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powers of a Harbour Board within such limits of such estuary
or arm aforesaid as the Governor-General may define for that
purpose :

And whereas the Council of the County of Waiapu, which
borders on the port or harbour of Hicks Bay, in the Waiapu
County, has requested that it may be declared that it shall
exercise all the powers of a Harbour Board within such port
or harbour :

And whereas it is desirable that such request should be
acceded to, and that the limits of such port or harbour should
be defined as hereinafter appears :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of
the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of
the hereinbefore-recited power and authority, and acting by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of
the said Dominion, doth hereby declare that, from and after
the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty,
the said Council shall exercise the powers of a Harbour Board
within the limits of the port or harbour hereinafter set forth,
and which said port or harbour is called Hicks Bay Harbour.

And, in further pursuance and exercise of the hereinbefore-
recited power and authority, His Excellency, with the advice
and consent aforesaid, doth hereby define the limits of the
said port or harbour within which the Council of the County
of Waiapu is to exercise the powers aforesaid as follows,
that is to say :—

All that area of the sea known as Hicks Bay, and covered
by the sea at high water, lying between Matakaoa Point
on the north and Te Koau Point on the south, each of the
said points being marked by a post having painted thereon
the words “Hicks Bay Harbour Boundary.”

F. D. THOMSON,
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 sixteenth day
of March, 1920.

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 William Broughton (Te Ahuru Porotene), of
Levin, being a Native within the meaning of the Native Land
Act, 1909, applied in the prescribed form for a recommenda-
tion 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 William Broughton (Te Ahuru Poro-
tene) 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 William
Broughton (Te Ahuru Porotene), of Levin, to be a European.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Declaring Land to be no longer subject to Part XV of the
Native Land Act, 1909.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this sixteenth day
of March, 1920.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section ninety-six of the Native Land
Amendment Act, 1913, it is enacted that the Go-
vernor-General in Council may from time to time by Order
in Council declare that any land subject to Part XIV or XV
of the Native Land Act, 1909 (hereinafter referred to as “the
said Act”), and vested in a Maori Land Board, shall no
longer be subject to such Parts of that Act, and shall be
revested in the Native owners thereof :

And whereas the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is
at present subject to Part XV of the said Act, and is vested
in the Tokerau District Maori Land Board, which Board has
recommended that such land be no longer subject as aforesaid
and that it be revested in the Native owner :

And whereas the Governor-General is satisfied that the said
land is not subject to any lease, license, contract for sale, or
other alienation, and that no moneys are charged on the said
land or on the revenue thereof in accordance with the said
Act or under any other authority :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the
Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
power and authority conferred upon him by section ninety-six
of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1913, and acting by and
with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
said Dominion, doth hereby declare that the land mentioned
in the Schedule hereto shall no longer be subject to Part XV
of the Native Land Act, 1909, and shall be revested in the
Native owner thereof.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, containing 319 acres 3 roods
36 perches, more or less, and known as Otakanini G No. 1
Block, situate in the Kaipara Survey District, in the Land
District of North Auckland.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this sixteenth day
of March, 1920.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL 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, and
by section one hundred and eleven of the Native Land Amend-
ment Act, 1913 (as amended by section eight of the Native
Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act,
1916), 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 eighteen months the Order in Council
dated the third day of September, one thousand nine hundred
and eighteen, and gazetted the fifth day of September, one
thousand nine hundred and eighteen, but only in so far as it
affects the Native lands specified in the Schedule hereto,
prohibiting all alienation other than alienation in favour of
the Crown.

SCHEDULE.

TOTORO SURVEY DISTRICT.

Block. Approximate Area.
A. R. P.
KAHUWERA B No. 2B, Section 1 .. .. 280 0 0
" " 2 .. .. 63 3 0
" " 4 .. .. 63 3 8
" " 5 .. .. 207 1 4
" " 6 .. .. 64 0 10
" " 7A .. .. 781 1 12
" " 7B .. .. 164 2 36
" " 7C .. .. 191 1 12

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this sixteenth day
of March, 1920.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL 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,