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SCHOOL FOR DEAF-MUTES, SUMNER, NEAR CHRISTCHURCH.

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CONTENTS.

APPOINTMENTS .. .. .. .. .. 23
BANKRUPTCY NOTICES .. .. .. 50
CROWN LANDS NOTICES .. .. .. 43

LAND—
Authorising Native to mortgage .. .. 9
Authorising the Laying-off of Streets of a Width of 66 ft. .. .. .. 31
Changing the Purpose of Portion of a Reserve .. 18
Consenting to closing Roads .. .. 7, 9
Declaring Road-lines closed .. .. 17
Defining Middle Lines of Railways .. .. 1
Directing Sale of, under Public Works Act .. 9
Excepting, from Operation of Section 117 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894” .. .. 6
For Sale by Public Auction .. .. 19
Laying-off of Roads .. .. .. 31
Licensing Use and Occupation of Foreshore Native, taken for Scenic Purposes .. 10, 11
Native, to be taken for a Cemetery-site .. .. 4
Proclaiming and closing Roads .. .. 2
Removing Restrictions against Alienation of Native .. 16
Resuming, for the Purpose of a Scenic Reserve .. 2
Revoking Delegation of Powers in respect of a Public Cemetery .. .. .. 7
Road declared to be a County Road .. .. 10
Roads declared to be Government Roads .. 9, 10
Rural, open for Sale or Selection .. .. 20
Rural, open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity .. 19
Set apart for Improved-farm Special Settlement.. 3
Taken for a Native School .. .. .. 4
Taken for a Road .. .. .. 2
Temporarily reserved .. .. .. 18
Terms and Conditions of Lease of Village-homestead Allotments .. .. .. 4
Vaccination Districts constituted .. .. 19
Withdrawing, from Operation of “The Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1898” .. .. 5, 6