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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 45

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

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RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of May, 1903.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON 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 lease, all that block or parcel of land, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, containing eight hundred and ninety-two acres, more or less, known as Awarua 2c No. 20, being the land comprised in partition order of the Native Land Court, dated the fifteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, in favour of Erueti Arani and another.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Fixing Sitting of Court of Appeal.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of May, 1903.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON 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 twenty-ninth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and three, at eleven o’clock in the forenoon.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Rural Lands in the Auckland Land District open for Sale or Selection.

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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 sale or selection on and after the twenty-ninth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and three; and also that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase or on lease in perpetuity, or, in respect of any land containing or supposed to contain any metal, mineral, or valuable stone, be selected on lease in perpetuity only; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

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SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

Section 12, undulating to broken; all tawa forest; soil of a good dark loamy nature. Sections 13 and 14, same description, except that Section 13 has 10 acres of fern and Section 14 20 acres fern. Sections 15 and 16, broken to very broken land; all heavy tawa forest; soil of a good dark loamy nature. These sections are well watered, and situated about fifteen miles from Pirongia Township and the same distance from Kawhia Township. Section 15 is within one mile of cart-road, and the other sections average from two to three miles from main road.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.