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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 7 acres 2 roods 12·6 perches, more or less, being Lot 3 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 16th day of May, 1898, and containing the restriction that the land shall be “Inalienable except by a lease for a period not exceeding twenty-one years.”

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 Waikato District Maori Land Board, by a recommendation made and passed by the said Board on the twenty-ninth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and six, and received on the twenty-third day of December, 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 Allotment 68, Parish of Waiuku West, so far as to permit the said land to be leased:

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 thereunto enabling, and in accordance with the recommendation of the Waikato District Maori Land Board aforesaid, do hereby remove and revoke the restrictions now existing against the alienation of the land particularised and set out in the Schedule hereto, so far as to permit the said land to be leased.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, containing 40 acres, more or less, being Allotment 68, situate in the Parish of Waiuku West, in the Land District of Auckland, and comprised in a Crown grant, dated the 15th day of July, 1880, and registered Vol. 20, folio 198, of the Register-book of the Auckland District, in favour of Waata te Koi, which said Crown grant contains the following restrictions: “Inalienable by gift, sale, lease, or mortgage, except with the consent of the Governor being previously obtained to any such gift, sale, lease, or mortgage.”

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

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

Trustees for the Northbank Public Cemetery appointed.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the sixth section of “The Cemeteries Act, 1882,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the several persons whose names are specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto to be Trustees to provide for the maintenance and care of the public cemetery specified in the second column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

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

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 30th January, 1907.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned gentlemen to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz.:

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
Colonial Secretary.

Appointment of East Coast Native Trust Lands Commissioner.

Native Department,
Wellington, 31st January, 1907.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN ALFRED HARDING, Esq.,

of Gisborne, to be the Commissioner, under the provisions of section 22 of “The Maori Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment Act, 1906,” to exercise and possess all the powers and authorities in the said section specified, as from the 7th day of February, 1907.

J. CARROLL,
Minister of Native Affairs.

Native Land Court Judges appointed.

Native Department,
Wellington, 1st February, 1907.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

THOMAS WILLIAM FISHER, Esq., of New Plymouth, and MICHAEL GILFEDDER, Esq., of Invercargill,

to be Judges of the Native Land Court, as from the 1st February, 1907.

J. CARROLL,
Minister of Native Affairs.