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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 67

Being Section No; 5, Block XII, Rankleburn Survey District.
Bounded towards the north by Section No. 1, said Block XII; towards the east by part of Section No. 2, said Block XII; towards the south-east by a road-line fronting the Pomahaka River; and towards the west by Section No. 11 and part of Section No. 9, Block XII, Glenkenich Survey District: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. 57965/2a, deposited in the Heed Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red,

All that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 2,383 acres 1 rood 23 perches, more or less, being Sections NW, 8, 9, 11, and 12, and closed road, Block XII, Glenkenich Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Sections Nos. 78, 27a, the crossing of a road, and by Beotion No. 72, Block XI, Glenkenich Survey District: towards the east generally by a road-line, and by Section No. 5, Block XII, Rankleburn Survey District; towards the south generally by a road-line fronting the Pomahaka River; and towards the west generally by Section No. 10, Block XII, Glenkenich Survey District, a road, by the crossing of said road, and by put of Beotion No. 8 of the last-mentioned block: excluding from the above-described boundaries a road-line which intersects the same; as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. 57965/2b, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

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

ROBERT McNAB,
Minister of Lands

Removing Restrictions against Alienation of Native Land.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by section fourteen of “The Maori Land Laws Amendment Act, 1908,” 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 Ikaroa District Maori Land Board, by a recommendation made and passed by the said Board on the twenty-first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and seven, and received on the sixteenth day of March, 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 Ikaroa District Maori Land Board aforesaid, do hereby remove and revoke the restrictions now existing against the alienation of the said land, so far only as to permit the same to be mortgaged to a lending department of the Government.

SCHEDULE.

All that piece or parcel of land in the Mangahao Survey District, containing 60 acres 2 roods 84 perches, more or less, known as Mangateinoka No. 130 No. 2a, and comprised in a partition order of the Native Land Court dated the 10th day of September, 1898, 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 nineteenth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

Removing Restrictions against Alienation of Native Land.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS an application has been made to the Governor by the owners of the land described in the Schedule hereto, praying that the restrictions on the alienation of the said land may be removed: And whereas inquiry has been duly made by the Native Land Court, and the said Court has recommended that such restrictions be removed:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the fifty-second section of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” and in accordance with the recommendation of the Native Land Court, doth hereby order and declare that all restrictions now existing against the alienation of the said land are hereby removed, so far as to enable the same to be sold by public auction at an upset price of £100.

SCHEDULE.

All that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Portobello Bay Survey District, containing 75 acres, being Otago Heads Native Reserve, Lot 46, and being the land comprised in Crown grant dated the 1st day of November, 1869, containing the following restrictions: “Inalienable by sale or by lease for a longer period than twenty-one years, or by mortgage, except with the consent of the Governor being previously obtained to every such sale, lease, or mortgage.”

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

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

Removing Restrictions against Alienation of Native Land.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by motion fourteen of “The Maori Land Laws Amendment Act, 1908,” 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 ninth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eight, and received on the twentieth day of May 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, so as to permit the interest of Wakarau te Kotua therein 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 interest of the said Wakarau te Kotua therein to be sold.

SCHEDULE.

All that piece or parcel of land in the Belmont Survey District, containing 38 acres 1 rood 4 perches, more or less, known as Mahinawa No. 1, and comprised in an order of the Native Land Court, on investigation of title, dated the 21st day of September, 1895, and containing 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 nineteenth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

Warrant vesting Control of the Opotoru River Bridge at Raglan in the Raglan County Council, and apportioning the Cost of Maintenance of the same.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and twenty of “The Public Works Act, 1908” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), it is, inter alia, enacted that the Governor may, by Writ under his hand publicly notified and gazetted, direct that any bridge already constructed, or which may hereafter be constructed, over or across any river or arm of the sea respectively shall, from and after a date to be fixed