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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 31

Bringing the Urewera District Native Reserve under the Operation of “The Mining Act, 1908,” and making Special Regulations relating thereto.

PLUNKET, Governor.

BY virtue and in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by section twenty-four of “The Mining Act, 1908” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), and by section seven of “The Maori Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment Act, 1907,” and of all other powers enabling me in this behalf, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby bring the Urewera District Native Reserve, as constituted by section seven of the last-mentioned Act, being the land described in the First Schedule hereto, within the operation of the said Act, subject, however, to the conditions, modifications, and restrictions contained in the regulations set forth in the Second Schedule hereto, which regulations are hereby made by me under the aforesaid powers and authorities.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Auckland and Hawke’s Bay Land Districts, containing by admeasurement 656,000 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the north by the confiscation-boundary line; towards the east generally by the Waimana and Tahora No. 2 Blocks; towards the south-east by the Waipaoa Block, the Waikaremoana Lake, by forest reserve, educational reserve, Block V, Waiau Survey District, and Section No. 1, Block VIII, Mangahopai Survey District; towards the south-west by the Waiau River to the northernmost corner of Maungataniwha Block, thence by a right line to the trig. station on Maungataniwha, and thence by Heruiwi No. 4 Block; and towards the west generally by Whirinaki, Kuhawaea No. 1, Waiohau Nos. 1b, 1a, and 2, and Tuararangaiā Blocks to the confiscation-boundary line at Tapapa-kiekie.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

REGULATIONS FOR MINING ON UREWERA DISTRICT NATIVE RESERVE.

1. In these regulations, if not inconsistent with the context, words and expressions shall have the same meaning as in “The Mining Act, 1908” (hereinafter called “the Mining Act”). “Reserve” means the Urewera District Native Reserve, as defined by the First Schedule to “The Urewera District Native Reserve Act, 1896.”

2. Miners’ rights shall be issued on payment of a fee of 10s. each, and shall be in force for twelve months. Such miners’ rights shall apply only to the reserve, and shall be in the Form 1 of the Third Schedule hereto.

3. No person, unless he is the holder of such a miner’s right, shall prospect or mine for gold, silver, or any other metal or minerals within the boundaries of the reserve, and every person working in or about any mining privilege within the reserve shall be the holder of such a miner’s right.

4. No person shall shoot, snare, or in any other method capture or kill any native or imported game within the reserve.

5. Timber within the reserve shall be cut for domestic and mining purposes only, and within such areas as are specially set apart for that purpose, as Warden’s timber areas under section 147 of the Mining Act.

6. No person shall mine, occupy, cut timber or flax within the reserve on any land used or set apart for cultivation, residence, or burial-grounds.

7. Every person who commits any breach, whether of omission or commission, of any of these regulation is liable to a penalty not exceeding for the first offence ten pounds and for every subsequent offence of the same nature twenty pounds.

8. Any person discovering gold shall report such discovery to the Warden with full particulars.

9. A royalty of sixpence for every ounce of gold won within the reserve by the holder of any mining privilege shall be paid to the Native owners in manner set out in section 23, (c), of the Mining Act.

10. Subject to these regulations, the Mining Act and the regulations thereunder shall apply to the reserve.

[Form 1.]

No.

[Coat of Arms.]

Under “The Mining Act, 1908,” and the Special Regulations relating to that Portion of the Hauraki Mining District known as the Urewera District Native Reserve.

MINER’S RIGHT, NEW ZEALAND.

Limited to the Urewera District Native Reserve.

District and place of issue:

To whom issued: [Full name], of [Address].

Date of issue: , 19 .

Date of expiry: , 19 .

This miner’s right is limited to the Urewera District Native Reserve, in the Hauraki Mining District, being the reserve described in the regulations dated the day of , 1908, and gazetted on the day of , 1908, and is issued subject to those regulations.

Fee paid: .

Dated and issued at , this day of , 19 .

, Warden, or other designation of officer.

Not transferable.]

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

R. McKENZIE,
Minister of Mines.

Post-offices where Miners’ Rights may be issued.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by “The Mining Act, 1908,” and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the post-offices at the undermentioned places to be post-offices at which miners’ rights may be issued by the Postmasters in charge of such post-offices, viz.:

WAIROA, Napier.
OPOTIKI, Rotorua.
GISBORNE.
ROTORUA, Auckland.

As witness my hand, this fifteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and nine.

PLUNKET, Governor.

By Authority: JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington.