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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 74

and towards the west by the eastern boundary of Crown land formerly known as the Oruanui Middle Block, to the point of commencement.

Description of land: Open fern and tea-tree land of inferior quality, fronting main Taupo-Rotorua Road, about two miles from Taupo Township.

Cash price, 7s. 6d. per acre; occupation with right of purchase, 4·5d. per acre per annum; lease in perpetuity, 3·6d. per acre per annum.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this sixteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Rural Land in the Marlborough Land District open for Selection.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one hundred and thirty-sixth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on and after the twentieth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven; and that the land mentioned in the said Schedule may be selected on lease in perpetuity only, in accordance with the provisions of section one hundred and twenty-one of the said Act, as it contains or is supposed to contain metals, minerals, or valuable stone; and I do hereby also fix the price at which the said land shall be leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said land shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—MARLBOROUGH COUNTY.—ONAMALUTU SURVEY DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

Weighted with £28 16s., value of improvements.

Broken pastoral country; fair soil in gullies, poor on hills; 4 acres swamp, remainder fern, scrub, and a little grass. Accessible by road, about thirteen miles from Blenheim, and fifteen miles from Havelock.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this seventeenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Removal of Restrictions on Alienation of Native Land.

RANFURLY, 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 dated the fourth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, may be removed: And whereas inquiry has been 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 upon 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 50 acres, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, being Section 357 on the plan of the Township of Carnarvon, in the Manawatu District, and being the whole of the land in Crown grant dated 4th February, 1875, in favour of Āterea te Toko, 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 previously obtained to every such sale, lease, or mortgage.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eighteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

JOHN McKENZIE.

Warrant vesting Control of a Portion of the Great South Road in the East Tamaki Road Board, and apportioning Cost of constructing and maintaining the Same.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and seven of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” it is provided that the Council of any county may by special order declare that all or any part of any district road shall, from and after a date to be fixed therein, be under the exclusive control of such local authority within the said county as shall be mentioned in such special order, and may by the same special order direct that the cost of constructing and maintaining any such road or part of a road shall be borne by the local authority to which the exclusive control thereof is given, or that a portion of such cost, to be fixed in and by such special order, shall be borne by any other local authority or authorities:

And whereas by the same section it is provided that wherever the operation of “The Counties Act, 1886,” or of any Act amending or repealing the same, is suspended, the Governor shall have and may exercise all the functions vested in a County Council under the said section:

And whereas the operation of the Counties Act is suspended in the County of Manukau, and the East Tamaki and Papatoitoi Road Districts are situated within the said county, and the said Road Boards have mutually agreed that East Tamaki Road Board shall have the control of that portion of the Great South Road lying between the said road districts, and that the cost of constructing and maintaining the said portion of road shall be borne in the following proportions, that is to say: The East Tamaki Road Board shall pay eleven-twentieths of the cost, and the Papatoitoi Road Board nine-twentieths of the cost:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the one hundred and seventh section of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” do hereby declare and order that from and after the twenty-sixth day of August next the East Tamaki Road Board shall have exclusive control of that portion of the Great South Road which lies between, passes through, or abuts upon the East Tamaki and Papatoitoi Road Districts, and which said portion is situated within the said county, and is part of a district road within the meaning of the last-mentioned Act; and in further pursuance and exercise of the said powers and authorities do hereby direct and order that the cost of constructing and maintaining the said portion of road shall be borne between the East Tamaki Road Board and the Papatoitoi Road Board in the following proportions, that is to say: The East Tamaki Road Board shall pay eleven-twentieths of such cost, and the Papatoitoi Road Board nine-twentieths of such cost.

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

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Notice of Election of a Member of the Board of Conciliation for the Wellington Industrial District.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by “The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1894,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that

JAMES WILKIE, of Wellington, Mining Engineer, has been duly elected a member of the Board of Conciliation in and for the Wellington Industrial District, vice Charles Haslam, resigned.

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

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Labour.