APRIL 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1139

of the said Board, and signed by the President and one member thereof.

5. The said Board shall place a reserve on each section to be sold in the said township to represent the lowest price for which the fee-simple of such section may be sold.

6. The said Board shall thereupon submit the said sections for sale by public auction at such reserve and at the best price obtainable on a cash sale.

7. The said Board shall appoint an auctioneer or auctioneers to conduct such sale, and shall duly and properly advertise the same.

8. The said Board shall cause conditions of sale of the said sections to be prepared, the following conditions (inter alia) being inserted therein :—

(a.) Each lot is sold subject to a reserve price. If any dispute arises as to any bidding the auctioneer shall put up the lot again at the last undisputed bidding.

(b.) Each purchaser shall immediately after the sale pay to the auctioneer a deposit of twenty pounds per cent. on the amount of his purchase-money, and sign the annexed memorandum of agreement.

(c.) The title to the land being Land Transfer, no requisitions thereon shall be made.

(d.) The memorandum of transfer to each purchaser shall be prepared by him at his own expense, and shall be delivered at the office of the Board seven days before the day fixed for the completion of the sale.

(e.) The sale shall be completed and the remainder of the purchase-money paid at the office of the Board twenty-eight days after the sale.

(f.) If any purchaser shall fail to comply with these conditions his deposit shall be forfeited to the vendor as and for liquidated damages.

9. On payment of the balance of the said purchase-money the Board shall, at the cost of the purchaser, execute a memorandum of transfer in favour of the purchaser of the section or sections purchased by him free from encumbrances.

10. After the conclusion of such auction sale the said Board shall be at liberty at any time to sell any of the unsold sections for cash, and shall also be at liberty from time to time to authorise a further sale of such sections, or any of them, by public auction on the terms hereinbefore mentioned, or at a reduced reserve price if considered advisable, and, on such sale being effected, to execute transfers thereof in manner hereinbefore provided.

11. The said Board shall from time to time deduct all costs and expenses in connection with the due administration of the said township, as provided by paragraph (e) of section ten of the said Act, and shall pay the balance thereof to the beneficial owners as soon as possible after the first day of January and the first day of July in each year.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

Removing Restrictions against Alienation of Native Land.

PLUNKET, Governor.

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 fourteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and six, and received on the twenty-fourth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and seven, recommended the Governor to remove and revoke the restrictions against alienation contained in the instrument of title of the block of land known as Lot 7 of Section 115, Tutaekara Native Reserve, so far as to permit that part of the said land which is more particularly described in the Schedule hereto to be sold:

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 land particularised and set out in the said Schedule, so far as to permit the said land to be sold.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Land District of Wellington, containing 5 acres 3 roods 30 perches, more or less, being that part of Lot 7 of Section 115, Tutaekara Native Reserve, which is bounded generally as follows: On the south by Lot 8, 610·5 links; on the north-west by the other part of the said Lot 7, 1120·6 links; and on the north-east and east by the external boundary of the said Lot 7: which said piece or parcel of land is part of the land comprised in certificate of title, Vol. 57, folio 231, of the Register-book of the Wellington District, containing the following restriction: “Inalienable by sale or mortgage, except to the Crown, or by lease beyond twenty-one years in possession, and not in reversion, and without fine, premium, or forfeit, or agreement or covenant for renewal, or for purchase at a future time, except with the consent of the Governor.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

Removing Restrictions against Alienation of Native Land.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS application has been made to the Governor by the owner of the land described in the Schedule hereto, praying that the restrictions on the alienation of the said land contained in the title thereto may be removed: And whereas inquiry has been duly made by the Native Land Court, and the said Court has recommended that such restrictions be removed:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the fifty-second section of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” and in accordance with the recommendation of the Native Land Court, doth hereby order and declare that all restrictions on the alienation of the said land are hereby removed.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, containing 72 acres 2 roods 30 perches, more or less, known as Aotea No. 2, being the land comprised in certificate of title, Vol. 151, folio 213, of the Register-book of the Wellington District, containing the following restrictions: “Inalienable, except with the consent of the Governor, by sale or mortgage, or by lease for a longer period than twenty-one years.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

J. CARROLL,
Minister of Native Affairs.

Removing Restrictions against Alienation of Native Land.

PLUNKET, Governor.

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 Aotea District Maori Land Board, by a recommendation made and passed by the said Board on the first day of October, one thousand nine hundred and six, and received on the seventh 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 Subdivision 1A of Section No. 8, Block XI, Belmont, so far as to permit the interest of Te Muroa Panapa in the said land to