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the beach extending one hundred yards on either side thereof, shall be deemed and taken to be the legal landing-place at the Port of Rarotonga for the lading and unlading of goods under “The Customs Laws Consolidation Act, 1882,” and “The Cook and other Islands Government Act, 1901,” and its amendments.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-seventh day of October, one thousand nine hundred and four.

C. H. MILLS.

Governor’s Order No. 168.]

Appointing the Limits of the Port of Rarotonga, in the Cook Islands.

PLUNKET, Governor.

I N exercise of the power in me for this purpose vested by “The Customs Laws Consolidation Act, 1882,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand and its dependencies, do hereby declare that on and after the first day of November, one thousand nine hundred and four, the limits of the Port of Rarotonga, in the Cook Islands, shall be as follows:—

The area enclosed by a line extending from high-water mark at a point four hundred yards eastward of the Union Steamship Company’s Wharf, situated at Avarua Harbour, in the Island of Rarotonga, extending thence northward one thousand yards, thence westward eight hundred yards, thence southward to high-water mark, thence along high-water mark eastward to the starting-point.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-seventh day of October, one thousand nine hundred and four.

C. H. MILLS.

Governor’s Order No. 169.]

Removal of Restrictions on Alienation of Native Lands.

PLUNKET, Governor.

W HEREAS application has been made to the Governor by the owners of the lands described in the Schedule hereto, praying that the restrictions on the alienation of the said lands contained in the Native Land Court orders bearing date the twenty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, and now contained in Land Transfer certificates of title, Volume lvii., folios 141 and 142, 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 Native Land Court orders and Land Transfer certificates of title on the alienation of the said lands are hereby removed.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, containing 8 acres 1 rood 20 perches, more or less, known as Subdivision No. 13 of Section No. 8 of Block XI., Belmont Survey District, being the land comprised in Land Transfer certificate of title, Vol. lvii., folio 141, in favour of Agnes Simeon, and containing the following restriction: “Inalienable.”

All that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, containing 8 acres 2 roods 1 perch, more or less, known as Subdivision 16 of part of Sections Nos. 7 and 8 of Block XI., Belmont Survey District, being the land comprised in Land Transfer certificate of title, Vol. lvii., folio 142, in favour of Teira te Whatako re, and containing the following restriction: “Inalienable.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-ninth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and four.

JAS. McGOWAN.

Land temporarily reserved in the Otago Land District.

PLUNKET, Governor.

W HEREAS by the two-hundred-and-thirty-fifth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the land in the Otago Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, for the purpose in the said Schedule specified at the end of the description of the land so intended to be temporarily reserved.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 2 roods, more or less, being Sections Nos. 1 and 2, Block VI., Town of Balclutha. For police purposes.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirty-first day of October, one thousand nine hundred and four.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Notifying Lands in Nelson Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

PLUNKET, Governor.

I N pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-thirteenth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Thursday, the fifteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and four, as the time at which the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction; and I do hereby fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

City of Nelson.

Section No. 509a: Area, 24 perches; upset price, £25.

Village of Omau.

Section No. 4: Area, 2 roods 3 perches; upset price, £5. Weighted with £720, valuation for improvements, consisting of hotel, hall adjoining, outbuildings, fencing, &c.

Town of Reefton.

Section No. 1319: Area, 9 perches; upset price, £3 10s. Weighted with £40, valuation for improvements, consisting of cottage and fencing.

Motueka Survey District.

Section No. 11, Block X.: Area, 2 roods 4 perches. Upset price, £2 10s.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this second day of November, one thousand nine hundred and four.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Miners’ Rights no longer issued at Cardrona Post-office.

I N pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by “The Mining Act, 1898,” and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the post-office at

CARDRONA, Otago,

shall no longer be a post-office at which miners’ rights may be issued.

As witness my hand, this twenty-sixth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and four.

PLUNKET, Governor.