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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 55

FIRST SCHEDULE.
LANDS PROCLAIMED AS A ROAD.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
ROAD CLOSED.

All in the Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above noted, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable William Lee, Baron Plunket, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this first day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Land set apart for Settlement.

(L.S.)
PLUNKET, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the seventy-third section of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901” (herein termed “the said Act”), it is, amongst other things, enacted that, before certain moneys therein mentioned shall be expended upon any block of land, it shall be necessary that the same be proclaimed as set apart for settlement:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of every power and authority enabling me in this behalf, and for the purposes of the said Act, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim the land described in the Schedule hereto as set apart for settlement.

SCHEDULE.
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.
Taeore Block (341 Acres).

As the same is delineated upon the plan marked as above mentioned, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above noted.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable William Lee, Baron Plunket, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this second day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Excepting Lands from the Operation of Section 117 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of May, 1905.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section four of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” it is enacted that the Governor may, by Order in Council, except from the operation of section one hundred and seventeen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), for a limited period or otherwise, and either generally or for such purposes and subject to such restrictions as shall be in such Order specified, any land, wheresoever situate, which is for the time being subject to the operation of the said section, or any interest therein or right over the same, or may in like manner make such exception in favour exclusively of any lessee or other person who has been bona fide in occupation of and has made improvements on such land, or has paid money to Native owners for lease or purchase thereof, prior to the passing of the said Act: Provided that no Order in Council under the provisions of this section shall take effect until after the expiration of two months from the date of the publication thereof in the Gazette: Provided also that every alienation under the provisions of this section shall be confirmed by the Court in terms of section fifty-three of the said Act:

And whereas the Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa District Maori Land Council, by recommendations made on the eighteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and four, and received on the fifth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and four, has recommended His Excellency the Governor to except from the operation of section one hundred and seventeen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” the blocks or parcels of land particularised and set out in the Schedule hereto:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by section four of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby except from the operation of section one hundred and seventeen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” the blocks or parcels of land particularised and set out in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

T. H. HAMER,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Extending Period within which Crown Lands Inquiry Commissioners shall report.

PLUNKET, Governor.

To all to whom these presents shall come, and to James McKerrow, Esquire, of Wellington; Robert Hall, Esquire, of Auckland; William Wilson McCardle, Esquire, of Kawhia; William Arthur McCutchan, Esquire, of Whangamomona; John Moore Johnston, Esquire, of Palmerston North; William Brooklyn Matheson, Esquire, of Rongomai; George William Forbes, Esquire, of Linwood; John Anstey, Esquire, of Otipua; Donald McLennan, Esquire, of Duntrroon; and John Thomas Paul, Esquire, of Dunedin: Greeting.

WHEREAS by a Commission bearing date the twenty-seventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred and five, you, the said

JAMES MCKERROW,
ROBERT HALL,
WILLIAM WILSON MCCARDLE,
WILLIAM ARTHUR MCCUTCHAN,
JOHN MOORE JOHNSTON,
WILLIAM BROOKLYN MATHESON,
GEORGE WILLIAM FORBES,
JOHN ANSTEY,
DONALD MCLENNAN, and
JOHN THOMAS PAUL,