JUNE 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1937

And whereas application has been made for the consent of the Governor in Council to a mortgage of undivided interests in the block or parcel 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 undivided interests in the block or parcel 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.

Empowering Maori Land Board to dispose of Land by way of Sale and Lease under the Native Land Act, 1909.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this seventh day of June, 1911.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE JAMES CARROLL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council bearing date the tenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and nine, the blocks or parcels of land named in the Schedules hereto (hereinafter collectively referred to as “the said land”) were declared to be subject to Part I of the Native Land Settlement Act, 1907, and which, by section two hundred and thirty-three of the Native Land Act, 1909, becomes subject to Part XIV of that Act:

And whereas by subsection three of section two hundred and thirty-nine of the Native Land Act, 1909, it is provided that, notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained in this section, the Governor may by Order in Council, on the recommendation of the Board in whose district the land is situated, in any case in which he is of opinion that an equal division of that land in manner aforesaid would be impracticable or inexpedient in the public interest or in the interests of the owners, authorize the division of that land in any other proportion, or authorize the whole of that land to be disposed of either by sale or lease: And whereas the Tokerau District Maori Land Board has recommended that it is expedient that the whole of the land set out in the First Schedule hereto shall be disposed of by way of sale, and the land set out in the Second Schedule hereto shall be disposed of by way of lease:

Now, therefore, 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 authorize the whole of the said land set out in the Schedules hereto to be disposed of by way of sale and lease; 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.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

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

Rule under the Judicature Act, 1908.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this seventh day of June, 1911.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE JAMES CARROLL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred by the fifty-first section of the Judicature Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, and with the concurrence of His Honour the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, and of His Honour Mr. Justice Sim, a Judge of the said Court, doth hereby make the following rule, and declare that such shall take effect on and after the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette:—

CLOSING OF COURT AND OFFICES.

The Supreme Court and the offices of the said Court throughout the Dominion shall be closed on Thursday, the 22nd day of June, in honour of the occasion of the celebration of the coronation of His Majesty King George V.

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

Additional Rules under the Judicature Act, 1908.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this tenth day of June, 1911.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by the fifty-first section of the Judicature Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, and with the concurrence of their Honours the Judges of the Supreme Court of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the rules contained in the Schedule hereto, and doth declare that the said rules set out in the said Schedule shall come into force and take effect on the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

SCHEDULE.

178A. WHERE under the Act of the Imperial Parliament intituled the Foreign Tribunals Evidence Act, 1856 (19 & 20 Vict. c. 113), or under section 24 of the Act of the Imperial Parliament intituled the Extradition Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 24), any civil or commercial matter or any criminal matter is pending before a Court or tribunal of a foreign country outside of His Majesty’s Dominions, and it is made to appear to the Court or a Judge thereof by commission, rogatoire, or letter of request, or other evidence as hereinafter provided, that such foreign Court or tribunal is desirous of obtaining the testimony in relation to such matter of any witness or witnesses within the jurisdiction, the Court or a Judge thereof may, on the ex parte application of any person shown to be duly authorized to make the application on behalf of such foreign Court or tribunal, and on production of the commission, rogatoire, or letter of request, or of a certificate signed in the manner and certifying to the effect mentioned in section 2 of the said Foreign Tribunals Evidence Act, 1856,