948 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. No. 44

Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand,
do hereby abolish the existing registration districts known
as the Newman and Eketa-huna Districts, and do proclaim
and declare that the territory heretofore comprised within the
said districts is hereby constituted one registration district,
the name whereof shall be the Eketa-huna District, and the
boundaries whereof shall be conterminous with the boundaries
of the marriage district bearing the same name, as are set
forth in a Proclamation of even date herewith, made under
the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908.

And I hereby declare that this Proclamation shall come
into operation on the first day of April, in the year of our
Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

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 Zea-
land and its Dependencies; and issued under
the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Govern-
ment House at Wellington, this fifteenth day of
March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine
hundred and fifteen.

H. D. BÉLL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Allocating Land reserved and taken for a Railway to the
Purposes of a Road at Eketa-huna.

[L.S.] LIVERPOOL, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto
forms part of land taken for the purposes of the
Wellington-Napier Railway, and it is considered desirable
to allocate such land to the purposes of a road :

And whereas it has been certified by the Minister of
Railways that such land is not required for railway
purposes: And whereas such land is situated in the
Borough of Eketa-huna, the local authority of which has
assented to the issue of this Proclamation :

And whereas His Excellency the Governor is of opinion
that the said local authority can conveniently construct
and maintain the said road :

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 section one hundred and ninety-seven of
the Public Works 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 shall, upon the publication hereof in the New Zealand
Gazette, become a road, and that the said road shall be
under the control of the Eketa-huna Borough Council, and
shall be maintained by the said Council in like manner as
other public highways are controlled and maintained by
the said Council.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land: 19·1 perches.
Portion of railway reserve (S.O. 1251).
Situated in Block X, Mangaone Survey District, Borough
of Eketa-huna.

In the Wellington Land District; as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan marked W.R. 22267,
deposited in the office of the Minister of Railways at
Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and
thereon coloured pink, edged red.

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 Zea-
land and its Dependencies; and issued under
the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Govern-
ment House at Wellington, this seventeenth day
of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand
nine hundred and fifteen.

W. H. HERRIES,
Minister of Railways.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Proclaiming Native Land to be Crown Land under
Section 368 of the Native Land Act, 1909.

[L.S.] LIVERPOOL, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section three hundred and sixty-eight
of the Native Land Act, 1909 (hereinafter referred
to as “the said Act”), it is provided, inter alia, that the
Crown may purchase any Native land in pursuance of a
resolution of the assembled owners passed and confirmed
in accordance with Part XVIII of the said Act, and on
the resolution being adopted by the Native Land Purchase
Board it shall become a contract of purchase as between
the Crown and all persons who are the owners of the
land; and the Governor may by Proclamation, at any time
after the contract of purchase has been so made, declare
that the land so purchased is vested in His Majesty the
King, and it shall vest accordingly, and shall become
Crown land :

And whereas a resolution was passed by a meeting of
assembled owners, and duly confirmed by the Waiariki Dis-
trict Maori Land Board, that the land set out in the Schedule
hereto be sold to the Crown :

And whereas the Native Land Purchase Board duly
considered and adopted the resolution :

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the power
and authority conferred upon me by section three hundred
and sixty-eight of the said Act, I, Arthur William de Brito
Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of
New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare the land set
out in the Schedule hereto to be Crown land subject to the
Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

OAMARU No. 2B No. 7 Block: Approximate area, 189 acres
3 roods 7 perches; Waioeka Survey 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 Zea-
land and its Dependencies; and issued under
the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Govern-
ment House at Wellington, this seventeenth day
of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand
nine hundred and fifteen.

W. H. HERRIES.
Native Minister.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Proclaiming Native Land to be Crown Land under Section 368
of the Native Land Act, 1909.

[L.S.] LIVERPOOL, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section three hundred and sixty-eight
of the Native Land Act, 1909 (hereinafter referred
to as “the said Act”), it is provided, inter alia, that the
Crown may purchase any Native land in pursuance of a
resolution of the assembled owners passed and confirmed
in accordance with Part XVIII of the said Act, and on
the resolution being adopted by the Native Land Purchase
Board it shall become a contract of purchase as between
the Crown and all persons who are the owners of the land;
and the Governor may by Proclamation, at any time after
the contract of purchase has been so made, declare that
the land so purchased is vested in His Majesty the King;
and it shall vest accordingly, and shall become Crown land :

And whereas a resolution was passed by a meeting of
assembled owners, and duly confirmed by the Waikato-
Maniapoto District Maori Land Board, that the land set out
in the Schedule hereto be sold to the Crown :

And whereas the Native Land Purchase Board duly con-
sidered and adopted the resolution :

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the power
and authority conferred upon me by section three hundred
and sixty-eight of the said Act, I, Arthur William de Brito
Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of
New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare the land set
out in the Schedule hereto to be Crown land subject to the
Land Act, 1908.