JULY 11.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

2201

Consenting to a Mortgage of Native Land.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this ninth day of July, 1912.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section two hundred and thirty of the Native Land Act, 1909, it is provided that no instrument of alienation of Native land by way of mortgage or charge, other than a mortgage or charge in favour of a State Loan Department, shall be confirmed by a Board or the Court without the precedent consent of the Governor in Council:

And whereas application has been made for the consent of the Governor in Council to a mortgage of 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 confirmation of an alienation by way of mortgage of 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.

Exempting a Native from the Provisions of the Native Land Act, 1909, with respect to Landless Natives, and consenting to the Confirmation of an Alienation by the Maori Land Board.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this ninth day of July, 1912.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section four hundred and twenty-five of the Native Land Act, 1909, it is enacted that—

1. The Governor may by Order in Council, in any case in which he thinks it expedient so to do, consent to the confirmation of any alienation, or to the confirmation of any resolution of assembled owners, or to any purchase by the Native Land Purchase Board, or to any exchange of Native land, notwithstanding the fact that any Native may thereby become landless within the meaning of this Act; and thereupon the said confirmation, purchase, or exchange may take place and shall have effect in the same manner as if that Native retained Native freehold land sufficient for his adequate maintenance:
2. No such consent shall be given except on the recommendation of the Native Land Court or of the Maori Land Board of the district in which the land is situated:
3. No such consent shall be given unless the Governor is satisfied that the said Native is able to maintain himself by his own means or labour, and that the transaction consented to is not contrary to the public interest:

And whereas, to enable confirmation of a sale by the owner of Part 1, Section 348, Parish of Taupiri, the Waikato-Maniapoto District Maori Land Board recommends that such consent shall be given: And whereas it is expedient so to do:

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 consent to the confirmation of the aforesaid sale, notwithstanding the fact that the Native may thereby become landless within the meaning of the said Act. 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.

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

Mill Dam and Land at Cust, Canterbury, to be a Sanctuary for Imported and Native Game.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

PURSUANT to the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection Act, 1908, I, John Peynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that the mill dam and land adjoining, situated in part Rural Sections Nos. 5343 and 5606, Block VII, Mairaki Survey District, containing 9 acres 2 roods 16 perches, more or less, the property of Mr. R. Gardner, shall be a sanctuary for the purposes of the said Animals Protection Act, and that no imported game or native game shall be taken or killed within the said area.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eighth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Notifying the Proposed Exchange of Crown Land in the Wellington Land District for other Land.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and forty-two of the Land Act, 1908, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, whenever he deems it expedient in the public interest, to grant in fee-simple any area of Crown land which is subject to the provisions of the said Act in exchange for the fee-simple of any other land which in his opinion is of approximately equal value:

And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient to exchange the Crown land described in the First Schedule hereto for the lands described in the Second