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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 13

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 44 acres 1 rood 20 perches, more or less, being Section 31, Block XV, Takahue Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Section 32 of the same block and by the Herekino-Takahue Road; towards the south by Section 30 of the aforesaid block; and towards the west by the abutment and by the crossing of the Herekino-Takahue Road, and by Section 11, Block XIV, Takahue Survey District: save and excepting that portion of the Herekino-Takahue Road which intersects the above-described area: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 54544/6, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon bordered 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 tenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

THOS. MACKENZIE,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Revoking the Reservation over a Scenic Reserve in the Nelson Land District.

(L.S.) ISLINGTON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by Proclamation of even date published in the same issue of the New Zealand Gazette, certain land in the Nelson Land District, which had been reserved under the Land Act, 1892, for the preservation of scenery, was declared to be a reserve under the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, and its amendments:

And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto (being the land so set apart) is no longer suitable for scenic purposes by reason of the destruction of the forest thereon:

Now, therefore, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on me by section eight of the Scenery Preservation Amendment Act, 1910, do hereby revoke the said reservation of the said land for scenic purposes.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Nelson Land District, containing by admeasurement 171 acres 1 rood 25 perches, more or less, being Section 5, Block IX, Inangahua Survey District, as described in Proclamation of even date published in this Gazette.

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 tenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

THOS. MACKENZIE,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Authorizing the Maori Land Board to approve of an Alienation of Timber on Native Land.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this sixth day of February, 1912.

Present:

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

WHEREAS by section two of the Native Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1910, it is enacted that, notwithstanding the repeal by the Native Land Act, 1909, of section twenty-six of the Maori Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment Act, 1907, and of sections twenty-six and twenty-eight of the Maori Land Laws Amendment Act, 1908, any recommendation duly made by a Maori Land Board under those sections before the repeal thereof may be proceeded with and acted upon, and for this purpose all powers conferred by those sections upon the Native Minister, the Maori Land Board, and the Governor in Council, or any other person, may be exercised in the same manner, and the exercise thereof shall have the same effect, as if those sections were still in force; and for the purposes of that section every reference in those sections to a Board shall be construed as a reference to the Maori Land Board having for the time being jurisdiction in the district in which the land is situated to which the recommendation relates:

And whereas application has been made, under section twenty-six of the Maori Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment Act, 1907, to the Maori Land Board for the district for its approval to an instrument dated the sixteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and five, purporting to alienate the timber on Waimarino No. 4 Block:

And whereas, after due inquiry, made prior to the aforesaid repeal of the said section twenty-six, the Maori Land Board for the district reported to the Native Minister that such alienation, with suggested modifications, should be permitted:

And whereas the Native Minister has, with further modifications, approved such report, and referred the same to the Governor in Council: And whereas it is expedient to authorize the Maori Land Board for the district to approve, by minute indorsed thereon, of the said instrument of alienation, modified as suggested:

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 Maori Land Board for the district to approve, by minute indorsed thereon, of the said instrument of alienation, modified as suggested. And it is hereby declared that this Order in Council is made under the provisions in that behalf, and shall operate accordingly as a consent of the Governor in Council to the proceedings hereby authorized.

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

Certain Species of Birds indigenous to New Zealand not to be deemed protected.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this eleventh day of December, 1911.

Present:

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

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Animals Protection Amendment Act, 1908, as amended by the Animals Protection Amendment Act, 1910, 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 suspend the operation of section ten of the said Animals Protection Amendment Act, 1910, for the period ending on the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, with respect to the species of birds indigenous to New Zealand mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

Kea, or mountain parrot.
Hawks of all species.
Shags of the following species:—
Black shag (Phalacrocorax sulcirostris).
White-throated shag (Phalacrocorax brevirostris).
Sea shag (Phalacrocorax nova-hollandiae, Phalacrocorax carbo).

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

Declaring Portion of Road in the Township of Black's Point to be a Government Road.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this sixth day of February, 1912.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, BART.,
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