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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 42

lency 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 order and declare
that the road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on
and after the date of this Order in Council, be a county
road.

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SCHEDULE.

All that road in the Wellington Land District, Kairanga
County, known as the Palmerston-Pahiatua Road, com-
mencing at that portion of the road already gazetted to the
Pahiatua County as a county road (see Gazette No. 34,
3rd May, 1906), at its junction with the North and South
Spur Road, which constitutes the boundary between the
Pahiatua and Kairanga Counties, at the southern corner of
Section 14 (a school reserve), Block XIX, Mangahao Survey
District; and proceeding thence in a north-westerly direction
until it junctions with the Fitzherbert Road at Section 224,
Block XV, Kairanga Survey District; and thence south-
westerly to the southern corner of Section 211, Block XV,
Kairanga Survey District; and thence in a north-westerly
direction to the Manawatu River Bridge, near the most
westerly corner of Section 206, Block XV, Kairanga Survey
District, a distance of nine miles, more or less: as the said
road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked
R. 880, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of
Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and
marked A.D., and tinted red thereon.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Authorising Sale of Land in the Township of Waitotara.

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this eight-
teenth day of May, 1908.

Present:

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

WHEREAS by section thirty of “The Public Works
Act, 1905” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it
is enacted that if it is found that any land held, taken, or
acquired at any time under that Act or any other Act or
Provincial Ordinance, or otherwise howsoever, for any
public work is not required for such public work, the
Governor may, by an Order in Council publicly notified and
gazetted, cause the same to be sold under the conditions set
forth in the said Act:

And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto
was acquired for the purposes of a post-office: And whereas
the said land is not now required for the purposes of the
said post-office, and the Minister for Public Works has
recommended that this Order in Council should be issued
authorising such land to be sold:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the
Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and
with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
said Dominion, and in exercise and pursuance of the powers
and authorities aforesaid, do hereby authorise the land
described in the Schedule hereto to be dealt with and sold
in the manner prescribed by and subject to the conditions
of the thirtieth and following sections of the said Act.

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SCHEDULE.

In the Land District of Wellington; as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan drawn on certificate of
title, Volume 73, folio 236, Wellington Land Registration
District, and thereon bordered red.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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 eight-
teenth day of May, 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 ex-
clusively of any lessee or other person who has been bonâ
fide in occupation of and has made improvements on such
land, or has paid money to Native owners for lease or pur-
chase 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 Aotea District Maori Land Board, by a
recommendation made on the twenty-ninth day of November,
one thousand nine hundred and seven, and received on the
twenty-third day of December, one thousand nine hundred
and seven, 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 seven-
teen 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 Wellington
Land District, containing 5 acres, more or less, known as
Manawatu-Kukutauaki 7D2D, Subdivision 69B, and comprised
in a partition order of the Native Land Court dated the 11th
day of November, 1901, in favour of Poniwahio Hakaria.

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 eight-
teenth day of May, 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 restric-
tions 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 bonâ fide in occupation of
and has made improvements on such land, or has paid
money to Native owners for lease or purchase thereof,