July 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1899

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 eighth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and nine, and received on the fourteenth day of May, 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, so far as to permit the interests of Hemi Whakarau and Mohi Tamatea Tutaki 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 interests of the said Hemi Whakarau and Mohi Tamatea Tutaki therein to be sold.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land in the Waikohu Survey District, containing 10 acres 2 roods 28 perches, more or less, known as Puhatikotiko No. 8G, and comprised in a partition order of the Native Land Court dated the 7th day of April, 1904, subject to the restriction that the said land shall be “inalienable, except with the consent of the Governor, by sale or mortgage, or by lease for a longer period than twenty-one years.

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

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

Registrar of Old-age Pensions, Invercargill, appointed.

PLUNKET, Governor.

PURSUANT to and in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon him by section five of “The Old-age Pensions Act, 1908,” His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby appoint

BERNARD EGAN MURPHY

to be Registrar for the Invercargill Old-age Pension District.

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

JOHN G. FINDLAY.

Members of Civil Service Officers’ Guarantee Board appointed.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 13th July, 1909.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ROBERT JOSEPH COLLINS, Esq., I.S.O., Secretary to the Treasury;
DONALD ROBERTSON, Esq., Secretary, Post and Telegraph Department;
WILLIAM CHARLES KENSINGTON, Esq., I.S.O., Under-Secretary, Department of Lands and Survey;
RICHARD CARTER, Esq., Secretary, Customs Department,

to be members of the Civil Service Officers’ Guarantee Board, under “The Civil Service Act, 1908.”

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 14th July, 1909.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN PICKARD

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

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

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

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

RICHARD WILLIAM PERCY

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

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Members of Uruti Domain Board appointed.

Department of Lands,
Wellington, 12th July, 1909.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance of section 41 of “The Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908,” been pleased to appoint

HENRY MUSKER and
WILLIAM OLD

to be members of the Uruti Domain Board, in the place of James Jerry Waite and Harry McKenzie.

D. BUDDO,
Acting Minister of Lands.

Member of Tokatoka Domain Board appointed.

Department of Lands,
Wellington, 12th July, 1909.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance of section 41 of “The Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908,” been pleased to appoint

THOMAS ROGER VINCENT

to be a member of the Tokatoka Domain Board, in the place of Thomas Frederick Downs.

D. BUDDO,
Acting Minister of Lands.

Resident Commissioner at Cook Islands appointed.

Cook and other Islands Administration,
Wellington, 15th July, 1909.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JAMES EMAN SMITH, Esq., J.P.,

to be Resident Commissioner at the Cook Islands, on and from the 1st day of August, 1909, vice Lieutenant-Colonel Gudgeon, C.M.G., retired.

J. CARROLL.

President and Members of Te Ikaroa District Maori Land Board under “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900,” and “The Maori Land Settlement Act, 1905,” appointed.

Native Minister’s Office,
Wellington, 17th July, 1909.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the following appointments under the provisions of “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900,” and “The Maori Land Settlement Act, 1905”:

THOMAS WILLIAM FISHER, Esq., of Wellington, Under-Secretary for Native Affairs,

to be President; and

HENRY MARTIN SMITH, Esq., of Hastings, Crown Lands Ranger, and
IHAIA HUTANA, of Waipawa,

to be members, of the Te Ikaroa District Maori Land Board.

J. CARROLL,
Minister of Native Affairs