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anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for scenic purposes and for road access thereto; and I do also hereby declare that this Proclamation shall take effect on and after the twenty-sixth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

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SCHEDULE.

FOR SCENIC RESERVE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land taken: 5 acres 2 roods, being portion of Tauakira 2n No. 2 (red).

FOR ROAD ACCESS.

Approximate areas of the pieces of land taken: 1 acre 0 roods 18·3 perches and 1 rood 21 perches, being portions of Tauakira 2o (neutral tint).

Situated in Block III, Waipakura Survey District, Wellington Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 34667, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured red and neutral tint.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 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 eighth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

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Conferring Jurisdiction on Native Land Court.

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LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this seventh day of September, 1914.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and three of the Native Land Act, 1909, it is enacted that the Native Land Court shall not proceed to exercise in respect of any land the jurisdiction conferred by Part V of that Act unless authorized by Order in Council so to exercise the same in respect of that land:

And whereas it is expedient that the Court should be authorized to exercise jurisdiction in respect of the land described in the Schedule hereto:

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 authorize the said Court to exercise, in respect of the said land, the jurisdiction conferred as aforesaid—that is to say, to determine whether or not the said land or any part thereof was, on ascertainment of the Native customary title thereto, intended by the Native Land Court or by the nominal owner or owners to be held in trust for persons not named in the title, and to determine who (if any) are the persons entitled beneficially to the land, and the relative interests of all persons so entitled; and to order the inclusion of those persons in the title, either together with or in lieu of the nominal owners; and, if necessary or expedient, to partition the said land among the persons so found entitled; and for the purposes aforesaid to order the cancellation or amendment of any existing instrument of title, and the issue of such new instruments of title as may be necessary, and generally to exercise in respect of the said land all the jurisdiction conferred upon the Native Land Court by Part V of the Native Land Act, 1909.

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.

Lot 182, Parish of Te Puna Block: Approximate area 204 acres; Auckland Provincial District.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

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Consenting to a Mortgage of Native Land.

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LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this seventh day of September, 1914.

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.

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SCHEDULE.

Pokura 2f 1 Block: Approximate area, 189 acres 1 rood 24 perches; Auckland Provincial District.

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

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Consenting to a Mortgage of Native Land.

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LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this seventh day of September, 1914.

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.

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SCHEDULE.

Ruatangata 2g No. 4 Block: Approximate area 255 acres and 22 perches; Wellington Provincial District.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council