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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 56

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 twenty-fifth day of June, 1900.

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, the block or parcel of land, situate in the Provincial District of Auckland, containing five thousand one hundred and forty-five acres two roods, more or less, and known as Opuatia No. 6, being the whole of the land comprised and described in a partition order of the Native Land Court, dated the twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, and being part of the land comprised and described in Provisional Register, Volume Twenty-five, folio one hundred and forty-seven, in the office of the District Land Registrar at Auckland.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 21st June, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned gentlemen to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz.:

Name. District.
ROBERT ULICK BURKE .. .. .. Napier.
JOHN LEDYARD EVANS .. .. .. Wyndham.
JAMES PARR .. .. .. .. .. .. Duntroun.
DAVID JAMES DONALD .. .. .. Malvern.

J. G. WARD.

Registrars of Electors, Wanganui, Oamaru, Westland, and Waiapu Electoral Districts, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 25th June, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

CHARLES ARTHUR BARTON

to be Registrar of Electors under “The Electoral Act, 1893,” for the Electoral District of Wanganui, vice A. D. Thomson; also to appoint

ROBERT PERCY WARD

to be Registrar of Electors under the said Act for the Electoral District of Oamaru, vice H. H. G. Ralfe; also to appoint

ALEXANDER ADAM MAIR

to be Registrar of Electors under the said Act for the Electoral District of Westland, vice C. A. Barton; also to appoint

GEORGE JOHN ALEXANDER JOHNSTONE

to be Registrar of Electors under the said Act for the Electoral District of Waiapu, vice W. A. Barton. Appointments to date from the 1st July, 1900.

J. G. WARD.

Public Vaccinator, Buller District, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 25th June, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

MURDOCH MACKENZIE, Esq., L.R.C.S. Edin, &c.,

to be a Public Vaccinator, under “The Public Health Act, 1876,” for the District of Buller.

J. G. WARD.

Clerks of Magistrates’ Courts, &c., appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 27th June, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM ARTHUR THOM

to be Clerk of the Magistrate’s and Warden’s Courts and Receiver of Gold Revenue and Mining Registrar at Tauranga, Clerk of the Magistrates’ Courts at Maketu and Te Puke, and Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of Bay of Plenty, from the 25th instant, vice J. Thomson, retired; and

HENRY HYDE CARR

to be Clerk of the Magistrate’s Court at Wairoa from the 16th instant, vice W. A. Thom, transferred.

JAMES McGOWAN.

Appointment in the Department of Lands and Survey.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 27th June, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

NICHOLAS JOSEPH RYAN

to be a clerical cadet in the Department of Lands and Survey, as from 6th March, 1900.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

Dairy Commissioner appointed.—Notice No. 590.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 23rd June, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the following appointment:—

JOHN ALEXANDER KINSELLA

to be Dairy Commissioner to the Government of New Zealand (temporary appointment only), in terms of “The Civil Service Reform Act 1886 Amendment Act, 1887,” vice J. A. Ruddick, resigned. To date from the 1st June, 1900.

W. C. WALKER,
For Minister for Agriculture.

Inspector of Factories appointed.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 26th June, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned person to be an Inspector under “The Factories Act, 1894,” and to assign to him the district set opposite his name, viz.:

Name. District.
Constable THOMAS ALFRED EVENDEN The Middle Island of the Colony of New Zealand, and the islands adjacent thereto.

J. CARROLL,
For Minister of Labour.

Volunteer Officers appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 20th June, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the under-mentioned appointments:—

New Zealand Volunteer Medical Staff.
Edward William Sharman to be Surgeon-Captain.

Devonport Naval Submarine Miner Volunteers.
The Rev. Charles Moseley Nelson to be Honorary Chaplain. Commissions to date from the 11th May, 1900.

J. G. WARD,
For Minister of Defence.