Nov. 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1851

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 bearing date the eighteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, and now contained in partition order of the Native Land Court bearing date the thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, 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 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 and the said partition order on the alienation of the said land are hereby removed.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land, containing 34 perches, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, and being the land known as Section 101, Township of Hadfield (Otaki), held under partition order of the Native Land Court, dated 13th June, 1887, in favour of Tamihana te Hoia and others, and 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 being previously obtained to every such sale, lease, or mortgage.”

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

R. J. SEDDON.

Notice of Intention to change the Purpose of a Reserve in the Wellington Land District.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS by “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” it is, amongst other things, enacted that the Governor may declare his intention to make, change, exchange, or alter the dedication of any public reserve now or hereafter vested in Her Majesty or the Governor for any of the purposes named in Class II. of the Schedule to the said Act, whether the same be granted or not; if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to change the purpose of such reserve or any part thereof from the purpose or presumed purpose for which it was set apart to any other purpose, or if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to exchange any of the land comprised in such reserve for other land of equal value, to be dedicated to one or more purposes named in the said Class II., the Governor may, by notice gazetted, declare his intention to make such change, exchange, or dedication, as the case may be, and in such notice declare the manner and terms in which the same is intended to be so made:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” aforesaid, declare my intention to change the specific purpose of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto from a public-hall site to a site for a Mechanics’ Institute and Library.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 rood, more or less, being Section No. 3, Block VI., Taihape Township.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirty-first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Notifying Lands in Wellington for Sale by Public Auction.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-thirteenth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Wednesday, the eleventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, as the time at which the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction; and I do hereby fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto opposite the description of such lands respectively.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

The sections comprise, generally speaking, flat land in grass. Sections 36, 242, 240, 239, and 250 are intersected by the Forewa Stream.

The sections are situated on the Mangawharariki Road, in the Pemberton Improved-farm Settlement. The access is from Rangiwahia, which is about seven miles distant by the main road between Feilding and Mangaweka, the sections being about eight miles from the latter place. Sections 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23, and parts 25 and 26, comprise open grass land, practically level. The remaining sections are also level, and are covered with heavy mixed forest, comprising matai, white-pine, maire, rimu, &c., with the usual undergrowth.

Rewa Village.

These sections are situated on the south-east side of the Rangitikei River, in a settled district; one approach being from Feilding by Makino and Williamson’s Roads, via Beaconsfield; the other is from Hunterville Township and Railway-station, via Vinegar Hill Bridge. The land is practically all level, with good soil, consisting of a river-deposit overlying gravel; covered with timber. The sections are occupied by the Rewa Dairy Factory Company, who are effecting extensive improvements thereon. The sections are weighted with valuation of the improvements, to be assessed by the Land Board.

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

J. CARROLL,
For Minister of Lands.

B