Oct. 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3123

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 in the Orahiri Survey District, in the Land District of Auckland, containing 57 acres 2 roods, more or less, being the land known as Pukeroa-Hangatiki No. 23 No. 2, and comprised in a partition order of the Native Land Court dated the 11th day of December, 1906, subject to the restriction that the said land shall be “inalienable, except by lease for a period not exceeding twenty-one years.”

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

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

Removing Restrictions against Alienation of Native Land.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS application has been made to the Governor by the owners of the land described in the Schedule hereto, praying that the restrictions on the alienation of the said land may be removed: And whereas inquiry has been duly made by the Native Land Court, and the said Court has recommended that such restrictions be removed:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the fifty-second section of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” and in accordance with the recommendation of the Native Land Court, doth hereby order and declare that all restrictions now existing against the alienation of the said land are hereby removed.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate in the City of Wellington, containing 2 acres and 33 perches, more or less, being called or known as Orangikaupapa No. 4 and numbered 3335, and comprised in a Crown grant registered in Vol. 21, folio 228, of the Register-book of the Wellington District, and containing the following restrictions: “Inalienable by sale, or by lease for a longer period than twenty-one years, or by mortgage, except with the consent of the Governor being previously obtained to every such sale, lease, or mortgage.”

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

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

Matapouri River and its Tributaries, Auckland Land District, notified under “The Timber-floating Act, 1884.”

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the second section of “The Timber-floating Act, 1884,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify that the undermentioned river and its tributary streams and branches may be used under license for the purposes of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

THE Matapouri River and its branches or tributary streams, situated in Whangarei County.

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

ROBERT McNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Exempting Land from the Operation of Part II of “The Coal-mines Act, 1905.”

PLUNKET, Governor.

PURSUANT to the provisions of Part II of “The Coal-mines Act, 1905,” and in exercise of the powers thereby conferred, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that the land described in the Schedule is hereby exempted from the operation of Part II of the said Act, and I do hereby direct that the said land shall be disposed of in the manner provided in Part I of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land situated in Block I, Mawheranui Survey District, containing 197 acres, and bounded as follows: Commencing at the south-west corner of Coal Lease No. 2247, running in a north-easterly direction at a bearing of 58° 41′ for a distance of 2897 links, thence south-east at a bearing of 148° 37′ for a distance of 296·1 links, thence south-east at a bearing of 150° 19′ for a distance of 302·7 links, thence south-east at a bearing of 149° 23′ for a distance of 422·2 links, thence south-east at a bearing of 149° 25′ for a distance of 1373·8 links, thence south-west at a bearing of 238° 30′ for a distance of 262 links, thence south-west at a bearing of 239° 32′ for a distance of 397·8 links, thence south-west at a bearing of 239° 4′ for a distance of 216·4 links, thence south-west at a bearing of 239° 48′ for a distance of 7262·7 links, thence north-west at a bearing of 329° 48′ for a distance of 2768 links, thence north-east at a bearing of 68° 30′ for a distance of 2909·4 links, thence north-east at a bearing of 70° 6′ for a distance of 165·4 links, thence north-east at a bearing of 58° 5′ for a distance of 957·5 links, thence north-east at a bearing of 58° 37′ for a distance of 1229 links, to the commencing-point.

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

JAMES McGOWAN,
Minister of Mines.

Land temporarily reserved in the Taranaki Land District.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by the two-hundred-and-thirty-fifth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the land in the Taranaki Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, for the purpose in the said Schedule specified at the end of the description of the land so intended to be temporarily reserved.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Taranaki Land District, containing by admeasurement 10 acres 1 rood 25 perches, more or less, being Sections Nos. 9 and 15, Block XV, Opaku Survey District. Bounded towards the east generally by the Okahutiria Road, 1983 links; towards the south generally by the Okahutiria Road, 1324·6 links; and towards the north-west generally by Section No. 2, Block XV, Opaku Survey District, 2109·2 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 44078/52, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red. For an endowment for university education.

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

ROBERT McNAB,
Minister of Lands.