1296
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 58

claim or licensed holding shall be suffered to flow or be discharged:

And whereas not less than ninety days’ notice has been published, in the manner provided by the said section, that application has been made to the Governor to proclaim the watercourses hereinafter mentioned, and their tributaries, to be watercourses for the purposes of the said section mentioned:

And whereas His Excellency the Governor has decided to exercise the powers conferred upon him by the said Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers conferred by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby proclaim and declare that the whole of the watercourses described in the Schedule hereto shall be watercourses into which tailings, mining débris, and waste water of every kind used in, upon, or discharged from any claim or licensed holding adjacent to such watercourses shall be suffered to flow or be discharged; and, with the like advice and consent, His Excellency doth hereby prescribe that this Proclamation shall take effect on and after the ninth day of October, one thousand nine hundred.

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SCHEDULE.

That river known as the Anatoki River, in the Collingwood County, Nelson Land District, which flows north-easterly for a distance of about twenty miles from its source to its junction with the Takaka River; and also the several tributaries thereof.

That river known as the Takaka River, in the Collingwood County, Nelson Land District, which flows northerly for a distance of about three miles from its junction with the Anatoki River to the ocean; and also the several tributaries thereof.

That creek known as Blacksand Creek, which flows westerly through Sections 14, 18, 17, and 16, Block XII., Inangahua Survey District, for a distance of about one mile, from its source to its confluence with the Inangahua River; and also the tributaries thereof.

That creek known as Landing Creek, which flows westerly from its source in the Brunner Range until it discharges into the Inangahua River; and also the several tributaries thereof.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred.

JAMES McGOWAN,
Minister of Mines.

• Approved in Council.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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Excepting Land from Operation of Section 117 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

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RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth 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 bond 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 mortgage, all that piece or parcel of land, containing two thousand and seventy-nine acres, being that part of Subdivision 1x No. 5 of the Otonga Block, in the Chatham Islands, bounded towards the north-west and south-west by the Pacific Ocean; towards the north-east by Subdivision 1d of the said block and by the Waitangi–Tuku Road; and towards the south-east by a line bearing fifty-three degrees running from the said road to the Pacific Ocean parallel with the common boundary of Subdivision 1x No. 5 and Subdivision No. 8 on the subdivisional plan of the Otonga Block, so as to include in the piece of land herein described the area of two thousand and seventy-nine acres.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Declaring Junction Road from Durham Road to Inglewood, in the Moa Road District, to be a Government Road.

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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.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him by section one hundred and two of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, 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 order that the road in the Moa Road District and Inglewood Town District described in the Schedule below shall, on and after the date above mentioned, be a Government road.

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SCHEDULE.

That portion of the road known as Junction Road, including all the bridges on the same, which lies between Durham Road and the railway-station at Inglewood: as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 12673A, deposited in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured blue.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Vaccination Districts constituted.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in the Governor by “The Public Health Act, 1876,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby abolish the existing vaccination districts known as the Hunterville, Napier, and Wanganui Districts, and do declare that the territory heretofore comprised within the said districts is hereby divided anew into four vaccination districts, the names whereof shall be the Hunterville, Mangaweka, Napier, and Wanganui Districts, and the boundaries whereof shall be coterminous with the boundaries of the marriage districts bearing the same names, as are set forth in a Proclamation of even date herewith, made under the provisions of “The Marriage Act, 1880.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-seventh day of June, one thousand nine hundred.

J. G. WARD.