2398
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 77

from the Breakwater. The quality of most of the settlement
is good, being generally a sandy loam, on a kind of free-clay
formation. The climate is mild, and at certain periods
bracing, and the rainfall plentiful. Section 60 is mortgaged
to the Government Advances to Settlers Office for the sum
of £100.

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

D. BUDDO,
Acting Minister of Lands.

Opening Settlement Land in Southland 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 land de-
scribed in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection
on renewable lease on Wednesday, the twenty-seventh day
of October, one thousand nine hundred and nine, at the
rental mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also
declare that the said land shall be leased under and subject
to the provisions of the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SOUTHLAND COUNTY.—WYND-
HAM SURVEY DISTRICT.—GLENHAM SETTLEMENT.

Weighted with £38 6s., valuation for improvements, con-
sisting of—hut and shed, £5; bushfelling, £22 10s.; and
fencing, £10 16s.

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

D. BUDDO,
Acting Minister of Lands.

Trustees for the Hauturu Public Cemetery appointed.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
vested in me by the fourth section of “The Cemeteries
Act, 1908,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of
the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the several
persons whose names are specified in the first column of
the Schedule hereto to have the control and management
of the public cemetery specified in the second column of
the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

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

D. BUDDO,
Acting Minister of Lands.

Site for the Disposal of Nightsoil or Refuse, Mataura.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance of the provisions of section sixty-two of
“The Public Health Act, 1908,” I, William Lee, Baron
Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand,
do hereby consent to the Council of the Borough of Mataura
setting apart that portion of the lands belonging to the
Corporation of the said borough, being Section 5 of part of
Section 54, Block III, Tuturau Survey District, as a site for
the deposit and disposal of nightsoil or refuse.

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

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Public Health.

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, not-
withstanding 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 re-
commendation of the Board shall be given within six
months from the date of the receipt of such recommenda-
tion:

And whereas the Waiariki District Maori Land Board, by
a recommendation made and passed by the said Board on the
third day of July, one thousand nine hundred and nine,
and received on the twenty-sixth day of August, one thou-
sand 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 recom-
mendation of the Waiariki District Maori Land Board afore-
said, 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, at a price to be not less than four
thousand eight hundred pounds.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land in the Te Tumu Survey
District, containing 480 acres, more or less, known as Papa-
moa No. 3, and comprised in a partition order of the Native
Land Court dated the 13th day of May, 1893, subject to the
restriction that the land therein comprised shall be “in-
alienable.”

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

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

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, not-
withstanding 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 re-
commendation of the Board shall be given within six
months from the date of the receipt of such recommenda-
tion:

And whereas the Aotea District Maori Land Board, by a
recommendation made and passed by the said Board on the
thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and
nine, and received on the twelfth day of August, one thousand
nine hundred and nine, recommended the Governor to
remove and revoke the restrictions against alienation con-
tained in the instrument of title of the block of land par-
ticularised 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 recom-