July 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1269

been made by the Native Land Court, and the said Court has recommended that such restrictions be removed:

Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on me by the fifty-second section of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” and in accordance with the recommendation of the Native Land Court, do hereby order and declare that all restrictions imposed by the said Crown grant and certificate of title on the alienation of the said land are hereby removed.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, containing 42 acres 2 roods 17 perches, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, and known as Subdivision No. 2 of Section 3 of Manawatu-Kukutauaki No. 4b, Waitohu Survey District, and being the whole of the land in certificate of title, Vol. lx., folio 203, 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 Administrator of the Government, this eighteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

JOHN McKENZIE.

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Removal of Restrictions on Alienation of Native Land.

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JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

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 Native Land Court certificate of title bearing date the sixteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, and now contained in a partition order bearing date the twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, 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 Administrator of the Government 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 certificate of title and partition order on the alienation of the said land are hereby removed.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, containing 120 acres 2 roods 5 perches, being the land known as Parakiri No. 1, situate in the Thames District, held under partition order dated 29th March, 1889, in favour of Reihana Poto, Watene Kiwi, and Kahukore te Taniwha, and containing the following restrictions: “That the land the subject thereof may be leased for any term not exceeding twenty-one years, but shall be otherwise inalienable except with the assent of the Governor.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, this twenty-ninth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

W. C. WALKER,
For Native Minister.

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Native Land proposed to be taken for Main Road in the Horowhenua County.

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JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this fourteenth day of June, 1897.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE GOVERNMENT IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken for a public work, to wit, the construction of a main road at Waikanae, through Block IX., Kaitawa Survey District:

And whereas the said land is held or occupied by Native owners under a title which is not derived from the Crown: And whereas a map in duplicate has been prepared of the said land by the Horowhenua County Council, as required by the eighty-eighth section of “The Public Works Act, 1894”;

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the eighty-eighth section of the said Act, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, 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 declare that the land shown upon such map, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be deemed to be taken for the purpose of the said road, and the said land shall vest in Her Majesty the Queen as from the seventeenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

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SCHEDULE.

THE parcel of land mentioned hereunder:—

All in the Wellington Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked as above mentioned, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Notice of Intention to change the Purpose of a Reserve in the Auckland Land District.

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JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

WHEREAS by “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” it is amongst other things enacted that the Governor may make, change, exchange, or alter the dedication of any public reserve now or hereafter vested in Her Majesty or the Governor for any of the purposes named in Class II. of the Schedule to the said Act, whether the same be granted or not, if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to change the purpose of such reserve or any part thereof from the purpose or presumed purpose for which it was set apart to any other purpose; or if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to exchange any of the land comprised in such reserve for other land of equal value, to be dedicated to one or more purposes named in the said Class II., the Governor may, by notice gazetted, declare his intention to make such change, exchange, or dedication, as the case may be, and in such notice declare the manner and terms in which the same is intended to be so made:

Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” aforesaid, declare my intention to change the specific purpose of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto from a site for a public hall to a site for offices and buildings of the General Government.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, containing by admeasurement 1 acre and 12 perches, more or less, being Lot No. 38 in the Parish of Okura, Block XI., Waiwera Survey District, Auckland Land District. Bounded towards the north-east by a road, 468 links; towards the south by a road, 598 links; and towards the north-west by a road, 477 links, to the point of commencement.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, this twenty-eighth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

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Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

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Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 18th June, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to appoint

SAMUEL BAIRD

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths, and also to be Vaccination Inspector, for the District of Springburn, vice Alexander Penney, resigned, on and from the 15th July, 1897.

J. CARROLL,
Acting Colonial Secretary.