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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 63

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 nineteenth day of July, 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, the block or parcel of land known as “Manawatu-Kukutauaki 7d No. 1, Subdivision 5,” situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, containing eight hundred and ninety-one acres one rood eleven perches, more or less, and being the land comprised in a partition order of the Native Land Court dated the fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, in favour of Areta te Popo and Teoti Kerei te Popo.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Changing the Purpose of a Reserve in Canterbury.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto was heretofore duly reserved for police purposes, being a reserve in Class I. of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” and such land has not been vested in trust in any society, body corporate, or trustees: And whereas it is expedient that such reserve shall be appropriated for the purposes of a public recreation-ground, being a reserve in Class III. of the aforesaid Act:

Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the second section of “The Public Reserves Act Amendment Act, 1889,” do by this notification hereby declare that the said reserve shall, from and after the thirty-first day of July instant, be appropriated for the purposes of a public recreation-ground, under Class III. of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881”; and I do hereby direct that this notification shall be published in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 6 acres, more or less, being part of Reserve 2026, and now known as Reserve No. 3184, Block VII., Spaxton Survey District. Bounded towards the north by a road-line, 621·5 links; towards the east by Reserve 2613, 1123·4 links; towards the south by a road-line, 690·1 links; and towards the west by the police paddock, Reserve 2026, 823·2 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Christchurch.

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

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Appointing Trustees for the Carterton Public Cemetery.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the sixth section of “The Cemeteries Act, 1882,” I, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

WALTER JOSEPH LINDOP and
JOHN BASSETT

to be Trustees, in the place of Richard Fairbrother and Isaac Bairstow, deceased, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Carterton Public Cemetery, in conjunction with the other persons appointed by a warrant under the hand of His Excellency the Governor on the fifth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one.

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

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Lands permanently reserved.

JAMES PRENDERGAST, Administrator of the Government.

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:

And whereas by the two hundred and thirty-sixth section of the said Act it is provided that land temporarily reserved under the said two hundred and thirty-fifth section may, at the expiration of one month but not later than six months after the publication in the Gazette of notice of such temporary reservation, be permanently reserved, and that notice of such permanent reservation shall be published in the Gazette:

And whereas the lands specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto were, by the warrants the dates of which are specified in the third column of the said Schedule, and the notifications of which were published in the Gazette specified in the fourth column, temporarily reserved under the authority of the said Act for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule;