1082

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 32

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 Aotea District Maori Land Board, by a recommendation made and passed by the said Board on the twenty-seventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred and nine, and received on the sixth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and nine, 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:

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 Aotea District Maori Land Board aforesaid, do hereby remove and revoke the restrictions now existing against the alienation of the said land, so as to permit the same to be sold.

SCHEDULE.

All that piece or parcel of land in the Waitohu Survey District, containing 40 acres 3 roods 30 perches, more or less, being all that portion of the block of land known as Manawatu-Kukutauaki No. 4c No. 2B which is situated to the west of the Waikawa Road, which said block of land is comprised in a partition order of the Native Land Court dated the 11th day of June, 1907, subject to the restriction that the said land shall be “inalienable by sale, or by lease for a longer period than twenty-one years, or by mortgage, except with the consent of the Governor previously obtained to such sale, lease, or mortgage.”

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

J. CARROLL,

Native Minister

Appointing Member to fill Vacancy on Taumarunui Native Township Council.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS the Taumarunui Native Township is a Native township duly incorporated under “The Native Townships Local Government Act, 1905”:

And whereas a vacancy has arisen in the Council of the said township, and it is expedient that the same should be filled:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by section nine of “The Native Townships Local Government Act, 1905,” do hereby appoint HAKIAHA TAWHIAO, of Taumarunui, to be a member of the Taumarunui Native Township Council, vice George Henry Thompson, resigned.

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

J. CARROLL,

Native Minister.

Warrant vesting Control of a Portion of the Great South Road in the Papakura Road Board, and apportioning cost of constructing and maintaining the same.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and eight, subsection one, of “The Public Works Act, 1908,” it is provided that the County Council may, by special order, declare that all or any part of any district road in the county shall, from and after a date to be fixed therein, be under the exclusive control of such local authority in the county as is mentioned in the special order; and may by the same special order direct that the cost of constructing and maintaining any such road or part of a road shall be borne by the local authority to which such exclusive control is given, or that a proportion of such cost, to be fixed in and by such special order, shall be borne by any other local authority or local authorities ; and the local authority to which such control is granted may recover from such other local authority or local authorities in any Court of competent jurisdiction the share so fixed of any reasonable expenditure incurred in constructing and maintaining any such road or part of a road as aforesaid:

And whereas by subsection three of the said section it is provided that wherever the operation of “The Counties Act, 1908,” is suspended the Governor shall have and may exercise all the functions vested in a County Council under this section:

And whereas the operation of “The Counties Act, 1908,” is suspended in the County of Manukau, and Papakura, Wairoa, and Manurewa Road Districts are situated within the said county, and a dispute arose in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven between the Wairoa and Manurewa Road Boards as to the control and maintenance of the portion of the Great South Road described in the Schedule hereto, which lay between, passed through, or abutted upon the Wairoa and Manurewa Road Districts as then constituted:

And whereas by a Warrant dated the twentieth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, and issued under the provisions of section one hundred and seven of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” the Governor ordered and declared that, from and after the fifteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, the Wairoa Road Board should have exclusive control of the portion of the Great South Road hereinbefore referred to, and that the cost of constructing and maintaining the said portion of road should be borne between the Wairoa Road Board and the Manurewa Road Board in the following proportions : The Wairoa Road Board should pay three-fourths of such cost, and the Manurewa Road Board one-fourth of such cost:

And whereas the boundaries of the Wairoa and Papakura Road Districts were amended by Order in Council dated the sixth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and eight, and published in Gazette No. 76, dated the eighth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and eight, so that a portion of the Wairoa Road District has now been added to the Papakura Road District, and it is therefore necessary to make some alteration as to the control and maintenance of the portion of the road hereinbefore mentioned:

And whereas the Wairoa Road Board has asked that the control of the part of the said road which is hereinbefore mentioned, and which is described in the Schedule hereto, and which is hereinafter referred to as “the said road,” should be vested in the Papakura Road Board, and the Papakura Road Board has agreed to this being done:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by section one hundred and eight of “The Public Works Act, 1908,” do hereby declare and order that, from and after the date of this Warrant, the Papakura Road Board shall have the exclusive control of that portion of the Great South Road described in the Schedule hereto, and which is a district road within the meaning of the last-mentioned Act; and, in further pursuance and exercise of the said powers and authorities, I do hereby direct and order that the cost of constructing and maintaining the said road shall be borne between the Papakura Road Board and the Manurewa Road Board in the following proportions—that is to say, the Papakura Road Board shall pay three-fourths of such cost, and the Manurewa Road Board one-fourth of such cost.

And I do also hereby further direct that any contribution hereby required to be made by the Manurewa Road Board to the Papakura Road Board shall be paid from time to time in the proportion hereinbefore drescribed out of the funds of the said Road Board, within a period of thirty days after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the Papakura Road Board, and all such payments shall be made from time to time to the Clerk of the said Road Board for and on account of such Road Board.

And I do hereby cancel and annul the original Warrant dated the twentieth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-fifth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, page 2119, vesting control of a portion of the Great South Road in the Wairoa Road Board, and apportioning cost of constructing and maintaining the same, in terms of section one hundred and seven of “The Public Works Act, 1894.”

SCHEDULE.

THAT portion of the Great South Road commencing at a point opposite and in line with the south boundary of Section No. 26, Papakura Parish, and running in a south-easterly direction generally to the Town District of Papakura, being a distance of 100 chains, more or less; as the said road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked R. 5268, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured blue.

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

A. W. HOGG,

Minister in Charge of Roads Department.