May 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1669

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 twelfth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and six, and received on the twenty-second day of February, 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 particularised and set out in the Schedule hereto:

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 Aotea District Maori Land Board aforesaid, do hereby remove and revoke the restrictions now existing against the alienation of the said land so far as to permit the same to be sold.

SCHEDULE.

All that piece or parcel of land, containing 4 acres 2 roods 30 perches, more or less, being Section 15 of Section 153, Township of Sandon, and comprised in certificate of title, Vol. 61, folio 54, of the Register-book of the Wellington District, which said certificate of title contains the restriction that the land comprised therein shall be “inalienable except by lease for not exceeding twenty-one years, in possession and not in reversion, without premium or foregift, or covenant for renewal or for purchase at any future time.”

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

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

Rural Lands in Wellington Land District open for Sale or Selection.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-thirty-sixth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on and after the twelfth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and seven; and also that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase or on lease in perpetuity, or, in respect of any land containing or supposed to contain any metal, mineral, or valuable stone, be selected on lease in perpetuity only; and I do hereby also fix the price at which the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—PART OF NORTH WAIMARINO BLOCK.

Second-class Land.

Situated on the Wanganui River, about two miles and a half to the west of the Main Trunk Railway, and lies to the west and south of Piriaka Township, and immediately to the north of the Kaitieke Block, which has already been disposed of. Access to the north portion of the block can be obtained by rail from Taumarunui to Piriaka, a distance of six miles, thence by the Main Road and Makokomiko Road (which is unformed), a distance of about three miles to the block. Access to the eastern portion may be had from Owhango, fifteen miles by rail from Taumarunui. Owhango is about two miles and a half distant from the block by the Kawautahi and Hikimutu Roads, which are unformed.