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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 16

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 fifth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ten, and received on the second day of February, 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.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land in the Wellington Land District, containing 6 acres 2 roods 26·5 perches, more or less, known as Subdivision 28 of Section 8 of Block XI, Belmont Survey District, and comprised in an order of the Native Land Court, on investigation of title, dated the 21st day of March, 1888, subject to the restriction that the said land “may be leased, but shall not be otherwise disposed of.”

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

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

Removal of Restrictions on Alienation of Hikurangi Block in Favour of a Sale to His Majesty the King only.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the fourteenth section of “The Native Land Purchases Act, 1892,” and of all other powers in any-wise enabling me in this behalf, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby, for the purposes of a sale to His Majesty the King only, remove the restrictions on alienation contained in the order of the Native Land Court for Hikurangi Block, situated in Block XIV, Pirongia Survey District, in the Auckland Land District.

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

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

Postmaster appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

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

GEORGE HAYNES MORRISH,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster under “The Post and Telegraph Act, 1908,” at Takaka, is authorised to take and receive statutory declarations under the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.”

As witness my hand, this twenty-first day of February, one thousand nine hundred and ten.

PLUNKET, Governor.

Member of Clutha River Board appointed.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 14th February, 1910.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

DAVID THOMAS FLEMING, of Balclutha,

to be a member of the Clutha River Board under “The Clutha River Board Empowering Act 1898 Amendment Act, 1900,” vice David Stewart, resigned.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Inspectors of Weights and Measures for certain Districts appointed.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 14th February, 1910.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned persons to be Inspectors of Weights and Measures, under “The Weights and Measures Act, 1908,” for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz.:

Name. District.
Constable THOMAS ELLIOTT CREEKS Counties of Eden, Manukau, and Waitemata, and Boroughs of City of Auckland, Parnell, Onehunga, Grey Lynn, Newmarket, Devonport, Birkenhead, Northcote, and Mount Eden.
Constable DONALD SHAW County of Horowhenua and Borough of Levin.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 18th February, 1910.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ALFRED WILLIAM DOWNER

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

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Auditor under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1908,” licensed.

The Treasury, New Zealand,
Friendly Societies Office,
Wellington, 17th February, 1910.

IN pursuance of the 10th section of “The Friendly Societies Act, 1909,” His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to license

ARTHUR JAMES PETHERICK,

of Wellington, to act as a Public Auditor for the purposes of “The Friendly Societies Act, 1909.”

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Finance.

Inspector of Factories appointed.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 22nd February, 1910.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable JOHN JAMES O’GRADY

to be an Inspector under “The Factories Act, 1908.” The appointment is dated the 17th day of February, 1910.

J. A. MILLAR,
Minister of Labour.