May 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1499

as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable William Lee, Baron Plunket, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this thirteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Lands proclaimed as a Road, and Road closed, in Blocks VI and X, Huangarua Survey District, Featherston County.

(L.S.) PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred by section thirteen of “The Land Act, 1892,” and its amendments, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, with the consent of the owners and mortgagees of the lands mentioned in the First Schedule hereto, and of the Featherston County Council, being the local authority in whose district the said lands are situated, proclaim as a road the lands in Huangarua Survey District described in the First Schedule hereto; and also do hereby, with the like consents as aforesaid, proclaim as closed the road described in the Second Schedule hereto, which is not required by reason of the road first hereinbefore proclaimed.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

LANDS PROCLAIMED AS A ROAD.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

ROAD CLOSED.

All in the Wellington Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable William Lee, Baron Plunket, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this thirteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

“The Immigration Restriction Act Amendment Act, 1906,”
assented to by His Majesty in Council.

(L.S.) PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the session of Parliament held in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, entitled “An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand,” it is, among other things, enacted that no Bill which shall be reserved for the signification of the Sovereign’s pleasure thereon shall have any force or authority within the Colony of New Zealand until the Governor of the said colony shall signify by Speech or message to the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the said colony, or by Proclamation, that such Bill has been laid before the Sovereign in Council, and that the Sovereign has been pleased to assent to the same:

And whereas a certain Bill passed by the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the said colony entitled “An Act to amend ‘The Immigration Restriction Act, 1899,’” the short title whereof is “The Immigration Restriction Act Amendment Act, 1906,” was presented to the Governor of the said colony for His Majesty’s assent, and was reserved for the signification of His Majesty’s pleasure thereon:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the provisions of the said in-part-recited Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that “The Immigration Restriction Act Amendment Act, 1906,” aforesaid has been laid before His Majesty in Council, and that His Majesty has been pleased to assent to the same.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable William Lee, Baron Plunket, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this thirteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven.

JOHN G. FINDLAY.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Native Land taken for the Purpose of a School-site in Pukeroa-Hangatiki 4b No. 1, Block XI, Orahiri Survey District.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

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

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken for a public work, to wit, for the purposes of a school-site in Pukeroa-Hangatiki 4b No. 1, Block XI, Orahiri Survey District:

And whereas the said land is held or occupied by Native owners under a title which is not derived from the Crown:

And whereas a map in duplicate has been prepared of the said land, as required by the eighty-ninth section of “The Public Works Act, 1905”:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him by the eighty-ninth section of the said Act, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, 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, doth hereby declare that the lands shown upon such map, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be deemed to be taken for the purposes of the said school-site, and the said land shall vest in the Education Board of the District of Auckland, as from the twentieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and seven.