May 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1465

gravel roads lead from the township to the surrounding country. Steamers from Westport call three times a month at Karamea, which is distant about forty miles to the north. There are old-established settlements on both banks of the Karamea River extending through the block. Sale plan 128.

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

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Lands.

Opening Settlement Lands in Auckland 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 lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Wednesday, the twenty-eighth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and nine, at the rentals mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Level land; in grass. Close to Matamata Railway-station.

WAIPA COUNTY.—TEASDALE SETTLEMENT.

81 | .. | 4 1 22 | 145 0 0 | 3 5 3

Altitude, about 180 ft. above sea-level. Undulating land, covered with furze and fern; dark-chocolate soil of good quality. Access by formed road, about half-mile from Te Awamutu Post-office, and the same distance from railway-station.

99 | .. | 3 2 15 | 175 0 0 | 3 18 9

Weighted with £11 3s., valuation for fencing.

Altitude, about 200 ft. above sea-level. Undulating land; all in grass; chocolate-coloured light loam of good quality, on clay subsoil. About half a mile from Te Awamutu Post-office by road, and the same distance from Te Awamutu Railway-station.

WAITEMATA COUNTY.—PLUMER HAMLET.

16 | .. | 4 0 11 | 90 0 0 | 2 0 6

Weighted with £8 8s., valuation for 14 chains fencing.

Altitude, about 50 ft. above sea-level. Level section; all in grass, except a patch in gorse on south-east corner; soil of a rich black loamy nature, on clay subsoil. Less than half-mile from Henderson Railway-station by good road. Henderson is fourteen miles from Auckland by rail, or twelve miles by good metalled road.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and nine.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Lands.

Trustees for the Frasertown Public Cemeteries appointed.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by “The Cemeteries Act, 1908,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby revoke the Warrant of the twenty-fifth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and four, appointing the Wairoa County Council to be Trustees to provide for the maintenance and care of the Frasertown Public Cemetery, and appoint the several persons whose names are specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto to be Trustees to provide for the maintenance and care of the public cemeteries specified in the second column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, containing by admeasurement 6 acres 2 roods, more or less, being Section No. 151, Town of Frasertown. Bounded towards the north-west by Russell Parade North, a distance of 1609 links; towards the east by Stout Street, a distance of 1175 links; and towards the south by Sections 66, 65, 64, 63, 62, 61, 60, 59, 58, 57, and 56, a distance of 1100 links, to the starting-point: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. 1535, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

FRASERTOWN (TE KAPU).

All that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, containing by admeasurement 5 acres, more or less, being Section No. 3, Block XIII, Opoiti Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Paeroa Block No. 2, 500 links; towards the east by Paeroa Block No. 2, 1000 links; towards the south by the Kauhoura Road, 500 links; and towards the west by Paeroa Block No. 2, 1000 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. 1535A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-first day of May, 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 Aotea District Maori Land Board, by a recommendation made and passed by the said Board on the third day of November, one thousand nine hundred and eight, and received on the twenty-fourth day of November, 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:

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 Pencarrow Survey District, containing 7,196 acres, more or less, known as Orongorongo, and comprised in a certificate of the Native Land Court, under section 17 of “The Native Lands Act, 1867,” dated the 9th day of July, 1874, subject to the restriction that the said land “shall not be alienated by sale, gift, mortgage, lease, or otherwise, except by lease for a