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to all valid encumbrances, liens, and interests affecting the
same, to be held and administered by the said Board for the
benefit of the Maori owners in accordance with the provisions
of the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land known as Ranana, contain-
ing 3,100 acres, more or less, and situate in Blocks II, III,
and VI, Tauakira Survey District, in the Land District of
Wellington.

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

Vesting Land in the Aotea District Maori Land Board under
“ The Maori Land Settlement Act, 1905,” and its Amend-
ments.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twelfth
day of April, 1907.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section three of “The Maori Land
Settlement Act Amendment Act, 1906,” it is enacted
that any Maori land which, in the opinion of the Native
Minister, has not been properly cleared of noxious weeds
within the meaning of “The Noxious Weeds Act, 1900,”
shall be deemed to be Maori land subject to the provisions
of sections eight to fifteen of “The Maori Land Settlement
Act, 1905” (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), as
amended by “The Maori Land Settlement Act Amendment
Act, 1906”:

And whereas, under the provisions of the said section
three, the Native Minister has made the land in the Schedule
hereto subject to an Order in Council under the provisions
of section eight of the said Act, and declared that the
Governor in Council may deal with the same accordingly:

And whereas by subsection (a) of section eight of the
said Act, as amended by section three aforesaid, it is enacted
that the Governor may, by Order in Council, declare that
such land is vested in the Board for an estate in fee-simple
in possession, subject nevertheless to all valid encumbrances,
liens, and interests affecting the same, to be held and
administered by the Board for the benefit of the Maori
owners in accordance with the provisions of the said Act;
and the said land shall vest in the Board accordingly:

And whereas it is desirable that the said land be dealt
with under the provisions of the said Act and its amend-
ments:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance of the premises and in exer-
cise of the powers conferred by the said Acts, and acting by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council
of the said colony, doth hereby declare that the said land is
vested in the Aotea District Maori Land Board for an estate
in fee-simple in possession (subject to all valid encum-
brances, liens, and interests affecting the same), to be held
and administered by the said Board for the benefit of the
Maori owners in accordance with the provisions of the afore-
said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land known as Ngarakau-
whakarara, containing 4,995 acres, more or less, and situate
in Blocks III, IV, VI, and VII. Tauakira Survey District,
in the Land District of Wellington.

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

Declaring Road-lines through Land in the Mangatahi Settlement to be closed.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS a report has been received from the Surveyor-General from which it appears that the roads described
in the Schedule hereto are unformed and unused, and that they intersect land acquired under “The Land for
Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” and are not suitable for the subdivision of such land:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and in
exercise of section sixty-nine of the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this
behalf, do by this notice hereby close the roads hereinafter described, and I do hereby declare that they shall thereupon
become subject to the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

MANGATAHI SETTLEMENT.

All in the Hawke's Bay Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked as above
mentioned, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and
thereon coloured as above noted.

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

ROBERT McNAB,
Minister of Lands.

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