July 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 1901

Notifying Lands in Otago Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-thirteenth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Tuesday, the twenty-eighth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and six, as the time at which the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction; and I do hereby fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto opposite the description of such lands respectively.

SCHEDULE.
OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.
SUBURBAN LANDS.

• Weighted with £86 5s., valuation for improvements.

Town of Dunkeld.

Town of Papatowai.

Moeraki Survey District.

Cost of title, £3 3s.; title by way of conveyance.

RURAL LAND.

Blackstone Survey District.

Weighted with £442 4s. 6d., valuation for improvements.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this ninth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and six.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Notifying Land in Westland Land District under “The Bush and Swamp Crown Lands Settlement Act, 1903.”

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by “The Bush and Swamp Crown Lands Settlement Act, 1903,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be subject to the provisions of section two of the said Act; and I do further declare that for the purposes of the said Act the land described in the said Schedule shall be deemed to be “heavy-bush land.”

SCHEDULE.
WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.

An area of 591 acres (approximately), situated in Block XI, Hohonu Survey District.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this ninth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and six.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

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 Board, remove any restriction on the alienation of land owned by Maoris: Provided that the decision of the Governor on any recommendation of the Board shall be given within six months from the date of the receipt of such recommendation:

And whereas the Aotea District Maori Land Board, by a recommendation made and passed by the said Board on the fourth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and six, and received on the twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand nine hundred and six, recommended the Governor to remove and revoke the restrictions against alienation contained in the instrument of title of the block of land known as Section 6, Harbour District, in respect of the portion thereof described in the Schedule hereunder written, so far as to permit the said portion 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