Oct. 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2591

Appointing Commissioners to classify Pastoral Runs in Westland Land District.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the two-hundred-and-twenty-fifth section of “The Land Act, 1908,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

GORDON HURRELL MORLAND McCLURE,
JOHN SAMUEL LANG, and
GEORGE MALLINSON

Commissioners to classify and report to me upon the rural lands in Westland Land District known as Runs Nos. 3, 5, 11, 12, 25, 58, and 115, as provided by section two hundred and twenty-five of “The Land Act, 1908.”

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

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Lands.

Trustee for the Lyttelton 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

WILLIAM THOMAS LINDSAY

to be a Trustee, in the place of John Sweet Oliver, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Lyttelton Public Cemetery, in conjunction with the Reverends Alfred Peters and John James Bates, and John R. Webb, Robert Brown, George Laurensen, M.P., James Pitcaithly, and Robert Hatchwell, previously appointed by His Excellency the Governor.

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

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Lands.

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 40 acres, more or less, 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 (excepting thereout the portion of the said land containing 8 acres 3 roods 33 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), which said certificate of title contains 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 seventh day of October, 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 Aotea District Maori Land Board, by a recommendation made and passed by the said Board on the first 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, so far as to enable the same 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 same to be sold.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land in the Rimutaka Survey District, containing 2 acres 1 rood 20 perches, more or less, being that portion of the land known as Hutt Section 98B, Lot 1, which lies to the north of the Wellington-Wairarapa Railway line, and being a portion of the land comprised in a partition order of the Native Land Court dated the 16th day of March, 1908, subject to the restriction that the land therein comprised shall be “inalienable.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this seventh day of October, 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 Aotea District Maori Land Board, by a recommendation made and passed by the said Board on the first 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, so far as to enable the same to be transferred in trust to the said Board:

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 same to be transferred as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land in the Rimutaka Survey District, containing 32 acres 1 rood 26 perches, more or less, known as Hutt Section 98B, Lot 2, and comprised in a partition order of the Native Land Court dated the 16th day of March, 1908, subject to the restriction that the land therein comprised shall be “inalienable.”

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

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.