JULY 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1603

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby empower the Native Appellate Court to deal with the said application as an appeal, under the provisions of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” from the order of Court hereinafter specified, that is to say,—
The order of the Court, dated the seventeenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and one, appointing Teretiu te Heheu, Pare Tuarangi, and Rina Poki to succeed to the interest of Harirota Hinemura, deceased, in Opunake, Block XIV., Sections 41 and 43.

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 September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, Volume liii., folio 6, being a certificate in lieu of grant under Warrant of His Excellency the Governor, which said land is in the said Warrant expressed to have been originally acquired by the owners as from the twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, and now contained in partition order of the Native Land Court bearing date the thirteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and two, 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 and the said partition order on the alienation of the said land are hereby removed.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, containing 26 acres 1 rood 35 perches, more or less, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, being the land known as Subsection No. 1 of Section No. 3c, Manaia No. 107, or Waingawa Native Reserve, held under partition order of the Native Land Court, dated the 13th day of December, 1902, in favour of Nireaha Tamaki, and containing the following restriction: “Inalienable by sale or mortgage, or lease beyond twenty-one years.”

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

J. CARROLL.

Declaring Roads through Lands in St. Helen’s Settlement to be closed.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS a report has been received from the Surveyor-General, from which it appears that the roads described in the Schedule hereto are unformed and unused, and that they intersect land required under “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” and are not suitable for the subdivision of such land:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of section sixty-nine of the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do by this notice hereby close the roads hereinafter described, and I do hereby declare that they shall thereupon become subject to the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—WAITAKI COUNTY.—ST. HELEN’S SETTLEMENT.

As the same are delineated upon the plan marked S.G. 19285, deposited in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured green.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

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

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 eighth day of September, 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.”

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.