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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 11

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 Waikato District Maori Land Board, by a recommendation made and passed by the said Board on the eighteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and eight, and received on the fourteenth day of December, 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 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 Waikato 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, situate in the Thames Survey District, containing 17 acres 1 rood 14 perches, more or less, known as Tapuaurerahi No. 2, and comprised in a partition order of the Native Land Court dated the 1st day of May, 1889, containing the restriction that the land comprised therein “may be leased for any term not exceeding twenty-one years, but shall be otherwise inalienable, except with the assent of the Governor.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eighth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and nine.

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

Officer appointed for the Purposes of “The Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1908.”

Department of Public Health,
Wellington, 9th February, 1909.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased, in pursuance of section 2 of “The Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1908,” to appoint

Constable FRANCIS LEONARD HOLLAND

to be an Officer for the purposes of that Act.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Public Health.

Registrar of Electors, Awarua Electoral District, appointed.

Electoral Department,
Wellington, 9th February, 1909.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

IVY GRANT RUSSELL

to be Registrar of Electors, under “The Legislature Act, 1908,” for the Electoral District of Awarua.

J. G. WARD,
Minister in Charge of Electoral Department.

Harbourmaster and Pilot appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 6th February, 1909.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance of the power and authority vested in him by section 10 of “The Harbours Act, 1908,” appointed

JOHN WOOD BURGESS

to be Harbourmaster and Pilot for the Port of Picton, in the Dominion of New Zealand.

J. A. MILLAR.

Members of Thames Harbour Board appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 8th February, 1909.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by section 7 of “The Thames Harbour Board Act, 1890,” and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, appointed

WILLIAM HENRY POTTS and
GEORGE WARNE

to be members of the Thames Harbour Board.

J. A. MILLAR.

Member of Lyttelton Harbour Board appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 8th February, 1909.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance of the provisions of subsection (1) of section 4 of “The Lyttelton Harbour Board Act, 1882,” section 24 of “The Harbours Act, 1908,” and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, appointed

GEORGE LAURENSON, M.P.,

to be a member of the Lyttelton Harbour Board.

J. A. MILLAR.

Members of Auckland Harbour Board appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 8th February, 1909.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance of the provisions of section 7 of “The Auckland Harbour Board Act, 1885,” and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, appointed

JOHN KERRUISH KNEEN and
WILLIAM JOSEPH NAPIER

to be members of the Auckland Harbour Board.

J. A. MILLAR.

Stipendiary Magistrate appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 10th February, 1909.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM KERR, Esq.,

to be a Stipendiary Magistrate within the Dominion of New Zealand; to exercise the ordinary and extended jurisdiction of the Magistrate’s Court. The appointment to take effect from the 8th day of February, 1909.

JOHN G. FINDLAY.

Registrar of Supreme Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 10th February, 1909.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM KERR, Esq., S.M.,

to be Registrar of the Supreme Court at Wanganui, from the 8th day of February, 1909, vice R. L. Stanford, Esq., retired.

JOHN G. FINDLAY.

Gaol Surgeon appointed.

Department of Justice (Prisons Branch),
Wellington, 5th February, 1909.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM MACSTRAVICK STENHOUSE, M.B., C.M., M.D.,

to be Gaol Surgeon of H.M. Prison, Dunedin, vice Dr. M. Coughtrey, deceased.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
Minister of Justice.