2884
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 97

Removing Restrictions against Alienation of Native Land.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by section fourteen of “The Maori Land Laws Amendment Act, 1903,” it is enacted that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act, or in any Crown grant or other instrument of title, the Governor may, on the recommendation of the Council, remove any restriction on the alienation of land owned by Maoris: Provided that the decision of the Governor on any recommendation of the Council shall be given within six months from the date of the receipt of such recommendation:

And whereas the Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa District Maori Land Council has recommended His Excellency the Governor to vary the restrictions contained in the instrument of title to the block of land known as Karuotewhenua B No. 2b No. 5, particulars of which land are set out in the Schedule hereunder written, so far as to permit the interests of Kahupukatea Riria, Amoroa Ngatohu, Pairama Keepa, Te Keepa Pairama, Te Amohaere Riria, Riria Pairama alias Riria te Wehenga, and Arapata te Rangituataka in the said land to be leased:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon and vested in me by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities me thereunto enabling, and in accordance with the recommendation of the Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa District Maori Land Council aforesaid; do hereby vary and revoke the restrictions now existing against the alienation of the block of land particularised and set out in the Schedule hereto, to enable the interests of Kahupukatea Riria, Amoroa Ngatohu, Pairama Keepa, Te Keepa Pairama, Te Amohaere Riria, Riria Pairama alias Riria te Wehenga, and Arapata te Rangituataka in the said land to be leased.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Provincial District of Auckland, known as Karuotewhenua B No. 2b No. 5, and being the land comprised in partition order of the Native Land Court dated the 28th day of January, 1901, in favour of Arapata Rangituataka and others, and containing the following restriction: “Inalienable.”

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

J. CARROLL.

Removing Restrictions against Alienation of Native Land.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by section fourteen of “The Maori Land Laws Amendment Act, 1903,” it is enacted that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act, or in any Crown grant or other instrument of title, the Governor may, on the recommendation of the Council, remove any restriction on the alienation of land owned by Maoris: Provided that the decision of the Governor on any recommendation of the Council shall be given within six months from the date of the receipt of such recommendation:

And whereas the Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa District Maori Land Council, by a recommendation made and passed by the said Council on the fourteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and four, and received on the twenty-seventh day of October, one thousand nine hundred and four, recommended His Excellency the Governor to remove and revoke the restrictions against alienation contained in the instrument of title of the block of land known as Karuotewhenua B No. 2b No. 5, particulars of which land are set out in the Schedule hereunder written, so far as to permit the interests of Matekino Riria and Te Awe Riria in the said land to be leased:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers conferred upon and vested in me by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities me thereunto enabling, and in accordance with the recommendation of the Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa District Maori Land Council aforesaid, do hereby remove and revoke the restrictions now existing against the alienation of the block of land particularised and set out in the Schedule hereto, so far as to permit the interests of Matekino Riria and Te Awe Riria in the said land to be leased.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Provincial District of Auckland, known as Karuotewhenua B No. 2b No. 5, being the land comprised in partition order of the Native Land Court dated the 28th day of January, 1901, in favour of Arapata Rangituataka and others, and containing the following restriction: “Inalienable.”

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

J. CARROLL.

Rural Land in Southland Land District open for Sale or Selection.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-thirty-sixth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on and after the eighth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and five; and also that the land mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase or on lease in perpetuity, or, in respect of any land containing or supposed to contain any metal, mineral, or valuable stone, be selected on lease in perpetuity only; and I do hereby also fix the price at which the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

Weighted with £336 4s., valuation for improvements, consisting of hut, barn, stable, cow-shed, fowl-house, fencing, and draining.

Situation bad, access bad. Distance from Dipton Railway-station, three miles by fair summer road. Soil inferior, with clay-and-gravel formation; well watered; bush of no commercial value.

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

C. H. MILLS,
For Minister of Lands.