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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 9

Vesting a Reserve in the Hawera County Council.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this first day of February, 1904.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto has been permanently set aside as a reserve for a public pound:

And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient to vest the said land in the Hawera County Council:

Now, therefore, 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, and in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the fourth section of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” doth hereby declare that from and after the day of the date hereof the reserve mentioned in the Schedule hereto shall become vested in “The Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the Hawera County,” in trust, for the purposes of a public pound.

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SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land in the Taranaki Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 acre, more or less, being Section No. 19, Kaponga Village (situated in Block XI., Kaupokonui Survey District); as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth:

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Fixing Sittings of Court of Appeal.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this first day of February, 1904.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by “The Court of Appeal Act, 1882,” it is enacted that the Court shall hold its sittings at such times and places as shall from time to time be fixed by the Governor in Council, and proclaimed in the Government Gazette twenty-one days at least before the times so fixed respectively:

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, doth hereby fix that sittings of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand shall be held within the Supreme Court House, in the City of Wellington, upon the following days, at eleven o’clock in the forenoon:—

Monday, the fourteenth March, one thousand nine hundred and four.

Monday, the twenty-seventh June, one thousand nine hundred and four.

Monday, the tenth October, one thousand nine hundred and four.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Conferring Jurisdiction on Native Land Court.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this first day of February, 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,” 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 land known as Native Reserve, Section 364, Carnarvon, Rangitikei District, containing 500 acres, more or less:

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, doth hereby authorise the said Court to exercise in respect of the said Native Reserve, Section 364, Carnarvon, Rangitikei District, jurisdiction to determine who are the Natives entitled beneficially to such land by virtue of the trust expressed in the Crown grant thereof, and to order the inclusion of such Natives in the title, 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 land 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.

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

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this first day of February, 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 has recommended that the blocks or parcels of land mentioned and particularised in the Schedule hereto be excepted 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:

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, the blocks or parcels of land mentioned and particularised in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.