Aug. 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2035

Warrant apportioning the Cost of maintaining the Paeroa-Waihi and Tauranga Road between the Waihi Borough Council and the Ohinemuri County Council.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and nine of "The Public Works Act, 1908" (hereinafter termed "the said Act"), it is provided that in any case where a road in one district is largely used by or for the purpose of traffic to or from any other district or districts, and affords access to or from such districts, and the Governor is of opinion that it is equitable that the latter district or districts should contribute towards the cost of constructing or maintaining the whole or any portion of such road in the former district, the Governor may from time to time apportion the cost of constructing or maintaining the whole or any part of such road among the local authorities of the respective districts as he thinks fit; and for that purpose and to enable effect to be given hereto, the provisions of section one hundred and nineteen hereof shall, mutatis mutandis, apply in the case of the construction or reconstruction of the road, and the provisions of section one hundred and twenty hereof in the case of the maintenance of the road:

And whereas a dispute has arisen between the local authorities hereinafter mentioned on the question of the maintenance of the road hereinafter mentioned:

And whereas by the said section one hundred and twenty it is, inter alia, provided that the Governor may, with the view of determining what proportion (if any) of the cost of maintaining any work should be borne by any local authority, direct any Magistrate or other person to be a Commissioner to inquire and report to him upon any matter which he shall deem necessary to enable him to determine any such question as aforesaid:

And whereas a Commissioner was appointed for the purpose aforesaid, and an inquiry was duly held:

And whereas such Commissioner did report to the Governor, after due inquiry, his opinion thereon:

And whereas the Governor is of opinion that it is equitable that the cost of maintaining the road mentioned in the Schedule hereto should be provided and paid in the manner and in the proportions hereinafter respectively set forth:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, do hereby apportion the cost of maintaining the road described in the Schedule hereto between the Waihi Borough Council and the Ohinemuri County Council in the following proportions, viz.: The Waihi Borough Council and the Ohinemuri County Council shall each respectively pay a moiety of the cost of maintaining the portion of road hereinafter firstly described; the Waihi Borough Council shall pay one-third and the Ohinemuri County Council two-thirds of the cost respectively of maintaining the portion of road hereinafter secondly described; the Ohinemuri County Council shall maintain at its own cost the portion of road hereinafter thirdly described; and the Waihi Borough Council shall, as at present, pay two-thirds and the Ohinemuri County Council one-third of the cost respectively of maintaining the portion of road hereinafter fourthly described.

And I do hereby direct that any contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Waihi Borough Council shall be paid from time to time in the proportions hereinbefore prescribed out of the funds of the said Council, within a period of thirty days after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the Council of the County of Ohinemuri, and such payments shall be made from time to time to the Clerk of the said Council for and on account of such Council.

And I do hereby cancel and annul the Proclamation dated the sixteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and three, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the nineteenth day of the same month, apportioning the cost of maintaining the road therein described between the Ohinemuri County Council and the Council of the Borough of Waihi.

SCHEDULE.

FIRSTLY: All that portion of road from the Puke Landing to the Paeroa Railway-station.

Secondly: All that portion of road from the Waihi Gold-mining Company's (Limited) works at Waikino to the south-west boundary of the Borough of Waihi.

Thirdly: All that portion of road from the Paeroa Railway-station to the Waihi Gold-mining Company's (Limited) works at Waikino.

Fourthly: All that portion of road from the south-east boundary of the Borough of Waihi to the boundary between the Ohinemuri and Tauranga Counties.

As the said portions of road are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 24969, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

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

R. McKENZIE,
Minister of Public Works.

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 eighteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and nine, and received on the first day of March, 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 as to permit the interests of Hohaia te Kotua and Mata te Kotua 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 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 interests of the said Hohaia te Kotua and Mata te Kotua therein to be sold.

SCHEDULE.

All that piece or parcel of land in the Belmont Survey District, containing 38 acres 1 rood 4 perches, more or less, known as Mahinawa No. 1, and comprised in an order of the Native Land Court, on investigation of title, dated the 21st day of September, 1895, and containing the restriction that the said land shall be "inalienable, except by lease for a period not exceeding twenty-one years."

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

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

Removing Restrictions against Alienation of Native Land.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS application has been made to the Governor by the owners of the land described in the Schedule hereto praying that the restrictions against alienation of the same may be removed: And whereas inquiry has been duly made by the Native Land Court, and the said Court has recommended that such restrictions be removed:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the fifty-second section of "The Native Land Court Act, 1894," and in accordance with the recommendation of the Native Land Court, doth hereby order and declare that all restrictions imposed on the alienation of the said land are hereby removed.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, containing 8 acres 3 roods 32 perches, more or less, as the same is more particularly delineated in the plan marked P.W.D. 24993, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, and therein coloured brown, being a portion of the block or parcel of land known as Section 97, Block I, Kongahu Survey District, and contained in certificate of title, Vol. 28, folio 271, of the Register-book of the Nelson District, containing 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 thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and nine.

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.