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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 49

FIRST COLUMN.

Name and Description of Land transferred to the Aotea District Maori Land Council.

Ohotu No. 1 Block, containing 46,533 acres or thereabouts, situated in the Makotuku Survey District. Bounded on the north-east by the Otiranui Nos. 1 and 2 Blocks; on the east by the Ohutu Nos. 3, 2, 8, and 7 Blocks; on the south-east by the Ohutu No. 6A No. 1 Block and the Ohutu No. 4 Block; on the south by the Tauakira No. 2 Block, the Wanganui River, and Te Tuhi Block; on the west by the Ahuahu Block; and on the north-west by the Ngarakauwhakarara Block, the Papahaua Block, the Tupapanui Block, the Mairekura Block, and the Hopeteka Stream to the point of commencement.

Ohotu No. 2 Block, containing 411 acres or thereabouts, situated in the Makotuku Survey District. Bounded on the north-east from peg XVI. along the Ararimu Stream; on the south-east and south by the Ararawa Stream; and on the west and north-west by the Ohutu No. 1 Block to the point of commencement at peg XVI.

Ohotu No. 3 Block, containing 2,440 acres or thereabouts, situated in the Makotuku Survey District. Bounded on the north (from peg LXI. at Pumahaunui to the Ararawa Stream) by the Otiranui Nos. 2 and 4 Blocks; on the south-west by the Ararimu Stream; and on the west by the Ohutu No. 1 Block to the point of commencement.

Ohotu No. 8 Block, containing 14,260 acres or thereabouts, situated in the Makotuku and Karioi Survey Districts. Bounded on the east by the Mangaehuehu Stream and the Whangaehu River; on the south by the Ohutu Nos. 8A and 7 Blocks; on the west by the Ohutu No. 1 Block; on the north-west by the Ohutu Nos. 2 and 3, the Otiranui No. 4 Block, and the Rangitaua Block, to the point of commencement.

Paetawa Block, containing 3,105 acres or thereabouts, situated in Blocks VI., VII., X., and XI., Waipakura Survey District. Bounded on the north by the Otumou Stream and Te Tuhi No. 4 Block; on the north-east by the Hikunikau Stream; on the south-east by the Wanganui River; on the south by the Parikino Block; on the south-west by the Puketarata Block; and on the west by the Kauarapaoa Stream to the point of commencement at the mouth of the Otumou Stream.

SECOND COLUMN.

Conditions upon which the Land has been transferred.

1. To lay off and lease as a Native township any area not exceeding 500 acres, and, after reserving and rendering inalienable such further portion of the said land as may be required for the occupation and support of the Maori owners thereof, or for burial-grounds, eel-pas or eel-weirs, fishing-grounds, or as reserves for the protection of native birds, or the conservation of timber and fuel for the future use of the Maori owners, to lease by public tender the balance of the said land or any part or parts thereof, or any easement, right, or privilege over or in relation to the same, for any term not exceeding forty-two years, to take effect in possession, at the best rent or rents that can reasonably be obtained, and in the case of a lease for any period not exceeding twenty-one years, with or without covenant for renewal, for a further term not exceeding twenty-one years, and subject to such other covenants, conditions, and agreements as the Council may deem proper.

2. To manage the said land in all respects as the Council may consider advantageous or advisable in the interests of the Maori owners, and to make such improvements upon the premises as in the opinion of the Council shall be necessary or advisable.

3. To make allowances to and arrangements with tenants, and to accept a surrender of any lease or tenancy for the time being affecting the whole or any part of the said land, and so that if any lease shall be granted under the aforesaid powers, on the surrender of a then-existing or prior lease or tenancy the value of the interest surrendered, or compensation for improvements or otherwise in respect of such lease or tenancy, may be taken into account in fixing the rent and other terms of the new lease.

4. To enter into, alter, vary, and rescind agreements for or in relation to the exercise of the said powers of leasing, and to agree to the apportionment of an entire rent between different parts of the property to be leased, and so that on such apportionment being made the requirement that the best yearly rent or rents be reserved shall apply to the aggregate of the rents reserved by the said leases, and not to the rents reserved by any one lease; but no lease to be granted in pursuance of any such agreement shall be granted for a longer term than could have been granted at the date of such agreement.

5. To borrow money on the security of the said land, or a definite part thereof, to such extent and on such terms in all respects as the Council thinks fit, and, should the Council see fit, to apply the net proceeds so borrowed in or towards discharging valid mortgages or survey-charging liens and other bonâ fide valid expenses or debts of the Maori owners incurred within the six years preceding the passing of “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900,” in perfecting the title to the said land, or to any other lands owned by the same Maoris, and to apply the balance in cutting up, surveying, roading, opening up, preparing, and advertising such lands for lease, or generally improving such land or any other land of the same owners.

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

J. CARROLL,
Minister of Native Affairs.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 16th May, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

HENRY MUSCUTT

to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Weber.

J. G. WARD.

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 16th May, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

CHARLES EDMUND HYLTON

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Wanganui, vice John Bates, on and from the 1st June, 1905.

J. G. WARD.

Justice of the Peace appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 23rd May, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ROBERT ALISON, Esq.,

of Brunnerton, to be a Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Justice.

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 22nd May, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by

WILLIAM JOSEPH WILLIAMS, Esq.,

of Waimangaroa, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Justice.