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8. Nothing herein contained shall authorise the said trustees to do or cause to be done anything repugnant to or inconsistent with any law relating to the Customs, or any regulation of the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, or with any provisions of “The Harbours Act, 1878,” or its amendments, or any regulations made thereunder, and that are now or may hereafter be in force.

9. The rights, powers, and privileges conferred by or under this Order in Council shall continue in force for fourteen years from the date hereof, unless in the meantime such rights, powers, and privileges shall be altered, modified, or revoked by competent authority; and the said trustees shall not assign, charge, or part with any such right, power, or privilege without the written consent of the Minister first obtained.

10. The said rights, powers, and privileges may at any time be resumed by the Governor, without payment of any compensation whatever, on giving to the said trustees three calendar months’ previous notice in writing. Any such notice shall be sufficient if given by the Minister and delivered at or posted to the last known address of the said trustees for the club or either of them.

11. The said trustees shall be liable for any injury which the said boat-shed may cause any vessel or boat to sustain through any default or neglect on their part or the part of the club.

12. In case the said trustees shall—
    (1.) Commit or suffer a breach of the conditions hereinbefore set forth, or any of them;
    (2.) Cease to use or occupy the said boat-shed for the purposes aforesaid; or
    (3.) In case the club be in any manner wound up or dissolved,
    then and in either of the said cases this Order in Council, and every license, right, power, or privilege thereby conferred, may be revoked and determined by the Governor in Council without any notice to the said trustees or other proceeding whatsoever; and publication in the New Zealand Gazette of an Order in Council containing such revocation shall be sufficient notice to the said trustees and to the club, and to all persons concerned or interested, that this Order in Council, and the license, rights, and privileges thereby granted and conferred, have been revoked and determined.

13. The erection of the boat-shed shall be sufficient evidence of the acceptance by the said trustees of the terms and conditions of this Order in Council.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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 Aotea District Maori Land Council, by recommendations made and passed by the said Council on the twenty-first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and four, and received on the fifteenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and four, recommended His Excellency the Governor to vary or remove and revoke the restrictions against alienation contained in the instruments of title of the blocks of land particularised and set out in the Schedule hereunder written, so far as to permit the said lands 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 Aotea District Maori Land Council aforesaid, do hereby remove and revoke the restrictions now existing against the alienation of the blocks of land particularised and set out in the Schedule hereto, so far as to permit the said lands to be leased.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, containing 100 acres, being part of the land known as Kai Iwi 6r No. 2, and being part of the land comprised in partition order of the Native Land Court dated the 22nd day of July, 1901, in favour of Toko Reihana, and containing the following restrictions: “Inalienable by sale, or by lease for a longer period than twenty-one years, or by mortgage, except with the consent of the Governor being previously obtained to every such sale, lease, or mortgage.”

All those pieces or parcels of land, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, containing respectively 12 acres 2 roods, more or less, being the lands known as Kai Iwi 6r No. 1b and Kai Iwi 6r No. 1c, and being the lands comprised in partition orders of the Native Land Court dated the 2nd day of December, 1901, in favour of Pirihiro Peina and Turere Peina respectively, and containing the following restrictions: “Inalienable by sale, or by lease for a longer period than twenty-one years, or by mortgage, except with the consent of the Governor being previously obtained to every such sale, lease, or mortgage.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fifteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and five.

ALBERT PITT.

Rural Land in Marlborough Land District open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section one hundred and thirty-six of “The Land Act, 1892,” and section two of “The Bush and Swamp Crown Lands Settlement Act, 1903,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby declare and provide as follows, that is to say:—

1. The rural land enumerated in the Schedule hereto is hereby set apart for disposal by way of selection on and after the sixth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and five, at the rental specified in the said Schedule.

2. The said land may be selected on lease in perpetuity only, as provided by section one hundred and twenty-one of “The Land Act, 1892,” as it contains, or is supposed to contain, metal, mineral, or valuable stone, and shall not be purchased for cash.

3. For the purposes of “The Bush and Swamp Crown Lands Settlement Act, 1903,” the land enumerated in the said Schedule hereto shall be deemed to be “scrub land.”

4. No general rate shall be levied or collected by any local authority from the said land for the period of two years from the date from which such land is disposed of, and no local authority shall have power to levy or collect any such rate from such land during such period.

5. After the first half-year’s rent has been paid by the selector the further instalments of rent payable by him for a period of two years shall not be demanded: provided that if at any time during the first five years of his occupancy the selector disposes of his interest in the land the rent so conceded shall be paid by him in full, and thereupon the Land Board may remit such instalments of rent payable by the incoming tenant, not exceeding in the aggregate the amount of rent previously conceded to the selector, as the Board shall think fit.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT — MARLBOROUGH COUNTY. — LINKWATER SURVEY DISTRICT.

Second-class Scrub Land.

Broken country; soil light, covered with scrub, bush, and stunted manuka. Accessible by road or water. Situated about six miles from Picton.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this sixteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and five.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Trustees for the Tongaporutu Public Cemetery appointed.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the sixth section of “The Cemeteries Act, 1882,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor