1338
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 32

never been definitely settled: And whereas it is expedient
to settle all doubts as to the jurisdiction of the Native
Land Court to exercise the powers given to it in the matter
by sections fourteen to seventeen of the said Act: And
whereas the Public Trustee has preferred a request that
such jurisdiction should be exercised:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers
conferred by the said Act and by section twenty-five of
the Native Land Act, 1909, and acting by and with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said
Dominion, doth hereby direct the said Native Land Court
to exercise in respect of the said land all powers and
authorities conferred on the said Court by any statutes in
this behalf and necessary for determining who are the
Native owners of the land set forth in the Schedule here-
under appearing, and their relative shares or interests
therein as against each other, and to cause a list showing
the names of such Native owners, and their shares or
interests as determined, to be filed in the office of the
Public Trustee; and to do, order, and determine all other
acts, matters, and things coming within the scope of the
directions in the said Acts and of this Order in Council
respectively.

———

SCHEDULE.

ALL those pieces of land more particularly described in
section 22 of the Native Land Claims Adjustment Act,
1910, being Lots 16B, 17B, 18B, 19B, 20B, 21B, and 22B of
Section 382, Okotuku Survey District, and deemed to
form part of the Otuhuia Block, Block V, Nukumaru
Survey District, in the Provincial District of Wellington;
and also 436 acres, more or less, being other part of the
said block vested in the Public Trustee by Order in
Council dated the 24th day of October, 1910.

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

———

Declaring Roads at Te Karaka taken in Connection with
the Gisborne–Karaka Railway to be County Roads.

———

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this sixth
day of April, 1911.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE J. A. MILLAR PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in
him by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other
powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excel-
lency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council
of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and declare that
certain roads at Te Karaka, on the Gisborne–Karaka
Railway, situated in the County of Waikohu, and de-
scribed in the Schedule hereto, and which said roads have
hitherto been Government roads within the meaning of
the said Act, shall, on and after the date of this Order
in Council, become county roads.

———

SCHEDULE.

ALL those parcels of land in the Hawke’s Bay Land
District, containing in the aggregate 2 acres 2 roods
18 perches, more or less, being portions of Karaka No. 1,
situated in Block No. IV, Waihoku Survey District, and
being those portions of land at Te Karaka taken for roads
in connection with the Gisborne–Karaka Railway by a
Proclamation dated the 11th day of May, 1904, and pub-
lished in the New Zealand Gazette No. 43, of the 19th
day of May, 1904; as the said parcels of land are more
particularly shown, coloured purple, on plan marked
W.R. 18447, deposited in the office of the Minister of
Railways, at Wellington.

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

———

Domain Board appointed to have Control of the
Waiopehu Domain.

———

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this sixth
day of April, 1911.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE J. A. MILLAR PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section forty-seven of the Public Re-
serves and Domains Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed
“the said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor may from
time to time, by Order in Council gazetted, appoint any
local authority to be the Domain Board having, subject to
the said Act, control of any public domain:

And whereas by an Order in Council made on the
seventeenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and
one, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the
second day of May, one thousand nine hundred and one,
powers were delegated to the Horowhenua County Council
in respect of the Waiopehu Domain for a term of ten
years:

And whereas it appears expedient to again appoint a
Domain Board to control the said domain:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers con-
ferred by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion,
doth hereby appoint

THE HOROWHENUA COUNTY COUNCIL,

as from the seventeenth day of April, one thousand nine
hundred and eleven, to be the Waiopehu Domain Board,
having the control of the land described in the Schedule
hereto for the purposes of and subject to the pro-
visions of Part II of the said Act; and doth hereby
appoint Saturday the thirteenth day of May, one thousand
nine hundred and eleven, at half past two o’clock p.m.,
as the time when, and the Council Chambers, Levin, as
the place where, the first meeting of the Board shall be
held.

———

SCHEDULE.

WAI O P E H U D O M A I N.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing
by admeasurement 16 acres 2 roods, more or less, being
Section No. 43, Block II, Waiopehu Survey District.
Bounded towards the north-east by the Horowhenua Road
East; towards the south-east and south-west by Section
No. 44; and towards the north-west by Section No. 41:
as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. 1454,
deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at
Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

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 Buildings, at Wellington, this sixth
day of April, 1911.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE J. A. MILLAR PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section four of the West Coast Settle-
ment (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 de-
scribed 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 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 189 acres, more or less,
being Section 76, Block II, Wairoa Survey District, in
the Provincial District of Wellington.

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