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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 95

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 recom-
mendation 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 fourth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and
nine, and received on the nineteenth 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 Go-
vernor 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 recom-
mendation 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 as to permit the same to
be sold.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Uawa
Survey District, containing 16 acres 2 roods 27 perches,
more or less, known as Mangaheia 133r, and comprised in
a partition order of the Native Land Court dated the 10th
day of June, 1907, subject to the restriction that the land
comprised therein 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 fifth day of November, one thousand nine
hundred and nine.

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

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Removing Restrictions against Alienation of Native Land.

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PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by section fourteen of “The Maori Land
Laws Amendment Act, 1903,” it is enacted that, not-
withstanding 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 re-
commendation of the Board shall be given within six
months from the date of the receipt of such recommenda-
tion:
And whereas the Aotea District Maori Land Board, by a
recommendation made and passed by the said Board on
the first 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 alien-
ation 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 recom-
mendation of the Aotea District Maori Land Board afore-
said, 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, at a price to be not less than the
Government valuation of the same.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Belmont
Survey District, containing 33 acres and 8 perches, more or
less, known as Komangarautawhiri A No. 4c, and comprised
in a partition order of the Native Land Court dated the 28th
day of October, 1908, subject to the restriction that the land
comprised therein 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 from the making of
any such lease.

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

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

Postmaster appointed to take and receive Statutory Declara-
tions.

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PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by
the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of “The
Justices of the Peace Act, 1908,” I, William Lee, Baron
Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do
hereby notify and declare that

ROBERT ARCHIBALD BAYLIFFE and
ELIZABETH HUTCHINS,

being persons holding the office of Postmaster under “The
Post and Telegraph Act, 1908,” at Wairoa and Rerekapa
respectively, are authorised to take and receive statutory
declarations under the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth sec-
tion of “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.”

As witness my hand, this thirteenth day of Novem-
ber, one thousand nine hundred and nine.

PLUNKET, Governor.

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Inspector of Weights and Measures, Counties of Geraldine,
Levels, &c., appointed.

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

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

Constable CHARLES SAMUEL OSBORN

to be an Inspector of Weights and Measures, under “The
Weights and Measures Act, 1908,” for the Counties of
Geraldine, Levels, and Mackenzie, and Boroughs of
Geraldine, Temuka, and Timaru, vice Constable W. J.
Harvey.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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Members of Board of Trustees of Waiatarua Drainage District
appointed.

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

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased, in terms
of section 10 of “The Land Drainage Act, 1908,” to
appoint

WILLIAM STEPHEN COCHRANE,
JOSEPH JAMES CRAIG,
WILLIAM JOHNSTON CROWTHER,
CHARLTON DAWSON, and
OLIVER NICHOLSON

to be Trustees of the Waiatarua Drainage District.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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Registrars under “The Poisons Act, 1908,” for certain Dis-
tricts appointed.

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Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 12th November, 1909.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

JOHN TERRY

to be a Registrar, under “The Poisons Act, 1908,” for the
Provincial District of Taranaki, vice R. L. Stanford; also
to appoint

JOHN NELSON NALDER

to be a Registrar under the said Act for the Provincial Dis-
trict of Westland, vice D. Macfarlane; also to appoint

ERNEST CHARLES KELLING

to be a Registrar under the said Act for the Provincial
District of Nelson, vice C. H. W. Bowen; also to appoint

FREDERICK WILLIAM HART

to be a Registrar under the said Act for the Provincial Dis-
trict of Marlborough, vice John Terry; and also to appoint

JAMES ROLAND COLYER

to be a Registrar under the said Act for the Counties of
Southland, Wallace, Lake, Stewart Island, Fiord, and the
Boroughs of Invercargill, North Invercargill, South Inver-
cargill, East Invercargill, Avenal, Gladstone, Campbelltown,
Arrowtown, Gore, Mataura, Queenstown, Riverton, Winton,
and the Town Districts of Otatau and Wyndham, vice
S. E. McCarthy.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.