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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 106

random of agreement referred to in paragraph (b)
hereof. The sale shall be completed on the whole
of the purchase-money being paid.”

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

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
restrictions on the alienation of land owned by Maoris:
Provided that the decision of the Governor on any recom-
mendation of the Board shall be given within six months
from the date of the receipt of such recommendation:

And whereas the Ikaroa District Maori Land Board, by
a recommendation made and passed by the said Board 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, recommended the Go-
vernor to remove and revoke the restrictions against aliena-
tion contained in the instruments of title of the blocks of
land particularised and set out in the Schedule hereto:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Go-
vernor 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 recom-
mendation of the Ikaroa District Maori Land Board afore-
said, do hereby remove and revoke the restrictions now
existing against the alienation of the said lands, so far as to
permit the same to be sold.

SCHEDULE.

ALL those pieces or parcels of land 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, subject to
the restriction that the said lands shall be “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 seventh day of December, one thousand nine
hundred and eight.

JAMES McGOWAN,
For Native Minister.

Authorising the Rotoroa Inebriates’ Institution under “The
Police Offences Act, 1908.”

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by section thirty-seven of “The Police
Offences Act, 1908” (hereinafter termed “the said
Act”), it is provided that the Governor may from time to
time, by Warrant gazetted, authorise any institution to
receive and detain habitual drunkards under the said Act in
any place under its control mentioned in the Warrant: And
whereas it is desirable that the institution hereinafter
described should be so authorised:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the
Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby
authorise the institution known as “the Rotoroa Inebriates’
Institution” to receive and detain habitual drunkards under
the said Act, in the place or building known as “the Rotoroa
Inebriates’ Institution,” and situated on Rotoroa Island in
the Provincial District of Auckland.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this fifteenth day of December, one thousand
nine hundred and eight.

JAMES McGOWAN,
Minister of Justice.

Changing the Purpose of a Reserve in the Auckland Land
District.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto
has been duly set apart for a municipal endow-
ment, being a reserve within Class I of “The Public
Reserves and Domains Act, 1908,” and such land has not
been vested in trust in any society, body corporate, or
trustees:

And whereas it is expedient that such land shall be
appropriated for a public recreation-ground, being a reserve
within Class III of the aforesaid Act:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the
Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of
the powers and authorities vested in me by the eleventh
section of “The Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908,”
do by this notification declare that the said land shall, from
and after the twenty-third day of December, one thousand
nine hundred and eight, be appropriated for a public recrea-
tion-ground under Class III of “The Public Reserves and
Domains Act, 1908”; and I do hereby direct that this
notification shall be published in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by
admeasurement 17 acres, more or less, being Section No. 569,
Town of Cambridge West. Bounded towards the north-east
by Wordsworth Street, towards the south-east by Tennyson
Street, towards the south-west by Raleigh Street, and towards
the north-west by Scott Street; as the same is delineated
on the plan marked L. 5216/3, deposited in the Head Office,
Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon coloured
green.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this fifteenth day of December, one thousand
nine hundred and eight.

JAMES McGOWAN,
For Minister of Lands.

Land temporarily reserved for a Nightsoil Depot in the
Auckland Land District.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-twenty-first sec-
tion of “The Land Act, 1908,” 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, notwith-
standing 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 Auckland Land District described in the
Schedule hereunder written, for a nightsoil depot.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by
admeasurement 51 acres 1 rood 15 perches, more or less;
being Section No. 2A, Block XIII, Tuhua Survey District.
Bounded towards the north by Section No. 2B, Block XIII,
Tuhua Survey District; towards the north-east generally
by the Main South Road to Taumarunui; towards the
south by Section No. 2, Block XIII aforesaid; and towards
the north-west generally by a road along the Ongarue
River: as the same is delineated on the plan marked
L. 5324/2, deposited at the Head Office, Department of
Lands, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this fifteenth day of December, one thousand
nine hundred and eight.

JAMES McGOWAN,
For Minister of Lands.

Land temporarily reserved for a Site for a Public School in
Waitaki Bridge Township, Otago Land District.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-twenty-first sec-
tion of “The Land Act, 1908,” it is enacted that