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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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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 sale, the blocks or parcels of land known as Orahiri No. 11, containing 5 acres, more or less, and Orahiri No. 11a, containing 2 acres, more or less, situate in the Orahiri Survey District, in the Provincial District of Auckland.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.

“The Education Act, 1877.”—Payments to Education Boards.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of June, 1898.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Education Act, 1877,” His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the colony, doth hereby make the regulation hereto annexed regarding certain payments of capitation allowance to Education Boards; and, with the like advice and consent, doth hereby prescribe that this Order shall come into force on the date of the first publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

REGULATION.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in an Order in Council made on the 5th day of January, 1888, under the provisions of “The Education Act, 1877,” relating (inter alia) to attendance registers and returns, the payment of capitation allowance to Education Boards for the quarter ending on the 30th day of June, 1898, shall be according to the working-average attendance of the quarter ending on the 31st day of March, 1898, as working average was defined by Order in Council dated the 5th day of July, 1887, and made under the provisions of the before-mentioned Act.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.

Additional Regulations under “The Cyanide Process Gold-extraction Act, 1897.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by “The Cyanide Process Gold-extraction Act, 1897,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby make the following regulations in addition to the regulations made by me under the aforesaid Act on the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

REGULATIONS.

1. Any license may be cancelled by the Warden for breach of any of the provisions of the aforesaid Act or regulations.
2. At any time, upon payment of all royalty, and upon due compliance with all the provisions of the aforesaid Act and regulations up to the date of surrender, any licensee may surrender his license to the Warden for cancellation, and the Warden may cancel the same.
3. The cancellation of a license shall in no case release the licensee from his liability in respect of any royalty, penalty, or obligation under the aforesaid Act or regulations up to the time when the license is cancelled.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this tenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.

Animals Protection Act.—Declaring Reserves for Imported Game, Waikaremoana and Rangitaiki.

RANFURLY, Governor.

PURSUANT to the powers conferred on him by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand doth hereby notify that imported game shall not be taken or killed within those portions of the Auckland and Hawke’s Bay Land Districts more particularly described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

WAIKAREMOANA.

All that area in the Auckland and Hawke’s Bay Land Districts bounded towards the north-west generally by the summit of the range leading from Whakatakaa Trig. Station, at the head-waters of the Whakatane River, to Maungapohatu Trig. Station, near the head-waters of the Waikare Stream: thence towards the east generally by the summit of the range leading to Manuaha Trig. Station; thence by the main range leading east of Waikare-iti round to Ngamoko Trig. Station; thence by the range from Ngamoko westerly to the spur leading to the Waikaretaheke Stream, at a point about a mile and a half distant from where it flows out of Waikaremoana; thence by that spur to the Waikaretaheke Stream: and thence towards the south generally by the leading spur to the summit of the Panikiri Range; and thence by the summit of the Panikiri Range over Puketapu Trig. Station to the Kotore-o-taunca Range: and thence towards the west generally by the eastern watershed of the Mangainuichou Stream and the main range leading therefrom to Whakatakaa Trig. Station aforesaid.

RANGITAIKI.

All that area in the Auckland Land District bounded towards the north-east by the Tuketoromiro Stream (which forms the northern boundary of Waiohau No. 2 Block) from the Rangitaiki River to its source: thence towards the east generally by the water-parting on the eastern side of the Rangitaiki River to Kaimokopuna; thence by a right line to and by the first tributary of Te Horomanga-a-po Stream east of the Kuhawaea No. 1 Block to Te Horomanga-a-po Stream; thence by a right line to the nearest point of the water-parting on the south-western side of that stream; thence by that water-parting to the source of the Whangarau Stream; thence by that stream to the Whirinaki Stream; thence by a right line to the nearest point of the water-parting on the west side of the Whirinaki Stream; thence by that water-parting over Tikorangi to Tapiri Trig. Station No. 76: thence towards the south by a right line running due west to the Rangitaiki River: and thence towards the west generally by that river to the place of commencement.

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

J. CARROLL.

Land temporarily reserved in the Land District of Southland.

RANFURLY, Governor.

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:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the land in the Land District of Southland described in the Schedule hereto, for the purposes of a public recreation-ground.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land in the Southland Land District, containing by admeasurement 319 acres 2 roods, more or less, being Section No. 819, Hokonui Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Crown lands and a road-line, 2419, 652·5, 441, 320·5, 210·4, and 354·6 links respectively; towards the east and south-east by Sections Nos. 754, 757, 765, 764, 763, 768, 769, and road-line, Hokonui Survey District, 2944·9, 28·4, and 5833·6 links respectively; towards the south-west