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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 20

Validating the Proceedings in connection with a Loan of £545 applied for by the Oroua County Council.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of February, 1910.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the Oroua County Council lately proposed to raise a loan of five hundred and forty-five pounds, under “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908,” for the purpose of completing the construction of certain roads in the Hiwinui and Otangaki Ridings of the Oroua County: And whereas the special order making the special rate in connection with the said loan was duly advertised in the Feilding Star and Oroua and Kiwitea Counties Gazette, a newspaper circulating in the said Oroua County, but was not advertised once in each of the four weeks immediately preceding the day on which the subsequent meeting was held, as by law required: And whereas a special meeting of the said County Council was held on the eighth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and nine, at which the said special order was confirmed: And whereas it appears that the ratepayers in the said Oroua County have not been misled by such irregularity, and it is expedient to validate the same:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section one hundred and twenty-one of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908,” and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby declare that the said special order shall be deemed and taken to be as valid as though the said public notifications had been properly made, and that the proceedings relative to the said loan shall not be called into question by reason only of such irregularity as aforesaid.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Vesting Reserves in the Dannevirke Borough Council.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of February, 1910.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto have been permanently reserved for the purposes specified in the last column of the said Schedule:

And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient that the said lands should be vested in the Dannevirke Borough Council:

Now, therefore, 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, and in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the fourth section of “The Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908,” doth hereby declare that, from and after the day of the date hereof, the reserves mentioned in the Schedule hereto shall become vested in the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Dannevirke Borough, in trust, as reserves for the purposes specified in the last column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.

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

Authorising Native to mortgage Land under Section 6 of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1897.”

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of February, 1910.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section six of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1897,” it is enacted that the Governor may, by Order in Council, authorise any Native owning land in severalty to mortgage such land to any lending Department of the Government, and that in such case the mortgage shall operate in all respects as if the mortgagor were other than a Native, and accordingly none of the restrictions, limitations, or provisions of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” or any other Act affecting Native land, or lands owned or held by Natives, shall apply, anything in any such Act to the contrary notwithstanding: And whereas Tuiri Waitere, of Turakina, in the Provincial District of Wellington, in the Dominion of New Zealand, being the owner in severalty of the block or parcel of land mentioned and particularised in the Schedule hereto, has applied to be allowed to mortgage the said block of land: And whereas by certificate bearing date the twenty-sixth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and nine, under the hand of Walter Edward Rawson, Esquire, a Judge of the Native Land Court of New Zealand, and the seal of the said Court, it was certified that the said Tuiri Waitere possesses, irrespective of the land proposed to be mortgaged, other land sufficient for his maintenance:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby authorise the said Tuiri Waitere to mortgage the land set out in the Schedule hereto to the New Zealand State-guaranteed Advances Office, being a lending Department of the Government as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, containing 49 acres 2 roods 7 perches, more or less, known as Waipu 1c No. 6, and being the whole of the land comprised in a partition order of the Native Land Court dated the 26th day of May, 1900.

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

Excepting Land from the Operation of Section 117 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of February, 1910.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section four of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” it is enacted that the Governor may, by Order in Council, except from the operation of section one hundred and seventeen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), for a limited period or otherwise, and either generally or for such purposes and subject to such restrictions as shall be in such Order specified, any land, wheresoever situate, which is for the time being subject to the operation of the said section, or any interest therein or right over the same, or may in like manner make such exception in favour exclusively of any lessee or any other person who has been bonâ fide in occupation of and has made improvements on such land, or has paid money to Native owners for lease or purchase thereof, prior to the passing of the said Act: Provided that no Order in Council under the provisions of this section shall take effect until after the expiration of two months from the date of the publication thereof in the Gazette:

And whereas the Aotea District Maori Land Board, by a recommendation made on the twenty-fifth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ten, and received on