July 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2851

And whereas the Whakatane County Council has laid before the Governor a memorial, accompanied by a map, in duplicate, and also the statutory declaration, as required by the said Act:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the Public Works Act, 1908, and the Counties Act, 1908, and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for the purposes of the said quarry as from the date hereinafter specified, and shall vest in the Corporation of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Whakatane; and I do also hereby direct that this Proclamation shall take effect on and after the fifteenth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land taken: 1 acre.
Portion of Section No. 12, Rangitaiki Parish (16907, blue). Situated in Block VII, Survey District of Rangitaiki Upper.
Shown on plan P.W.D. 35834.
Coloured on plan: Edged red.

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District.

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 twenty-first day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Alteration in the Name of the Woodville Central Agricultural and Pastoral Society.—Notice No. 1751.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this thirteenth day of July, 1914.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by the Agricultural and Pastoral Societies Amendment Act, 1912, 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 change the name of the society incorporated under the Agricultural and Pastoral Societies Act, 1908, under the style and title of the Woodville Central Agricultural and Pastoral Society to the Woodville Agricultural and Pastoral Association.

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

Consenting to a Mortgage of Native Land.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

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

SCHEDULE.

WAITOHU 1B No. 2 Block: Approximate area, 2 acres 1 rood 32 perches; Wellington Provincial District.

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

Declaring a Native to be a European.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twentieth day of July, 1914.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section seventeen of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1912, it is enacted that the Governor may by Order in Council, on the recommendation of the Native Land Court, declare any Native to be a European:

And whereas Maud Airini Tiakitai La Morte, of Crissoge, Napier, being a Native within the meaning of the Native Land Act, 1909, applied in the prescribed form for a recommendation of the Court that she might be declared a European: And whereas the said Court, having duly inquired into the said application, has recommended that an Order in Council be issued declaring the said Maud Airini Tiakitai La Morte to be a European: And whereas it is expedient that such declaration should be made:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authority conferred on him by section seventeen of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1912, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby declare the said Maud Airini Tiakitai La Morte to be a European.

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

Declaring a Native to be a European.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twentieth day of July, 1914.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section seventeen of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1912, it is enacted that the Governor may by Order in Council, on the recommendation of the Native Land Court, declare any Native to be a European:

And whereas Tuahine Renata, of Waimarama, being a Native within the meaning of the Native Land Act, 1909, applied in the prescribed form for a recommendation of the Court that she might be declared a European: And whereas the said Court, having duly inquired into the said application, has recommended that an Order in Council be issued declaring the said Tuahine Renata to be a European: And whereas it is expedient that such declaration should be made:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authority conferred on him by section seventeen of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1912, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby declare the said Tuahine Renata to be a European.

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