Nov. 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3391

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 twenty-eighth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and seven, and received on the twelfth day of September, 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 Dominion 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 in the Kairanga Survey District, in the Land District of Wellington, containing 175 acres, more or less, being the land known as Aorangi 3p 2c No. 1, and comprised in a partition order of the Native Land Court dated the 26th day of August, 1898, subject to the restriction that the said land shall be “inalienable.”

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

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

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 thirtieth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and seven, and received on the eighth day of October, 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 known as Awarua 3b No. 2b No. 2, so far as to permit the said land to be sold:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion 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 land particularised and set out in the Schedule hereto, so far as to permit the same to be sold.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Hautapu Survey District, containing 56 acres, more or less, known as Awarua 3b No. 2b No. 2, and comprised in a partition order of the Native Land Court dated the 20th day of November, 1902, and being the balance of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 135, folio 263, of the Register-book of the District of Wellington, which certificate of title contains the restriction that the land comprised therein shall be “inalienable.”

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

J. CARROLL,
Minister of Native Affairs.

Appointing Commissioners to classify a Pastoral Run in Southland Land District.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the one-hundred-and-eighty-ninth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

ERNEST HENRY WILMOT,
ANDREW KINROSS, and
JOHN McINTYRE

Commissioners to classify and report to me upon the rural land in Southland Land District known as Run No. 532, as provided by section one hundred and eighty-nine of “The Land Act, 1892.”

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

ROBERT McNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Registrars of Electors for certain Electoral Districts appointed.

Prime Minister’s Office,
Wellington, 13th November, 1907.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

DONALD BANKS

to be Registrar of Electors under “The Electoral Act, 1905,” for the new Electoral District of Patea, vice A. Trimble, transferred; also to appoint

THEODORE MINET LAWLOR

to be Registrar of Electors under the said Act for the Electoral District of Hawke’s Bay, vice D. Banks, transferred.

J. G. WARD,
Prime Minister.

Consul of Chile, at Wellington, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 13th November, 1907.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that he has been informed by His Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies that the King’s Exequatur empowering

ALBERT MARTIN, Esq., M.D.,

to act as Consul of Chile, at Wellington, has received His Majesty’s signature.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
Colonial Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 16th November, 1907.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned persons to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz.:

Name. District.
Christina Mary Cameron Nokomai and Switzers.
Peter Alexander Young Kaiapoi.
John Bushell Mount Benger.
Colin Ainslie Montgomerie Reefton.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
Colonial Secretary.