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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 83

34. A Samoan provisional order may be made in the like terms and with the like restrictions as a maintenance order under the principal Order.

35. The powers conferred by clause 25 hereof shall not restrict the powers of the High Court to make a maintenance order under the powers conferred by clause 19 of the principal Order.

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

Amending the Samoa Public Trust Office Order, 1921.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 5th day of December, 1929.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, and in pursuance of the authority to make regulations for the peace, order, and good government of Samoa conferred upon him by the Samoa Act, 1921, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, doth hereby make the following regulations in amendment of the Samoa Public Trust Office Order, 1921.

REGULATIONS.

1. THIS Order may be cited as the Samoa Public Trust Office Amendment Order, 1929.

2. This Order shall come into force on the 13th day of December, 1929.

3. Subclause (2) of clause 14 of the Samoa Public Trust Office Order, 1921, is hereby amended by omitting the words “acting with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council of Western Samoa,” and substituting therefor the words “with the consent of the Minister of External Affairs.”

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

Authorizing exercise of Jurisdiction by Native Land Court.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 5th day of December, 1929.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is provided by section one hundred and three of the Native Land Act, 1909, that the Native Land Court shall not proceed to exercise in respect of any land the jurisdiction conferred upon that Court by Part V of that Act (relative to the ascertainment of equitable owners) unless authorized by Order in Council so to exercise the same:

And whereas the Native land described in the Schedule hereto was dealt with by the Native Land Court prior to the twenty-third day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, by way of ascertainment of Native customary title:

And whereas the said land is not confiscated land within the meaning of section one hundred and eight of the said Act:

And whereas the said land is not a Native reserve within the meaning of section one hundred and seven of the said Act:

And whereas it is expedient that the Native Land Court should be authorized to exercise in respect of that land the jurisdiction conferred by Part V of the said Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the authority conferred upon him by section one hundred and three of the Native Land Act, 1909, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, doth hereby authorize the Native Land Court to exercise in respect of the land described in the Schedule hereto the jurisdiction conferred upon that Court by Part V of the Native Land Act, 1909.

SCHEDULE.

MAKETAWA Block, situated in Block XIII, Thames Survey District, and containing an area of 112 acres 3 roods 30 perches.

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