July 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1783

the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, doth hereby constitute and appoint

Captain THOMAS MILLAR, Active List (Unattached);
Captain ERNEST EDWARD PAPPRILL, Kaiapoi Rifle Volunteers; and
Lieutenant THOMAS ADKISSON GATES, Kaiapoi Rifle Volunteers,

to be Trustees of all that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District being portion of Section No. 297, in the Borough of Kaiapoi, containing 2 roods, more or less, commencing at a point on the south side of Hilton Street 14 links east of a line drawn at right angles to Hilton Street from the western corner of Cam Street and Hilton Street: bounded towards the north by Hilton Street, 250 links; towards the east by a line at right angles to Hilton Street, 200 links; towards the south by a line parallel to Hilton Street, 250 links; and towards the west by a line at right angles to Hilton Street, 200 links: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 15837, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red: together with all buildings erected thereon: to hold the said several premises for the purpose of maintaining a drill-shed for Volunteer purposes, and generally for the purposes of and with the powers conferred by the said Acts. And it is hereby declared that the said Trustees shall be incorporated under the name of “The Trustees of the Kaiapoi Volunteer Drill-shed Reserve,” and that they shall take office as such Trustees on the twenty-third day of June, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

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

ROBERT McNAB,
For Minister of Defence.

Appointment of Trustees, Dannevirke Volunteer Drill-shed Reserve.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN exercise and pursuance of the power and authority conferred by “The Volunteer Drill-sheds and Lands Act, 1888,” “The Volunteer Drill-sheds and Lands Trustees Validation Act, 1890,” and the Defence Act Amendment Act, 1907 (hereinafter termed “the said Acts”), His Excellency the Right Honourable William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, doth hereby constitute and appoint

Lieutenant-Colonel JOHN DRUMMOND, 5th Battalion, Wellington (Centre or Ruahine) Rifle Volunteers;
Captain FREDERICK ALEXANDER HARRISON, Dannevirke Rifle Volunteers;
The Reverend HANS M. RIES, Dannevirke;
FRANCIS JOHN KNIGHT, Esq., Dannevirke;
HENRY CARLSON, Esq., Dannevirke; and
WILLIAM ROSE, Esq., Dannevirke,

to be Trustees of all that part of Suburban Section No. 9, situate in the Town of Dannevirke, Provincial District of Wellington, and comprising Lots Nos. 36 and 37, containing 1 rood 31·2 perches, more or less; as more particularly described in the map or plan of the said land deposited in the Lands Transfer Office, at Napier, as No. 1120, and thereon coloured green: together with all buildings erected thereon: to hold the said several premises for the purpose of maintaining a drill-shed for Volunteer purposes, and generally for the purposes of and with the powers conferred by the said Acts. And it is hereby declared that the said Trustees shall be incorporated under the name of “The Trustees of the Dannevirke Volunteer Drill-shed Reserve,” and that they shall take office as such Trustees on the twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

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

ROBERT McNAB,
For Minister of Defence.

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 Tairawhiti District Maori Land Board by a recommendation made and passed by the said Board on the first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and eight, and received on the fifth day of June, 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 Tairawhiti 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 Mata Survey District, containing 36 acres, more or less, known as Orua 5B, and comprised in a partition order of the Native Land Court dated the 26th day of September, 1904, subject to the restriction that the said land shall be “inalienable by sale or mortgage, or by lease for a longer period than twenty-one years.”

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

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

Vaccination Districts constituted.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in the Governor by “The Public Health Act, 1900,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby abolish the existing vaccination district known as the Rakaia District, and do declare that the territory heretofore comprised within the said district is hereby divided anew into two vaccination districts, the names whereof shall be the Methven District and the Rakaia District, and the boundaries whereof shall be coterminous with the boundaries of the marriage districts bearing the same names, as are set forth in a Proclamation bearing date the twenty-first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eight, made under the provisions of “The Marriage Act, 1904,” and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 44, of the fourth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and eight, page 1583.

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

GEO. FOWLDS,
Minister of Public Health.

Mangatangi and Hauarahi Streams and their Tributaries, Auckland 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 undermentioned streams and their tributary streams and branches may be used under license for the purposes of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

THE Mangatangi and Hauarahi Streams and their branches or tributary streams, situated in Manukau County.

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

ROBERT McNAB,
Minister of Lands.