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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 18

Authorising Native to mortgage Land under Section 6 of
“The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1897.”

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of February, 1909.

Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G.,
PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section six of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1897,” it is enacted that the Governor may, by Order in Council, authorise any Native owning land in severalty to mortgage such land to any lending department of the Government, and that in such case the mortgage shall operate in all respects as if the mortgagor were other than a Native, and accordingly none of the restrictions, limitations, or provisions of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” or any other Act affecting Native land, or lands owned or held by Natives, shall apply, anything in any such Act to the contrary notwithstanding: And whereas Reremoana Tohikura, of Turakina, in the Provincial District of Wellington, in the Dominion of New Zealand, being the owner in severalty of the block or parcel of land mentioned and particularised in the Schedule hereto, has applied to be allowed to mortgage the said block of land: And whereas by certificate bearing date the twenty-third day of January, one thousand nine hundred and nine, under the hand of Charles Edward MacCormick, Esquire, a Judge of the Native Land Court of New Zealand, and the seal of the said Court, it was certified that the said Reremoana Tohikura possesses, irrespective of the land proposed to be mortgaged, other land sufficient for his maintenance:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby authorise the said Reremoana Tohikura to mortgage the land set out in the Schedule hereto to the Government Advances to Settlers Office, being a lending department of the Government as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, containing 119 acres, more or less, known as Waipu 4A No. 1E, and being the whole of the land comprised in certificate of title, Vol. 115, folio 51, of the Register-book of the Wellington District.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Fixing Sittings of Court of Appeal.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of February, 1909.

Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G.,
PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by “The Judicature Act, 1908,” it is enacted that the Court of Appeal shall hold its sittings at such times and places as shall from time to time be fixed by the Governor in Council, and proclaimed in the Government Gazette twenty-one days at least before the times so fixed respectively:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby fix that sittings of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand shall be held within the Supreme Court House, in the City of Wellington, upon the following days, at eleven o’clock in the forenoon:—

Monday, the twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and nine.
Monday, the fifth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and nine.
Monday, the fourth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and nine.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Authorising Native to mortgage Land under Section 6 of
“The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1897.”

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of February, 1909.

Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G.,
PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section six of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1897,” it is enacted that the Governor may, by Order in Council, authorise any Native owning land in severalty to mortgage such land to any lending department of the Government, and that in such case the mortgage shall operate in all respects as if the mortgagor were other than a Native, and accordingly none of the restrictions, limitations, or provisions of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” or any other Act affecting Native land, or lands owned or held by Natives, shall apply, anything in any such Act to the contrary notwithstanding: And whereas Maremare Reupena, of Turakina, in the Provincial District of Wellington, in the Dominion of New Zealand, being the owner in severalty of the block or parcel of land mentioned and particularised in the Schedule hereto, has applied to be allowed to mortgage the said block of land: And whereas by certificate bearing date the twenty-third day of January, one thousand nine hundred and nine, under the hand of Charles Edward MacCormick, Esquire, a Judge of the Native Land Court of New Zealand, and the seal of the said Court, it was certified that the said Maremare Reupena possesses, irrespective of the land proposed to be mortgaged, other land sufficient for his maintenance:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby authorise the said Maremare Reupena to mortgage the land set out in the Schedule hereto to the Government Advances to Settlers Office, being a lending department of the Government as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, containing 119 acres, more or less, known as Waipu 4A No. 1B, and being the whole of the land comprised in certificate of title, Vol. 115, folio 52, of the Register-book of the Wellington District.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Excepting Land from the Operation of Section 117 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of February, 1909.

Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G.,
PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section four of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” it is enacted that the Governor may, by Order in Council, except from the operation of section one hundred and seventeen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), for a limited period or otherwise, and either generally or for such purposes and subject to such restrictions as shall be in such Order specified, any land, wheresoever situate, which is for the time being subject to the operation of the said section, or any interest therein or right over the same, or may in like manner make such exception in favour exclusively of any lessee or other person who has been bona fide in occupation of and has made improvements on such land, or has paid money to Native owners for lease or purchase thereof, prior to the passing of the said Act: Provided that no Order in Council under the provisions of this section shall take effect until after the expiration of two months from the date of the publication thereof in the Gazette: