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of Hawksbury, and containing by admeasurement 1 acre 2 roods, more or less. Bounded towards the north-west by Sections Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, Block XI. aforesaid; towards the north-east by a street; towards the south-east by a reserve; and towards the south-west by a street.

Also all that parcel of land in the Otago Land District, being Sections Nos. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, Block XII., Town of Hawksbury, and containing by admeasurement 1 acre 2 roods, more or less. Bounded towards the north-west by Sections Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, Block XII. aforesaid; towards the north-east by a street; towards the south-east by a reserve; and towards the south-west by a street.

Also all that parcel of land in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement (excluding the exemptions therefrom) 155 acres 2 roods, more or less, situate in the Town of Hawksbury, and being that portion of said town lying towards the east of Kirkwall and Wick Streets. Bounded towards the north by the northern boundary of said township, also by Cemetery Reserve; towards the east by the eastern boundary of said township and Cemetery Reserve; towards the south by part of the unsurveyed portion of said town and the southern boundaries of Sections Nos. 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 12 of Block LXXI.; towards the west by Kirkwall and Wick Streets, also by Cemetery Reserve: which area is exclusive of the following sections and portions of street-lines, viz., Sections Nos. 10 and 11, Block XVIII.; Section No. 1, Block XXVII.; Section No. 4, Block XLIII.; Sections Nos. 1 to 22, Block XLVIII.; Sections Nos. 1 to 5, Block XLIX.; Sections Nos. 17 to 21, Block LVI.; and Section No. 1, Block LXI.; also the following portions of street-lines, viz., parts of Banff Street, Aberdeen Street, Cupar Street, Kinross Street, Inverary Street, Rothsay Street, Dumbarton Street, Linlithgow Street, Leith Street, Waddington Street, Greenlaw Street, and Dornoch Street.

Also all that parcel of land in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 100 acres, more or less, situate in the Town of Hawksbury. Bounded towards the north-west by Crown lands, 150 links; towards the north by Sections Nos. 2, 3, and 4 of Block LXVIII., 300 links; towards the east by Section No. 7 of same block, 50 links; towards the north by said section, by Inverness Street, and by Section No. 1 of Block LXIX., 600 links; towards the west by Section No. 1 of said block, 50 links; towards the north by Sections Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 of Block LXIX., 600 links; towards the east by Section No. 12 of said block, 50 links; towards the north by said section, 250 links, also by Section No. 1 of Block LXX., 250 links; towards the west by said section, 50 links; towards the north by Sections Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 of Block LXX., 600 links; towards the east by Section No. 12 of same block, 50 links; towards the north by same section, by Kirkwall Street, and Section No. 1 of Block LXXI., 600 links; towards the west by same section, 50 links; towards the north by Sections Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 of Block LXXI., 600 links; towards the east by Section No. 12 of same block, 50 links; towards the north by said section, by Dornoch Street, also by Commonage Reserve, 966 links; towards the east by Section No. 6 of Block VI., Hawksbury District, 1000 links; towards the south-east by Section No. 19 of said block, 2300 links; and towards the south-west by a lagoon, 6600 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: and intersected by Edinburgh Street, 150 links.

As the same are delineated on the plans deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Dunedin.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Empowering Native Appellate Court to hear Appeal under Section 62 of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of February, 1901.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. C. WALKER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section sixty-two of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” it is provided that in any case in which application has been or shall be made to the Chief Judge of the Native Land Court, under section thirty-nine of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” in respect of any order of the Court determining the succession to the estate of any Native deceased, the Governor, on being certified by the Chief Judge as in the said section is provided, may, by Order in Council, empower the Native Appellate Court to deal with such application as a valid appeal under “The Native Land Court Act, 1894”: And whereas the Chief Judge has, in respect of the application of Te Mane Tupeke and Tupeke Haotupua, under section thirty-nine aforesaid, certified as by the said section sixty-two is required: And whereas the said application in all other respects complies with the requirements of the last-mentioned section:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby empower the Native Appellate Court to deal with the said application as an appeal, under the provisions of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” from the order of Court hereinafter specified, that is to say:—

The order of the Court, dated the eighteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred, appointing Huhana Manakore and nine others to succeed to the interest of Te Peina Huai, deceased, in Pakaraka No. 1 Block.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Making a Regulation for the Issue of Special Licenses to cut Railway-sleepers.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of December, 1900.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred by “The New Zealand State Forests Act, 1885,” His Excellency 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 make the regulation contained in the Schedule hereto; and such regulation shall be read with the regulations dated the fifteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-second day of March, one thousand nine hundred.

SCHEDULE.

61. LICENSES to cut railway-sleepers for use on New Zealand railways may be issued on payment of a fee of five shillings per annum, payable in advance. Such license shall entitle the person named therein to split, cut, or hew railway-sleepers on the land mentioned and described therein; but such license shall not entitle the holder thereof to cut, split, or hew any timber included in any sawmill license, or in any license where the timber has been sold by appraisement at auction or otherwise, or on any land held under lease or license from the Crown. The license shall state the class or classes of timber to which it applies, and it shall expire at the period of twelve months from the date thereof. Every holder of such a license shall pay a royalty of three-pence for every railway-sleeper so cut, split, or hewn, whether such sleepers are accepted by the Railway Department or not. Such royalty shall be paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue before the sleepers are delivered to the Railway Department, and that department shall require proof that the royalty has been paid before accepting the sleepers; or, failing such proof, shall deduct from the amount otherwise payable for the sleepers the royalty herein provided for, and shall pay the same to the Public Account.

If the holder of a special license hereunder shall cut, split, or hew timber for any other purpose than for railway-sleepers for New Zealand railways; or shall use any other timber than is stated in such license; or shall attempt to sell and deliver sleepers to the Railway Department without having first paid the royalty thereon as herein provided; or shall wantonly damage or destroy any bush, timber, or trees other than as may be necessary in felling trees for railway-sleepers; or shall wastefully use any trees so felled so that as many sleepers as possible are not obtained therefrom; or if any person, not having a license as herein provided, shall cut, split, or hew railway-sleepers on any land to which this regulation applies, then in any such case such licensee or person shall be deemed to be guilty of an offence, and on conviction thereof he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, and the Commissioner of State Forests may in his discretion cancel such license, or suspend it for any period he may think fit. Provided that nothing herein shall operate to prevent the seizure of timber illegally cut on lands to which this regulation applies.

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