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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 43

ADMINISTRATION OF FUND.

22. A sum not exceeding £20 may at any time be advanced to the Secretary, who shall account therefor to the Board, for the purpose of paying postages, telegrams, and other incidental expenses, including payment under the next succeeding clause.

TRAVELLING-ALLOWANCE AND LOCOMOTION EXPENSES.

23. The Board may, out of its funds, pay to its members a travelling-allowance of £1 5s. for every day or part of a day the member is necessarily absent from his usual place of residence in transacting any business of the Board: Provided that when a member leaves and returns to his usual place of residence on the same day his actual and reasonable expenses only shall be paid.

24. The Board may also pay the actual and reasonable locomotion expenses incurred by members in transacting any business of the Board, including, where necessary, the provision of deck-cabins on steamers and sleeping-berths on trains.

25. The expenditure under this head shall not in any financial year exceed £100, except with the consent in writing of the Native Minister.

PURPOSES AND OBJECTS OF FUND.

26. The Board may undertake the promotion of the purposes and objects defined by the said section or by regulations in such manner, by such means, and under and subject to such terms and conditions as in its discretion it thinks expedient or desirable.

27. The following shall be deemed to be purposes for which the said fund or the income arising therefrom may be used and expended:—
    (a) The education (physical, mental, technical, and social) of Natives:
    (b) The founding of scholarships and exhibitions for Natives, and the payment of such allowances as may be deemed expedient in connection therewith:
    (c) Contributions to Maori Secondary Schools Aid Fund, established under section 6 of the Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1921–22:
    (d) Contributions to Maori Ethnological Research Fund, established under section 9 of the Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1923:
    (e) Support of the Polynesian Society of New Zealand and any other society which has for its object the study and investigation of matters concerning the Maori and cognate races of the South Pacific Ocean:
    (f) Such other purposes as the Native Minister may, on the recommendation of the Board, from time to time appoint.

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

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Authorizing the Exchange of Settlement Land in the Wellington Land District for other Land.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section seventy-four of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, it is enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time exchange any settlement land for any other land, and may on such exchange pay or receive any sum by way of equality of exchange:

And whereas in the opinion of the Governor-General it is expedient to exchange the settlement land described in Part I of the Schedule hereto for the land of equal value described in Part II of the said Schedule, and the owner of the land described in the second part of the said Schedule has agreed to such exchange:

Now, therefore, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the said section seventy-four, do hereby authorize the exchange of the settlement land described in Part I of the Schedule hereto for the land described in Part II of the said Schedule.

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SCHEDULE.

PART I.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District situated in the Borough of Petone, containing by admeasurement 9·4 perches, more or less, being part of Section 6, Hutt Registration District, and being part Lot 2, D.P. 890, as shown on plan numbered 256/19, deposited in the Wellington District Office, Department of Lands and Survey, and thereon bordered green.

PART II.

All that area in the Wellington Land District, situated in the Borough of Petone, containing by admeasurement 3·07 perches, more or less, being part of Section 6, Hutt Registration District, and being Part Lot 1, D.P. 5828, as shown on plan numbered 256/19, deposited in the Wellington District Office, Department of Lands and Survey, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 12th day of May, 1928.

R. A. WRIGHT, for Minister of Lands.

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Declaring Land in the Nelson Land District to be subject to the Land for Settlements Act, 1925.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section one hundred and five of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the area of Crown land described in the Schedule hereto shall be subject to the provisions of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, and shall hereafter form part of the Matakiki Settlement.

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SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

ALL that area of Crown land in the Nelson Land District containing an area of 202 acres, more or less, situated in Block II, Matakiki Survey District: Bounded towards the north-east and south-west by Crown land, distances of 9356·6 links and 3074 links respectively; towards the south-east by the road reserve along the Matakiki River, across a road, and along a road a distance of 2475 links, and by part of the north-west boundary of Section 1s, Matakiki Settlement, 2584·5 links, excepting the intersecting road. As the same is more particularly delineated on a plan marked L. and S. 21/235, deposited in the Head Office of the Lands and Survey Department, at Wellington, and thereon bordered blue.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 12th day of May, 1928.

R. A. WRIGHT, for Minister of Lands.

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Notice of Change of the Purpose of Portion of a Reserve in the Town of Stratford, Taranaki Land District.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section six of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), the Governor-General is empowered, in the case of any public reserve vested in His Majesty or the Governor-General for any of the purposes comprised in Class II of the Second Schedule to the said Act, to change the purpose for which such reserve was set apart to any other purpose:

And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto forms portion of a reserve duly set apart for the use of the Department of Agriculture, being a purpose within Class II of the Second Schedule to the said Act, and it is expedient to change, as hereinafter provided, the purpose of such portion:

Now, therefore, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby, in pursuance of the powers conferred on me by section six of the said Act as aforesaid, declare that the portion of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto is hereby changed from a reserve for the use of the Department of Agriculture to a reserve for a site for public buildings of the General Government. And I do hereby further declare that this notice is issued subject to the provisions of section seven of the said Act, and shall take effect according to the provisions of that section.

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SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

SECTIONS 601, 602, 603, 604, 605, 606, 633, 634, 635, 636, 637, and 638, Town of Stratford: Area, 3 acres, more or less.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 28th day of April, 1928.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.