896
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 20

Native Land taken for the Purposes of a Road in Paiaka and Manawatu-Kukutauaki No. 7g, Block X, Mount Robinson Survey District, Horowhenua County.

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of February, 1908.

Present :

THE HONOURABLE W. HALL-JONES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken for a public work, to wit, for the purposes of a road in Paiaka and Manawatu-Kukutauaki No. 7g, Block X, Mount Robinson Survey District :

And whereas the said land is held or occupied by Native owners under a title which is not derived from the Crown :

And whereas a map in duplicate has been prepared of the said land, as required by the eighty-ninth section of “The Public Works Act, 1905” :

Now, therefore, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him by the eighty-ninth section of the said Act, and of all other powers in anywise 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 declare that the land shown upon such map, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be deemed to be taken for the purposes of the said road ; and the said land shall vest in His Majesty the King as from the twenty-third day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

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SCHEDULE.

All in the Wellington Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Native Land in Makotuku Survey District taken for a Gravel-pit.

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of February, 1908.

Present :

THE HONOURABLE W. HALL-JONES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is Native land and is required to be taken for the purposes of a gravel-pit.

And whereas the said land is held or occupied by Native owners under a title which is not derived from the Crown :

And whereas a map of the said land has been prepared in duplicate, as required by the eighty-ninth section of “The Public Works Act, 1905” :

Now, therefore, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him by “The Public Works Act, 1905,” and of all other powers in anywise 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 proclaim and declare that the land shown upon such map, and described in the Schedule hereto, is hereby taken for the purposes of a gravel-pit as aforesaid ; and the said land shall vest in His Majesty the King as from the third day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

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SCHEDULE.

The parcel of land mentioned hereunder :—

In the Land District of Wellington; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 23029, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured as above.

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 fourteenth day of March, 1908.

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 bond 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 Waikato District Maori Land Board, by a recommendation made on the seventeenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and seven, and received on the twenty-fourth day of February, 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 block or parcel 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 land 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 that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Onewhere Survey District, containing 500 acres, more or less, known as Lot 32 of Opuatia No. 4, and comprised in Volume 90, folio 1, of the Register-book of the District of Auckland.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.