SEPT. 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2361

of the Tokerau 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 Whangarei Survey District, containing 10 acres, more or less, known as Maruata No. 6g, and comprised in a partition order of the Native Land Court dated the 19th day of October, 1903, 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 twenty-eighth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

Declaring a Road-line through Land in the Raumati Settlement to be closed.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS a report has been received from the Surveyor-General from which it appears that the road described in the Schedule hereto is unformed and unused, and that the said road intersects land acquired under “The Land for Settlements Act, 1908,” and is not suitable for the subdivision of such land:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of section eighty of the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do by this notice hereby close the road hereinafter described, and I do hereby declare that the said road shall thereupon become subject to the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

RAUMATI SETTLEMENT.

In the Hawke’s Bay Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked as above mentioned, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above noted.

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

ROBERT McNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Lands permanently reserved.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-twenty-first section of “The Land Act, 1908,” 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:

And whereas by the three-hundred-and-twenty-second section of the said Act it is provided that land temporarily reserved under the said three-hundred-and-twenty-first section may, at the expiration of one month but not later than six months after the publication in the Gazette of notice of such temporary reservation, be permanently reserved, and that notice of such permanent reservation shall be published in the Gazette:

And whereas the lands specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto were, by the Warrants the dates of which are specified in the third column of the said Schedule, and the notifications of which were published in the Gazettes specified in the fourth column, temporarily reserved under the authority of the said Act for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, do hereby permanently reserve the lands so temporarily reserved as aforesaid, and enumerated in the first column of the Schedule hereto, for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule, being the same purposes for which the said lands were so temporarily reserved as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

• Survey District.

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

ROBERT McNAB,
Minister of Lands.

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