Feb. 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 491

Rural Lands in the Auckland Land District open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-thirty-sixth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on and after the eighth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and two; and that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may be selected on lease in perpetuity only, in accordance with the provisions of section one hundred and twenty-one of the said Act, as they contain, or are supposed to contain, metals, minerals, or valuable stone; and I do hereby also fix the price at which the said lands shall be leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—KAWHIA COUNTY.
Second-class Surveyed Land.

KAWHIA SOUTH SURVEY DISTRICT.

| 1A | III. | 850 0 0 | 0 9·6 | 17 0 0 |

MARAKOPA SURVEY DISTRICT.

| 1A | III. | 850 0 0 | 0 9·6 | 17 0 0 |

KAWHIA SOUTH SURVEY DISTRICT.

| 2 | IX. | 1,145 0 0 | 0 9·6 | 22 18 0 |
| 4 | " | 975 0 0 | 0 10·2 | 20 9 6 |
| 3 | X. | 753 0 0 | 0 8·4 | 13 3 7 |
| 4 | " | 598 0 0 | 0 10·32 | 12 17 2 |
| 7 | " | 1,429 0 0 | 0 7·92 | 23 11 7 |
| 1 | XIV. | 1,462 0 0 | 0 8·4 | 25 11 9 |
| 1 | XV. | 815 0 0 | 0 10·2 | 17 2 4 |

MAUNGAMANGERO SURVEY DISTRICT.

| 2 | III. | 967 0 0 | 0 10·2 | 20 6 2 |
| 3 | " | 806 0 0 | 0 10·56 | 17 14 8 |
| 4 | " | 916 0 0 | 0 9·6 | 18 6 5 |
| 5 | " | 638 0 0 | 0 7·92 | 10 10 6 |
| 6 | " | 650 0 0 | 0 9·6 | 13 0 0 |
| 7 | " | 712 0 0 | 0 10·56 | 15 13 4 |
| 4 | VII. | 762 0 0 | 0 9·12 | 14 9 7 |
| 5 | " | 985 0 0 | 0 10·2 | 20 13 8 |
| 6 | " | 623 0 0 | 0 9·12 | 11 16 9 |
| 7 | " | 664 0 0 | 0 9·6 | 13 5 7 |
| 8 | " | 484 0 0 | 0 9·6 | 9 13 8 |
| 9 | " | 353 0 0 | 0 10·32 | 7 11 9 |
| 10 | " | 313 0 0 | 0 10·8 | 7 0 10 |
| 11 | " | 803 0 0 | 0 9·12 | 15 5 2 |
| 13 | VIII. | 979 0 0 | 0 7·92 | 16 3 1 |
| 14 | " | 1,100 0 0 | 0 7·92 | 18 3 0 |
| 15 | " | 914 0 0 | 0 7·92 | 15 1 7 |
| 16 | " | 660 0 0 | 0 7·92 | 10 17 10 |
| 17 | " | 875 0 0 | 0 7·92 | 14 8 9 |
| 2 | X. | 737 0 0 | 0 9·12 | 14 0 1 |
| 3 | " | 1,104 0 0 | 0 7·68 | 17 13 4 |
| 4 | " | 1,194 0 0 | 0 7·68 | 19 2 1 |
| 4 | XI. | 898 0 0 | 0 9·6 | 17 19 3 |
| 5 | " | 640 0 0 | 0 9·6 | 12 16 0 |

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand nine hundred and two.
T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

By-laws of the Matatua District Maori Council, under “The Maori Councils Act, 1900,” approved.

Native Minister’s Office,
Wellington, 14th February, 1902.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the following by-laws made by the Maori Council of the Matatua Maori District, under the provisions of section sixteen of “The Maori Councils Act, 1900.”

J. CARROLL,
Minister of Native Affairs.

Approved.
RANFURLY, Governor.

SCHEDULE.

THE MAORI COUNCIL OF THE MATATUA MAORI DISTRICT.

BY-LAWS.

THE Maori Council of the Matatua Maori District, constituted under “The Maori Councils Act, 1900,” hereby makes the following by-laws under and by virtue of the said Act, such by-laws to come into operation upon approval thereof by the Governor, and the publication of the same in the Gazette and Kahiti:—

Interpretation.

In these by-laws, except when inconsistent with the context, or when otherwise expressly provided, the following expressions shall have the meanings attached thereto:—

“The said Act” means “The Maori Councils Act, 1900.”

“The Council” means the Maori Council of the Matatua Maori District, constituted under the said Act.

“Committee” or “Village Committee” means the Village Committee or Komiti Marae of a Maori kainga, village, or pa, appointed by the Maori Council under the provisions of the said Act.

“District” means the Matatua Maori District, proclaimed by the Governor under the said Act by Proclamation dated the 26th day of December, 1900.

“Native township” means a township constituted under “The Native Townships Act, 1895.”

“Prescribed” means prescribed by rules or regulations made under the said Act or by these by-laws.

(A.) Health and Personal Convenience.
(Section 16, Subsection 1.)

1. Human corpses shall be buried, if the death occurs between the 15th day of March and the 15th day of September (both days inclusive) in any year, within four days after death; and, if the death occurs between the 16th day of September and the 14th day of March of the following year (both days inclusive), within three days after death, unless the Council shall otherwise direct, or unless it is otherwise provided for by any Act of the General Assembly.

2. It shall be the duty of the nearest relatives of the deceased, or, in their absence, of the owner or occupier of the house or premises wherein deceased died, to comply with the provisions of the last preceding by-law; and all or any of them shall be deemed to be guilty of a breach thereof as the Council may deem fit, and shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one pound.

3. No human corpse shall be buried, except with the permission of the Council, in any place other than a burial-ground recognised by the inhabitants of a Maori kainga, or reserved or set apart by them or some duly constituted authority as a burial ground.

4. No human corpse shall be permitted to lie in state in front of any meeting-house or in the courtyard (marae) thereof, but may lie in state at some other spot in the vicinity that may be indicated by the Chairman of the Village Committee or the member of Council for the riding.

(B.) Cleansing Houses.
(Section 16, Subsection 2.)

5. The Chairman of the Council, or any person duly authorised by the Council in that behalf, may by notice in writing direct the owner or occupier of any house or other building in a dirty or unwholesome state to clean or cause the same to be cleaned within a time to be specified in such notice, which may be in Form A in the Schedule hereto. And if after service of such notice upon him any person shall refuse or neglect to comply with such notice, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one pound for the first offence and not exceeding two pounds for every subsequent offence.

6. The Council may order the removal or destruction of any building in a dirty and unwholesome state, if in its