and towards the north-west by Taparahi No. 2A Block. For the growth and preservation of timber.

All that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, situated partly in the Thames Survey District and partly in the Tairua Survey District, containing 570 acres, more or less, and containing about 3,550,000ft. of kauri timber, commencing at the northernmost angle of Te Horete No. 1B Block. Bounded towards the south-east by a right line bearing 39° (true), 70 chains; towards the east by a right line due north, 30 chains; towards the north by a right line due west to the Apakura Stream; towards the north-west by the Apakura Stream and the Puriri River to a point due north of a point on the north-western boundary of Te Horete No. 2 Block at a distance of 20 chains from the eastern boundary of Te Horete No. 3A Block; towards the west by a right line due south to the Te Horete No. 2 Block; and again towards the south-east by that block and by Te Horete No. 1B Block to the point of commencement. For the growth and preservation of timber.

All that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, situated in the Ohinemuri Survey District, containing 1,150 acres, more or less, and containing about 6,150,000ft. of kauri timber, commencing on the northern boundary of the Ohinemuri Survey District at a point 80 chains distant from the western boundary of that survey district. Bounded towards the north by the northern boundary of Ohinemuri Survey District; towards the north-east and north-west by a timber-lease of 2,662 acres to a point on its south-east boundary 50 chains distant from its southernmost angle; towards the east by a right line due south, 60 chains; towards the south by a right line due west, 80 chains; towards the west by a right line due north, 50 chains; again towards the south by a right line due west, 115 chains; and again towards the west by a right line due north to the point of commencement. For the growth and preservation of timber.

All that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, situated on the Onetai Stream, in the Ohinemuri Survey District, containing 240 acres, more or less, and containing about 1,700,000ft. of kauri timber, commencing at a point 85 chains due south of the northern boundary of Ohinemuri Survey District, and 75 chains due east of the