Num. 62.

1329

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1899.

Consenting to Land being taken for a Tramway through Section 5, Block XIX., City of Dunedin.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of June, 1899.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by “The Public Works Act, 1894” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is, in section fourteen thereof, inter alia, enacted that, except for the purpose of a railway, or for defence purposes, or for the purposes of any other work to be made under the authority of a special Act, there shall not be taken any land occupied by any building, yard, garden, orchard, or vineyard, or in bonâ fide occupation as an ornamental park or pleasure-ground, without the previous consent of the Governor in Council:

And whereas the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto forms part of a garden:

And whereas the Council of the City of Dunedin has, by a written memorial, requested the Governor in Council to consent to the taking of the said land for the purposes of the Dunedin and Kaikorai Tramway, and it is expedient to give such consent as aforesaid:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers conferred by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby consent to the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto being taken for the purposes of the Dunedin and Kaikorai Tramway.

SCHEDULE.

In the Provincial District of Otago; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 18557, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured blue.

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 seventeenth day of July, 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 lease, all that block or parcel of land, situate in the Provincial District of Auckland, containing ten thousand four hundred and forty-five acres, more or less, known as Wai-takaruru No. 5b, being the land comprised in an order of the Native Land Court dated the seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, which said order is registered in the Provisional Register in the office of the District Land Registrar at Auckland, Volume Twenty-seven, folio forty.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.