JUNE 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1595

Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, having received the report of the Under-Secretary in this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on Wednesday, the twenty-second day of July, one thousand nine hundred and eight; and also that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may be selected on renewable lease only, in accordance with the provisions of section one hundred and twenty-one of the said Act, as they contain, or are supposed to contain, metals, minerals, or valuable stone; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said lands shall be leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” and its amendments.

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SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT. — TAKAKA COUNTY. — WAITAPU SURVEY DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

Situated about five miles from Clifton Township, Golden Bay. Very rough hills, thickly timbered with birch, and some rimu and pine.

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

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands.

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Removing Restrictions against Alienation of Native Land.

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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 fourteenth day of December, 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.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Wellington Land District, containing 36 acres, more or less, known as Manawatu-Kukutauaki 4a No. 2, Subdivision 1b, and comprised in a partition order of the Native Land Court dated the 23rd day of March, 1903, subject to the restriction that the said land 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.”

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

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

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Registrars of Electors, Grey Lynn, Taranaki, Wairau, and Pahiatua Electoral Districts, appointed.

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Prime Minister’s Office,
Wellington, 21st May, 1908.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM RICHARD HOLMES

to be Registrar of Electors under “The Electoral Act, 1905,” for the Electoral District of Grey Lynn, vice R. H. Irwin, resigned; also to appoint

JOHN TERRY

to be Registrar of Electors under the said Act for the Electoral District of Taranaki, vice W. A. D. Banks, resigned; also to appoint

FREDERICK WILLIAM HART

to be Registrar of Electors under the said Act for the Electoral District of Wairau, vice J. Terry, resigned; also to appoint

DANIEL O’ROURKE

to be Registrar of Electors under the said Act for the Electoral District of Pahiatua, vice J. Fitz-Gerald, resigned.

J. G. WARD,
Prime Minister.

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Member of Board of Trustees, Ashburton Racecourse, appointed.

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Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 21st May, 1908.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM BANKS DENSHIRE

to be a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ashburton Racecourse under “The Ashburton Racecourse Reserve Act, 1882,” vice David Thomas, Esq., deceased.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

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Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 21st May, 1908.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned gentlemen to be Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the Districts set respectively opposite their names, viz.:

Name. District.
NORMAN MACLEOD Methven.
ALBERT JOSEPH MULLER Rakaia.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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Cadets appointed.

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Government Insurance Department,
Wellington, 29th May, 1908.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN SUTHERLAND PRENTICE,
LEONARD ROBERT BISHOP,
WILLIAM TAYLOR,
LEMUEL MORGAN ALLOTT, and
ALBERT SELBY

to be cadets in the Government Insurance Department; the appointments to date from 16th March, 1908, 19th March, 1908, 1st April, 1908, 21st April, 1908, and 29th April, 1908, respectively.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
Minister in Charge of Government Insurance Department.

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Officer dismissed.

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Post and Telegraph Department.
General Post Office,
Wellington, 28th May, 1908.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to dismiss from the public service

HARRY FRYER,

lately a cadet at Blenheim.

J. G. WARD,
Postmaster-General.