JULY 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2183

determining the names of the owners of, or persons entitled
to, and the relative share or interest of each of them in,
that parcel of land situate in the Provincial District of
Hawke’s Bay, known as Pakowhai, or such part of the said
parcel of land as is now vested in the Venerable Samuel
Williams, of Te Aute, on behalf of such plaintiffs and other
aboriginal Natives of New Zealand :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and under the autho-
rity of the above-recited section fourteen, and acting by and
with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
said colony, doth hereby confer upon Jackson Palmer,
Esquire, Chief Judge of the Native Land Court, and James
Nelson Williams, Esquire, of Frimley, Hastings, all powers
and jurisdiction necessary or expedient to enable them to
ascertain and determine the several matters referred to in
the above-recited section fourteen, and to make an order
accordingly.

And it is hereby ordered and declared that this Order
shall annul and cancel an Order in Council made the seven-
teenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and
six, whereby the Native Land Court was empowered to
exercise the powers and jurisdiction aforesaid.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Appointing New Plymouth to be a Port for the Importation
of Playing-cards.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers in me for this purpose vested
by “ The Customs Laws Consolidation Act, 1882,” I,
William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, do hereby approve of the Port of New
Plymouth as a port for the importation of playing-cards.

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

J. A. MILLAR,
Minister of Customs.

Governor’s Order No. 181.]

Notice of a Public Reserve being available for Mining at a
Depth of 50 ft. from the Surface.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon me by section 27 of “ The Mining
Act, 1905,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, do hereby declare that, from and
after the date of the publication hereof in the Gazette, the
public reserve described in the Schedule hereto shall be
available for mining at a depth below fifty feet from the
surface.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Nelson Land District, being Reserve
No. 10 (in red), situated in Block II, Waitahu Survey Dis-
trict, and Block XIV, Reefton Survey District, and contain-
ing by admeasurement 605 acres, more or less. Commencing
at Trig. Station L, in Block II, Waitahu Survey District,
and bounded towards the south-west and north-west gene-
rally by the summit of the western watershed of Auld’s
Creek, through Trig. Station Q, in Block XIV, Reefton Sur-
vey District, to the Inangahua River; thence across that
river and the road along the right bank thereof to a point on
the latter, being about 19 chains distant from the southern-
most corner of Section No. 214A of Square 131; again towards
the south-west by that road; towards the west by a road-
line, by the last-mentioned section, by a line across the
Water-race Reserve, and again by the last-mentioned sec-
tion; towards the north-east by Section No. 210, Block XIV,
Reefton Survey District, and by the watershed of the
Inangahua River to a point distant about 19 chains
from the southernmost corner of that section; thence
towards the south-east generally by the summit of the spur
leading down to the Inangahua River in the direction of the
easternmost corner of Section No. 4, Block XIV, Reefton
Survey District, by a right line across that river to the
north-west corner of that section, by that section, by a road
along the left bank of the said river, by Fitzmaurice’s resi-
dence-area, and by Section No. 195 of Square 131 to its
westernmost corner; and again towards the north-east and
east generally by the summit of the eastern watershed of
Auld’s Creek to Trig. Station L, the point of commence-

ment: as the same is delineated on the plan marked
S.G. 56453, deposited in the Head Office, Department of
Lands, at Wellington, and thereon edged in red.

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

JAMES McGOWAN,
Minister of Mines.

Trustee for the Blackball Public Cemetery appointed.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
vested in me by the sixth section of “ The Cemeteries
Act, 1882,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of
the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

BENJAMIN RHODES

to be a Trustee, in the place of John Leitch, deceased,
to provide for the maintenance and care of the Blackball
Public Cemetery, in conjunction with the other persons
previously appointed by His Excellency the Governor.

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

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Trustee for the Taita Public Cemetery appointed.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
vested in me by the sixth section of “ The Cemeteries
Act, 1882,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of
the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

The Reverend JOSHUA JONES

to be a Trustee, in the place of Henry Jackson, deceased,
to provide for the maintenance and care of the Taita Public
Cemetery, in conjunction with the other persons previously
appointed by His Excellency the Governor.

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

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Appointment of Assistant Secretary and Inspector, Post and
Telegraph Department.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 5th July, 1907.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

WILLIAM RUSSELL MORRIS, Esq.,

to be Assistant Secretary and Inspector of the Post and
Telegraph Department. The appointment is to date from
the 1st day of July, 1907.

J. G. WARD,
Postmaster-General.

Appointment in the Department of Roads.

Department of Roads,
Wellington, 22nd July, 1907.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
transfer from the Department of Lands and Survey
to the Department of Roads

WILLIAM WILSON, District Surveyor, Westland,

to the position of District Road Engineer, Westland, as from
1st August, 1907.

JAMES McGOWAN,
Acting Minister for Public Works,