Mar. 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 639

Increasing the Holding-area of Land to Settlers in the Ackers Village Settlement, Southland.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of March, 1900.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council issued on the fifteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, under the authority of section one hundred and sixty-nine of “The Land Act, 1892,” fixing the terms and conditions upon which certain village-settlement lands therein enumerated should be disposed of, it was provided that the maximum area that could be held by a lessee of lands in the Ackers Village was fifty acres:

And whereas it is expedient to allow one person to hold more than fifty acres in the Ackers Village Settlement, provided that the total area acquired does not exceed sixty-five acres in extent:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in pursuance of all powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony of New Zealand, doth hereby amend the Order in Council aforesaid so far as it affects the areas in which the land in the Ackers Village shall be held, and doth declare that, on and after the date hereof, any settler may apply for and acquire land therein of an area not exceeding sixty-five acres in extent in the whole; and it is hereby further declared that all the provisions of the Order in Council of the fifteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, aforesaid, shall apply, except as regards the area in which the sections may be held, to the Ackers Village Settlement aforesaid.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Increasing the Holding-area of Land to Settlers in the Croydon Village Settlement, Southland.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of March, 1900.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council issued on the fifteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, under the authority of section one hundred and sixty-nine of “The Land Act, 1892,” fixing the terms and conditions upon which certain village-settlement lands therein enumerated should be disposed of, it was provided that no lessee should hold more than one allotment in the Croydon Village:

And whereas it is expedient to allow one person to hold more than one allotment in the Croydon Village Settlement, provided that the total area acquired does not exceed fifty acres in extent:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in pursuance of all powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony of New Zealand, doth hereby amend the Order in Council aforesaid so far as it affects the areas in which the land in the Croydon Village Settlement shall be held, and doth declare that on and after the date hereof any settler may apply for and acquire land therein of an area not exceeding fifty acres in extent in the whole. And it is hereby further declared that all the provisions of the Order in Council of the fifteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, aforesaid, shall apply, except as regards the area in which the sections may be held, to the Croydon Village Settlement.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Increasing the Holding-area of Land to Settlers in the Centre Bush Village Settlement, Southland.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of March, 1900.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council issued on the fifteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, under the authority of section one hundred and sixty-nine of “The Land Act, 1892,” fixing the terms and conditions upon which certain village-settlement lands therein enumerated should be disposed of, it was provided that no lessee should hold more than one section in the Centre Bush Village:

And whereas it is expedient to allow one person to hold more than one section in the Centre Bush Village Settlement provided that the total area acquired does not exceed sixty acres in extent:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in pursuance of all powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony of New Zealand, doth hereby amend the Order in Council aforesaid so far as it affects the areas in which the land in the Centre Bush Village shall be held, and doth declare that on and after the date hereof any settler may apply for and acquire land therein of an area not exceeding sixty acres in extent in the whole; and it is hereby further declared that all the provisions of the Order in Council of the fifteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, aforesaid, shall apply, except as regards the area in which the sections may be held, to the Centre Bush Village Settlement aforesaid.

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,