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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 72

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 August, 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 Rapera 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 twenty-second day of March, 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 Rapera Waiata possesses, irrespective of the land 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 Rapera Waiata to mortgage the lands set out in the Schedule hereto to a lending department of the Government as aforesaid.

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SCHEDULE.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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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 August, 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 Hapeta Pitimou, of Wangaehu, in the Provincial District of Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand, being the owner in severalty of the block or parcel of land mentioned and particularised in the Schedule hereto, has applied to be allowed to mortgage the said block of land: And whereas, by certificate bearing date the tenth day of May, 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 Hapeta Pitimou possesses, irrespective of the land proposed to be mortgaged, other land sufficient for his 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 Hapeta Pitimou to mortgage the land set out in the Schedule hereto to a lending department of the Government as aforesaid.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, known as Rakautaua No. 1b No. 1, containing 140 acres, more or less, being the whole of the land comprised in a partition order of the Native Land Court, dated the 16th day of April, 1898, in favour of Hapeta Pitimou.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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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 August, 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 Utiku te Ki, of Wangaehu, in the Provincial District of Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand, being the owner in severalty of the block or parcel of land mentioned and particularised in the Schedule hereto, has applied to be allowed to mortgage the said block of land: And whereas, by certificate bearing date the tenth day of May, 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 Utiku te Ki possesses, irrespective of the land proposed to be mortgaged, other land sufficient for his 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 Utiku te Ki to mortgage the land set out in the Schedule hereto to a lending department of the Government as aforesaid.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, known as Rakautaua No. 1b No. 2, containing 140 acres, more or less, being the whole of the land comprised in a partition order of the Native Land Court, dated the 16th day of April, 1898, in favour of Utiku te Ki.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Appointing Trustee for Native Land, and exempting such Land from Restrictions.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

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

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR 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 some 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: And whereas Mangatu No. 1, incorporated under the provisions of “The Mangatu No. 1 Empowering Act, 1893,” is desirous of conveying Subdivision 1 of the Mangatu No. 1 Block, containing twenty thousand acres, to Walter George Foster, of the City of Wellington, gentleman, upon