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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 49

tions as shall be in such Order specified, any land, where-
soever 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 Pro-
vincial District of Auckland, containing fifty-three acres,
more or less, known as Mangahawini No. 2 or Te Puka
Block, and being the land comprised in an order of the
Native Land Court, dated the ninth day of May, one thou-
sand eight hundred and ninety-eight, in favour of Arapeta
Potae and others.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Conferring Jurisdiction on Native Land Court.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this thirty-
first day of May, 1900.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE J. CARROLL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section fourteen of “The Native Land
Court Act, 1894,” it is enacted that the Native Land
Court shall, as regards all lands within the meaning of sub-
section ten of section fourteen aforesaid, have jurisdiction
as in the said subsection mentioned: Provided that the
Court shall not proceed to exercise such jurisdiction unless
the Governor in Council shall by Order authorise the same
to be done:

And whereas the land specified in the Schedule hereto is
land in respect whereof the Court has jurisdiction as afore-
said, and it is expedient that the Court should be authorised
to exercise the same:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and con-
sent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth
hereby authorise the said Court to exercise in respect of
the said land the jurisdiction conferred as aforesaid—that
is to say, to determine whether or not the said land or any
part thereof was, on the investigation of title thereto, in-
tended by the Native Land Court, or by the nominal owner
or owners of such land, to be held by such nominal owner
or owners in trust for Natives not named in the title, and
to determine who are the Natives (if any) entitled bene-
ficially to such land, and to order the inclusion of such
Natives in the title, either together with or in lieu of the
nominal owners or any of them, and for the purpose afore-
said to order the cancellation or amendment of any exist-
ing instrument of title, and the issue of such new Crown
grants or other instruments of title as may be necessary,
and generally to exercise in respect of the said land all the
jurisdiction and powers conferred on the Native Land Court
by subsection ten of section fourteen of “The Native Land
Court Act, 1894.”

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, containing 1,198 acres 3 roods
31 perches, more or less, situate at Chatham Islands, in the
Colony of New Zealand, known as Kekerione No. 16, other-
wise “Rapunui.”

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Conferring Jurisdiction on Native Land Court.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this thirty-
first day of May, 1900.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE J. CARROLL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section fourteen of “The Native Land
Court Act, 1894,” it is enacted that the Native Land
Court shall, as regards all lands within the meaning of sub-
section ten of section fourteen aforesaid, have jurisdiction
as in the said subsection mentioned: Provided that the
Court shall not proceed to exercise such jurisdiction unless
the Governor in Council shall by Order authorise the same
to be done:

And whereas the land specified in the Schedule hereto is
land in respect whereof the Court has jurisdiction as afore-
said, and it is expedient that the Court should be authorised
to exercise the same:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and con-
sent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth
hereby authorise the said Court to exercise in respect of
the said land the jurisdiction conferred as aforesaid—that
is to say, to determine whether or not the said land or any
part thereof was, on the investigation of title thereto, in-
tended by the Native Land Court, or by the nominal owner
or owners of such land, to be held by such nominal owner
or owners in trust for Natives not named in the title, and
to determine who are the Natives (if any) entitled bene-
ficially to such land, and to order the inclusion of such
Natives in the title, either together with or in lieu of the
nominal owners or any of them, and for the purpose afore-
said to order the cancellation or amendment of any exist-
ing instrument of title, and the issue of such new Crown
grants or other instruments of title as may be necessary,
and generally to exercise in respect of the said land all the
jurisdiction and powers conferred on the Native Land Court
by subsection ten of section fourteen of “The Native Land
Court Act, 1894.”

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, containing 3,270 acres 2 roods
16 perches, more or less, situate at Chatham Islands, in the
Colony of New Zealand, and known as Wharekauri No. 1A,
otherwise “Taupeka.”

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Removal of Restrictions on Alienation of Native Land.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS application has been made to the Governor
by the owners of the lands described in the Schedule
hereto, praying that the restrictions on the alienation of
such lands contained in the Crown grant bearing date the
twentieth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-five, and now contained in partition orders of the
Native Land Court bearing date the twenty-eighth day of
May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, 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 all restrictions imposed by the said
Crown grant and partition orders on the alienation of the
said lands are hereby removed.

SCHEDULE.

ALL those parcels of lands, containing respectively 16 acres
2 roods 26 perches and 33 acres 1 rood 14 perches, more or
less, situate in the Provincial District of Auckland, known
as Allotments Nos. 329A and 329B, Parish of Whangamarino,
and being the lands comprised in partition orders of the
Native Land Court, dated the 28th May, 1898, in favour of
William H. Marshall and Tomo Tuhourangi and others, and
subject to the following restrictions: “Inalienable by sale,
or by lease for a longer period than twenty-one years, or by
mortgage, except with the consent of the Governor being
previously obtained to any such sale, lease, or mortgage.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this second day of June, one thousand nine hun-
dred.

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.