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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 22]

Excepting Land from Operation of Section 117 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this eighth day of March, 1902.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. C. WALKER PRESIDING 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 transfer to Pani Riwai, all that block or parcel of land, containing twenty-five acres, being part of the land known as Subdivisions Nos. 6 and 7 of Horowhenua No. 3E No. 2, and part of the land comprised in partition order of the Native Land Court, dated the eighteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, in favour of Paranihia Riwai.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Excepting Land from Operation of Section 117 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this eighth day of March, 1902.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. C. WALKER PRESIDING 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 Auckland, containing five hundred and twelve acres and five perches, more or less, known as Opuatia No. 8A, being the whole of the land comprised in Land Transfer certificate of title, Volume xcviii., folio 53.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Appointing Day for closing under “The Shops and Shop-assistants Act, 1894.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this eighth day of March, 1902.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. C. WALKER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the local authority of the Town District of Havelock, being duly authorised by “The Shops and Shop-assistants Act, 1894,” to appoint by special resolution, in the month of January, one thousand nine hundred and two, the day on which shops in the said town district are to be closed in accordance with the said Act, has failed so to appoint a day:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, and in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon me by section ten of the said Act, do hereby appoint Wednesday to be the day on which shops shall be closed in the said town district, in accordance with the said Act.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Land taken for a Public School in Waihua Survey District.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this tenth day of February, 1902.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken, under “The Public Works Act, 1894,” for a certain public work, to wit, a public school:

And whereas the Native owners of the said land have agreed to make a free gift thereof to the Education Board of the District of Hawke’s Bay for the site of the said school, and it has been made to appear that such agreement is sufficient for the purposes intended to be effected thereby:

And whereas by an order of the Native Land Court, made under the provisions of subsection ten of section fourteen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” bearing date the fifteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, certain aboriginal natives, as in the said order mentioned, were declared to be the owners of the portion of the Waipapa Block within which the said land is situated:

And whereas, as required by the said Act, a map has been prepared and signed showing accurately the position and extent of the said land, and such map is hereto attached, and the Minister for Public Works has recommended that this Order in Council should be issued:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred by “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order and declare that the land shown upon the said map and mentioned in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for the purposes of a public school, and is vested in the Education Board of the District of Hawke’s Bay: And it is hereby declared that this Order in Council shall take effect on the fifteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and two.

SCHEDULE.

MOHAKA SCHOOL SITE.

All that piece or parcel of land, situated in Block XIII., Waihua Survey District, Wairoa County, Hawke’s Bay Provincial District, containing by admeasurement 2 acres and 2 perches, being part of the Waipapa Block. Bounded on the north by other part of the Waipapa Block, 421·2 links; on the east by other part of the Waipapa Block, 485 links; on the south-east by other part of the Waipapa Block, 146·2 links; on the south by other part of the Waipapa Block, 554 links; and on the west by a public road, 208·8 links: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked 1901/2173–243, deposited in the office of the Minister of Education, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon outlined in red.

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