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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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corner of Section 8, Block VII., Newcastle Survey District,
and running south and then west to a point where it
reaches the northern boundary of Section 58, Block XI.,
Newcastle Survey District, a distance of three miles or
thereabouts; all in the Raglan County: as the same is
more particularly delineated on the plan marked R. 5161ox,
deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at
Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and coloured
blue thereon.

SAINSBURY’S ROAD.

Also all that road known as Sainsbury’s Road, in the
Auckland Land District, commencing at the south-west
corner of Section 318, Education Reserve, in the Pirongia
Township, and running south-west to the county boundary
north of Section 2, Block III., Pirongia Survey District, a
distance of three miles or thereabouts; all in the Raglan
County: as the same is more particularly delineated on the
plan marked R. 5161ox, deposited in the office of the Chief
Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land
District, and thereon coloured green.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Declaring Part of the Mataroa-Paengaroa Road, Rangitikei County, a County Road.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighth day
of June, 1904.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him
by “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and of all other
powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excel-
lency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting
by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council
of the said colony, doth hereby order and declare that the
road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after
the date of this Order in Council, be a county road.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that portion of the road in the Wellington Land
District, Rangitikei County, and known as the Mataroa-
Paengaroa Road, commencing at the boundary between the
Wanganui and Rangitikei Counties, and proceeding in a
southerly direction to Traverse Peg XXXVII., opposite
Section 7, Block XVI., Maungakaretu Survey District,
being a distance of 76 chains or thereabouts; as the said
road is delineated on the plan marked R. 5161bz, deposited
in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington,
in the Wellington Land District, coloured blue thereon.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Upper Wangaehu Road District.—Declaring Part of Mataroa–Paengaroa Road, Wanganui County, a District Road.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighth day
of June, 1904.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him
by “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and of all other
powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excel-
lency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting
by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Coun-
cil of the said colony, doth hereby order and declare that
the road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after
the date of this Order in Council, be a district road.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that portion of the road in the Wellington Land
District, Wanganui County, and known as the Mataroa-
Paengaroa Road, commencing at its junction with Murray’s
Track, at Mataroa Township, and proceeding in a southerly
direction to the boundary between the Wanganui and Rangi-
tikei Counties, being a distance of 40 chains or thereabouts;
as the said road is delineated on the plan marked R. 5161sz,
deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at
Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and coloured
red thereon.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Declaring Waitaha–Kakapotahi Road, Westland County, a County Road.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirteenth
day of June, 1904.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him
by “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and of all other
powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excel-
lency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting
by and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the said colony, doth hereby order and declare
that the road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on
and after the date of this Order in Council, be a county
road.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that road in the Westland Land District known as
the Waitaha–Kakapotahi Road, in the County of Westland,
commencing at the junction with the Great South Road at
a point 65 chains south of the Kakapotahi River crossing,
and proceeding in a south-westerly direction a distance of
four miles or thereabouts to junction with Great South
Road at a point 16 chains west of Trig. Station H.D.
(Allen’s Hill), and including traffic-bridge over Waitaha
River; as the same is more particularly delineated on the
plan marked R. 1393, deposited in the office of the Chief
Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land
District, and is coloured red and marked ABCD thereon.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Conferring Jurisdiction on Native Land Court.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighth day
of June, 1904.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section fourteen of “The Native Land
Court Act, 1894,” as amended by section forty-one
of “The Native Land Claims Adjustment and Laws
Amendment Act, 1901” (hereinafter termed “the said
Acts”), it is enacted that the Native Land Court shall,
as regards all lands within the meaning of subsection ten of
section fourteen aforesaid, have jurisdiction as in the said
subsection mentioned: Provided that the Court shall not
proceed to exercise such jurisdiction unless the Governor in
Council shall by Order authorise the same to be done:

And whereas it is expedient that the Court should, for
the purpose hereinafter mentioned, be authorised to exercise
the jurisdiction conferred as aforesaid in respect of the lands
situate in the Auckland Provincial District and known as
Kaikou and Marumauku Blocks, containing respectively
4,844 acres and 4,428 acres, more or less, and that consent
should be given thereto pursuant to the provisions of “The
Land Titles Protection Act, 1902”:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers and
authorities conferred by the said Acts and by “The Land
Titles Protection Act, 1902,” and acting by and with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said
colony, doth hereby authorise the said Court to exercise in
respect of the said Kaikou and Marumauku Blocks jurisdic-
tion to determine who are the Natives entitled beneficially to
such lands by virtue of the trust expressed in the Crown
grants thereof, or other documentary title, and to order the
inclusion of such Natives in the titles, either together with
or in lieu of the nominal owners or any of them, and for the
purpose aforesaid to order the cancellation or amendment of
any existing instrument of title, and the issue of such new
Crown grants or other instruments of title as may be
necessary, and generally to exercise in respect of the said
lands the jurisdiction and powers conferred on the Native
Land Court by subsection ten of section fourteen of “The
Native Land Court Act, 1894,” and its amendments, so far
as the same may be necessary or applicable for the purpose
aforesaid.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.