1794
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 68

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, the block or parcel of land particularised and set out in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, containing 2,815 acres, more or less, situate in the Chatham Islands, known as Otonga No. 1e No. 9, being the land comprised in partition order of the Native Land Court, dated the 28th day of January, 1898, in favour of Riakiao Wharepa.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Consenting to closing Roads through Lands in the Parishes of Karioi and Whaingaroa, County of Raglan.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of August, 1902.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section twelve, subsection one, of “The Public Works Act Amendment Act, 1900,” it it enacted that a local authority shall not declare any county or district road to be stopped, and such road shall not be deemed to be stopped, until the consent thereto of the Governor by Order in Council gazetted is obtained:

And whereas the Raglan County Council has applied for such consent in respect to the roads described in the Schedule hereto:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and in exercise of the above in-part-recited 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 consent to the Raglan County Council closing the parts of the roads mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

All in the Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on plans marked R. 2917¹ and R. 2917², deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above noted.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Notice declaring Portion of Land (Recreation-ground, Oamaru), taken for a Railway, to be retained as Part of such Railway.

(L.S.) RANFURLY, Governor.
NOTICE.

WHEREAS certain land described in the Schedule hereto, being a portion of Section numbered Eight, Block Ninety-five, on the map of the Town of Oamaru, was (with other land, part of the said block) taken for the purpose of the railway from Amberley to the Bluff, by a Proclamation, in pursuance of the provisions of “The Public Works Act, 1876,” and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 96, of the twenty-ninth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven: And whereas it is found desirable that the residue of the land taken by the said Proclamation, but not described in the Schedule hereto, should cease to be a part of the said railway:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities in me vested by section one hundred and sixty-eight of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” do hereby notify and declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be retained as part of the aforesaid railway from Amberley to the Bluff, and that the residue of the land (other than that described in the said Schedule) taken by the aforesaid Proclamation shall again become a part of the public reserve from which it was originally taken by such Proclamation.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, containing 3 roods 36 perches, more or less, being a portion of Section 8, Block XCV., in the Town of Oamaru, and being bounded as follows: Commencing at a point on the south-east side of Severn Street, distant 364 links easterly from the junction of the north-east side of Itchen Street with the south-east side of Severn Street; thence south-easterly by a line at a bearing of 108° 12′, a distance of 230 links; again south-easterly by a line at a bearing of 124° 25′, a distance of 776 links; thence north easterly by a line at a bearing of 18° 12′, a distance of 104·1 links; thence north-westerly by a line at a bearing of 304° 25′, a distance of 761·2 links; again north-westerly by a line at a bearing of 288° 12′, a distance of 182·4 links, to the south-east side of Severn Street; and thence south-westerly at a bearing of 229° 55′, a distance of 117·5 links, to the commencing-point: as the said parcel of land is more particularly shown coloured purple on the plan marked 11130 in the office of the Minister for Railways at Wellington.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twentieth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and two.

J. G. WARD,
Minister for Railways.

Trustee for the Omaka Public Cemetery appointed.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the sixth section of “The Cemeteries Act, 1882,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

JAMES HAY

to be a Trustee, in the place of John Hutcheson, resigned, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Omaka Public Cemetery, in conjunction with the other persons previously appointed by His Excellency the Governor.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and two.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 23rd August, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned gentlemen to be Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz.:

Name. District.
William Alfred Harding .. .. .. Opunake.
(On and from the 13th August, 1902.)
Percy Paget White .. .. .. Rangitikei.
(On and from the 18th August, 1902.)
John Miller .. .. .. Cust.
(On and from the 16th August, 1902.)
Henry George Hunt .. .. .. Mangonui.
(On and from the 27th August, 1902.)
Charles Christian Halliday .. .. Tauranga.
(On and from the 19th August, 1902.)
William Martin Ashton .. .. .. Bull’s.
(On and from the 19th August, 1902.)
Charles Loynes White .. .. .. Balclutha.
(On and from the 20th August, 1902.)

JAS. McGOWAN,
For Colonial Secretary.