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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 56

Lands permanently reserved.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS by the two-hundred-and-thirty-fifth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:

And whereas by the two-hundred-and-thirty-sixth section of the said Act it is provided that land temporarily reserved under the said two-hundred-and-thirty-fifth section may, at the expiration of one month but not later than six months after the publication in the Gazette of notice of such temporary reservation, be permanently reserved, and that notice of such permanent reservation shall be published in the Gazette:

And whereas the lands specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto were, by the warrants the dates of which are specified in the third column of the said Schedule, and the notifications of which were published in the Gazettes specified in the fourth column, temporarily reserved under the authority of the said Act for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, do hereby permanently reserve the lands so temporarily reserved as aforesaid, and enumerated in the first column of the Schedule hereto, for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule, being the same purposes for which the said lands were so temporarily reserved as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

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

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

Removal of Restrictions on Alienation of Native Land.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS application has been made to the Governor by a majority of 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-ninth 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 the 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 the restrictions imposed by the said Crown grant on the alienation of the said land are hereby removed.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, containing 1 acre 3 roods 20 perches, more or less, situate at Otaki, in the Provincial District of Wellington, being the land known as Piritaha No. 58n, held under Crown grant dated 29th January, 1869, in favour of Pirihira te Ahu and others, and subject to the following restriction: “Inalienable by sale, or by lease for a longer period than twenty-one years, or by mortgage, without the consent of the Governor being previously obtained.”

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

R. J. SEDDON,
Native Minister.

Notice of Application to proclaim the Waiomo River, together with all its Tributaries, Watercourses for the Deposit of Tailings, &c.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers vested in him by section 109 of “The Mining Act, 1898,” His Excellency the Governor hereby notifies that application has been made to him to constitute and set apart by Proclamation the watercourse, the name, locality, and description whereof are set forth in the Schedule hereto, to be a watercourse into which may be discharged any tailings, debris, and waste water produced by or resulting from mining operations carried on under the said Act.

Any person who objects to such Proclamation being made, or whose land, or riparian or other rights in respect of such land, will be damaged or injuriously affected by the operation thereof, is required to serve on the Minister of Mines, within the period of ninety days after the publication hereof in the Gazette, full particulars of such objection, and also a claim in the prescribed form setting forth full particulars of all compensation that will be claimed by him in the event of such Proclamation being made.

No person will be entitled to any compensation for damage or injury consequent on the operation of such Proclamation unless his claim is duly served in the manner and within the period aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

THAT river known as the Waiomo River, Thames County, which flows westerly from its source for a distance of about three miles to the Firth of Thames, together with the tributaries thereof.

Dated at Wellington, this 21st day of June, 1899.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.