Num. 72.

2101

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1904.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1904.

Amending Description of Native Township of Otorohanga.

(L.S.)

PLUNKET, 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 three, 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 “Otorohanga” to such township:

And whereas by Proclamation bearing date the fifth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and three, the Governor, in exercise of the aforesaid powers, amended the description of the said township:

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

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise 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 said Proclamation bearing date the fifth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and three, by substituting in lieu thereof the description set out in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

AMENDED DESCRIPTION OF OTOROHANGA NATIVE TOWNSHIP.

ALL that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, situated in Block IV., Orahiri Survey District, being part of Otorohanga E No. 5; Otorohanga D, G No. 2, H, and J; Waikowhitiwhiti Nos. 2 and 3; Waikowhitiwhiti A, B, C, D, E, F1, F2, G, K1, K2, L, and M; Orahiri B, C, D1, D2, E, F, G, J, K, M, N, N1, O, P, Q, R, S No. 5, T, U, U1, V, V1, V2 Section 1, V2 Section 2, W, W1, W2; Orahiri No. 1 Sections 2 to 12; Orahiri No. 10; and 18 acres of roads of access laid off by order of the Court: containing by admeasurement 246 acres 2 roods 21 perches, more or less. Bounded towards the north-east by the Ouruwhero Road, Section 8, Block IV., Orahiri Survey District, Otorohanga C, Ouruwhero Road aforesaid and Otorohanga C aforesaid, 770, 365, 555, 55, 460, 1273, 450, 450, and 609 links; towards the south-east, south-west, north-east, and north-west by the Main Trunk Railway and Otorohanga Railway-station, 130, 264, 74, 200, 2500, 500, and 724 links; generally towards the south and west by the Waipa River; and towards the north-west by the Otorohanga E No. 2 and Otorohanga E No. 4 Blocks, 1010 and 250 links; save and excepting the Main Trunk Railway, Waikowhitiwhiti No. 1, Otorohanga G No. 1, and Orahiri A and L, which are excluded from the above area: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable William Lee, Baron Plunket, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, 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-fifth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four.

J. CARROLL,
Minister of Native Affairs.

GOD SAVE THE KING!