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(4.) The Native Trustee shall not be bound to accept or honour any such special or general order, and payment thereunder may be made at his sole discretion.

(5.) Notwithstanding that any general or special order is revoked by death or otherwise, any payment made pursuant thereto shall be good and valid unless prior to the payment the Native Trustee has received actual notice in writing of such revocation.

(6.) The provisions of clause 20 hereof as to attestation of receipts shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to all such orders.

22. (1.) Where a Native gives a special or general order, it shall purport to be attested by a licensed Native interpreter of the First Grade, who shall certify in attesting that he has read over and explained the order to the Native, and that the Native understood it; provided that the Native Trustee may dispense with any such attestation.

(2.) It shall not be necessary for the Native Trustee, unless he thinks proper, to ascertain whether the person so attesting is a licensed Native interpreter or not, and, notwithstanding that it may afterwards be discovered that the person attesting was not a licensed interpreter, the order, and all acts and things done thereunder, shall be valid.

(3.) This clause shall be construed subject to any statutory provision dealing with the matter.

23. In any case which is not provided for by statute or by these regulations the special instructions of the Native Trustee must be applied for and followed.

24. The undermentioned charges shall be payable to the Native Trustee in respect of the matters mentioned:—

(a.) Upon the gross proceeds of rent, income, or revenue received from any property pursuant to the Native Reserves Act, 1882, the Westland and Nelson Reserves Act, 1887, and the West Coast Settlement Reserves Act, 1892: 5 per cent.

(b.) Upon capital moneys received from any property subject to the Native Reserves Act, 1882, the Westland and Nelson Reserves Act, 1887, and the West Coast Settlement Reserves Act, 1892: 2½ per cent.

(c.) Upon the gross proceeds of rents, income, or revenue received from any property pursuant to the Native Land Act, 1909, or any other statute: 5 per cent.

(d.) Upon capital moneys received from any property pursuant to the Native Land Act, 1909: 2½ per cent.

(e.) In all cases not otherwise hereby provided for, on all sums lodged in the Native Trust Office under or in pursuance of the provisions of any Act, rule, or law in that behalf, at the time of lodging the same: 2½ per cent.

The charge under (b) and (d) is payable when the money is received, and may be deducted from the fund in hand.

(f.) For every lease (except under the West Coast Settlement Reserves Act, 1892, and its amendments) executed by the Native Trustee as lessor or mortgagee, to be paid by the lessee: As fixed by the Native Trustee, having regard to the circumstances, £1 1s. to £8 8s.

(g.) For the Native Trustee’s consent to any lease or to any assignment or disposition of a lease: 10s.

(h.) For discharging mortgage under section 67 of the Property Law Act, 1908, or section 116 of the Land Transfer Act, 1915: £1 1s.

(i.) For making copy of any document: 6d. per folio; minimum charge, 2s. 6d.

(j.) For production of title: In accordance with Law Society scale.

(k.) Certificate of Native Trustee as to the value of a deceased Native’s interest in any reserve: 2s. 6d. to 5s.

(l.) For any matter or service not hereinbefore mentioned: Such charge as is agreed on or as in the absence of agreement the Native Trustee fixes.

25. The Native Trustee may, in any case where he thinks fit to do so, vary any of the above charges.

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

Validating the Proceedings in connection with a Loan of £800 proposed to be raised by the Council of the County of Pahiatua.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 30th day of October, 1922.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

WHEREAS the Pahiatua County Council, acting under and in pursuance of section sixteen of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, proposes to raise a loan of eight hundred pounds for the purpose of erecting two workmen’s cottages:

And whereas the special order authorizing the raising of the loan is irregular, in so far that public notification of the time and place fixed for the confirmation of the said special order, although given four times, did not comply with the provisions of section ninety-nine of the Counties Act, 1920:

And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled by the said irregularity, and it is expedient to validate the same:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by section one hundred and eleven of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and declare that the proceedings taken to raise the said loan shall be valid to all intents and purposes as though public notification of the special order had been correctly given, and that the validity of the proceedings in connection with the said loan shall not be called into question by reason only of the irregularity aforesaid.

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

Notifying Lands in Southland Land District for Sale by Public Auction for Cash or on Deferred Payments.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section one hundred and twenty-six of the Land Act, 1908, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Tuesday, the nineteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, as the time at which the lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction for cash or on deferred payments; and I do hereby fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SOUTHLAND COUNTY.

Rural Land.

SECTION 76, Block III, Oteramika Hundred: Area, 5 acres 3 roods 1 perch; upset price, £50.

Slightly undulating land, all in grass. Situated three miles from Kapuka Railway-station by gravelled road except for last quarter of a mile.

Village Land.

Section 785, Block LXIX, Hokonui Survey District: Area, 8 acres 0 roods 3 perches; upset price, £33.

Weighted with £40, valuation for improvements. Situated four miles from Gore and twenty chains from school. Originally bush land, some stumps still remaining.

Section 8, Block I, Town of Waianiwa: Area, 1 rood; upset price, £10.

Section 9, Block I, Town of Waianiwa: Area, 1 rood 16 perches; upset price, £10.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 28th day of October, 1922.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Secondary-education Endowment in the Town of Bunnythorpe, Wellington Land District, set apart as a Site for a Public School.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section five of the Education Reserves Amendment Act, 1911, it is enacted that the Governor-General may, on the recommendation of the Land Board of the district in which are situated any reserves or endowment vested in the Crown by or in pursuance of section two of the Education Reserves Amendment Act, 1910, set apart as sites for public schools, secondary schools, or technical schools any part of such reserves or endowments:

And whereas the Land Board of the Wellington Land District has duly passed a resolution recommending that the secondary-education endowment described in the Schedule hereto should be set apart as a site for a public school, and it is expedient to give effect to such recommendation:

Now, therefore, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the Acts aforesaid, do hereby set apart the secondary-education endowment described in the Schedule hereto as a site for a public school.