Dec. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2415

Conferring Jurisdiction on the Native Land Court to inquire into and determine all Questions as to Boundaries and Ownership of the Pukehina Block.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of December, 1901.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section seventeen of “The Native Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment Act, 1901,” it is enacted that the Governor may, by Order in Council, confer on the Native Land Court jurisdiction to inquire into and determine all questions as to the boundaries of the Pukehina Block, and to adjudicate upon as Native land any land which the said Court shall find ought to be included in the said block, notwithstanding that the same may have become land of the Crown:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred on him by the said section seventeen of “The Native Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment Act, 1901,” or otherwise howsoever, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order and declare that the Native Land Court shall have jurisdiction to determine the several matters aforesaid, and any and every matter or question incident thereto, and to do all acts necessary to be done for the purpose aforesaid.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Declaring Road in the Mount Fyffe Survey District to be a County Road.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of December, 1901.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the one-hundred-and-second section of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency 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 known as Puhipuhi River Road, described in the Schedule below, and which has hitherto been a Government road, shall on and after the date of this Order in Council become a county road.

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SCHEDULE.

PUHIPUHI RIVER ROAD.

All that road in the Marlborough Land District, commencing at the confluence of the Hapuku and Puhipuhi Rivers, and following up the west bank of the Puhipuhi River to the lower end of the gorge just below the Clinton junction, a distance of about three miles; as the said road is delineated upon the plan marked R. 2291, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Recreation-ground in Makotuku Survey District, Wellington, brought under “The Public Domains Act, 1881.”

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RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of December, 1901.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in me by the twenty-fourth section of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” I, 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, do hereby order and declare that the reserve made for public recreation in the Wellington Land District, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be and the same is hereby brought under the operation of and declared to be subject to the provisions of “The Public Domains Act, 1881”; and such domain shall hereafter be managed, administered, and dealt with in manner directed by the said Act.

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SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 96 acres 1 rood, more or less, being Section No. 24c, Block VIII., Makotuku Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by Section No. 24A and a public road; towards the south-east by a public road, 100 links wide; towards the south-west by Section No. 22; and towards the north-west by Sections Nos. 24B and 24A: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Hokitika Harbour Board to be subject to the Provisions of “The Public Bodies’ Powers Act, 1887.”

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RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of December, 1901.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section four of “The Public Bodies’ Powers Act, 1887” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is provided that the Governor, by Order in Council, may from time to time declare that any leasing authority shall be subject to the provisions of the said Act, but that no such Order shall have any effect unless it be issued at the request or upon the recommendation of the leasing authority on whose behalf such Order is issued:

And whereas it has been made to appear that the Hokitika Harbour Board are a leasing authority within the meaning of the said Act, and have requested that they may be brought under the provisions thereof:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the said Act, doth hereby order and declare that from and after the date hereof the Hokitika Harbour Board shall be subject to the provisions of “The Public Bodies’ Powers Act, 1887.”

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Native Land proposed to be taken for a Magazine Reserve in Block XIII., Ohinemuri Survey District, County of Ohinemuri.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fourth day of December, 1901.

Present:

The Honourable W. C. Walker presiding in Council.

WHEREAS the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken for a public work, to wit, the purposes of a magazine reserve in Block XIII., Ohinemuri Survey District: And whereas the said lands are held or occupied by Native owners under a title which is not derived from the Crown: And whereas a map in duplicate has been prepared of the said lands by the Ohinemuri County Council, as required by the eighty-eighth section of “The Public Works Act, 1894”:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the eighty-eighth section of the said Act, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency 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 declare that the land shown upon such map, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be deemed to be taken for the purpose of the said magazine reserve, and the said land shall vest in the County Council of Ohinemuri, as from the first day of February, one thousand nine hundred and two.