JUNE 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

inquiry, and in pursuance and exercise of all powers and
authorities in that behalf vested in him by “The Land
Titles Protection Act, 1902,” or otherwise howsoever, and
by and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the said colony, doth hereby order that the pro-
visions of section thirty-nine aforesaid shall apply in respect
of the said order of the Native Land Court declaring the
successors to the said Tareha Moananui, notwithstanding
that more than ten years have elapsed since the making
thereof; and the Chief Judge of the Native Land Court is
hereby authorised, on receipt of an application in due form
under the said section. to proceed accordingly.
ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Additional Rule under the District Courts Acts.
PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-
second day of May, 1905.
Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN
COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by the tenth section of “The District
Courts Act Amendment Act, 1865” (hereinafter
termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that it shall be lawful
for the Governor in Council, with the concurrence of one of
the Judges of the Supreme Court, to frame general rules and
orders for regulating the practice of the said Courts and
the form of proceedings therein, and from time to time to
rescind, suspend, alter, or amend all rules, orders, and forms
then framed or hereafter to be framed, or any of them,
or any part thereof; and that such original or amended
rules, orders, and forms, or any rules rescinding the same
or any of them, shall be in force in any District Court
respectively from a day to be fixed by the Governor in
Council: And whereas it appears to be expedient that a
rule additional to those already made should be provided
for regulating the practice of District Courts :
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority conferred by the said Act, and acting by and with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said
colony, and also with the concurrence of the Honourable
Sir Robert Stout, Knight Commander of the Most Distin-
guished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George. the Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of the said colony, doth hereby
make and prescribe the following additional rule, and doth
hereby order and direct that it shall be in force in all
District Court districts on and after the day of the publi-
cation hereof in the New Zealand Gazette.
RULE.
Office Copies of Probates, &c.
The Clerk of the Court shall not furnish office copies of
probates or letters of administration until he is satisfied
that the duties payable upon the property administered
under “The Deceased Persons’ Estates Duties Act, 1881,”
and its amendments, have been duly paid.
ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Amending Regulations under “The Maori Lands Adminis-
tration Act, 1900.”
PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-
second day of May, 1905.
Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN
COUNCL.
WHEREAS by the fiftieth section of “The Maori Lands
Administration Act, 1900,” it is enacted that the
Governor may from time to time, by Order in Council
published in the Gazette and Kahiti, make regulations for
any of the purposes in the said section specified:
And whereas regulations under the above-in-part-recited
Act have, by Order in Council of the twenty-sixth day of
December, one thousand nine hundred, been made and
published as aforesaid: And whereas by further Orders in
Council of the twentieth day of April and the twenty-fourth
day of August, one thousand nine hundred and three, and
the thirteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred
and four, published in the like manner, such regulations
have been supplemented, amended, and altered.

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And whereas it is deemed advisable to further supplement,
amend, and alter the aforesaid regulations as hereinafter
appears:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
powers and authorities conferred by the said Act, and by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of
the said colony, doth hereby supplement, amend, and alter
the aforesaid regulations in the following manner, that is to
say,—
By the addition at the end of the first paragraph of section
eleven of the following paragraph : “ The President may, by
writing under his hand, appoint any officer or servant of the
Government, or any member or officer of any Council, to act
as his deputy, and such deputy shall, for the purposes of the
seven sections immediately following the next paragraph,
have and may exercise all the powers of the President.”
ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Declaring Part of Mataroa-Mangaweka Road, in Rangitikei
County, to be a County Road.
PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-
second day of May, 1905.
Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN
COUNCL.
IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in
him by “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and of all
other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, 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, doth hereby order and declare
that the roads in Rangitikei County described in the Sche-
dule below shall, on and after the date of this Order in
Council, be county roads.
SCHEDULE.
ALL that portion of the road in the Wellington Land Dis-
trict, Rangitikei County, known as the Mataroa-Mangaweka
Road, commencing at its junction with the Mangaweka-
Waiouru Road, and proceeding generally in a northerly
direction along part frontage of Section 7, and intersecting
Sections 8, 9, 10, and 11, Block VI., Hautapu Survey Dis-
trict ; thence along frontage of Section 22, Block VI., Hau-
tapu Survey District, and part frontage of Section 17,
Block V., Hautapu Survey District, and terminating at the
junction of the Makohine Valley Road, being a distance of
2 miles 74 chains, or thereabouts: as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan marked R. 859, deposited
in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington,
in the Wellington Land District.
ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Authorising the Correction of Errors in Title for Rangitatau
No. 1d No. 2 Block.
PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-
second day of May, 1905.
Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN
COUNCL.
WHEREAS it is expedient that, notwithstanding the
provisions of “The Land Titles Protection Act,
1902,” the Chief Judge of the Native Land Court should
exercise the powers conferred upon him by section thirty-
nine of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.” in respect of
certain errors through which the name of Pura Makirika
was imported into the title of the Rangitatau No. 1D No. 2
Block, and the name of Arapeta Tamumu omitted there-
from :
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the
powers and authorities conferred upon him by “The Land
Titles Protection Act, 1902,” and otherwise howsoever, and
acting with the advice and consent of the Executive Council
of the said colony, doth hereby consent to the exercise by
the Chief Judge of the Native Land Court of the powers
conferred upon him by section thirty-nine of “The Native
Land Court Act, 1894,” in respect of the matters aforesaid.
ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.