APRIL 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1135

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Land District of Wellington, containing 210 acres 1 rood, more or less, known as Pukengaki No. 1A, and being the whole of the land comprised in an order of the Native Land Court bearing date the 10th day of March, 1905, in favour of Hoani Rangitakaiwaho.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting 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-sixth day of March, 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 Tokerau District Maori Land Board, by a recommendation made on the nineteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and six, and received on the twenty-eighth day of December, 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 sale, the block or parcel of land known as Mangakahia No. 2b2 No. 1:

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

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Mangakahia Survey District, in the Land District of Auckland, containing 249 acres 3 roods 10 perches, more or less, known as Mangakahia No. 2b2 No. 1, and being the whole of the land comprised in a partition order of the Native Land Court bearing date the 15th day of May, 1903, in favour of Huirua Tito.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council

Validating the Voting-papers used at the Poll taken in connection with the Loan of £3,500 applied for by the Birkenhead Borough Council.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of March, 1907.

Present :

THE HONOURABLE W. HALL-JONES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Borough of Birkenhead, on the twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand nine hundred and five, did cause a poll of its ratepayers to be taken for the purpose of voting upon a proposal to raise a special loan of not more than three thousand five hundred pounds for certain public works in such borough: And whereas such poll was taken, and the requisite majority of ratepayers voted in favour of the proposal: And whereas the voting-paper used upon such poll did not state the title of the Act under which such poll was to be taken—namely, “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901”—and also did not clearly specify the rate of interest and sinking fund to be payable in respect of such loan, and was otherwise not in the form prescribed by the Schedule to “The Local Bodies’ Loans Amendment Act, 1903”: And whereas the Governor is satisfied that the ratepayers of the said borough have not been misled by the form of such voting-paper, and it is expedient to validate such irregularities:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power 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 voting-paper so used as aforesaid shall be deemed and taken to be as valid as though the same were in due form, and that the proceedings relative to the said loan shall not be called in question by reason only of the irregularities aforesaid.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Validating the Voting-papers used in connection with Loans of (1) £1,000 for forming Coulter’s Line and constructing a Road giving Access to the same, and (2) £1,000 for forming Footpaths in the Township of Apiti.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of March, 1907.

Present :

THE HONOURABLE W. HALL-JONES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Pohangina County Council lately proposed to raise two loans, each of one thousand pounds, under “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” for the purpose of (1) forming Coulter’s Line and constructing a road giving access to the same, and (2) forming footpaths in the Township of Apiti: And whereas certain irregularities have occurred in the procedure to obtain such loans, inasmuch as the respective voting-papers were not in the form prescribed by the Schedule to “The Local Bodies’ Loans Amendment Act, 1903”: And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled, and it is expedient to validate such irregularities:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power 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 voting-papers so used as aforesaid shall be deemed and taken to be as valid as though the same were in due form, and that the proceedings relative to the said loans shall not be called in question by reason only of the irregularities aforesaid.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Validating the Voting-papers used in connection with a Loan of £275 applied for by the Howick Township Road Board.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of March, 1907.

Present :

THE HONOURABLE W. HALL-JONES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Howick Township Road Board lately proposed to raise a loan of two hundred and seventy-five pounds, under “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” for the purpose of grading, forming, and metalling Uxbridge Street within the Howick Township Road District: And whereas certain irregularities have occurred in the procedure to obtain such loan, inasmuch as the provision for repayment thereof is omitted from the voting-paper used in taking the poll of ratepayers, and the said voting-paper was not in the form prescribed by the Schedule to “The Local Bodies’ Loans Amendment Act, 1903”: And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled, and it is expedient to validate such irregularities: