May 28.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1527

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-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, 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, so far as to permit the same 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 said land, so far as to permit the same to be sold.

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 69e, and comprised in a partition order of the Native Land Court dated the 11th day of November, 1901, subject to the restriction that the said land shall be “inalienable except by lease for a period not exceeding twenty-one years.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fourteenth day of May, 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 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 Waikato District Maori Land Board, by a recommendation made and passed by the said Board on the eighteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and seven, and received on the seventeenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and eight, 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 Waikato 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 Parish of Taupiri, in the Land District of Auckland, containing 185 acres 1 rood, more or less, being Lot 474A No. 1 of the said parish, and being the whole of the land comprised in a partition order of the Native Land Court dated the 18th day of September, 1901, containing the restriction that the land comprised therein shall be “inalienable except by lease for a period not exceeding twenty-one years.”

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

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

Special Regulations and Restrictions as to killing Native Game on Lake Ellesmere, Canterbury.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection Act, 1907, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby make the following regulations respecting the killing of native game in the Canterbury Acclimatisation District.

REGULATIONS.

1. No device or structure shall be used from or out of which native game may be taken or killed on or near Lake Ellesmere, in the Canterbury Acclimatisation District, except a cylinder not exceeding 2ft. 6in. in length and open at both ends, or a hut made of scrub or rushes, or a mud-hole, or a mimi. No such device or structure shall be placed, put, set out, erected, planted, or used in any part of the said lake in which the water is more than 24 in. in depth: Provided that boats concealed or hidden in the vegetation growing along the margin of the said lake may be used, but such boats shall not be dressed or covered in any way: Provided also that boats not dressed or covered in any way may be used to recover native game previously shot.

2. No live birds of any species shall be used as decoys on or near the said lake.

3. No person or persons shall put or place more than twenty-five decoys on any area of less than 100 square yards in or upon the said lake.

4. No person shall take or kill more than 150 head of native game in any one season within the Canterbury Acclimatisation District.

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

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Portion of Mohaka River, Hawke’s Bay Land District, notified under “The Timber-floating Act, 1884.”

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the second section of “The Timber-floating Act, 1884,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify that the portion of Mohaka River in Wairoa County, Hawke’s Bay Land District, from its confluence with the Te Hoe River to the sea may be used under license for the purposes of the said Act.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

ROBERT McNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Land temporarily reserved for a School-site in the Auckland Land District.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by the two-hundred-and-thirty-fifth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” 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, notwithstanding 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 site for a public school.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 15 acres, more or less, being Section No. 10, Block X, Coromandel Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by the abutment of a public road and Section No. 4, Block X, Coromandel Survey District, 1500 links; towards the south-east by said Section No. 4, 1000 links; towards the south-west by said Section No. 4 and Section No. 3 of the said block, 1500 links; and towards the north-west by said