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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 23

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

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fourteenth day of March, 1900.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING 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 Tipene Matua, of Porangahau, in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, 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 nineteenth day of October, 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 Tipene Matua 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 Tipene Matua to mortgage the lands set out in the Schedule hereto to a lending department of the Government as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

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 Buildings, at Wellington, this fourteenth day of March, 1900.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING 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 Heta Matua, of Porangahau, in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, 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 nineteenth day of October, 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 Heta Matua 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 Heta Matua to mortgage the lands set out in the Schedule hereto to a lending department of the Government as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Native Land proposed to be taken for Public Health Purposes through Waiohiharore, Blocks A, B, C, and D, Borough of Gisborne, Turanganui Survey District.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fourteenth day of March, 1900.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken for a public work, to wit, for the purposes of public health in Waiohiharore Block, Borough of Gisborne:

And whereas the said lands are held or occupied by Native owners under a title which is not derived from the Crown: And whereas a map in duplicate has been prepared of the said lands by the Gisborne Borough Council, 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 lands shown upon such map, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be deemed to be taken for the purposes of public health, and the said lands shall vest in the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Gisborne, as from the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred.

SCHEDULE.

THE parcels of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

All in the Hawke’s Bay Land District; as the said parcels of land are more particularly delineated on the plan marked as above mentioned, deposited in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above stated.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.