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1053

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1900.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1900.

Fixing Date on which “The Immigration Restriction Act,
1899,” is to come into Operation.

(L.s.) RANFURLY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by a Proclamation bearing date the
twentieth day of July, one thousand nine hundred,
and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-sixth
day of July, one thousand nine hundred, His Excellency
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand did signify and
proclaim that a certain Bill passed by the Legislative Council
and House of Representatives of the said colony, entitled
“An Act to place certain Restrictions on Immigration into
New Zealand” (the Short Title whereof is “The Immigration
Restriction Act, 1899”), had been laid before Her
Majesty in Council, and that Her Majesty had been pleased
to assent to the same:
And whereas by section twenty-two of the said Act it is
provided that such Act shall come into operation on such
date as shall be notified by Proclamation in the Gazette:
Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise
and pursuance of all powers and authorities in this behalf
enabling me, do hereby proclaim and notify that the said
Act shall come into operation on the eighth day of August,
one thousand nine hundred.
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 eighth day of August, in the year of our
Lord one thousand nine hundred.
R. J. SEDDON.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
Varying Restrictions on Alienation of Native Land.
RANFURLY, Governor.
WHEREAS application has been made to the Governor
by the owner of the land described in the Schedule
hereto, praying that the restrictions on the alienation of
such land contained in Native Land Court certificate of
title bearing date the twenty-second day of September, one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, and now contained in
a partition order of the Native Land Court bearing date the
thirteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-six, may be varied: And whereas inquiry has been
duly made by the Native Land Court, and the said Court
has recommended that such restrictions be varied so as to
permit the owner to lease the said land:
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 the restrictions imposed by the said
certificate of title and partition order on the alienation of the
said land are hereby varied to the extent that the owner of
the said land may lease the same for any period not exceeding
twenty-one years.
SCHEDULE.
ALL that parcel of land, containing 1,953 acres, more or
less, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, known
as Awarua No. 2c No. 15 Block, held under partition order
of the Native Land Court dated the 13th day of August,
1896, in favour of Hiraani te Hei, and containing the following
restriction: “Absolutely inalienable.”
As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this seventh day of August, one thousand nine
hundred.
J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.
By Authority: JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington.