SEPT. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2849

Authorising Native to mortgage Land under Section 6 of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1897.”

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this sixteenth day of September, 1907.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section six of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1897,” it is enacted that the Governor may, by Order in Council, authorise any Native owing land in severalty to mortgage such land to any lending department of the Government, and that in such case the mortgage shall operate in all respects as if the mortgagor were other than a Native, and accordingly none of the restrictions, limitations, or provisions of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” or any other Act affecting Native land, or lands owned or held by Natives, shall apply, anything in any such Act to the contrary notwithstanding: And whereas Weraroa Kingi, of Wanganui, in the Provincial District of Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand, being the owner in severalty of the block or parcel of land mentioned and particularised in the Schedule hereto, has applied to be allowed to mortgage the said block of land: And whereas by certificate bearing date the twentieth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and seven, under the hand of Robert Campbell Sim, Esquire, a Judge of the Native Land Court of New Zealand, and the seal of the said Court, it was certified that the said Weraroa Kingi possesses, irrespective of the land proposed to be mortgaged, other land sufficient for his maintenance:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby authorise the said Weraroa Kingi to mortgage the land set out in the Schedule hereto to the Government Advances to Settlers Office, being a lending department of the Government as aforesaid.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, containing 549 acres 3 roods 0·05 perches, more or less, known as Ruanui No. 2B No. 1, and being the land comprised in partition order of the Native Land Court dated the 19th day of June, 1899, in favour of Weraroa Kingi.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Excepting Land from the Operation of Section 117 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this sixteenth day of September, 1907.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section four of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” it is enacted that the Governor may, by Order in Council, except from the operation of section one hundred and seventeen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), for a limited period or otherwise, and either generally or for such purposes and subject to such restrictions as shall be in such Order specified, any land, wheresoever situate, which is for the time being subject to the operation of the said section, or any interest therein or right over the same, or may in like manner make such exception in favour exclusively of any lessee or other person who has been bona fide in occupation of and has made improvements on such land, or has paid money to Native owners for lease or purchase thereof, prior to the passing of the said Act: Provided that no Order in Council under the provisions of this section shall take effect until after the expiration of two months from the date of the publication thereof in the Gazette: Provided also that every alienation under the provisions of this section shall be confirmed by the Court in terms of section fifty-three of the said Act:

And whereas the Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa District Maori Land Board, by a recommendation made on the nineteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and seven, and received on the ninth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and seven, has recommended the Governor to

except from the operation of section one hundred and seventeen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” for the purpose of alienation by way of sale by public auction, the block or parcel of land known as Puketarata No. 13A:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by section four of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby except from the operation of section one hundred and seventeen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” for the purpose of alienation by way of sale by public auction, at an upset price of £600, the block or parcel of land particularised and set out in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Mangaorongo Survey District, in the Land District of Auckland, containing 100 acres, more or less, known as Puketarata No. 13A, and being the whole of the land comprised in a partition order of the Native Land Court dated the 14th day of March, 1894, in favour of Aneta Horana.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Rotorua Acclimatisation District extended.

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PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by a Warrant made under “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” dated the eighteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and seven, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-fourth day of the said month of January, the Rotorua Acclimatisation District was constituted with the boundaries therein defined: And whereas it is expedient to extend the said district by including therein the existing Wairoa Acclimatisation District and also a portion of the County of Whakatane:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, do hereby abolish the Rotorua and Wairoa Acclimatisation Districts as heretofore constituted, and in lieu thereof do hereby appoint those parts of the said colony described in the Schedule hereto to be a district under and for the purposes of the said Acts; and I do further declare that such district shall be known as the “Rotorua Acclimatisation District.”

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SCHEDULE.

ROTORUA ACCLIMATISATION DISTRICT.

ALL that area bounded towards the north by the Tauranga County from the north-eastern boundary of Piako County to the western boundary of Whakatane County; thence towards the east by Whakatane County to the summit of Mount Ahiwhakamura; thence towards the north east by a right line to the summit of Mount Tawhiau; thence by a right line to the summit of Mount Maungapohatu; thence by the watershed between Waikaremoana and the Ruakituri River to the northern boundary of Wairoa County; thence by the north-eastern boundary of the said Wairoa County to the sea; thence towards the east and south-east generally by the sea to Moeangiangi; thence towards the south generally by the leading spur and the southern watershed of the Waikare River to Taraponui Mountain; thence by the leading spur to the confluence of the Mohaka River with the Waipunga River; thence by a right line to Tatarakino Mountain; thence by the eastern watershed of the Mokomokonui Stream to Pohokina Mountain; thence by a line running due east to the Pukahunui Stream; thence by the leading spur and the western watershed of the Te Hoe River to Maungataniwha Trig. Station; thence by the north-eastern boundary of Heruiwi No. 4 Block to the northern boundary of the Wairoa County; thence by the Wairoa County to the Napier–Taupo Road; thence by Hawke’s Bay, Rangitikei, and Waimarino Counties to the Wanganui River; thence towards the west generally by the Wanganui River to its confluence with the Ongaruhe River; thence by the Ongaruhe River to its source; thence by a right line to the summit of Mount Rangitoto; thence by a right line to the summit of Puwhenua Mountain; thence by Piako County to the southern boundary of Tauranga County, the place of commencement.

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

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
Colonial Secretary.