Dec. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3289

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred by the above-in-part-recited Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby approve of the said resolution.

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SCHEDULE.

THAT road commencing at the south-west corner of Section No. 14, Block II, Hawksbury Survey District, and running in an easterly direction along the southern boundaries of Sections Nos. 14, 15, and 16, in the said block and survey district, and thence through Section No. 1 and part of Section No. 2, Block I, Hawksbury Survey District, to the northern boundary of the said Section No. 2.

Also all that road commencing at the south-western corner of Section No. 24, Block II, Hawksbury Survey District, and running in an easterly direction along the southern boundary of the said Section No. 24 and part of the southern boundary of Section No. 27, in the said block and survey district; thence in a south-easterly direction through Section No. 28, in the said block and survey district, to the south-eastern boundary of the said Section No. 28.

Also all that road forming the southern boundary of Section No. 31, Block II, Hawksbury Survey District.

Also all that road commencing at the western boundary of Section No. 2, Block I, Hawksbury Survey District, and running in a south-easterly direction through the said Section No. 2; thence easterly along part of the southern boundary of Section No. 3, in the said block and survey district, to its terminus.

All in the Otago Land District: as the said roads are more particularly delineated on the plan marked R. 10472, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured sienna.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

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Amending Order in Council imposing Export Duties on Timber.

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of December, 1908.

Present :

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G.,
PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN exercise of the powers conferred upon him by “The Timber Export Act, 1908,” and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby direct that the Order in Council imposing export duties on timber, dated the sixth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and eight, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the eighth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and eight, is hereby amended by omitting the item—

“Flitches, any width and not exceeding ten inches thick Three shillings per hundred superficial feet”

in that part of the said Order in Council relating to white-pine and kahikatea timbers, and by substituting in lieu thereof the following :—

“Flitches, exceeding twelve inches in width and four inches in thickness or its equivalent, and less than the equivalent of ten inches in width and ten inches in thickness Three shillings per hundred superficial feet.”

“Provided that no duty shall be levied on flitches unless they exceed four inches in thickness.”

And, with the like advice and consent, His Excellency the Governor doth further order that this Order in Council shall come into force on the day of the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

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 Buildings, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of December, 1908.

Present :

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G.,
PRESIDING 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 :

And whereas the Ikaroa District Maori Land Board, by a recommendation made on the eighth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and eight, and received on the thirty-first day of October, one thousand nine hundred and eight, 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, the blocks or parcels of land particularised and set out in the Schedule hereto :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion 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 Dominion, doth hereby except the said lands 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.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL those pieces or parcels of land, situate in the Mangahao Survey District, together containing 406 acres 3 roods 24 perches, more or less, known as Pahiatua Nos. 4, 5, 6, and 7, and comprised in four separate partition orders of the Native Land Court dated the 25th day of August, 1904.

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 Buildings, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of December, 1908.

Present :

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G.,
PRESIDING 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