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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 94

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 Auckland Land District, containing 10 acres 1 rood 24 perches, more or less, known as Kinohaku East No. 5B, Section 3A, and comprised in a particular order of the Native Land Court dated the 27th day of October, 1906, subject to the restriction that the land comprised therein “may be leased for any term not exceeding twenty-one years, but shall be otherwise inalienable except with the assent of the Governor.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this third day of November, 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 second day of October, one thousand nine hundred and nine, and received on the eighth 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 far as to permit the interest of Henare Teehi therein 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 far as to permit the interest of the said Henare Teehi to be sold.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Ohinewairua Survey District, containing 103 acres 1 rood 26 perches, more or less, known as Awarua 4A3C No. 5, and comprised in certificate of title, Vol. 157, folio 264, of the Register-book of the Wellington District, which said certificate of title contains the restriction that the land comprised therein shall be “inalienable.”

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

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

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 section 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 subsection 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.

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 5th November, 1909.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM BOWLING

to be the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Hampden.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Member of Kohinui Domain Board resigned.

Department of Lands,
Wellington, 3rd November, 1909.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of

JOHN McTAVISH, Jun.,

as a member of the Kohinui Domain Board.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Lands,