Feb. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 479

LOCALITY AND DESCRIPTION.

Situated about nineteen to twenty-three miles from Hastings, the nearest sections being about three miles distant from the sea-coast at Waimarama.

The country—a large portion of which is in English and native pasture—may generally be classed as pastoral. The soil is light and mostly of even quality; subsoil clay, with limestone outcrop. Range of altitude above sea-level varies from about 1,200 ft. to 2,000 ft.

On some of these sections there are patches of mixed bush in gullies.

All of the sections are watered more or less by streams and springs.

There is a school at Waimarama, and this town promises, in the near future, to be a favourable watering-place and holiday resort.

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

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Lands.

Opening Settlement Land in Hawke’s Bay Land District for Selection.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by “The Land Act, 1908,” and “The Land for Settlements Act, 1908,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the settlement land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Wednesday, the twenty-fourth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and nine, at the rental mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said land shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—HAWKE’S BAY COUNTY.—TE MATA SURVEY DISTRICT.—WAIPŪKA SETTLEMENT.

Second-class Land.

Situated from about nineteen miles from Hastings. Fifteen acres in bush and scrub, 15 acres in swamp, and the balance undulating country in English and native pasture. The soil is light and mostly of even quality; subsoil clay, with limestone outcrop. Range of altitude above sea-level varies from about 1,200 ft. to 2,000 ft. The section is watered by a stream. There is a school at Waimarama, and this town promises, in the near future, to be a favourite watering-place and holiday resort.

The improvements which go with the land comprise fencing valued at £63 15s. 6d.

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

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Lands

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 eleventh day of September, one thousand nine hundred and eight, and received on the sixth day of October, 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 interest of Mihi Pahura 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 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 interest of the said Mihi Pahura therein to be sold.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Turanganui Survey District, containing 10 acres 2 roods 26 perches, more or less, known as Kaiti 313, Section 2r3, and comprised in a partition order of the Native Land Court dated the 14th day of November, 1901, subject to the restriction that the said land “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 eleventh day of February, one thousand nine hundred and nine.

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 15th February, 1909.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

CHARLES WHELAN

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

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 15th February, 1909.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned gentlemen to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz.:

Name. District.
HENRY EDSER Mount Benger.
ARTHUR WOLLESTON PYM HEWITT Taupo.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Cadet appointed.

Old-age Pensions Department,
Wellington, 12th February, 1909.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

MALCOLM McCARTNEY

to be a cadet in the Old-age Pensions Department, as from the 4th day of February, 1909.

D. BUDDO,
Minister in Charge.

Assistant Meat Inspector retired.—Notice No. 1275.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 16th February, 1909.

IT is hereby notified for public information that

WALTER HENRY RODNEY

has been retired from the position held by him as an Assistant Meat Inspector in the Civil Service of the Government of New Zealand (Department of Agriculture), as from 31st December, 1908.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Agriculture.