Dec. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2699

Vesting a Reserve in the Gore Borough Council.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of December, 1902.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto has been permanently reserved for municipal purposes:

And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient that the said land should be vested in the Gore Borough Council:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, and in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the fourth section of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” doth hereby declare that from and after the day of the date hereof the reserve mentioned in the Schedule hereto shall become vested in “The Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Gore,” in trust, as a reserve for municipal purposes.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land in the Land District of Southland, containing by admeasurement 12 acres 1 rood, more or less, being Section No. 85, Block XVI., Town of Gore. Bounded towards the north-east, east, and south-east by a public road along the bank of the Mataura River, 3760 links, and towards the west by a public road, 3313·2 links: be both the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

[NOTE.—The above Order in Council is issued in substitution of an Order in Council issued on the 22nd day of December, 1900, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 4, of the 10th day of January, 1901, as the latter Order in Council contained an error in the description of the land.]

Vesting Reserves in the Ashburton County Council.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of December, 1902.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto have been permanently reserved for water-race, plantation, and internal-communication purposes:

And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient to vest the said lands in the Ashburton County Council:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, and in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the fourth section of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” doth hereby declare that, from and after the day of the date hereof, the reserves mentioned in the Schedule hereto shall become vested in “The Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the Ashburton County,” in trust, for water-race, plantation, and internal-communication purposes.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District, known as part of the Mount Somers Tramway Reserve, and being reserve numbered 3084 (in red), situated in Blocks XI. and XV., Alford Survey District, containing by admeasurement 24 acres and 32 perches, more or less. Bounded towards the north-east by the road forming the south-west boundary of Sections Nos. 14431, 8478, 15492, 17801, 18245, and 22004; towards the north-west by a road-line dividing Sections Nos. 32042 and 33450, 200·9 links; towards the south-west by Sections Nos. 27148, 18513, and a road-line; and towards the south-east by a road-line dividing Sections Nos. 15202 and 18512, 259·2 links: save and except one gravel reserve, containing 1 acre, and two road-lines, which are within the above-described boundaries; and subject to the right of taking and continuing any necessary line of road through the above reserve that may be required to give access to the abutting properties: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Christchurch.

Also all that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District known as part of the Mount Somers Tramway Reserve, and being reserve numbered 3085 (in red), situated in Blocks X. and XI., Alford Survey District, containing by admeasurement 35 acres 1 rood 39 perches, more or less. Bounded towards the north-east by a road forming the south-western boundary of Sections Nos. 33999, 18280, 18993, 33998, Reserve 1822 (in red), Rural Sections Nos. 36190, 36189, 32645, 32227, 15519, 23010, 23007, 18400, 31782, 18399, and 29611; towards the north-west by a line at right angles to the last-described boundary and 100 links distant therefrom; thence south-easterly at a right angle following a line parallel to and 1 chain distant from the first-described boundary, along the north-eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 32644, 23063, 32884, a road-line, Sections Nos. 32883, 36423, a road-line, Sections Nos. 32226, 33449, and 32042; and towards the south-east by a road-line dividing Sections Nos. 32042 and 33450, 101·5 links: save and except five reserves, each containing 2 roods, and two road-lines, which are within the above-described boundaries; and subject to the right of taking and continuing any necessary line of road through the above reserve that may be required to give access to the abutting properties: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Christchurch.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Conferring Jurisdiction on Native Land Court.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of December, 1902.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section fourteen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” it is enacted that the Native Land Court shall, as regards all lands within the meaning of subsection ten of section fourteen aforesaid, have jurisdiction as in the said subsection mentioned: Provided that the Court shall not proceed to exercise such jurisdiction unless the Governor in Council shall by Order authorise the same to be done:

And whereas the land specified in the Schedule hereto is land in respect whereof the Court has jurisdiction as aforesaid, and it is expedient that the Court should be authorised to exercise the same:

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, doth hereby authorise the said Court to exercise in respect of the said land the jurisdiction conferred as aforesaid—that is to say, to determine whether or not the said land or any part thereof was, on the investigation of title thereto, intended by the Native Land Court, or by the nominal owner or owners of such land, to be held by such nominal owner or owners in trust for Natives not named in the title, and to determine who are the Natives (if any) entitled beneficially to such land, and to order the inclusion of such Natives in the title, either together with or in lieu of the nominal owners or any of them, and for the purpose aforesaid to order the cancellation or amendment of any existing instrument of title, and the issue of such new Crown grants or other instruments of title as may be necessary, and generally to exercise in respect of the said land all the jurisdiction and powers conferred on the Native Land Court by subsection ten of section fourteen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land, containing 226 acres, more or less, situate in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, and known as Pukerowhitu No. 2.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Additional Regulations under “The Urewera District Native Reserve Act, 1896.”

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of December, 1902.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by the twenty-fourth section of “The Urewera District Native Reserve Act, 1896” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that the