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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 15

Validation of Proceedings for Special Loan of £500 for the Maori Hill Borough.

PLUNKET, Governor.
By his Deputy,
JAMES PRENDERGAST.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this seventh day of February, 1907.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS, owing to an error of the printer in the voting-paper printed and used for the poll of the ratepayers of the said borough taken upon the proposal for the above loan, it was stated in the said voting-paper that the said loan was to be repayable at the expiration of not more than forty-four years, instead of forty-one years mentioned in the said proposal: And whereas by section ten of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Amendment Act, 1902,” it is enacted that where at any time after a loan has been applied for or granted under the principal Act, or any Act thereby repealed, it is discovered that any of the proceedings prior to the granting of the loan were irregular or defective, the Governor, if satisfied that the ratepayers have not been misled, may by Order in Council gazetted validate such proceedings: And whereas the said borough has applied to the Governor in Council to validate the proceedings taken in connection with the said loan, which he has agreed to do:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, and in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the said Act, doth hereby validate the said voting-paper, and doth hereby declare that the said proceedings shall not be called in question by reason only of the irregularity aforesaid.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Validating Procedure on Proposal by the Feilding Borough Council to borrow £3,000 for the Construction of Waterworks under “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901.”

PLUNKET, Governor.
By his Deputy,
JAMES PRENDERGAST.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this seventh day of February, 1907.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Feilding Borough Council in proceeding to take the poll of the ratepayers for the purpose of raising a loan of three thousand pounds, under “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” in the wording of the voting-paper did not strictly comply with the Form No. 1 in the Schedule to “The Local Bodies’ Loans Amendment Act, 1903,” and, further, allowed more than seven days to intervene between the several issues of the newspaper circulating in the district containing the notification and setting forth the particulars required by section eight of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901”: And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled, and it is expedient to validate the proceedings as taken by the said Borough Council:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section ten of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Amendment Act, 1902,” and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order and declare that the said voting-papers and the notifications of the said loan proposals shall be taken to be as valid as though such voting-papers were in the required form and the said loan proposals had been duly published, and doth hereby declare that the proceedings relative to the said loan shall not be called in question by reason only of the irregularities aforesaid.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Conferring Jurisdiction on Native Land Court.

PLUNKET, Governor.
By his Deputy,
JAMES PRENDERGAST.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this seventh day of February, 1907.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section fourteen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” it is enacted that the Native Land Court shall, as regards all lands within the meaning of subsection ten of section fourteen aforesaid, have jurisdiction as in the said subsection mentioned: Provided that the Court shall not proceed to exercise such jurisdiction unless the Governor in Council shall by Order authorise the same to be done:

And whereas the land specified in the Schedule hereto is land in respect whereof the Court has jurisdiction as aforesaid, and it is expedient that the Court should be authorised to exercise the same:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby authorise the said Court to exercise in respect of the said land the jurisdiction conferred as aforesaid—that is to say, to determine whether or not the said land, or any part thereof, was, on the partition thereof, intended by the Native Land Court, or by the nominal owner or owners of such land, to be held by such nominal owner or owners in trust for Natives not named in the title, and to determine who are the Natives (if any) entitled beneficially to such land, and to order the inclusion of such Natives in the title, either together with or in lieu of the nominal owners or any of them, and for the purpose aforesaid to order the cancellation or amendment of any existing instrument of title, and the issue of such new Crown grants or other instruments of title as may be necessary, and generally to exercise in respect of the said land all the jurisdiction and powers conferred on the Native Land Court by subsection ten of section fourteen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, containing 3,000 acres, more or less, situate at Thames, in the Provincial District of Auckland, and known as Awaiiti No. 2, as comprised in partition order dated the 21st day of September, 1896.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Empowering Native Land Court to hold Inquiry under “The Land Titles Protection Act, 1902.”

PLUNKET, Governor.
By his Deputy,
JAMES PRENDERGAST.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this seventh day of February, 1907.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the title to the block of land known as Toreohaua, containing three hundred and fifty-one acres two roods and six perches, more or less, and situate in Blocks I and VIII, Waimata Survey District, in the Land District of Hawke’s Bay, was investigated by the Native Land Court in the month of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two:

And whereas the minutes of the Court, taken during such investigation of title, provide that the said land shall be “inalienable except by lease for a term not exceeding twenty-one years”:

And whereas by a restriction order, bearing date the eighth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, it is ordered that the said land “shall be inalienable, except with the consent of the Governor, by sale or mortgage, or by lease for a longer period than twenty-one years”:

And whereas by a certificate of title under “The Native Land Court Act, 1880,” it is provided that the said land