June 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1337

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 said land to be sold.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, containing 25 acres, being a portion of the land known as Section 6, Harbour District, comprised in Land Transfer certificate of title, Vol. xliii., folio 137, of the Register-book of the Wellington District, and containing the following restrictions: “Inalienable by sale or mortgage, or by lease for a longer period than twenty-one years.”

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

J. CARROLL.

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Removing Restrictions against Alienation of Native Land.

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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 a recommendation made and passed by the said Council on the twenty-second day of March, one thousand nine hundred and five, and received on the twenty-second day of May, one thousand nine hundred and five, recommended His Excellency the Governor to vary, or remove and revoke, the restrictions contained in the instrument of title to the block of land known as Orangikaupapa No. 13, particulars of which land are set out in the Schedule hereunder written, to enable the said land to be sold:

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 said block of land, to enable the said land to be sold.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Wellington Land District, containing 6 acres 2 roods 24 perches, more or less, known as Orangikaupapa No. 13, and being the whole of the land comprised in Crown grant dated the 12th day of July, 1880, in favour of Heremaia te Awhi and others, 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 twenty-ninth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and five.

J. CARROLL.

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Warrant closing Portion of Ngatiawa Street, in the City of Nelson, and adding it to the Hospital and Lunatic Asylum Reserve.

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PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by section two of “The Special Powers and Contracts Act, 1884,” it is enacted that the Governor may issue such Crown grants and do, execute, and perform the several acts, deeds, matters, and things which are specified in the second column of the Schedule of the said Act:

And whereas in the second column of the thirty-fourth clause of the said Schedule it is provided that, notwithstanding anything contained in “The Public Works Act, 1882,” the Governor may declare that portion of Ngatiawa Street in the City of Nelson therein described to be permanently closed, and may add the area thereof to the adjoining Hospital and Lunatic Asylum Reserve G in the City of Nelson: And whereas it is expedient to close the said portion of road in manner hereinafter set forth:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers conferred by the above-in-part-recited Act, and of all other powers in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby declare that that portion of Ngatiawa Street mentioned in the said Act and described in the Schedule hereto shall be permanently closed as from the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette; and I do hereby further declare that the area thereof shall upon such closing be added to the adjoining Hospital and Lunatic Asylum Reserve G.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that portion of Ngatiawa Street, containing 1 acre and 17 perches, bounded on the east by Sections 1007, 1009, 1011, 1013, 1015, 1017, 1019, 1021, and the south of Motueka Street, and on the west by Sections 1006, 1008, 1010, 1012, 1014, 1016, 1018, and 1020, City of Nelson; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked R. 6376, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, coloured purple thereon.

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

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

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Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

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Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 25th May, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned gentlemen to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz.:

Name. District.
GEORGE OCTAVIUS STEPHENSON .. Mangonui.
JAMES ALEXANDER BOSWELL .. Malvern.

ALBERT PITT,
For Colonial Secretary.

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Police Gaoler appointed.

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Department of Justice (Prisons Branch),
Wellington, 23rd May, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Sergeant ROBERT CRAWFORD

to be Police Gaoler at Clyde, vice Sergeant Martin Rogers, transferred.

JAS. McGOWAN.

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Vaccination Inspector appointed.

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Department of Public Health,
Wellington, 31st May, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

CHARLES EDMUND HYLTON

to be a Vaccination Inspector, under “The Public Health Act, 1900,” for the District of Wanganui, vice John Bates, as from the 1st day of June, 1905.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Public Health.

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Public Vaccinators appointed.

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Department of Public Health,
Wellington, 31st May, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned persons to be Public Vaccinators, under “The Public Health Act, 1900,” for the districts set opposite their names respectively, namely:

Name. District.
PETER MARTIN KELLER, Esq., M.D., Jefferson Med. Coll., Philadelphia, U.S.A., 1899 Whangarei.
FLORENCE KELLER, M.D., American Missionary College, Chicago, 1900 Whangarei.
JOHN WALTER BROWNE, Esq., M.B., Bach. Surg., R. Univ. Irel., 1900 Rawene and Kohukohu.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Public Health.