JULY 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1917

to the licensees three months’ previous notice in writing. Any such notice shall be sufficient if given by the Minister, and delivered at or posted to the last known address of the licensees in New Zealand.

7. The licensees shall maintain the above-mentioned timber-booms in good order and repair; and shall at all times exhibit therefrom, and maintain at their own cost, any lights that may be required by the Minister: Provided that no light shall be exhibited until after it has been approved of by the Minister.

8. Any person authorised by the Minister may, at all reasonable times, enter upon the said timber-booms, and view the state of repair thereof; and upon such Minister leaving at or posting to the last known address of the licensees a notice in writing of any defect or want of repair in such timber-booms, requiring them, within a reasonable time, to be the prescribed, to repair the same, they shall with all speed cause such defect to be removed or such repairs to be made.

9. The licensees shall be liable for any injury which may be sustained by any vessel or boat in passing the timber-booms, or by contact therewith, and which may be occasioned by any default or neglect on the part of the licensees.

10. In case the licensees shall—
    (1.) Commit or suffer a breach of the conditions hereinbefore set forth, or any of them;
    (2.) Cease to use or occupy the said timber-booms for a period of thirty days;
    (3.) Fail to pay the sums specified in clause three of these conditions; or
    (4.) Become bankrupt, or be in any manner brought under the operation of any law in force for the time being relating to bankruptcy,

then and in any of the said cases this Order in Council, and every right, power, or privilege, may be revoked and determined by the Governor in Council without any notice to the licensees or other proceeding whatsoever; and publication in the New Zealand Gazette of an Order in Council containing such revocation shall be sufficient notice to the licensees, and to all persons concerned or interested, that this Order in Council, and the rights and privileges thereby conferred, have been revoked and determined; and upon such revocation the Minister may cause the said timber-booms to be removed, and may recover the costs incurred by any such removal from the licensees.

11. The construction of the timber-booms shall be deemed to be an acceptance by the licensees of the conditions of this Order in Council.

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

Conferring Jurisdiction on Native Land Court.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this fourth day of July, 1910.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and three of the Native Land Act, 1909, it is enacted that the Native Land Court shall not proceed to exercise in respect of any land the jurisdiction conferred by Part V of that Act unless authorised by Order in Council so to exercise the same in respect of that land:

And whereas it is expedient that the Court should be authorised to exercise that jurisdiction in respect of the lands described in the Schedule hereto:

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, doth hereby authorise the said Court to exercise, in respect of the said lands, the jurisdiction conferred as aforesaid—that is to say, to determine whether or not the said lands, or any parts thereof, were, on ascertainment of the Native customary titles thereto, intended by the Native Land Court or by the nominal owner or owners of those lands to be held by the nominal owner or owners in trust for persons not named in the titles, and to determine who (if any) are the persons entitled beneficially to those lands, and the relative interests of all persons so entitled; and to order the inclusion of those persons in the title, either together with or in lieu of the nominal owners; and, if necessary or expedient, to partition the said lands among the persons so found entitled; and for the purposes aforesaid to order the cancellation or amendment of any existing instrument of title, and the issue of such new instruments of title as may be necessary, and generally to exercise in respect of the said lands all the jurisdiction conferred upon the Native Land Court by Part V of the Native Land Act, 1909.

And it is hereby declared that this Order in Council is made under the provisions in that behalf of the Native Land Act, 1909, and shall operate accordingly as a consent of the Governor in Council to the proceedings hereby authorised.

SCHEDULE.

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

Notice of Intention to change the Purpose of a Reserve in the Marlborough Land District.

ROBERT STOUT,
Administrator of the Government.

WHEREAS by the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, it is, amongst other things, enacted that the Governor may declare his intention to change, exchange, or alter the dedication of any public reserve now or hereafter vested in His Majesty or the Governor for any of the purposes named in Class II of the Second Schedule to the said Act, whether the same be granted or not; and in the case of any reserve made under the authority of section three hundred and twenty-one of the Land Act, 1908, if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to change the purpose of such reserve or any part thereof from the purpose or presumed purpose for which it was set apart to any other purpose, or if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to exchange any of the land comprised in such reserve for other land of equal value, to be dedicated to one or more purposes named in the said Class II, the Governor may, by notice gazetted, make such change, exchange, or dedication, as the case may be, and in such notice declare the manner and terms in which the same is intended to be so made:

Now, therefore, I, Robert Stout, the Administrator of the Government of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, aforesaid, declare my intention to change the specific purpose of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto from a site for a post and telegraph office to plantation purposes.

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Marlborough Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 rood 24 perches, more or less, being Section 5, Block XIII, Town of Seddon. Bounded towards the north-east by Richmond Street, 100 links; towards the south-east by Sections 1, 3, and 4, Block XIII, Town of Seddon, 400 links; towards the south-west by Mills Street, 88·9 links and 11·4 links; and towards the north-west by Section 7 of said Block XIII, 397·3 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. 5919/11c, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, this fourteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and ten.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Lands.