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chase 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 lease, all that block or parcel of land, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, containing one hundred and nine acres two roods seven perches, more or less, known as Ruatangata No. 2r, being the land comprised in partition order of the Native Land Court, dated the nineteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred, in favour of Tamehana te Kahu.

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

Land taken for a Native School at Pamoana, Wanganui River.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this sixth day of February, 1903.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the parcels of land described in the Schedules hereto are required for a certain public work, to wit, a model kaainga or settlement in connection with the Pamoana Native School:

And whereas it has been made a condition of the establishment of the said kaainga that the land required therefor shall be a free gift from the Native owners to His Majesty the King, and the Native owners have agreed to such condition, 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 “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” and its amendments, bearing date the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, certain aboriginal natives, as in the said order mentioned, were declared to be the owners of the Tauakira No. 2m Block, within which the said land is situated:

And whereas, as required by “The Public Works Act, 1894,” a map has been prepared showing accurately the position and extent of the said land, and such map is hereto attached:

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 “The Public Works Acts Amendment Act, 1900,” 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 described in the Schedules hereto is hereby taken for the purposes of the said kaainga or settlement, and shall vest in His Majesty the King, as from the fifteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and three.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

SITE FOR MODEL KAAINGA AT PAMOANA.

In the Land District of Wellington; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan as described above, deposited in the Education Department, at Wellington, and thereon bordered pink.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

LAND TO BE TAKEN FOR A PUBLIC ROAD IN CONNECTION WITH MODEL KAAINGA AT PAMOANA.

In the Land District of Wellington; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan as described above, deposited in the Education Department, at Wellington, and thereon coloured brown.

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

Fixing Sitting of Court of Appeal.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this thirteenth day of February, 1903.

Present:

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

WHEREAS by “The Court of Appeal Act, 1882,” it is enacted that the Court shall hold its sittings at such times and places as shall from time to time be fixed by the Governor in Council, and proclaimed in the Government Gazette twenty-one days at least before the times so fixed respectively:

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 fix that a sitting of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand shall be held within the Supreme Court House, in the City of Wellington, upon Monday, the sixteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and three, at eleven o’clock in the forenoon.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Removal of Restrictions on Alienation of Native Land.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS application has been made to the Governor by the owner of the land described in the Schedule hereto, praying that the restrictions on the alienation of such land, as set forth in the Land Transfer certificate of title bearing date the twenty-seventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two (Vol. lxiii., folio 242), may be removed: And whereas inquiry has been duly made by the Native Land Court, and the said Court has recommended that such restrictions be removed:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the fifty-second section of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” and in accordance with the recommendation of the Native Land Court, doth hereby order and declare that all restrictions imposed by the said Land Transfer certificate of title on the alienation of the said land are hereby removed.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, containing 38·8 perches, more or less, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, known as Subdivision No. 1 of Section No. 37 of Polhill Gully Native Reserve, held under Land Transfer certificate of title (Vol. lxiii., folio 242) dated the 27th day of June, 1892, and containing the following restrictions: “Inalienable by sale or mortgage, or by lease beyond twenty-one years.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this seventh day of February, one thousand nine hundred and three.

J. CARROLL.