JULY 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1735

5. The Board shall prepare and submit at each annual meeting a report of the proceedings of the Board for the previous year ending on the thirty-first day of December, together with a statement of the receipts and expenditure of the Board for such year. A copy of every such report and statement, certified by the Chairman to be correct, shall be sent to the Minister of Lands as soon as possible after each annual meeting.

6. If at any meeting the Chairman is not present at the time appointed for holding the same, the members present shall choose some one of their number to be chairman of such meeting.

7. If, by resignation, death, incapacity, or otherwise, the office of Chairman shall be or become vacant, the members may at any monthly or special meeting appoint a Chairman.

8. All questions shall be determined by the majority of votes of the members of the Board present at a meeting.

And with the like advice and consent as aforesaid doth hereby also order that this delegation shall take effect in respect of the parcel of Crown land described in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District, being Reserve No. 2402 (in red), containing 30 acres, more or less, situated in Block XIV., Geraldine Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Reserve No. 2449 (in red) from the Main South Road to the Railway Reserve; thence towards the east by the said Railway Reserve (Hurunui-Bluff) to Reserve No. 2401 (in red); thence towards the south by the said Reserve No. 2401 to the Main South Road; thence towards the west by the Main South Road to the place of commencement: as the same is delineated on the plan No. 50578, and thereon bordered red, deposited in the Head Office of the Lands and Survey Department, Wellington.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Authorising Inquiry under Section 39, “Native Land Court Act, 1894,” and “The Land Titles Protection Act, 1902.”

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eleventh day of July, 1904.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by an order of the Native Land Court dated the eleventh day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, Hoani te Rangikangaiho and Tio Takopa were appointed successors to the share and interest of Morena Hawea, deceased, in the Kairakau No. 2 Block, situated in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay: And whereas by an order of the Native Land Court dated the twelfth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, Morehu Turoa and Tuahine Renata were appointed successors to the share and interest of Meri Horo, deceased, in the said Kairakau No. 2 Block: And whereas the said order of the Native Land Court dated the eleventh day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, purported to be made by virtue of a certain will dated the fifth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, and the said order of the Native Land Court dated the twelfth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, purported to be made by virtue of a certain will dated the twenty-third day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four: And whereas Wheterina Tuakana te Rangikangaiho and Tuahine Renata have made application for the issue of an Order in Council under section two, subsection one, of “The Land Titles Protection Act, 1902,” to enable them to apply to the Chief Judge of the Native Land Court under section thirty-nine of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” to have the said orders amended by the omission therefrom of any reference to the said wills dated respectively the fifth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, and the twenty-third day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four: And whereas it is expedient that an inquiry into the matters aforesaid should be held under the provisions of the said last-mentioned section:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, for the purpose of enabling such inquiry to be held, and in pursuance and exercise of all powers and authorities in that behalf vested in him by “The Land Titles Protection Act, 1902,” or otherwise howsoever, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order that the provisions of section thirty-nine aforesaid shall apply in respect of the said orders of the Native Land Court declaring the successors to the said Morena Hawea and Meri Horo, notwithstanding that more than ten years have elapsed since the making thereof; and the Chief Judge of the Native Land Court is hereby authorised, on receipt of an application in due form under the said section, to proceed accordingly.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eleventh day of July, 1904.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor 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:

And whereas the Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa District Maori Land Council, by a recommendation made on the third day of September, one thousand nine hundred and three, and received on the nineteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and four, has recommended His Excellency the Governor to 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 containing two hundred and ninety acres, more or less, being the block or parcel of land known as Pirongia West No. 1, Section No. 2a:

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 Auckland, containing two hundred and ninety acres, more or less, known as Pirongia West No. 1, Section No. 2a, held under partition order of the Native Land Court dated the ninth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, in favour of Ahurei Hikairo and another.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Declaring Part of Kopikopiko Road, Pahiatua County, a County Road.

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eleventh day of July, 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 Excellency 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.