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make and levy the special rate aforesaid, shall be and be deemed to have been as good, valid, and effectual as if the proper and required public notices thereof had been regularly made and given, and doth hereby validate such special orders accordingly, and doth hereby also declare that the proceedings relative to the said loan and its security shall not be called into question by reason only of the irregularity aforesaid.

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 twelfth day of September, 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 authorized by Order in Council so to exercise the same in respect of that land:

And whereas it is expedient that the Court should be authorized to exercise 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 authorize 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 authorized.

SCHEDULE.

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 twelfth day of September, 1910.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section five of the Urewera District Native Reserve Amendment Act, 1909, it is provided that the Native Land Court shall not, without the leave of the Governor in Council first obtained, exercise jurisdiction under Part VI of the Native Land Act, 1909:

And whereas it is expedient that the Court should be authorized to exercise that jurisdiction in respect of the lands mentioned 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 authorize the said Court to exercise in respect of the said lands, the jurisdiction conferred as aforesaid—that is to say, to partition the said lands, or any parts thereof, and for the purposes aforesaid to order 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 VI 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 Urewera District Native Reserve Amendment Act, 1909, and shall operate accordingly as a consent of the Governor in Council to the proceedings hereby authorized.

SCHEDULE.

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

Trustee for the Owaka Public Cemetery appointed.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the fourth section of the Cemeteries Act, 1908, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

THOMAS BARR

to be a Trustee, in the place of Andrew Richardson, resigned, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Owaka Public Cemetery, in conjunction with John Craig, Robert McLean, Thomas Latta, and Alexander Clark Saunders, previously appointed by His Excellency the Governor.

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

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Lands

Notice of Intention to change the Purpose of Portion of a Reserve in the Hawke’s Bay Land District.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

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, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor 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 portion of the reserve described in the second column of the Schedule hereto from that named in the first column of the said Schedule to that named in the third column of the said Schedule.