1850

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 83

Berwick Land-drainage District, County of Taieri, constituted.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this tenth day of November, 1898.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING 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 Taieri, 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 “Berwick 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.

BERWICK DRAINAGE DISTRICT.

All that area in the Otago Land District, situated in Blocks II. and VI., Maungatua Survey District, bounded towards the north-east generally by Sections Nos. 2 of 11, 2 of 9, 1 of 9, a public road, and Section No. 10, Block II. aforesaid; Sections Nos. 56, 55, and 54, Block VI. aforesaid: towards the south-east by the road forming the south-eastern boundary of Section No. 8, Block VI. aforesaid: towards the south-west generally by the Waipori River: and towards the north-west by Section No. 44, Block II. aforesaid.

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

Empowering Native Appellate Court to hear Appeal under Section 62 of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this tenth day of November, 1898.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section sixty-two of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” it is provided that in any case in which application has been or shall be made to the Chief Judge of the Native Land Court, under section thirty-nine of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” in respect of any order of the Court determining the succession to the estate of any Native deceased, the Governor, on being certified by the Chief Judge as in the said section is provided, may, by Order in Council, empower the Native Appellate Court to deal with such application as a valid appeal under “The Native Land Court Act, 1894”: And whereas the Chief Judge has, in respect of the application of Heta Rewiti Stewart, under section thirty-nine aforesaid, certified as by the said section sixty-two is required: And whereas the said application in all other respects complies with the requirements of the last-mentioned section:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby empower the Native Appellate Court to deal with the said application as an appeal, under the provisions of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” from the order of Court hereinafter specified, that is to say:—

The order of the Court, dated the twenty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, appointing Ra Poutu Kemara to succeed to the interest of Te Kemara Tirarua hine, deceased, in the Parareka No. 2 Block, in the District of Thames.

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

Native Land proposed to be taken for a Gravel-pit in Block VII., Heretaunga Survey District.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirty-first day of October, 1898.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken for a public work, to wit, for the purposes of a gravel-pit, and road leading thereto, in Block VII., Heretaunga Survey District:

And whereas the said lands are 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 lands by the Hawke’s Bay 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 Governor 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 purposes of the said gravel-pit, and road thereto, and the said land shall vest in the Hawke’s Bay County Council, as from the fifteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

SCHEDULE.

The parcel of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

In the Hawke’s Bay Land District; as the said parcel of land is more particularly delineated on the plan marked as above mentioned, deposited in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged with red.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Removal of Restrictions on Alienation of Native Land.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS application has been made to the Governor by the Native 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 bearing date the seventeenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, and now contained in Land Transfer certificate dated the nineteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety, 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 Governor 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 the restrictions imposed by the said Native Land Court certificate and Land Transfer certificate on the alienation of the said land are hereby removed.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, containing 40 acres, more or less, being the land known as Otane No. 2, held under Land Transfer certificate dated the 19th February, 1890, in favour of Waata Tohu, and containing the following restrictions: “Inalienable, except with the consent of the Governor, by sale or mortgage, or by lease for a longer period than twenty-one years.”

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

R. J. SEDDON.