Jan. 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 277

under the [Name the Act], for the purpose of [Name the purpose], on the day of , 19 , and that on and from that date the yearly rent reserved by the lease is reduced from [Name original amount] to [Name reduced amount].

Dated at , this day of 19 .

SCHEDULE.

[Specify the land by description and plan.]

, Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

Validating the Public Notifications of the Special Order making the Special Rate in connection with a Loan of £1,500 for the Purpose of paying the Board's Share of the Cost of Construction of the Wairau Traffic-bridge, applied for by the Spring Creek Road Board.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of January, 1910.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Spring Creek Road Board lately proposed to raise a loan of one thousand five hundred pounds for the purpose of paying the Board’s share of the cost of construction of the Wairau Traffic-bridge in terms of the Governor’s Warrant duly gazetted on the eighth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and nine: And whereas the special order making the rate as security for the said loan was duly advertised in the Marlborough Herald on fourteenth October, twenty-first October, twenty-eighth October, and fourth November, one thousand nine hundred and nine: And whereas the meeting confirming the said resolution was held on the thirteenth November, one thousand nine hundred and nine: And whereas in the publication of such special order as aforesaid the advertisement did not appear in the said Marlborough Herald in the last week immediately preceding the date of confirmation: And whereas it appears that the ratepayers 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 and authorities 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 order and declare that the said special order shall be deemed as good and effectual as if the same had been advertised in the last week immediately preceding the confirmation of the said special order, and that such special order shall not be called into question by reason only of such irregularity as aforesaid.

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 Buildings, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of January, 1910.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G., PRESIDING 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 Rawea Taraua Utiku (otherwise known as Rawea Utiku), of Parewanui, 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-third day of March, one thousand nine hundred and nine, under the hand of William Gilbert Mair, Esquire, a Judge of the Native Land Court of New Zealand, and the seal of the said Court, it was certified that the said Rawea Taraua Utiku possesses, irrespective of the land proposed to be mortgaged, other land sufficient for her 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 Rawea Taraua Utiku to mortgage the land set out in the Schedule hereto to the Government Advances to Settlers Office, being a lending Department of the Government as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situated in the Ongo Survey District, containing 194 acres and 9 perches, more or less, known as Taraketi No. 1A, and being the land comprised in a partition order of the Native Land Court bearing date the 15th day of June, 1907.

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 Buildings, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of January, 1910.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G., PRESIDING 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 Rakerā Hūnia (otherwise known as Rakerā Potaka), of Pourewa, 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-third day of March, one thousand nine hundred and nine, under the hand of William Gilbert Mair, Esquire, a Judge of the Native Land Court of New Zealand, and the seal of the said Court, it was certified that the said Rakerā Hūnia possesses, irrespective of the land proposed to be mortgaged, other land sufficient for her 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 Rakerā Hūnia to mortgage the land set out in the Schedule hereto to the Government Advances to Settlers Office, being a lending Department of the Government as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situated in the Ongo Survey District, containing 194 acres and 5 perches, more or less, known as Taraketi No. 1E, and being the land comprised in a partition order of the Native Land Court bearing date the 15th day of June, 1907.

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