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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 71

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 sixth day of August, 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 sale, all that block or parcel of land, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, containing six hundred and forty acres, more or less, being part of the land known as Tuwhakatupua No. 2A, and being part of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume Ninety-one, folio eighty-seven.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.

Dunedin Railway-station-site Commission.

RANFURLY, Governor.

To all to whom these presents shall come, and to EDGAR HALL CAREW, Esquire, Stipendiary Magistrate, ANDREW MCKERROW, Esquire, Supervising Valuer, and HENRY THOMPSON, Esquire, Land Purchase Officer.

WHEREAS it is expedient to make inquiry into the claims likely to arise in connection with the under-mentioned works at Dunedin, and to furnish estimates of the value of the properties affected thereby,—

(a.) Closing Stuart Street by erecting thereon a new railway-station building;

(b.) Closing Hanover Street at the railway-crossing, and erecting a station-building in line of St. Andrew Street:

Now know ye that, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony of New Zealand, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, Governor of the said colony, do hereby appoint you, the said

EDGAR HALL CAREW,
ANDREW MCKERROW, and
HENRY THOMPSON,

to be Commissioners for the purpose of inquiring into the matters hereinbefore set forth.

And for the better enabling you to carry these presents into effect, you are hereby authorised and empowered to make and conduct any inquiry hereunder at such places in Dunedin and at such times as you deem expedient; and also to call before you and examine on oath or otherwise, as may be allowed by law, such persons as you think capable of affording you any information in the premises; and also to call for and examine all such books, documents, papers, or records as you think likely to afford you any information in the premises; and generally to inquire therein by all lawful ways and means whatsoever. And, using all diligence, you are hereby required to report to me, under your hands and seals, your opinion, resulting from the inquiry hereby directed, in respect of the several matters investigated by you under these presents, not later than the thirty-first day of August next, or such extended date as may hereafter be appointed in that behalf.

And it is hereby declared that these presents are subject to the provisions of “The Commissioners’ Powers Act, 1867,” and its amendments; and also that these presents, and your powers and functions as Commissioners hereunder, shall continue in full force notwithstanding that the inquiry hereby directed may be interrupted from time to time by adjournment.

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 thirty-first day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred.

J. G. WARD.

Approved in Council.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.

Westland Township Reserves brought under the Provisions of “The Mining Act, 1898.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by section twenty-five of “The Mining Act, 1898” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), and of all other powers enabling me in this behalf, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby declare that all the provisions of “The Mining Act, 1898,” and the regulations thereunder, shall have operation within the lands described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

TOWN OF HOHONU.

All that piece or parcel of land, containing 200 acres, more or less, situate at the confluence of the Hohonu with the Teremakau, having frontage of 40 chains on the latter river, and extending north-easterly on either side of the Hohonu a distance of 50 chains in a rectangular block.

TOWN OF TOTARA.

All that piece or parcel of land, containing 320 acres, more or less, situate at the Totara River, having a frontage of 60 chains to the beach, and extending back south-easterly a distance of 54 chains in a rectangular block.

PORTION OF RESERVE NO. 272, HOKITIKA SOUTH.

All that piece or parcel of land, containing 46 acres 1 rood, more or less, situate at Hokitika South, being bounded on the east by the East Borough Road for a distance of 27 chains 68 links, bearing 214° 55′ true; on the south by South Borough Road, distance 16 chains 70 links, bearing 305° 25′ true; on the west by part of the eastern boundary of Section No. 1605, distance 27 chains 64 links, bearing 35° 10′ true; and on the north by part of the south boundary of Section No. 1604 to commencing-point, distance 16 chains 81 links, bearing 125° 7′ true.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this first day of August, one thousand nine hundred.

JAMES McGOWAN,
Minister of Mines.

Revoking a Warrant appointing the Westland County Council Trustees of the Stafford Cemetery.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the forty-fifth section of “The Cemeteries Act, 1882,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby revoke the Warrant appointing the Westland County Council trustees for certain cemeteries, dated the twenty-second day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, in so far as it relates to the Stafford Cemetery, described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land in the Westland Land District, containing by admeasurement 2 acres 1 rood 17 perches, more or less, situated in Block XIV., Waimea Survey District. Bounded towards the west, north, and east by Crown lands; towards the south-east by the road to Scandinavian Hill; and towards the south-west and south by Section No. 1752: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office, Hokitika.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this first day of August, one thousand nine hundred.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.