APRIL 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 775

Land taken for a Road through Section 1, Block IX., Woodville Survey District.

(l.s.) JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken, under “The Public Works Act, 1894,” for a certain work, to wit, the construction of a road in the Woodville Survey District:

And whereas a plan has been prepared, and the Minister has recommended the Governor to issue a Proclamation taking the land as required by the said Act:

Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities in me vested by “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in that behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that, from and after the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for the purposes of the construction of the said road.

SCHEDULE.

The parcel of land mentioned hereunder:—

In the Hawke’s Bay Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated upon the plan marked S.G. 26942, deposited in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir James Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice, Administrator of the Government in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, at the Government House, at Wellington; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, this twenty-ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Excepting Land from Operation of Section 117 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of March, 1897.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE GOVERNMENT 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 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 exclusively of any lessee or other person who has been bonâ 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 Administrator of the Government 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 Public Trustee, the block or parcel of land known as “Ngawhakaakupe No. 2c,” situate in the Waipawa and Huangarua Survey Districts, containing two thousand six hundred and five acres two roods and thirty-three perches, more or less, and being part of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume Seventy-one, folio one hundred and nineteen, of the Land Transfer Register of the Wellington Land Registration District.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Drawback on Sugar in Preserved Milk.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of March, 1897.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE GOVERNMENT IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is enacted by the ninth section of “The Customs Duties Consolidation Act, 1882,” that the Governor may by Order in Council from time to time specify the articles on which a drawback of duty paid on importation into New Zealand may be allowed on exportation therefrom, and the rate of duty to be so allowed; and may alter and cancel any such Order, and may approve of regulations and conditions under which a drawback may be allowed:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, and in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the hereinbefore in part recited Act, doth hereby order and declare that on and after the date hereof there shall be allowed on the article specified hereunder a drawback of duty paid on importation or on being cleared from the warehouse according to the rates specified against such article as follows:—

On sugar contained in preserved milk manufactured in New Zealand, ¾d. per pound, computed on the proportion of 4·32lb. of sugar for each one dozen 1-lb. tins of milk.

No drawback shall be paid in respect of any entry made for the exportation of New-Zealand-manufactured milk unless the quantity exported at any one time amounts to or exceeds 480 lb. net weight.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Fixing Sitting of Court of Appeal.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this thirtieth day of March, 1897.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by “The Court of Appeal Act, 1882,” it is enacted that the Court shall hold its sittings at such times and places as shall from time to time be fixed by the Governor in Council and proclaimed in the Government Gazette twenty-one days at least before the times so fixed respectively:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby fix that a sitting of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand shall be held within the Supreme Court House, in the City of Wellington, upon Monday, the twenty-sixth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, at eleven o’clock in the forenoon.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Amending the Description of a Reserve in the Auckland Land District.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

WHEREAS by the two hundred and thirty-ninth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” it is enacted that where there has been any error of description made in any