No. 51. 1475

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1903.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1903.

Amending Description of Native Township of Te Kuiti.

(L.S.) RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section eight of “The Native and Maori Land Laws Amendment Act, 1902,” it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, by Proclamation published in the Gazette and Kahiti, declare that any parcel or parcels of Maori land, whether or not such parcels form portions of several blocks, and whether or not such parcels are held by the owners under separate titles, shall be vested in the Maori Land Council of the district within which such land is situated as a site for a Native township, and shall by the same Proclamation assign a name to such township:

And whereas by section twelve of the said Act it is further enacted that any Proclamation under the said Act may from time to time be amended, varied, or revoked by the Governor as he thinks fit, and thereupon all amendments or cancellations in the Land Transfer Register as may be necessary shall be made by the District Land Registrar, but without prejudice to any valid dealings that may in the meantime have taken place:

And whereas by Proclamation bearing date the twenty-second day of January, one thousand nine hundred and two, the Governor, in exercise of the aforesaid powers, proclaimed and declared that the parcel of land described in the Schedule thereto should be vested in the Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa District Maori Land Council as a site for a Native township, and did thereby assign the name of “Te Kuiti” to such township:

And whereas it is expedient to amend the description of the said township:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers conferred upon me as aforesaid, do hereby amend the description of the said Native township, as set out in the Schedule to the Proclamation aforesaid, by substituting in lieu thereof the description set out in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

AMENDED DESCRIPTION OF TE KUITI NATIVE TOWNSHIP.

All that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, situated in Blocks III. and IV., Otanake Survey District, being portion of Pukenui No. 2b, portion of Pukenui No. 2b No. 5, portion of Pukenui No. 2t, Pukenui No. 2o, Pukenui 2b No. 1, Pukenui 2b No. 2, and Pukenui No. 2a, Nos. 1 to 20 inclusive; and 5 acres 2 roods 34 perches of roads laid off by the Court giving access to Pukenui No. 2a Subdivisions; containing by admeasurement 262 acres 2 roods 14 perches, more or less. Bounded towards the north-east generally by the Mangakewa Stream to a point in line with the south-east boundary of Te Kuiti Railway-station, bearing 51° 11'; thence towards the south-east by a right line, 760 links, bearing 231° 11'; towards the east by the Te Kuiti-Awakino Main Road, 1689 links, to a point in line with the north-east boundary of Pukenui No. 2b No. 6; thence again towards the south-east by a right line, 2850 links, bearing 252° 9'; and towards the south-west by a right line, 4645 links, bearing 324°; and towards the north-west by a right line, 4000 links, bearing 50°, and by its production across the railway-line, 100 links, and the crossing of a road, and by Pukenui No. 2a North, 1500 links; save and excepting Main Trunk Railway and the Te Kuiti Railway-station, which is excluded from the above area: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-third day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three.

J. CARROLL.
Minister of Native Affairs.

God save the King!