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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 77

SCHEDULE.
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.
Winton Block (2,023 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 Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, 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 sixteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Setting apart Lands in Wellington Land District for Leasing as Small Grazing-runs under “The Land Act, 1892.”

(l.s.)
PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

BY virtue and in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the one-hundred-and-seventy-second section of “The Land Act, 1892,” and of every other power and authority enabling me in that behalf, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto shall be subject to the provisions of sections one hundred and seventy-two to one hundred and eighty-six of Part V. of “The Land Act, 1892,” relating to small grazing-runs.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—RANGITIKEI COUNTY.

Second-class Pastoral Country.

Sections Nos. 1 and 2, Block XIV., Pukeokahu Survey District; and Section No. 2A, Block II., Ruahine Survey District: Area, 4,558 acres 1 rood 37 perches.

Section No. 2, Block II., Ruahine Survey District: Area, 2,510 acres.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable William Lee, Baron Plunket, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, 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 eighteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

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

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-first day of August, 1905.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR 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 Aotea District Maori Land Council, by recommendations made on the twenty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and five, and received on the nineteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and five, has recommended the Governor to except from the operation of section one hundred and seventeen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” for the purpose of alienation by way of lease, the blocks of land known as Taonui No. 1b and Taonui No. 1c, containing respectively five hundred and thirty-nine acres two roods ten perches and five hundred and eighty-two acres two roods twenty-five perches, more or less:

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,” for the purpose of alienation by way of lease, for a period of twenty-one years with the right of renewal for a further period of twenty-one years, the blocks or parcels of land, situate in the Wellington Land District, containing respectively five hundred and thirty-nine acres two roods ten perches and five hundred and eighty-two acres two roods twenty-five perches, more or less, being the lands known as Taonui No. 1b and Taonui No. 1c, and being the lands comprised in orders of the Native Land Court dated the sixth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and one, in favour of Tauria Papanui and others and Naima Potaka and others.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Validating the Public Notification for a Loan of £175 applied for by the Waimarino County Council.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-first day of August, 1905.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Waimarino County Council lately proposed to raise a loan of one hundred and seventy-five pounds, under “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” for the purpose of metalling Mill Road, in the Mill Road Special-rating District, Raetihi: And whereas the public notification of the special order making the special rate was published in the Wanganui Chronicle once in each of four weeks, but was not published once in each week of the four weeks immediately preceding the date of the subsequent meeting at which such resolution was confirmed, as required by section eleven of “The Counties Act Amendment Act, 1903”: And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled by such irregularity, and it is expedient to validate the publication of the said notifications:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section ten of “The Local Bodies’