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-described in the First Schedule, or a greater number of such cattle than shall have been apportioned to him, every such person shall be liable, on the information of the Chairman of Committee, as for trespass of cattle on Crown lands, and also to any penalty or disability imposed in respect of unlawful occupation of Crown land.

21. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to interfere with the powers or duties of the Commissioner of Crown Lands of the district in which the lands described in the First Schedule are situated, whether under “The Land Act, 1908,” or under any other law or statute for the time being in force; and the said lands described in the First Schedule hereto shall, subject to the special provisions hereinbefore made, remain and be Crown lands for the purpose of the said Act, and subject thereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Waikaka Commonage.

All that area in the Southland Land District, containing by admeasurement 920 acres 2 roods 21 perches, more or less, being Section No. 10, Block IX, and Sections Nos. 14, 16, 17, and part of 12, Block XIV, Chatton Survey District. Bounded towards the north by a public road; towards the east by Sections Nos. 15 and 44, Block XIV aforesaid; again towards the north by said Section No. 44 and by Sections Nos. 11 and 16, Block IX aforesaid; towards the south-east and south by public roads and by Sections Nos. 18, 11, and 9, Block XIV aforesaid; and towards the west by public roads, the Township of Waikaka, and by Sections Nos. 1 and 2 of 14, Block XIV aforesaid: excepting therefrom Sections Nos. 67 and 68, Block XIV aforesaid, and also excepting the public roads and the Gore-Waikaka Railway intersecting the above-described area: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. 1205, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

(1.) Form of Application.

Pursuant to the regulations made under “The Land Act, 1908,” I, [Name in full], hereby apply for a license to depasture [Here insert number] head of cattle in the Waikaka Commonage, Southland County, such cattle being or to be forthwith branded as follows—viz. [Here insert description of stock, colour, sex, and brand of each]; and I agree to pay the prescribed fee for such license in respect of each head of such cattle in accordance therewith.

Dated this day of , 191 .
Signature: .
Address: .
Occupation: .

Received, £ .
, Postmaster.

(2.) Form of License.

Pursuant to the regulations made under “The Land Act, 1908,” [Name, address, and occupation of licensee] is hereby licensed to depasture on the Waikaka Commonage, in the County of Southland, the following [Insert description of cattle as to number, brands, &c., in respect of great cattle]; and has paid the sum of £ for issue of this license, being at the rate of for each head of stock. This license is to be in force until the 31st December, 191 , and is issued subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the said regulations.

Dated at , this day of , 191 .
, Chairman of Committee, Waikaka Commonage.

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

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Lands.

Opening Settlement Lands in Hawke’s Bay 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 Monday, the fourteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and ten, 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.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—COOK COUNTY.—WAIKOHU SURVEY DISTRICT.—NGATAPA SETTLEMENT.

Second-class Land.

• Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £1,550, payable in cash or in twenty-one years by half-yearly instalments of £60 9s. Total half-yearly payment, £205 7s.

† Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £350, payable in cash or in twenty-one years by half-yearly instalments of £13 13s. Total half-yearly payment, £52 16s.

‡ Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £200, payable in cash or in twenty-one years by half-yearly instalments of £7 16s. Total half-yearly payment, £100 14s. 6d.

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

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 Aotea District Maori Land Board, by a recommendation made and passed by the said Board on the twenty-fourth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ten, and received on the twenty-seventh 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.