Feb. 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 439

months from the date of the publication thereof in the Gazette:

And whereas the Waikato District Maori Land Board, by a recommendation made on the twentieth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and nine, and received on the twentieth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and nine, has recommended the Governor to except from the operation of section one hundred and seventeen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” for the purpose of alienation by way of sale, the block or parcel of land particularised and set out in the Schedule hereto:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by section four of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby except the said land from the operation of section one hundred and seventeen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” for the purpose of alienation by way of sale.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Coromandel Survey District, containing 190 acres, more or less, known as Papaaroha No. 5E, and comprised in a partition order of the Native Land Court bearing date the 5th day of December, 1907, in favour of Tuati te Putu and another.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Vesting Land in Maori Land Board under Section 24 of “The Maori Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment Act, 1907.”

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-second day of January, 1910.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section twenty-four of “The Maori Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment Act, 1907,” it is enacted that any portion of any block of Maori land, not exceeding in any one case an area of five acres, which in the opinion of the Native Minister is suitable as a site for a fruit-preserving factory, dairy factory, cheese-factory, or creamery, or for any building required for any religious, charitable, educational, or public purpose, may be dealt with as in the said section is provided:

And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto is land which, in the opinion of the Native Minister, is suitable as a site for a dairy factory:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, doth hereby declare that the said land is vested in the Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa District Maori Land Board for an estate in fee-simple in possession, subject to all valid encumbrances, liens, and interests affecting the same, to be held and administered by the said Board for the benefit of the Maori owners, and in accordance with the provisions of the said section.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Otanake Survey District, in the Land District of Auckland, containing by admeasurement 5 acres, more or less, being a portion of the block of land known as Kinohaku East No. 5E (No. 2), which said area is more particularly delineated on the plan numbered 6381A (green), provisionally deposited in the Land Transfer Office, at Auckland.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Consenting to closing Road in Block XI, Pomahaka Survey District, Clutha County.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirty-first day of January, 1910.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and thirty-three, subsection (a), of “The Public Works Act, 1908,” it is enacted that a local authority shall not declare any county road or district road to be stopped, and such road shall not be deemed to be stopped, until the consent thereto of the Governor by Order in Council gazetted is obtained:

And whereas the Clutha County Council has applied for such consent in respect to the road described in the Schedule hereto:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and in exercise of the above-in-part-recited Act, 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 consent to the closing of the road mentioned in the Schedule hereto

SCHEDULE.

In the Otago Land District; as the same is 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.

Declaring the Makohine Valley Road, in the Rangitikei County, to be a County Road.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirty-first day of January, 1910.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him by “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 order and declare that the road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, be a county road.

SCHEDULE.

MAKOHINE VALLEY ROAD.

ALL that portion of road in the Wellington Land District, Rangitikei County, known as the Makohine Valley Road, commencing at the junction with the Mangaweka–Te Kapua Road, and proceeding generally in a north-easterly direction, fronting Sections 7 and 8, and part Section 9, Block V, Hautapu Survey District, and terminating at a point about 9 chains north of the boundary between Sections 8 and 9, Block V aforesaid, being a distance of two miles, more or less; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 25280, and deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured red, and lettered A.B.

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