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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 49

the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby set apart the land described in the Schedule hereto, forming part of the Crown lands in New Zealand, as and for a State forest within the provisions of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY.

ALL that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 47 acres 2 roods 25 perches, more or less, being Section No. 3244 in red, Block XIV., Tengawai Survey District, part of the Albury Settlement. Bounded towards the north generally by Section No. 38 of the Albury Settlement, 3623·3 links; towards the east by Section No. 39 of said settlement, 2320·8 links; towards the south-west by Section No. 59 of said settlement and a road-line, 3487·2 links; and towards the west by the aforesaid Section No. 38, 917·2 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.

All that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 13 acres 2 roods 16 perches, more or less, being Section No. 3245 in red, Block XIV., Tengawai Survey District, part of the Albury Settlement. Bounded towards the north by Section No. 28 of the Albury Settlement, 1391·2 links; towards the east by the said section, 1007·3 links; towards the south-east by Section No. 28, a road-line, and Section No. 30 of said settlement, 1128·4 links; and towards the west by the last-mentioned section and a limestone reserve, 1238·6 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.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Commissioner of State Forests.

Approved in Council.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Authorising Native to mortgage Lands under Section 6 of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1897.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

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

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section six of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1897,” it is enacted that the Governor may, by Order in Council, authorise any Native owning land in severalty to mortgage such land to any lending department of the Government, and that in such case the mortgage shall operate in all respects as if the mortgagor were other than a Native, and accordingly none of the restrictions, limitations, or provisions of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” or any other Act affecting Native lands, or lands owned or held by Natives, shall apply, anything in any such Act to the contrary notwithstanding: And whereas Airini Donnelly, of Crissoge, in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, in the Colony of New Zealand, being the owner in severalty of the blocks or parcels of land mentioned and particularised in the Schedule hereto, has applied to be allowed to mortgage the said blocks of land: And whereas, by certificate bearing date the twenty-sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, under the hand of William James Butler, Esquire, a Judge of the Native Land Court of New Zealand, and the seal of the said Court, it was certified that the said Airini Donnelly possesses, irrespective of the land proposed to be mortgaged, other land sufficient for her maintenance:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by the Act aforesaid, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby authorise the said Airini Donnelly to mortgage the lands set out in the Schedule hereto to any lending department of the Government as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

FIRSTLY, all that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, containing 3,125 acres, more or less, known as Mangaohane No. 1o, and being the whole of the land comprised in certificate of title, Vol. lxxxi., folio 52.

Secondly, all that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, containing 81 acres, more or less, known as Mangaohane No. 1r, and being the whole of the land comprised in certificate of title, Vol. lxxxi., folio 53.

Thirdly, all that piece or parcel of land, situate in the said Provincial District of Wellington, containing 1,275 acres, more or less, known as Mangaohane No. 1s, and being the whole of the land comprised in certificate of title, Vol. lxxxi., folio 54.

Fourthly, all that piece or parcel of land, situate in the said Provincial District of Wellington and in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, containing in the aggregate 11,891 acres, more or less, and being the whole of the land comprised in certificate of title, Vol. lxxxi., folio 56, Wellington Register, and certificate of title, Vol. xxxv., folio 35, Hawke’s Bay Register.

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

Hautapu Land-drainage District, County of Waikato, constituted.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of June, 1898.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS in accordance with the provisions of the fifth section of “The Land Drainage Act, 1893,” a majority of the ratepayers in the district described in the Schedule hereto, situated in the County of Waikato, have presented a petition to His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand praying that the land comprised in the said district be constituted a drainage district under the provisions of the said Act:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority contained in the fifth section of “The Land Drainage Act, 1893,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby constitute and declare the block of land described in the said petition and in the Schedule hereto to be a district for the purposes of Part I. of the said Act, and to be called by the name of the “Hautapu Drainage District”; and also, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority contained in the ninth section of the said Act, doth hereby declare that the Board of Trustees for the said district shall consist of five members, to be elected under and in accordance with the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

HAUTAPU DRAINAGE DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, situated in the Hautapu Parish, Hamilton Survey District, bounded towards the north by Sections Nos. 65, 72, 73, 82, and 83, Hautapu Parish; towards the east generally by the road forming the eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 84, 87, 29, 32, 33, and 36; again towards the north by Section No. 21; again towards the east by Section No. 19; again towards the north by the road forming the southern boundary of the said Section No. 19; again towards the east by the road forming the eastern boundary of Section No. 17, and by the production of that road to the Borough of Cambridge, thence by the said Borough of Cambridge to the south-eastern corner of Section No. 1; thence towards the south by the road forming the southern boundaries of Sections Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8; towards the south-west generally by the road forming the south-western boundaries of Sections Nos. 8, 9, 10, 39, 40, 40A, 41, 42A, and 100; thence again towards the north and west by Sections Nos. 49 and 49A; again towards the south by the road forming the northern boundaries of the two last-mentioned sections; and again towards the west by Sections Nos. 55 and 56 to Section No. 65, Hautapu Parish aforesaid.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council,