Nov. 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2911

Vesting a Quarry Reserve in the Mount Wellington Road Board.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

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

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto has been permanently reserved for quarry purposes: And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient that the said land should be vested in the Mount Wellington Road Board:

Now, therefore, 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, and in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the fourth section of “The Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908,” doth hereby declare that, from and after the day of the date hereof, the reserve described in the Schedule hereto shall become vested in the Mount Wellington Road Board, in trust, for quarry purposes.

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 8 acres 2 roods 26 perches, more or less, being part of Allotment No. 64 of Section No. 12, Suburbs of Auckland. Bounded towards the north-west and north-east by Allotment No. 56 of Section No. 12, Suburbs of Auckland, 650 and 1400·1 links respectively; towards the south-east by the other part of Allotment No. 64, 669·8 links; and towards the south-west by a public road, 958·6 links, and Lot 3 of Small Lots near Panmure, 6·2 and 291·4 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. 1256, deposited at the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon coloured green.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Opening Settlement Lands in Canterbury 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 lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Thursday, the second day of December, one thousand nine hundred and nine, at the rentals mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—SELWYN COUNTY.—SELWYN SURVEY DISTRICT.—FYVIE SETTLEMENT.

First-class Land.

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

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Lands.

Notice of Intention to change the Purpose of a Portion of a Reserve in the Otago Land District.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by “The Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908,” it is, amongst other things, enacted that the Governor may declare his intention to change or alter the dedication of any public reserve now or hereafter vested in His Majesty or the Governor for any of the purposes named in Class II of the Second Schedule to the said Act, whether the same be granted or not; and if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to change the purpose of such reserve or any part thereof from the purpose or presumed purpose for which it was set apart to any other purpose, the Governor may, by notice gazetted, declare his intention to make such change, and in such notice declare the manner and terms in which the same is intended to be so made:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by “The Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908,” aforesaid, declare my intention to change the specific purpose of the portion of the reserve described in the second column of the Schedule hereto from that named in the first column of the said Schedule to that named in the third column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

Permanently reserved for a resting-place for stock by Warrant published in New Zealand Gazette No. 78, of the 15th October, 1908.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-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 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 Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa District Maori Land Board, by a recommendation made and passed by the said Board on the twenty-eighth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and nine, and received on the twentieth day of October, 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 as to permit 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 Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa District Maori Land Board