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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 12

Sub-Commissioner of Native Land Court to have Powers of
a Judge in respect of Chatham Island Cases.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of January, 1907.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE W. HALL-JONES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section three of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1896,” it is provided that the Governor may appoint any Registrar of the Native Land Court, or other person holding a permanent appointment in the Civil Service of the colony, to be a Sub-Commissioner of the said Native Land Court:

And whereas by section four of the said Act it is enacted that every Sub-Commissioner appointed as aforesaid shall, by virtue of such office, have jurisdiction to exercise all the powers of the Native Land Court or of a Judge thereof under subsections three and four of section fourteen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” also all the powers of the Court or a Judge under section three of “The Maori Real Estate Management Act, 1888”:

And whereas by section five of the said Act it is provided that the Governor may, by Order in Council, from time to time further empower any Sub-Commissioner to exercise all or any other of the powers of the Native Land Court or of a Judge thereof in relation to any matters in such Order specified:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of all powers and authorities conferred by the hereinbefore-recited Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby empower Lawrence Marshall Grace, Esquire, a Sub-Commissioner of the Native Land Court, to exercise in that behalf, in respect of such of the several matters set out in the Panuitanga, Poneke, 1907–2, and all such other matters as may by any Panuitanga supplementary thereto be brought before him as such Sub-Commissioner, all or every of the powers of the Native Land Court or of a Judge thereof.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of January, 1907.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE W. HALL-JONES PRESIDING 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 bonâ 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 Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa District Maori Land Board, by a recommendation made on the fifteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and six, and received on the seventh day of November, 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 mortgage, the block or parcel of land known as Kopua No. 10:

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 mortgage, the block or parcel of land particularised and set out in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate in Block VII of the Pirongia Survey District, in the Land District of Auckland, containing 225 acres, more or less, known as Kopua No. 10, and being the whole of the land comprised in an order of the Native Land Court, on investigation of title, bearing date the 6th day of October, 1890.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of January, 1907.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE W. HALL-JONES PRESIDING 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 bonâ 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 Ikaroa District Maori Land Board, by a recommendation made on the fourteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and six, and received on the sixteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and seven, 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 two hundred and seventy acres, more or less, being the land known as Petane No. 2, on the condition that the price to be paid for the said land be not less than the land-tax valuation of the same:

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 by public auction, with an upset price equal to the amount of the present land-tax valuation, the block or parcel of land situate in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, containing two hundred and seventy acres, more or less, known as Petane No. 2, and being the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 41, folio 193, of the Register-book of the Hawke’s Bay District, dated the twenty-first day of November, one thousand nine hundred and one, in favour of Iropoama Rakatairi.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.