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consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby authorize the said Court to exercise, in respect of the said lands, the jurisdiction conferred as aforesaid—that is to say, to partition the said lands, or any parts thereof; and for the purposes aforesaid to order the issue of such new instruments of title as may be necessary, and generally to exercise in respect of the said lands all the jurisdiction conferred upon the Native Land Court by Part VI 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 Urewera District Native Reserve Amendment Act, 1909, and shall operate accordingly as a consent of the Governor in Council to the proceedings hereby authorized.

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SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND PROVINCIAL DISTRICT.

A. R. P.
Ruato ki No. 1 Block: Area, 8,735 0 0
” 2 ” ” 5,910 0 0
” 3 ” ” 6,800 0 0

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

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Prohibiting all Private Alienation of certain Native Land.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of June, 1916.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

ON the recommendation of the Native Land Purchase Board, referred to in section three hundred and sixty-three of the Native Land Act, 1909, and in exercise of the power in this behalf conferred upon him by that section, 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 prohibit, for the period of one year from the date of this Order in Council, all alienations of the Native lands specified in the Schedule hereto other than alienations in favour of the Crown.

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SCHEDULE.

Puketi Block: Approximate area, 146 acres; Te Mata Survey District.

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

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Amending the Description of a Reserve in the Auckland Land District.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-twenty-fifth section of the Land Act, 1908, it is enacted that where there has been any error of description made in any notification of any intended reserve, or where there appears a great discrepancy in the area of any intended reserve after the same shall have been surveyed, the Governor may cancel any notification that may have been made in respect of such reserve, and issue fresh notification in respect thereof, with amended particulars and description: And whereas an error was made in the area and description of the boundaries of Sections 9, 6, and Lot 1 of Section 7, situated in Block XVI, Hukerenui Survey District, and N.E. 49, situated in the Hikurangi Parish, Auckland Land District, in the Warrants of the twenty-fourth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and the sixteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 2, of the thirteenth day of January, and No. 20, of the twenty-fourth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, respectively, reserving the land for water-supply purposes, and it is expedient to cancel the said Warrants in so far as they relate to Sections 9, 6, and Lot 1 of Section 7, situated in Block XVI, Hukerenui Survey District, and N.E. 49, situated in the Hikurangi Parish, Auckland Land District, aforesaid:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby revoke the Warrants of the twenty-fourth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and the sixteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, in so far as they relate to the said Sections 9, 6, and Lot 1 of Section 7, situated in Block XVI, Hukerenui Survey District, and N.E. 49, situated in the Hikurangi Parish; and do declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be the land set apart for water-supply purposes intended by the said Warrants.

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SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, being Sections 9, 6, and Lot 1 of 7, Block XVI, Hukerenui Survey District, and Allotment N.E. 49, Parish of Hikurangi, containing by admeasurement 380 acres 3 roods 25 perches, more or less. Bounded towards the north by Section 6A of Block XVI, Hukerenui Survey District, 3947·1 links; towards the east generally by a public road, 309·5, 507·7, 1018·8, 392·3, 230·3, 742, 254·3, 218·9, 484·4, 139·3, 176·4, 53·1, 181·6, 111·9, 153·8, 178·8, 163, 813·3, 231·2, 418·7, 220·1, 131·3, 245·2, 261·1, 302·9, 288, 547·6, 316·7, 204, 172·6, 208·6, 153·8, 135·5, 353·8, 207·9, 153·3, 129·8, 158·6, 175·4, 199·9, and 147·2 links; by the crossing of the aforesaid road and by Lot 2 of Section 7, Block XVI, Hukerenui Survey District, 104·6 and 1145·6 links respectively; towards the south generally by a public road, 61·1, 360, 144·1, 161·9, 425·9, 418·1, 259·4, 412, and 357·6 links; towards the south-west by Allotment S.W. 49, Parish of Hikurangi, 7135 links; towards the north-west and again towards the south-west by Allotment N.E. 48, Parish of Hikurangi, 2002 and 3903 links respectively: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: save and except a road which intersects the hereinbefore-described area. As the same is delineated on plan marked L. and S. 6/1/1A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red. (Auckland Plan No. 16246.)

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands.

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Regulations under the Census and Statistics Act, 1910.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Census and Statistics Act, 1910, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby make the following regulations prescribing additional matter in regard to which the Statistician shall collect statistics.

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REGULATIONS.

1. In addition to the matters specified in paragraphs (a) to (j) of section 21 of the Census and Statistics Act, 1910, the Statistician shall, subject to that section, collect statistics in regard to wholesale and retail prices and rents.

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL PRICES.

2. The owner of every shop at which commodities are sold by wholesale or by retail shall, upon request, and within such time or times as he may be required by the Statistician so to do, furnish each month to the Statistician, or whoever he may appoint, particulars as to the prices at which the commodities specified are sold by him.

3. In order to comply with the last preceding regulation the owner of the shop shall fill in, or furnish to an officer appointed by the Statistician, the particulars specified in such one of the forms set out in the First and Third Schedules hereto as is applicable, in accordance with the instructions accompanying that form, so far as those particulars include articles of the kind sold in the shop, and shall sign the form and transmit it by post or otherwise to the Statistician or the officer appointed by him.

4. In the two last preceding regulations,—
   “Owner” includes the manager or person for the time being in charge of a shop; and
   “Shop” includes any warehouse, office, store, van, vessel, or place in or from which are sold commodities specified in the form to be filled in.

RENTS.

5. Every person carrying on business as house or estate agent, and every other person receiving house-rents, shall upon request, and within such time or times as he may be required by the Statistician so to do, furnish half-yearly, in the months of February and August respectively in each year, the particulars specified in the form set out in the Second Schedule hereto.

6. Every such person shall, on request, fill in the prescribed form as specified in the Second Schedule hereto in accordance with the instructions contained in or accompanying that form, and shall sign the form and transmit it by post or otherwise to the Statistician or to the officer appointed by him.

7. In the two last preceding regulations the expression “person carrying on business as house or estate agent” includes any manager, clerk, or agent for the time being in charge of such business or any branch thereof on behalf of the owner.