Oct. 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2431

Amending Regulations prescribing Terms under which Allotments in Native Townships under “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900,” and its Amendments may be disposed of.

(L.S.) PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section eight of “The Native and Maori Land Laws Amendment Act, 1902” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), 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 Council as a site for a Native township, and shall by the same Proclamation assign a name to such township: And whereas by section eleven of the said Act it is further enacted that the Governor may from time to time make, alter, or amend regulations prescribing in what mode or under what terms or conditions allotments in such townships may be leased, sold, or exchanged, or otherwise dealt with, and prescribing generally in what manner the said township shall be administered by the Council, and that all such regulations shall be published in the Gazette and Kahiti:

And whereas regulations under the provisions of the said section eleven were by a Proclamation bearing date the thirteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and three, made and published in the Gazette and Kahiti, each of the twenty-sixth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and three:

And whereas such regulations made and published as aforesaid were, by a further Proclamation published in the Gazette and Kahiti of the eleventh day of February, one thousand nine hundred and four, amended, inter alia, by the addition to section three thereof of the following subsection:—

“(10.) When no valid bid or tender is received for any allotment heretofore or hereafter advertised for disposal under the provisions of the said Act, such allotment may at any time within six months from the date of the auction, or opening of tenders, be taken up, subject to all the other provisions of the said Act and these regulations, at the upset price or rental”:

And whereas it is expedient to further amend the said regulations:

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the said Act, and of all other powers in this behalf enabling me, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, do hereby amend the said regulations as follows, that is to say,—

By the addition at the end of the said subsection of the words following: “and if not so taken up within the said period of six months, such allotment may be leased for any term not exceeding five years, upon such conditions as the Council sees fit.”

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 seventeenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four.

J. CARROLL,
Minister of Native Affairs.

Approved in Council.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Validating certain Irregularities in the Procedure to obtain a Loan of £500 applied for by the Opotiki Town Board.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of October, 1904.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the Opotiki Town Board lately proposed to raise a loan of three hundred pounds for the purpose of erecting a wharf and grain-shed: And whereas the public notification of the meeting of ratepayers to consider the proposal to raise such loan is defective inasmuch as seven clear days’ public notice of such meeting was not given as required by “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” and also as more than ten days elapsed between the last notification of the intention to raise the loan and the date of the meeting of ratepayers, contrary to the provisions of the said Act: And whereas a special order making a special rate as security for the said loan has been made: And whereas the public notification of such special order is defective, inasmuch as such special order was not published on the correct dates: And whereas it appears that the ratepayers of the Opotiki Town District have not been misled, and it is expedient to validate the irregularity as aforesaid:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, and in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by section 10 of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Amendment Act, 1902,” doth hereby declare that the said public notifications of the meeting of ratepayers, and of the said special order making the special rate, shall be deemed and taken to be valid to all intents and purposes as if the same had been respectively made in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” and “The Town Districts Act, 1881.”

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Validating the Public Notification in connection with a Loan of £1,000 applied for by the Pahiatua County Council.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of October, 1904.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the Pahiatua County Council lately proposed to raise a loan of £1,000 under “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” for the construction of roads in the Pori District: And whereas the public notification of the intention to raise the said loan was published in four issues of the Pahiatua Herald, but only in two of the four weeks as required by section eight of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901”: And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled by such irregularity, and it is expedient to validate the same:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power conferred by section ten of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Amendment Act, 1902,” and acting by and with the consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby declare that such public notification of the intention to raise the said loan shall be deemed and taken to be as valid as though the said notification had been properly published, and that the proceedings relative to the said loan shall not be called in question by reason only of the irregularity aforesaid.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Domain Board appointed to have Control of the Kuaotunu Domain.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of October, 1904.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section two of “The Domain Boards Act, 1904” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, with respect to any public domain, appoint such person or persons (not exceeding nine) as he thinks fit to be a Domain Board, having, subject to “The Public Domains Act, 1881,” control of such domain:

And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto was, under the provisions of “The Public Domains Act, 1881,” constituted a public domain by an Order in Council made and issued on the third day of October, one thousand nine hundred and four, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 81, of the sixth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and four:

And whereas it appears expedient to appoint a Domain Board to control the said domain: