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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 11

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 sixth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ten, and received on the twenty-fourth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ten, 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:

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 as to permit the same to be sold.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land in the Waitohu Survey District, containing 6 acres 3 roods 6 perches, more or less, known as Manawatu-Kukutauaki 4B No. 1B, and comprised in a partition order of the Native Land Court bearing date the 1st day of July, 1904, subject to the restriction that the said land shall be “inalienable by sale, or by lease for a longer period than twenty-one years, or by mortgage, except with the consent of the Governor being previously obtained to every such sale, lease, or mortgage.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this thirty-first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ten.

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

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Appointment of Trustee for Napier Hospital to represent the Napier Borough Council.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section one hundred and nine of “The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1908,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

ALEXANDER EDWARD EAGLETON

to represent the Napier Borough Council on the Board of Trustees of the Napier Hospital, to hold office till the election of his successor under the above-named Act or its amendments.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this twenty-fifth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ten.

GEO. FOWLDS,
Minister of Hospitals and Charitable Aid.

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Warrant vesting Control of the Tarata Bridge in the Clifton County Council, and apportioning the Cost of Maintenance of the same between the Clifton County Council and the Taranaki County Council.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and twenty of “The Public Works Act, 1908” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), it is, inter alia, enacted that the Governor may, by Warrant under his hand publicly notified and gazetted, direct that any bridge already constructed, or which may hereafter be constructed, over or across any river or arm of the sea respectively shall, from and after a date to be fixed in such Warrant, be under the exclusive care, control, and management of such local authority as shall be mentioned in that behalf in such Warrant; and may by any such Warrant as aforesaid fix and determine whether all or any, and if so what part, of the cost, whether theretofore incurred or thereafter to be incurred, of maintaining, repairing, improving, or reconstructing any such bridge is to be provided and paid by the local authority or local authorities; and may by any such Warrant as aforesaid direct how, when, and to whom any such payment is to be made:

And whereas it is expedient that provision should be made under the hereinbefore-in-part-recited Act for the purposes hereinafter mentioned:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers and authorities in me vested by the said Act, and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby direct that the bridge mentioned in the Schedule hereto, and known as the Tarata Bridge (hereinafter called “the said bridge”), shall, from and after the date of this Warrant, be under the exclusive care, control, and management of the Clifton County Council; and, in further pursuance and exercise of the powers aforesaid, I do hereby fix and determine that the cost of maintaining, repairing, or improving the said bridge is to be provided and paid by the local authorities hereinafter mentioned in the following proportion, in terms of an agreement entered into between the Clifton County Council and the Taranaki County Council, and dated the thirteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and nine, viz.: The Clifton County Council to pay fifty per centum and the Taranaki County Council to pay fifty per centum of such cost respectively.

And I do also hereby direct that the contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Taranaki County Council towards the cost of maintaining, repairing, or improving the said bridge shall be paid from time to time, in the proportion hereinbefore prescribed and agreed upon, by the Council of the County of Taranaki out of the county fund of the said County of Taranaki within a period of three months after a demand in writing made by or on behalf of the Council of the County of Clifton, stating the amount so required to be paid and the purpose for which it is required, shall have been left at the office of the Taranaki County Council, and the payments so required to be made shall be made from time to time to the Clerk of the Clifton County Council for and on behalf of the Council of the County of Taranaki.

And I do hereby cancel and revoke the Proclamation dated the twenty-first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, vesting the control of and apportioning the cost of maintaining the said bridge, published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-eighth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one.

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SCHEDULE.

THAT bridge over the Waitara River known as the Tarata Bridge, situated on the Junction Road, about twelve miles in an easterly direction from Inglewood.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this twenty-fourth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ten.

R. McKENZIE,
Minister of Public Works.

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Warrant vesting Control of the Wairoa River Bridge, Fraser-town, in the Wairoa County Council.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and twenty of “The Public Works Act, 1908” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), it is, inter alia, enacted that the Governor may, by warrant under his hand publicly notified and gazetted, direct that any bridge already constructed, or which may hereafter be constructed, over or across any river or arm of the sea respectively shall, from and after a date to be fixed in such Warrant, be under the exclusive care, control, and management of such local authority as shall be mentioned in this behalf in such Warrant; and may by any such Warrant as aforesaid fix and determine whether all or any, and if so what part, of the cost, whether theretofore incurred or thereafter to be incurred, of maintaining, repairing, or reconstructing any such bridge is to be provided and paid by the local authority or local authorities, and, if so, by what local authority or local authorities; and may by any such Warrant as aforesaid direct how, when, and to whom any such payment is to be made:

And whereas it is expedient to make provision under the said Act for the purposes and in the manner hereinafter set forth:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the