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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 43

Removal of Restrictions on Alienation of Native Land.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS application has been made to the Governor by the owners 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 twenty-eighth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, 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 on the alienation of the said land are hereby removed.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land, containing 4 acres 2 roods 27 perches, more or less, situate at Otaki, in the Provincial District of Wellington, known as the Takapuotoiroa No. 1 Block, held under Crown grant dated the 28th January, 1869, 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 twentieth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

R. J. SEDDON,
Native Minister.

Steamships with Non-condensing Engines to be surveyed once a Year.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS it is provided by the third section of “The Shipping and Seamen’s Act Amendment Act, 1889,” that the Governor may from time to time make, alter, and revoke regulations that steamers of any particular class shall be surveyed at least once in every six months: And whereas, by Warrant dated the twenty-fourth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, and published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 56, of the twenty-sixth day of the same month, a regulation was made by the Governor providing that every steamer having non-condensing engines which plies at any time in salt or brackish waters shall be surveyed at least once in every six months:

And whereas it is desirable to revoke the said regulation of the twenty-fourth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the hereinbefore-recited power and authority, do hereby revoke the said regulation of the twenty-fourth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twentieth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister of Marine.

Altering the Name of the Borough of Newton.

(L.S.)
RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by sections two and three of “The Designation of Districts Act, 1894” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is provided that the Governor in Council may, at the request or with the consent of the Council of any county, city, or borough, alter the geographical name or designation of any place or locality in the colony: And whereas the Newton Borough Council has requested that the present name of “Newton” be altered as hereinafter mentioned, and it appears expedient to comply with such request:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby proclaim and declare that the Borough of Newton aforesaid shall, on and after the sixteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, be called and known by the name of “Grey Lynn,” and the name of the said Borough of Newton is hereby altered accordingly.

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 sixth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

W. C. WALKER.

Approved in Council.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Appointing Trustees for Native Lands, and exempting such Lands from Restrictions.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of May, 1899.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. C. WALKER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section three of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1897,” it is enacted that “any Native or Natives, whether incorporated or otherwise, owning land under title of any description, may convey the same or any defined part thereof by way of trust to the Surveyor-General or the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the district in which such land is situate, or to some other fit person appointed by the Governor in Council, upon such terms as to sale, leasing, managing, improving, and raising money upon the same as may be agreed upon between the parties or as may be declared by the Governor in Council; and the Surveyor-General or Commissioner of Crown Lands or other the person as aforesaid (hereinafter called ‘the trustee’) is hereby authorised to accept such trust”: And whereas by section two of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1898,” it is enacted that the words “lands under title of any description” in the aforesaid section three of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1897,” shall be deemed to extend to and include lands owned by or vested in any corporate body of Natives incorporated by any private, general, or special Act whatsoever: And whereas the owners of the land known as Mangatu No. 1, incorporated under “The Mangatu No. 1 Empowering Act, 1893,” and hereinafter termed “Mangatu No. 1,” being desirous of conveying the said land by way of trust to the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the District of Hawke’s Bay, Wiremu Pere, and Henry Cheetham Jackson, both of Gisborne, have applied to His Excellency the Governor to appoint the said persons to undertake such trust: And whereas the terms of such trust as to sale, leasing, managing, improving, and raising money upon the said lands have been set forth in a deed bearing even date herewith, and made between the said Mangatu No. 1 of the one part and the said Commissioner of Crown Lands for the District of Hawke’s Bay, Wiremu Pere, and Henry Cheetham Jackson, of the other part: And whereas by section five of the said “Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1897,” it is enacted that “for the purposes of giving effect to this and the two last-preceding sections hereof the Governor in Council may from time to time make such regulations as he may deem necessary, and may also exempt any land from all or any 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”: And whereas it is expedient for the purposes aforesaid that the said lands be exempted from all the restrictions, limitations, or provisions of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894”:

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 section 3 of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1897,” and every other power or authority in anywise enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby appoint the said Commissioner of Crown Lands for the District of Hawke’s Bay, Wiremu Pere, and Henry Cheetham Jackson, and the survivor of them, and the executors and administrators of such survivor, to be the trustees and trustee under the said section for the said Mangatu No. 1, upon the terms as to sale, leasing, managing, improving, and raising money upon the said lands which have been agreed upon between the said Mangatu No. 1 and the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the District of Hawke’s Bay, Wiremu Pere, and Henry Cheetham Jackson, and have been embodied in the said deed of trust. And His Excellency the Governor,