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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 12

Altitude, from 10 ft. to 700 ft. above sea-level. Section 7, about 70 acres flat at north end, 50 acres of which is swamp containing kahikatea and pukatea; 20 acres fairly dry ground; middle of section rather broken, and southern end undulating and flat. Section 8, about 30 acres flat at north end, partly good kahikatea and pukatea swamp, partly dry ground; middle of section rather broken, southern end flat, undulating, and broken. Section 9, broken and undulating country. Section 10, mostly broken country. All the sections are covered with mixed forest, comprising kahikatea, pukatea, tawa, rimu, miro, hinau, matai, rewarewa, tawai, with dense undergrowth of supplejack, kiekie, punga, and konini. Soil of good quality, except a small area of tawai spurs in Sections 7, 8, and 9, resting on papa-and-sandstone formation. Well watered by Awakino River and tributary streams. Access from Awakino River, post-office and store, about five miles by road, one mile and a quarter of which is formed, balance only surveyed as yet. There is also good access to Sections 7, 8, and 9 by Awakino River at high water for boat or punt.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this first day of February, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Rural Lands in Auckland Land District open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

PLUNKET, Governor.

By his Deputy,
JAMES PRENDERGAST.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-thirty-sixth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on and after the third day of April, one thousand nine hundred and seven; and also that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may be selected on lease in perpetuity only, in accordance with the provisions of section one hundred and twenty-one of the said Act, as they contain, or are supposed to contain, metals, minerals, or valuable stone; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said lands shall be leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—TAURANGA COUNTY.—TE PUNA PARISH.

Second-class Land.

Section 45, altitude from 50 ft. to 200 ft. above sea-level; undulating fern country; soil of fairly good quality, resting on sandstone formation; well watered by Te Puna Stream. Sections 117, 118, and 119, altitude from 100 ft. to 500 ft. above sea-level; about 20 acres flat land, balance undulating to broken fern country; soil of inferior quality; well watered by small swamps and springs. Situated nine to ten miles from Tauranga, eight miles of which is by main Tauranga-Katikati coach-road.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this first day of February, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands

Removing Restrictions against Alienation of Native Land.

PLUNKET, Governor.

By his Deputy,
JAMES PRENDERGAST.

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 Ikaroa District Maori Land Board, by a recommendation made and passed by the said Board on the fifteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and five, and received on the sixteenth day of August, 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 particularised and set out in the Schedule hereto:

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 Ikaroa District Maori Land Board aforesaid, do hereby remove and revoke the restrictions now existing against the alienation of the said land, so far as to permit the same to be sold.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, containing 15 acres, more or less, being Lot 8 on deposited plan 1281, part Lot 16 of 2, Subdivision E, Heretaunga Block 28N, and being part of the land comprised in certificate of title, Vol. 33, folio 172, of the Register-book of the Hawke’s Bay District, which said land is the subject of an exchange order by the Native Land Court bearing date the 3rd day of July, 1896, and containing the restriction that the land shall be “Inalienable.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fifth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

Removing Restrictions against Alienation of Native Land.

PLUNKET, Governor.

By his Deputy,
JAMES PRENDERGAST.

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 Ikaroa District Maori Land Board, by a recommendation made and passed by the said Board on the fifteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and five, and received on the sixteenth day of August, 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 particularised and set out in the Schedule hereto:

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