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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 95

Validating Rate made by Borough of Roxburgh.

ISLINGTON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of October, 1910.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS on the seventh day of July, one thousand nine hundred and ten, the Council of the Borough of Roxburgh made a general rate of one shilling and ninepence in the pound on all rateable property within the said borough for the year ending thirty-first March, one thousand and nine hundred and eleven: And whereas it appears that by misadventure the intention of the said Council to make the said rate was not publicly notified as required by section fifty of the Rating Act, 1908: And whereas it is expedient to validate the irregularity as hereinafter set forth:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the said Rating 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 rate so made as aforesaid shall be valid and effectual, notwithstanding the omission to publicly notify the intention to make the said rate.

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

Vesting Land in the Public Trustee under the West Coast Settlement Reserves Act, 1892.

ISLINGTON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of October, 1910.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section four of the West Coast Settlement (North Island) Act, 1880, the Governor in Council is empowered to make and set apart reserves for Natives within the “confiscated territory” described in the First Schedule to the said Act:

And whereas all such reserves hitherto so set apart have become vested in the Public Trustee in fee-simple under the West Coast Settlement Reserves Act, 1892, subject to the trusts respectively affecting the same:

And whereas it is expedient to set apart the land described in the Schedule hereto as a reserve for the further benefit of the Native owners thereof, to be ascertained under the provisions of the West Coast Settlement Reserves Act, 1892, and its amendments:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of all powers and authorities conferred by the first-before-recited Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby set apart the land described in the Schedule hereto; and with the like advice and consent doth direct that the said land shall vest in the Public Trustee in fee-simple under and subject to the provisions of the West Coast Settlement Reserves Act, 1892, and all amendments thereof; and with the like advice and consent doth direct the issue of a Crown grant of the land described in the said Schedule to the Public Trustee in fee-simple, subject as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece of land, containing 436 acres, more or less, being the Otuhuia Block, Block V, Nukumaru Survey District, in the Provincial District of Wellington.

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

Consenting to a Mortgage of Native Land.

ISLINGTON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of October, 1910.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section two hundred and thirty of the Native Land Act, 1909, it is provided that no instrument of alienation of Native land by way of mortgage or charge, other than a mortgage or charge in favour of a State Loan Department, shall be confirmed by a Board or Court without the precedent consent of the Governor in Council:

And whereas application has been made for the consent of the Governor in Council to a mortgage of the blocks or parcels of land mentioned in the Schedule hereto:

And whereas it is expedient that the precedent consent of the Governor in Council should issue:

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 consent to the alienation by way of mortgage of the blocks or parcels of land set out in the Schedule hereto. 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.

Prohibiting Private Alienation of certain Native Land.

ISLINGTON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of October, 1910.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

ON the recommendation of the Native Land Purchase Board, referred to in section three hundred and sixty-three of the Native Land Act, 1909, and in exercise of the power in this behalf conferred upon him by that section, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, doth hereby prohibit for the period of one year from the date of this Order in Council all alienations of the Native land specified in the Schedule hereto other than alienations in favour of the Crown.

SCHEDULE.

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

Lands permanently reserved.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-twenty-first section of the Land Act, 1908, it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:

And whereas by the three-hundred-and-twenty-second section of the said Act it is provided that land temporarily reserved under the said three-hundred-and-twenty-first section may, at the expiration of one month but not later than six months after the publication in the Gazette of notice of such temporary reservation, be permanently reserved, and that notice of such permanent reservation shall be published in the Gazette:

And whereas the lands specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto were, by the Warrants the dates of which are specified in the third column of the said Schedule, and the notifications of which were published in the Gazettes specified in the fourth column, temporarily reserved under the authority of the said Act for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule: