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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 11

Now, therefore, 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 authorise
the said Court to exercise in respect of the said land the
jurisdiction conferred as aforesaid—that is to say, to deter-
mine whether or not the said land or any part thereof was,
on the investigation of title thereto, intended by the Native
Land Court, or by the nominal owner or owners of such
land, to be held by such nominal owner or owners in trust for
Natives not named in the title, and to determine who are the
Natives (if any) entitled beneficially to such land, and to
order the inclusion of such Natives in the title, either
together with or in lieu of the nominal owners or any of them,
and for the purpose aforesaid to order the cancellation or
amendment of any existing instrument of title, and the issue
of such new Crown grants or other instruments of title as
may be necessary, and generally to exercise in respect of the
said land all the jurisdiction and powers conferred on the
Native Land Court by subsection ten of section fourteen of
"The Native Land Court Act, 1894."

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land in the Provincial District of Auckland,
situate at Piako, in the Survey District of Maungakawa, and
known as the Te Au-o-Waikato Block, containing 8,560 acres,
more or less.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

*Excepting Land from Operation of Section 117 of "The
Native Land Court Act, 1894."

GLASGOW, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twentieth
day of January, 1897.
Present:
The Honourable R. J. Seddon presiding in Council.

WHEREAS by section four of "The Native Land Laws
Amendment Act, 1895," it is enacted that the
Governor may by Order in Council except from the opera-
tion of section one hundred and seventeen of "The Native
Land Court Act, 1894" (hereinafter called "the said Act"),
for a limited period or otherwise, and either generally or for
such purposes and subject to such restrictions as shall be in
such Order specified, any land, wheresoever situate, which
is for the time being subject to the operation of the said sec-
tion, or any interest therein or right over the same; or may
in like manner make such exception in favour exclu-
sively of any lessee or other person who has been bona fide
in occupation of and has made improvements on such land,
or has paid money to Native owners for lease or purchase
thereof prior to the passing of the said Act: Provided that no
Order in Council under the provisions of this section shall
take effect until after the expiration of two months from the
date of the publication thereof in the Gazette: Provided also
that every alienation under the provisions of this section
shall be confirmed by the Court in terms of section fifty-
three of the said Act:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
power and authority conferred by section four of "The
Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895," and by and
with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of
the said colony, doth hereby except from the operation of
section one hundred and seventeen of "The Native Land
Court Act, 1894," for the purpose of alienation by way of
mortgage to the Government Advances to Settlers Office
Superintendent, the block or parcel of land known as
"Section No. 6k, Kai-Iwi," situate in the District of
Wanganui, and in Blocks XI., XII., XV., and XVI. of the
Nukumaru Survey District, containing eight hundred and
eleven acres, more or less.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

*Excepting Land from Operation of Section 117 of "The
Native Land Court Act, 1894."

GLASGOW, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twentieth
day of January, 1897.
Present:
The Honourable R. J. Seddon presiding in Council.

WHEREAS by section four of "The Native Land Laws
Amendment Act, 1895," it is enacted that the
Governor may, by Order in Council, except from the
operation of section one hundred and seventeen of "The
Native Land Court Act, 1894" (hereinafter called "the said
Act"), for a limited period or otherwise, and either generally
or for such purposes and subject to such restrictions as shall
be in such Order specified, any land, wheresoever situated,
which is for the time being subject to the operation of the
said section, or any interest therein, or right over the same;
or may in like manner make such exception in favour ex-
clusively of any lessee or other person who has been bona
fide in occupation of and has made improvements on such
land, or has paid money to Native owners for lease or pur-
chase thereof prior to the passing of the said Act: Provided
that no Order in Council under the provisions of this section
shall take effect until after the expiration of two months from
the date of the publication thereof in the Gazette: Provided,
also, that every alienation under the provisions of this
section shall be confirmed by the Court in terms of section
fifty-three of the said Act:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of New
Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority conferred by section four of "The Native Land
Laws Amendment Act, 1895," and by and with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony,
doth hereby except from the operation of section one
hundred and seventeen of "The Native Land Court Act,
1894," for the purpose of alienation by way of transfer to
Hemi Matenga Waipunahau, two hundred acres, part of
Section 78 of the Ngarara West C Block, and one thousand
eight hundred acres, part of Section 41 of the said Ngarara
West C Block: Provided always that such lands, after
being transferred to the said Hemi Matenga Waipunahau,
shall be inalienable by him otherwise than by will or by
lease for any term not exceeding twenty-one years.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

*Excepting Land from Operation of Section 117 of "The
Native Land Court Act, 1894."

GLASGOW, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twentieth
day of January, 1897.
Present:
The Honourable R. J. Seddon presiding in Council.

WHEREAS by section four of "The Native Land Laws
Amendment Act, 1895," it is enacted that the Go-
vernor may, by Order in Council, except from the operation
of section one hundred and seventeen of "The Native Land
Court Act, 1894" (hereinafter called "the said Act"), for a
limited period or otherwise, and either generally or for such
purposes and subject to such restrictions as shall be in
such Order specified, any land, wheresoever situate, which
is for the time being subject to the operation of the said
section, or any interest therein or right over the same; or
may in like manner make such exception in favour exclu-
sively of any lessee or other person who has been bona fide
in occupation of, and has made improvements on, such land,
or has paid money to Native owners for lease or purchase
thereof, prior to the passing of the said Act: Provided that
no Order in Council under the provisions of this section
shall take effect until after the expiration of two months
from the date of the publication thereof in the Gazette:
Provided also that every alienation under the provisions
of this section shall be confirmed by the Court in terms of
section fifty-three of the said Act: And whereas William
Muhunga Broughton, of Ngapuke, being an owner in the
Omahu No. 3 Block, situate in the Provincial District of
Hawke's Bay, and containing three thousand three hundred
and forty acres, more or less, has applied to be allowed to
mortgage certain shares or interests in the said block, as
hereinafter specified:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
and authorities conferred by the Acts aforesaid, and by and
with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
said colony, doth hereby except from the operation of section
one hundred and seventeen of "The Native Land Court Act,
1894," the interest of the said William Muhunga Broughton
in the said block of land known as "Omahu No. 3": Pro-
vided that this Order shall only avail so far as to enable the
said William Muhunga Broughton, within six months from
the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette,
to mortgage such shares or interests in the said block as he
now owns or holds under or by virtue of any purchase, lease,
or exchange.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.