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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 89

Act, 1908 (hereunder termed the said Act), for the conduct of examinations preceding promotion of officers of the Post and Telegraph Department; and it is expedient to alter and amend such regulations in the manner hereinafter set forth:

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 revoke regulation numbered 50A of the hereinbefore-mentioned regulations, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the regulation set forth in the Schedule hereto, and doth order and declare that such regulation shall be read as part of the hereinbefore-mentioned regulations, and shall have effect on and after the first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

SCHEDULE.

50A. Officers who fail to pass one of the examinations required by clause 50 hereof within two years from the date on which they would otherwise by lapse of time become qualified to be paid the maximum salary of the Eighth Class shall be promoted to the Seventh Class from the date only on which they pass the final examination of their class.

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

Prohibiting all Private Alienation of certain Native Land.

ISLINGTON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this first day of November, 1911.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, BART.,
PRESIDING 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 alienation of the Native land specified in the Schedule hereto other than an alienation in favour of the Crown.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Waitara and Maungaharuru Survey District, containing 8,840 acres, more or less, and being the land known as Heruatureia Block.

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

Varying an Order in Council prohibiting all Private Alienation of certain Native Lands.

ISLINGTON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this first day of November, 1911.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, BART.,
PRESIDING 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 vary an Order in Council dated the sixteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, and published in the New Zealand Gazette dated the eighteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, in so far as and to permit the owners of the land set out in the Schedule hereto to alienate their interests by way of 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.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Takapau Survey District, in the Provincial District of Hawke's Bay, containing 557 acres 1 rood, more or less, and being the land known as Otawhao A No. 4, Sections 4 and 5.

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

Authorizing the Alienation of Native Land notwithstanding the Provisions of Part XII of the Native Land Act, 1909.

ISLINGTON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this first day of November, 1911.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, BART.,
PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

Whereas Mary Spooner, of Rata, aboriginal Native, is desirous of granting, and Booth and Company (Limited) is desirous of obtaining, an easement over the pieces or parcels of land particularized and set out in the Schedule hereto: And whereas the said company is prevented by Part XII of the Native Land Act, 1909, from obtaining the said easement over the said land:

And whereas the said company proposes to erect a tramway on and over the said land for the carriage of timber, standing and being on the said land and on the adjoining land, and His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand deems it expedient in the public interest that the acquisition of the said easement for a tramway over the said land by the said company from the said Mary Spooner should be authorized, in manner provided by section two hundred and three of the Native Land Act, 1909:

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, and pursuant to the powers vested in him by section two hundred and three of the Native Land Act, 1909, and of every other power him thereunto enabling, doth hereby authorize the acquisition by the said company from the said Mary Spooner of the said easement for a tramway over the said pieces or parcels of land; and doth hereby authorize and declare that the same may be acquired by the said company from the said Mary Spooner, notwithstanding any of the provisions of Part XII of the Native Land Act, 1909.

SCHEDULE.

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

The Education Act, 1908.—Attendance Registers and Returns.

ISLINGTON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this first day of November, 1911.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, BART., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

In exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Education Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke regulation six, relating to attendance registers and returns, made under the authority of the said