2024
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 77

Removing Restrictions against Alienation of Native Land.

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 Tokerau District Maori Land Council, by a recommendation made and passed by the said Council on the fourteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and five, and received on the third day of April, one thousand nine hundred and five, recommended the Governor to remove and revoke the restrictions contained in the instrument of title to the block of land known as Tuataranui, particulars of which 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 Tokerau District Maori Land Council aforesaid, do hereby remove and revoke the restrictions now existing against the alienation of the block of land known as Tuataranui, particulars of which land are set out in the Schedule hereunder written.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Auckland Land District, known as Tuataranui, containing 12 acres 3 roods, more or less, and being the land comprised in Crown grant dated the 23rd day of November, 1871, in favour of Honihana Mauparaoa, 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-first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and five.

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

Ranger under the Animals Protection Acts, Southland District, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington. 21st August, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN FRIEND

to be a Ranger under “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, for the District of Southland.

J. G. WARD.

Officer under the Fisheries Conservation Acts appointed, Southland.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 21st August, 1905.

IT is hereby notified that

JOHN FRIEND,

of Invercargill, has been appointed to be an Officer under “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,” and the Acts amending the same.

J. G. WARD.

Clerk of Courts, &c., appointed.

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

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable JOSEPH CHARLES STEVENS WILLIS

to be Clerk of the Magistrate’s and Warden’s Courts, Receiver of Gold Revenue, and Mining Registrar at Motueka, and also to be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of Motueka, from the 1st day of August, 1905, vice Constable L. Read, transferred.

JAS. McGOWAN.

Public Vaccinator appointed.

Department of Public Health,
Wellington, 23rd August, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ALEXANDER ROBERT FALCONER, Esq., M.B. Ch.B. Univ. N.Z. 1898,

to be a Public Vaccinator, under “The Public Health Act, 1900,” for the District of Blueskin, vice Dr. Gault.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Public Health.

Analyst under “The Adulteration Prevention Act, 1880,” appointed—Notice No. 978.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 16th August, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

BERNARD CRACROFT ASTON,

whose place of abode is the Chemical Laboratory of the Department of Agriculture, Wellington, to be an Analyst, under “The Adulteration Prevention Act, 1880”; the appointment to date from 1st July, 1905.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.

Chief Accountant, Department of Roads, appointed.

Department of Roads,
16th August, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JAMES ROBERT SMYTH

to be Chief Accountant in the Department of Roads, as from the 6th May, 1905, vice H. J. Knowles, deceased.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

Trustee of Livingstone Public Cemetery resigned.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 18th August, 1905.

NOTICE is hereby given that the resignation of

JOHN O’DONNELL

as a Trustee of the Livingstone Public Cemetery has been accepted by His Excellency the Governor.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Appointment of Transmitting and Receiving Officers for the Service of Notices by Telegraph.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 23rd February, 1905.

IN pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by “The Electric Lines Act, 1884” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), and by the regulations made thereunder on the 25th March, 1895, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 4th April, 1895, the following officers at the addresses set against their names are hereby appointed Transmitting and Receiving Officers for the purpose of dealing with all notices by telegraph sent under the said Act or regulations, and of signing such certificates in relation to the service of any such notices as are required or authorised to be signed or given under the said Act or the regulations aforesaid:—

CLARK, ALFRED, Postmaster, Lawrence.
JAMES, JOHN, Postmaster, Naseby.
WALSH, WILLIAM JAMES, Postmaster, Gore.
WYLIE, JAMES TURNER, Postmaster, Port Chalmers.

J. G. WARD,
Electric Telegraph Commissioner.

Volunteer Officers appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 16th August, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the following appointments:—

No. 1 Company, New Zealand Engineer Volunteers (Canterbury Engineer Volunteers).

Alfred Edgar Luttrell to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 7th April, 1905.