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or may in like manner make such exception in favour exclusively of any lessee or other person who has been bonâ 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:

And whereas Amiria Ropiha, Ngaruma Nepe, Keita Ruta, Te One Paora, Ruta Keita, and Hiraani te Hei, of Waipawa, in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, in the Colony of New Zealand, being the registered proprietors of the several blocks or parcels of land set opposite their names, and mentioned and particularised in the Schedule hereto, have applied to be allowed to sell the said lands:

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 said several blocks of land set out in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Declaring Kaiapoi Pa to be a Native Reserve.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of December, 1898.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS, by section thirty-four of “The Reserves, Endowments, and Crown and Native Lands Exchange, Sale, Disposal, and Enabling Act, 1898,” it is among other things provided that the Governor may, by Order in Council, declare that the site of the old Native pa at Kaiapoi, in the Rangiora Survey District, and numbered 873A on the plan thereof, containing five acres, more or less, shall vest in Her Majesty as a reserve for the benefit of the Natives to whom the same was promised, or their descendants:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the said Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby declare that the said site of the old Native pa at Kaiapoi, and mentioned in the hereinbefore recited enactment, shall vest in Her Majesty as a reserve for the benefit of the Natives to whom the same was promised, or their descendants.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Native Land proposed to be taken for a Road in Cabbage Bay, County of Coromandel.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

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

Present:

THE HONOURABLE A. J. CADMAN PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken for a public work, to wit, the construction of a road in Cabbage Bay, County of Coromandel:

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 Coromandel 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 purpose of the said road, and the said land shall vest in the Coromandel County Council as from the fifteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

SCHEDULE.

THE several parcels of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

All in the Auckland Land District; as the said parcels of land are more particularly delineated on the plan marked as above stated, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Native Lands proposed to be taken for a Road in the Maramarua Survey District.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

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

Present:

THE HONOURABLE A. J. CADMAN PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken for a public work, to wit, the construction of a road through Block IX., Maramarua 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, 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 that 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 lands shown upon such map, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be deemed to be taken for the purpose of the said road, and the said lands shall vest in Her Majesty the Queen as from the fifteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

SCHEDULE.

THE parcels of land mentioned hereunder:—

All in the Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked as above mentioned, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.