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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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tion No. 13, Block XII., Lowry Peaks, and Section No. 8 of
Mackenzie Suburban, 4077·4 links; towards the east by
Stewart Road, 229 links; towards the south by Sections
Nos. 9 to 14, inclusive, Mackenzie Suburban, 4073·8 links;
and towards the west by Section No. 16, Block XII., Lowry
Peaks, 237·9 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 9 acres 1 rood 16 perches,
more or less, being Reserve No. 3176, Block VII., Cheviot
Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Sections
Nos. 24 to 28, inclusive, 4075·1 links; towards the east by
Ward Road and Miller Street, 281·8 links; towards the
south by Sections Nos. 29, and 32 to 36, inclusive, 4201·8
links; and towards the west by Stewart Road, 228·7 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 3 roods, more or less,
being Reserve No. 3178, Block VII., Cheviot Survey District,
being an irregular block of land having a frontage of about
498 links on Ward Street, and distant from the corner of
the Woolshed Road about 790 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.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth
day of February, 1899.

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 Nika Waiata, of Ngaurukehu, in the Provincial District of Wellington, 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 eleventh day of
January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, under
the hand of Robert Ward, Esquire, a Judge of the Native
Land Court of New Zealand, and the seal of the said Court,
it was certified that the said Nika Waiata possesses, irrespective of the lands 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 Nika
Waiata to mortgage the lands set out in the Schedule hereto
to the Government Advances to Settlers Office, being a
lending department of the Government as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Native Land proposed to be taken for the Construction of a
Police-station at Te Whaiti, County of Whakatane.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of February, 1899.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto
is required to be taken for a public work, to wit,
the construction of a police station at Te Whaiti, County of
Whakatane:

And whereas the said land is held or occupied by Native
owners under a title which is not derived from the Crown:
And whereas a map has been prepared in duplicate showing
accurately the position and extent of the said land, 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 police-station as from the fifteenth day of April, one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

SCHEDULE.

In the Land District of Auckland; as the said parcel of
land is more particularly delineated on the plan marked
P.W.D. 18459, deposited in the office of the Minister for
Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of
Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Excepting Land from Operation of Section 117 of “The
Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth
day of February, 1899.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section four of “The Native Land
Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” it is enacted that
the Governor may, by Order in Council, except from the
operation of section one hundred and seventeen of “The
Native Land Court Act, 1894” (hereinafter called “the said
Act”), for a limited period or otherwise, and either generally
or for such purposes and subject to such restrictions as shall
be in such Order specified, any land, wheresoever situate,
which is for the time being subject to the operation of the
said section, or any interest therein or right over the same,
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:

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