Jan. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 189

Vesting Land in Maori Land Boards.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this thirteenth day of January, 1912.

Present :

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

WHEREAS by section two hundred and eighty-eight of the Native Land Act, 1909, it is enacted that if any area of Native freehold land is not kept properly cleared of noxious weeds in accordance with the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, the Governor may by Order in Council vest that land in the Maori Land Board of the district in which it is situated, and the land so vested shall thereupon become subject to Part XV of the Native Land Act, 1909 :

And whereas the land set out in the Schedule hereto is not kept properly cleared of noxious weeds in accordance with the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908 : And whereas it is expedient that the said land should be vested in the Maori Land Board of the district in which it is situated :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section two hundred and eighty-eight 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 vest the land particularized and set out in the Schedule hereto in the Aotea District Maori Land Board, to be held by the said Board, in trust, for the owners beneficially entitled thereto in accordance with their respective interests. 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.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Tauakira Survey District, in the Land District of Wellington, containing 197 acres, more or less, being the land bounded towards the south and south-east by the Wanganui River; towards the north and north-east by the Kaikaka Creek; towards the north-west by the Ranana Block, 50 links, 895 links, and 362 links respectively; towards the west by Ranana Block, 282 links, by part of Uata Creek, and by lines 1510 links and 617 links respectively, and known as Ranana Native Reserve.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

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Validating Notifications with respect to Proposed Loan of £3,500 for extending District Sewerage System, Arch Hill Road District.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this thirteenth day of January, 1912.

Present :

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

WHEREAS the Arch Hill Road Board lately proposed to raise by special order under section sixty-nine of the Public Health Act, 1908, a loan of three thousand five hundred pounds for the purpose of the extension of the district sewerage system, and, for the purpose of providing interest and sinking fund thereon, to levy a special rate of threepence three farthings in the pound on all rateable properties in the Arch Hill Road District : And whereas the public notification of the time and place fixed for the meeting of the said Board to confirm, as a special order, the resolution to raise such loan and levy such rate, and of the resolution itself, was advertised in each of the four successive weeks immediately preceding the day on which the meeting was to be held, but such publication was not effected in one and the same newspaper circulating in the Arch Hill Road District as required by the Road Boards Act, 1908, but was effected partly in the Auckland Star newspaper and partly in the New Zealand Herald newspaper, each of which newspapers circulates in the said road district, and the said notice as so published did not specifically mention the intention to levy the said special rate : And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled by such irregularity, and it is expedient to validate the same :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section one hundred and twenty-one of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, and section seven of the Local Bodies’ Loans Amendment Act, 1910, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby declare that the said public notification shall be valid and effectual to all intents and purposes as though the same had been properly published as required by the Road Boards Act, 1908, and had specifically mentioned the intention to levy the said special rate, and had been in due form and duly published as required by law; and that the proceedings in connection with the said loan shall not be called in question by reason of the irregularity aforesaid.

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

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Notice of Intention to change the Purpose of Portion of a Reserve in the Marlborough Land District.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

WHEREAS by the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, it is, amongst other things, enacted that the Governor may declare his intention to change, exchange, or alter the dedication of any public reserve now or hereafter vested in His Majesty or the Governor for any of the purposes named in Class II of the Second Schedule to the said Act, whether the same be granted or not; and in the case of any reserve made under the authority of section three hundred and twenty-one of the Land Act, 1908, if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to change the purpose of such reserve or any part thereof from the purpose or presumed purpose for which it was set apart to any other purpose, or if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to exchange any of the land comprised in such reserve for other land of equal value, to be dedicated to one or more of the purposes named in the said Class II, the Governor may, by notice gazetted, make such change, exchange, or dedication, as the case may be, and in such notice declare the manner and terms in which the same is intended to be so made :

Now, therefore, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, aforesaid, declare my intention to change the specific purpose of the portion of the reserve described in Part II of the Schedule hereto from that named in Part I of the said Schedule to that named in Part III of the said Schedule.

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SCHEDULE.

PART I.

Description and Purpose of Original Reserve.

ALL that area in the Marlborough Land District, containing by admeasurement 40 acres, more or less, situated in Block XII, Linkwater Survey District, adjoining the Town of Picton, and being Section 55, Picton Suburban. Bounded towards the north-west and north-east by Crown land; towards the east generally by Picton Town Sections Nos. 997 and 999 and a public road; and towards the south-west by section numbered 12, Picton Suburban: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. 5330/6, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

Set apart as a reserve for timber by notification in Marlborough Provincial Gazette No. 88, of the 22nd December, 1864, and granted to the Superintendent of Marlborough on the 27th January, 1866, for the purpose of supplying timber for the public service.

PART II.

Description of Portion of Reserve the Purpose of which it is intended to change.

All that area in the Marlborough Land District, containing by admeasurement 10 acres 2 roods 14 perches, more or less, being part of Section 55, Picton Suburban, situated in Block XII, Linkwater Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by part Section 55, 563·2 links; towards the south-east by a public road, 192·1 links, 325·5 links, 224·7 links, and 739·5 links; towards the south-west by Section 12, Block XII, Linkwater Survey District, 769·5 links; and towards the north-west by part of Section 55, 1500 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. 5330/4, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

PART III.

Intended Purpose.

For railway purposes.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

D. BUDDO,
For Minister of Lands.