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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 9

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-fifth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and seven, and received on the third day of August, 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 blocks 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 as to permit the same to be sold.

SCHEDULE.

All those pieces or parcels of land in the Otahona Survey District, in the Land District of Wellington, known as Waipapa Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 Blocks, containing 50 acres, 50 acres, 100 acres, 100 acres, and 100 acres respectively, and comprised in partition orders of the Native Land Court dated the 11th day of February, 1890, and being part of the land comprised in a Crown grant dated the 21st day of January, 1870, containing the restriction that the land comprised therein shall be “inalienable by sale, gift, or mortgage, or by lease for a longer period than twenty-one years.”

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

J. GARROLL,
Native Minister.

Members of certain Fire Boards, under the Fire Brigades Act, 1907, appointed.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 22nd January, 1908.

HIS Excellency the Governor in Council has been pleased, in terms of section 13 of the Fire Brigades Act, 1907, to appoint

JOHN JAMES JEFFRAY MALLARD, Esq.,

to be a member of the Wellington, the Palmerston North, and the Feilding Fire Boards, vice F. Allen, Esq., resigned; and also to appoint

HARRY STACPOOLE BATCHELOR, Esq.,

to be a member of the Christchurch Fire Board, vice J. F. Grierson, Esq., resigned.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 29th January, 1908.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM FORRESTER JARVIE

to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Tapanui.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 29th January, 1908.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

CONWAY JOHN LENNON

to be the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Cust.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Appointment in the Department of Roads.

Department of Roads,
Wellington, 27th January, 1908.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ROLLAND JOSEPH DENNISTON NEWMAN POTTS

to be a clerical cadet in the Department of Roads, as from 1st July, 1907.

JAMES McGOWAN,
Acting Minister for Public Works.

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 30th January, 1908.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by

JOHN MORRISON HALL, Esq.,

of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the Dominion of New Zealand.

JAMES McGOWAN.

Sittings of Magistrate’s Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 5th February, 1908.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

THE COURTHOUSE, KAITANGATA,

to be a place wherein a Magistrate’s Court shall be held, in lieu of the Masonic Hall previously appointed.

JAMES McGOWAN.

Member of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 5th February, 1908.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

THOMAS ALEXANDER BLACKLEY

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Selwyn, vice G. Rutherford, resigned.

JAMES McGOWAN.

Deputy Sheriff and Deputy Registrar of Supreme Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 5th February, 1908.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ERNEST WHITE CAVE

to be Deputy Sheriff for the District of Auckland, and Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court at Auckland, from the 17th day of January, 1908, vice H. J. Dixon, transferred.

JAMES McGOWAN.

Coroners appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 5th February, 1908.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

THOMAS EDWARD PRICE, Esq., J.P., of Tauranga, and WILLIAM CHARLES NATION, Esq., J.P., of Levin,

to be Coroners within the Dominion of New Zealand.

JAMES McGOWAN.