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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 93

fund to be transferred was established: provided that consent shall not be given to any application under this section unless the Governor-General in Council is satisfied that the fund to be transferred can be administered by the incorporated society or trustees for substantially the same purposes as those for which the fund was established:

And whereas an application has been made by the trustees having control of the war fund known as the Kaimata Returned Wounded and Disabled Wounded Soldiers Fund to transfer the fund held by such trustees, entitled “The Kaimata Returned Wounded and Disabled Wounded Soldiers Fund,” to the Taranaki Provincial War Relief Association (Incorporated):

And whereas the Governor-General in Council is satisfied that such fund can be administered by the Taranaki Provincial War Relief Association (Incorporated) for substantially the same purposes as those for which that fund was established:

And whereas it is considered desirable to consent to such transfer:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby consent to the transfer of the fund held by the said trustees, entitled “The Kaimata Returned Wounded and Disabled Wounded Soldiers Fund,” to the Taranaki Provincial War Relief Association (Incorporated).

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

Conferring Jurisdiction on the Native Land Court under Section 25 of the Native Land Act, 1909.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this eighteenth day of June, 1918.
Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR JAMES ALLEN, K.C.B., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by section twenty-five of the Native Land Act, 1909, it is enacted that, in addition to the jurisdiction elsewhere in the said Act conferred upon the Native Land Court, the Governor-General may by Order in Council confer upon that Court, as effectually as if the same was conferred by the said Act, jurisdiction in any matter or question affecting the rights of Natives in any real or personal property, and thereupon the Court shall have full jurisdiction and power to determine that matter or question according to law:

And whereas application has been made that jurisdiction with respect to the matter referred to in the Schedule hereto be conferred on the Native Land Court pursuant to the said section twenty-five, and it is expedient to confer such jurisdiction accordingly:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on him by section twenty-five of the Native Land Act, 1909, confer upon the Native Land Court jurisdiction to hear and determine the matter referred to in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.
THE claim of Himiona Katipa and certain other Natives in respect of the administration and disposition of a certain trust fund originally derived from the sale of certain Native lands—to wit, Okahuatiu No. 1 Block, Okahuatiu No. 2 Block, and Tangihanga Block.
J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Declaring a Native to be a European

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of June, 1918.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by section seventeen of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1912, it is enacted that the Governor-General may by Order in Council, on the recommendation of the Native Land Court, declare any Native to be a European:

And whereas Eileen McDonald, of Wanganui, 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 Eileen McDonald to be a European: And whereas it is expedient that such declaration should be made:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General 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 Eileen McDonald, of Wanganui, to be a European.

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

Declaring a Native to be a European.
LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of June, 1918.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by section seventeen of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1912, it is enacted that the Governor-General may by Order in Council, on the recommendation of the Native Land Court, declare any Native to be a European:

And whereas Leila Rose MacDonald, of Maramaratotara, 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 Leila Rose MacDonald to be a European: And whereas it is expedient that such declaration should be made:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General 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 Leila Rose MacDonald, of Maramaratotara, to be a European

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Extending Prohibition of Alienation of certain Native Land other than Alienation in favour of the Crown.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this eighteenth day of June, 1918.
Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR JAMES ALLEN, K.C.B., PRESIDING 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-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, doth hereby extend for a further period of six months the Order in Council dated the twenty-fifth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and gazetted the twenty-eighth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen (as partially revoked by Order in Council made the fifteenth October, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and gazetted the eighteenth October, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen), prohibiting all alienation of the land specified in the Schedule hereto (except of the interests of Mata Kaikai and Hana Kaikai) other than alienation in favour of the Crown.

SCHEDULE.
Waikouaiti, Section 14, Block XII (Native reserve): Approximate area, 19 acres 3 roods 7 perches; Waikouaiti Surv y District.
J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council