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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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Act, 1898” (hereinafter termed “the principal Act”), as a kauri-gum reserve, and which is no longer required for the purpose of gum-digging, shall be no longer subject to the principal Act, and shall thereafter be dealt with by the Land Board as ordinary Crown land; provided that such Order in Council shall only be issued in pursuance of a resolution of the Land Board, supported by such independent evidence as the Governor in Council deems necessary:

And whereas the Land Board of the Auckland Land District has duly passed a resolution recommending that the portion of the Ohia Kauri-gum Reserve described in the Schedule hereto be excepted from the operation of the principal Act, and it is expedient to give effect to such recommendation:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon me by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby order and declare that the portion of the Ohia Kauri-gum Reserve described in the Schedule hereto shall be no longer subject to the provisions of the principal Act, and shall hereafter be dealt with by the Land Board as ordinary Crown land.

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SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 250 acres, more or less, being portion of the Ohia Kauri-gum Reserve, set apart by Order in Council dated the 10th day of July, 1899, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 60, of the 13th July, 1899, page 1303. Bounded towards the north by the Puheke Kauri-gum Reserve, set apart by Order in Council dated the 12th April, 1899, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 32, of the 13th April, 1899, page 757; towards the north-east by the high-water line of Doubtless Bay; towards the south-east by the Whakautu Native Reserve; and towards the south-west by the other portion of the Ohia Kauri-gum Reserve: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 37704/287, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged red.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighth day of February, 1906.

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 bond 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 a recommendation made on the fifteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and five, and received on the twenty-ninth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and six, 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 sale, all that parcel of land, containing forty-two acres, more or less, being the land known as Horowhenua 11B, Subdivision No. 36, Section No. 4A:

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 sale, the block or parcel of land, situate in the Wellington Land District, containing forty-two acres, more or less, known as Horowhenua 11B, Subdivision No. 36, Section No. 4A, and being the land comprised in partition order of the Native Land Court dated the third day of March, one thousand nine hundred and five, in favour of Te Ahuru Porotene.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Regulations under “The Teachers’ Superannuation Act, 1905.”

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of February, 1906.

Present:

The Honourable W. Hall-Jones presiding in Council.

IN exercise of the powers conferred upon him by “The Teachers’ Superannuation Act, 1905,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting under the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby make the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto for the purpose of prescribing the manner of the first election of members of “The Teachers’ Superannuation Board” (hereafter called “the Board”).

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SCHEDULE.

1. The first election of the elective members of the Board for each Island shall be held in accordance with these regulations.

2. The Secretary for Education shall be the Returning Officer.

3. There shall be prepared by the Returning Officer two separate voting-lists, to wit,—

(a.) One of all contributors resident in the North Island;

(b.) One of all contributors resident in the South Island.

4. Contributors resident in Stewart Island or in the Chatham Islands shall be deemed to be residents in the South Island.

5. The Returning Officer shall from time to time add to the respective lists the names of all contributors who become entitled to be enrolled thereon, and shall remove therefrom the names of all persons who cease to be so entitled; but for the purposes of the first election the list shall be closed at 5 o’clock p.m. on the 21st February, 1906.

6. The validity of the election shall not be questioned on the ground that a name wrongly appears in a list or has been omitted therefrom.

7. The Returning Officer shall forthwith by advertisement in the New Zealand Gazette notify in respect of the election—

(a.) The day on which the election will be held, and the hour at which the poll will be closed;

(b.) The number of vacancies;

(c.) The day and hour for the closing of nominations, being 5 o’clock p.m. on the 23rd February, 1906.

8. No person shall be eligible for election unless he is nominated in writing by at least two contributors.

9. Every nomination-paper shall be in the form or to the effect following:—

The Returning Officer (being the Secretary to the Education Department, Wellington).

I, [Name and address] being a contributor to the Teachers’ Superannuation Fund resident in the [North or South] Island, do hereby nominate [Name and address] as a candidate for election to the Teachers’ Superannuation Board at the election to be held on the 5th day of March, 1906.

Dated this day of , 1906.

Candidate’s consent to be subscribed at foot of nomination-paper.

I hereby consent to my nomination—

[Signature of candidate nominated.]

10. If the nomination-paper does not bear the written consent of the candidate nominated, such consent may be given by him to the Returning Officer before the nominations are