Sept. 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3221

Consenting to a Mortgage of Native Land.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this eleventh day of September, 1915.
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.
KAPONGARO NO. 2 Block: Approximate area, 80 acres 2 roods 16 perches; Auckland Provincial District.

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

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Consenting to a Mortgage of Native Land.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this eleventh day of September, 1915.
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.
TORERE NO. 1A Block, Section 28: Approximate area, 1 acre 1 rood 18 perches; Auckland Provincial District.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

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Declaring a Native to be a European.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this eleventh day of September, 1915.
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 John H Iden, Junior, of Tikokino, being a Native within the meaning of the Native Land Act, 1909, applied in the prescribed form for a recommendation of the Court that he 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 John Holden, Junior, 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 John Holden, Junior, of Tikokino, to be a European.

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

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Domain Board appointed to have Control of the Wangapeka Domain.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this eleventh day of September, 1915.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section forty of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, with respect to any public domain, appoint such persons (not exceeding nine) as he thinks fit to be a Domain Board having, subject to Part II of the said Act, control of such domain:

And whereas by an Order in Council made on the sixteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and seven, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the ninth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and eight, a Domain Board was appointed to control the Wangapeka Domain:

And whereas the period for which the said Board was appointed expired on the fifteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen:

And whereas it appears expedient to again appoint a Domain Board to control the domain:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers conferred by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby appoint

COMMISSIONER OF CROWN LANDS (ex officio),
LLEWELLYN WILLIAMS,
CHARLES GRAY,
TRACY MCCARTHY, Jun.,
HENRY SAMUEL GAINSFORD, and
WILLIAM THOMAS

to be the Wangapeka Domain Board, having control of the land described in the Schedule hereto, for the purposes of and subject to the provisions of the said Act; and doth hereby appoint Monday, the twentieth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, at seven o’clock p.m., as the time when, and Mr. Williams’s house, Matariki, as the place where, the first meeting of the Board shall be held.

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SCHEDULE.
WANGAPEKA DOMAIN.

ALL that area in the Nelson Land District, containing by admeasurement 13 acres 1 rood 33 perches, more or less, being Section No. 31, Block XV, Wangapeka Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Section No. 32 of the said Block XV, 2074 links; towards the south-east by Section No. 63 of the said Block XV, 2447 links; towards the west by the Wangapeka-Sherry Road, 1298 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 57736/1, deposited in the Head Office and Survey, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

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