Sept. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2399

mendation 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 Paekakariki Survey District, containing 10 acres, more or less, known as Kahotea No. 1A, and comprised in a partition order of the Native Land Court dated the 28th day of January, 1909, subject to the restriction that the land therein comprised shall be “inalienable, except by lease for a period not exceeding twenty-one years.”

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, 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 twelfth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and nine, and received on the sixth day of August, 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 same to be mortgaged:

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 land particularised and set out in the Schedule hereto, so far as to permit the same to be mortgaged.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Turanganui Survey District, containing 30 acres 2 roods, more or less, known as Ruaohinetu 131, and comprised in a partition order of the Native Land Court dated the 23rd day of January, 1899, subject to the restriction that the land comprised therein shall be “inalienable 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 twentieth 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, 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 thirteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and nine, and received on the fourteenth day of September, 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 against alienation of the said land, so as to permit the same to be sold.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land in the Waipawa Survey District, containing 92 acres 1 rood 18 perches, more or less, known as Hautotara No. 3, and comprised in a partition order of the Native Land Court dated the 15th day of August, 1902, containing the restriction that the said land shall be “inalienable by sale or mortgage, or by lease beyond twenty-one years.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twentieth day of September, 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 on the alienation of the said land 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 now existing against the alienation of the said land are hereby removed, so as to enable the same to be sold.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Portobello Bay Survey District, containing 75 acres, more or less, being Otago Heads Native Reserve, Lot 45, and being the land comprised in a Crown grant dated the 1st day of November, 1869, containing the following restriction: “Inalienable by sale, or by lease for a longer period than twenty-one years, or by mortgage, except with the consent of the Governor being previously obtained to every such sale, lease, or mortgage.”

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

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

Second Clerk-Assistant, Legislative Council, appointed.

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

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

BASIL EDWARD SEYMOUR STOCKER, Esq., M.A.,
to be Second Clerk-Assistant of the Legislative Council, vice George Moore, Esq. Appointment to date from 1st September, 1909.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 18th September, 1909.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

LOUIS ANTONY BOTT
to be the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Manuherikia.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.