Aug. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2161

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 Ikaroa District Maori Land Board, by a recommendation made and passed by the said Board on the eighth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and nine, and received on the twenty-second day of June, 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 Ikaroa 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.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land in the Huangarua Survey District, containing 40 acres, more or less, known as Pukengaki No. 8, and comprised in a partition order of the Native Land Court dated the 21st day of September, 1898, subject to the restriction that the land therein comprised 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 eleventh day of August, one thousand nine hundred and nine.

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

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Amending Regulations for the Conservation and Use of the Rotorua Sanatorium, Thermal Springs, and Grounds.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section three hundred and twenty-nine of “The Land Act, 1908,” and all other powers and authorities enabling me on that behalf, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do by this notification revoke the charges for residence, including medical attendance, medicine, nursing, and baths, contained in the Regulations for the Conservation and Use of the Rotorua Sanatorium, Thermal Springs, and Grounds, made on the seventeenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and nine, and published in the Gazette of the twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and nine, and do hereby substitute the following in lieu thereof, that is to say:—

£ s. d.
Patients admitted under Regulations 3 and 4, per week .. .. .. 1 10 0
Patients admitted under Regulation 5, per week .. .. .. 1 1 0
Patients admitted under Regulation 6, per week .. .. .. 2 2 0
Patients admitted under Regulation 7 .. Free.

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

THOS. MACKENZIE,
Minister of Tourist and Health Resorts.

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Postmaster appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1908,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that

WALTER BATTISON,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster under “The Post and Telegraph Act, 1908,” at Pohui, is authorised to take and receive statutory declarations under the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.”

As witness my hand, this fourteenth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and nine.

PLUNKET, Governor.

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Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 11th August, 1909.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ARTHUR WOLLESTON PYM HEWITT

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

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

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

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned persons to be Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz.:—

Name. District.
ISABELLA MARY MCNEE .. .. Murchison.
GEORGE ILLINGWORTH .. .. Morrinsville.
PATRICK JOHN SUTHERLAND MACALISTER .. Pelorus.
WILLIAM FAIRBAIRN YOUNG STEWART .. Te Awamutu.
WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER MACDERMOTT .. Cambridge.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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Inspecting Surveyor appointed.

Department of Lands,
Wellington, 11th August, 1909.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

GEORGE HENRY BULLARD

to be an Inspecting Surveyor, as from the 1st day of August, 1909.

D. BUDDO,
Acting Minister of Lands.

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Member of Otago Land Board appointed.

Department of Lands,
Wellington, 11th August, 1909.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN ANDREW MACPHERSON

to be a member of the Land Board of the Land District of Otago.

D. BUDDO,
Acting Minister of Lands.

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Member of Christchurch Domains Board appointed.

Department of Lands,
Wellington, 10th August, 1909.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance of section 5 of “The Christchurch Domains Act, 1908,” been pleased to appoint

GEORGE HARPER

to be a member of the Christchurch Domains Board, in the place of George Witty, M.P., who has resigned.

D. BUDDO,
Acting Minister of Lands.