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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 13

And whereas by three several Proclamations under the hand of the Governor of New Zealand, dated respectively the twenty-sixth day of December, one thousand nine hundred, the thirtieth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and two, and the thirty-first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and six, districts were proclaimed and Returning Officers were appointed under powers conferred by sections three and four of the Maori Councils Act, 1900, aforesaid: And whereas the services of certain of the Returning Officers so appointed are through death and other causes no longer available:

Now, therefore, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand aforesaid, do hereby appoint the persons named in the first column of the Schedule hereto to be Returning Officers for the district set forth in the second column of the said Schedule, instead of the persons formerly appointed as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Government House, at Wellington, this sixth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

J. CARROLL,
Minister of Native Affairs.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Land proclaimed as a Road in Block XIV, Makotuku Survey District.

(L.S.) ISLINGTON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section two hundred and forty of the Native Land Act, 1909 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), it is provided, inter alia, that every Board shall, when necessary, cause all land vested in it under Part XIV of the said Act to be surveyed and subdivided into allotments, and in making any such subdivision shall lay off all such road-lines upon the land as are, in the opinion of the Board, required for the settlement thereof: And whereas section two hundred and ninety of the said Act further enacts that all land which is subject to Part XV of the said Act shall be held on the same trusts as land vested in a Board under Part XIV of the said Act, and all the provisions of that Part of that Act shall apply thereto accordingly in the same manner as if the land was subject to that Part of the said Act, with such exceptions and modifications as are created by Part XV of the said Act:

And whereas the Aotea District Maori Land Board has, in pursuance of the said section two hundred and forty, caused Sections 4 and 5, Block XIV, Makotuku Survey District, to be surveyed and subdivided into allotments, and has laid off upon the said land the road-line herein-after described: And whereas it is expedient that the said road-line should be proclaimed as a road:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on me by section two hundred and forty of the said Act, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim as a road the said road-line so laid off as aforesaid and described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land situate in the Makotuku Survey District, in the Land District of Wellington, containing 8 acres 3 roods 4 perches, more or less, being portion of Sections 4 and 5, Block XIV, of the said survey district, which said portion is more particularly delineated on a plan thereof deposited in the office of the Under-Secretary, Native Department, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Government House, at Wellington, this thirteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Proclaiming Native Land to be Crown Land, under Section 368 of the Native Land Act, 1909.

(L.S.) ISLINGTON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section three hundred and sixty-eight of the Native Land Act, 1909 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), it is provided, inter alia, that the Crown may purchase any Native land in pursuance of a resolution of the assembled owners passed and confirmed in accordance with Part XVIII of the said Act, and on the resolution being adopted by the Native Land Purchase Board it shall become a contract of purchase as between the Crown and all persons who are the owners of the land; and the Governor may by Proclamation, at any time after the contract of purchase has been so made, declare that the land so purchased is vested in His Majesty the King, and it shall vest accordingly, and shall become Crown land:

And whereas a resolution was passed by a meeting of assembled owners, and duly confirmed by the Tairawhiti District Maori Land Board, that the land set out in the Schedule hereto be sold to the Crown: And whereas the