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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 92

Land proclaimed as a Road, and Road closed, in Block III,
Puniu Survey District, Rangiaohia Road District.

(L.S.)
PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred
by section eleven of “The Land Act, 1908,” I, William
Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New
Zealand, do hereby, with the consent of the owner of the
land mentioned in the First Schedule hereto, and of the
Rangiaohia Road Board, the local authority in whose district
the said land is situated, proclaim as a road the land in
Puniu Survey District described in the First Schedule
hereto; and also do hereby, with the like consents as afore-
said, proclaim as closed the road described in the Second
Schedule hereto, which is not required by reason of the
road described in the First Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
LAND PROCLAIMED AS A ROAD.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
ROAD CLOSED.

All in the Auckland Land District; as the same are
more particularly delineated on the plan marked and
coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the office
of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the
Wellington Provincial District.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right
Honourable William Lee, Baron Plunket, Knight
Commander of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Go-
vernor and Commander-in-Chief in and over
His Majesty’s Dominion of New Zealand and its
Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the
said Dominion, at the Government House, at
Wellington, this third day of November, in the
year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred
and nine.

R. McKENZIE,
Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Native Lands taken for the More Effective Carrying-out of
Drainage-works in Blocks I, VI, and X, Waihou Survey
District, Block X, Thames Survey District, and Block IV,
Piako Survey District, Thames and Ohinemuri Counties.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth
day of September, 1909.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS it is provided by subsection one of sec-
tion nine of “The Hauraki Plains Act, 1908,” that
“the Governor may from time to time take under ‘The
Public Works Act, 1908,’ as for a public work, or purchase,

whether under the provisions of section twenty of ‘The
Maori Land Settlement Act, 1905,’ or otherwise, any area or
areas of land adjacent to the land set apart under this Act as
aforesaid, the acquisition of which is in the opinion of the
Governor necessary for the more effective carrying-out of
the drainage or other works authorised by this Act or for
the better disposal of the land so set apart”:

And whereas the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto
are adjacent to the land set apart under “The Hauraki
Plains Act, 1908,” and the Governor has, in terms of sub-
section one of section nine of the said Act, expressed the
opinion that the acquisition of the lands described in the
Schedule hereto is necessary for the more effective carrying-
out of the drainage authorised by such Act:

And whereas the said lands are held or occupied by Native
owners under a title which is not derived from the Crown:

And whereas maps in duplicate have been prepared of
the said lands, as required by the ninetieth section of “The
Public Works Act, 1908”:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers
vested in him by the ninth section of “The Hauraki Plains
Act, 1908,” and the ninetieth section of “The Public Works
Act, 1908,” and of all other powers in anywise enabling him
in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion
of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby
declare that the lands shown upon such maps, and described
in the Schedule hereto, shall be deemed to be taken for the
more effective carrying-out of the drainage-works authorised
by “The Hauraki Plains Act, 1908,” and shall vest in His
Majesty the King as from the fifth day of November, one
thousand nine hundred and nine.

SCHEDULE.

All in the Auckland Land District; as the same are more
particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as
above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Minister
of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial
District.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations under “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,”
amended.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this third day
of November, 1909.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS, in exercise of the powers conferred upon
him by sections one hundred and twenty-six, one
hundred and twenty-nine, and one hundred and thirty of
“The Native Land Court Act, 1894” (hereinafter called
“the said Act”), and of all other powers in and by the said