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Authorizing the Acquisition of Land notwithstanding the Provisions
as to Limitation of Area

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 13th day of
August, 1947

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

P URSUANT to section two hundred and forty-six of the Native
Land Act, 1931, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting
by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth
hereby authorize the disposition to and acquisition by Kaipara Forests,
Limited, of the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto, notwith-
standing the provisions of Part XII of the said Act.

SCHEDULE

THE following parcels of land situate in the Auckland Land Regis-
tration District :-

1. All the land comprised in Certificate of Title, Volume 244,
   folio 10, containing 527 acres 16 perches, more or less, being Nukuroa
   No. 1F No. 2 Block.

2. All the land comprised in Certificate of Title, Volume 283,
   folio 134, containing 65 acres 2 roods 3 perches, more or less, being
   Opekapeka F No. 1 Block.

3. All the land comprised in Certificate of Title, Volume 459,
   folio 114, containing 122 acres 2 roods 1-8 perches, more or less,
   being part of Nukuroa No. 2B Section 6 Block.

4. The residue of the land comprised in Certificate of Title,
   Volume 606, folio 105, containing 1,128 acres 14-1 perches, more
   or less, being parts of Te Komiti 1A Sections 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D, 2E, and
   2F Blocks.

5. All the land comprised in Certificate of Title, Volume 637,
   folio 239, containing 3 acres 7-9 perches, more or less, being part
   of Nukuroa No. 1c Block.

6. All the land comprised in Certificate of Title, Volume 648,
   folio 61, containing 27 acres 16 perches, more or less, being part
   of Nukuroa No. 1F No. 1 Block.

7. The residue of the land comprised in Certificate of Title,
   Volume 657, folio 201, containing 57 acres 2 roods 15-9 perches,
   more or less, being parts of Nukuroa No. 1B No. 1 and Nukuroa
   No. 1c Blocks.

8. All the land comprised in Certificate of Title, Volume 706,
   folio 292, containing 202 acres 3 roods 0-6 perches, more or less,
   being part of Nukuroa No. 1c Block.

9. All the land comprised in Certificate of Title, Volume 706,
   folio 293, containing 200 acres 3 roods 39 perches, more or less,
   being part of Nukuroa No. 1A Block.

10. All the land comprised in Certificate of Title, Volume 706,
    folio 294, containing 57 acres 3 roods 9 perches, more or less, being
    parts of Nukuroa No. 1c and Nukuroa No. 1E Blocks.

11. All the land comprised in Certificate of Title, Volume 706,
    folio 295, containing 1,031 acres 24-9 perches, more or less, being
    part of Nukuroa No. 1F No. 3 Block.

12. All the land comprised in Certificate of Title, Volume 706,
    folio 297, containing 66 acres 3 roods 30-8 perches, more or less,
    being parts of Nukuroa No. 1A and Nukuroa No. 1E Blocks.

13. All the land comprised in Certificate of Title, Volume 708,
    folio 242, containing 72 acres 1 rood, more or less, being parts of
    Nukuroa No. 1A and Nukuroa No. 1B Blocks.

14. All the land comprised in Certificate of Title, Volume 788,
    folio 191, containing 475 acres 2 roods 38-2 perches, more or less,
    being parts of Nukuroa No. 1B Nos. 1 and 2 and Nukuroa No. 1C
    Blocks.

15. All the land comprised in Certificate of Title, Volume 793,
    folio 79, containing 202 acres 3 roods 10 perches, more or less, being
    part of Nukuroa No. 1c Block.

W. O. HARVEY, Clerk of the Executive Council.

(N.D. 1931/334.)

Land permanently reserved in the Taranaki Land District as an
Addition to a Public-school Site (Matau)

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-fifty-ninth section of the
Land Act, 1924, it is enacted that the Governor-General
may from time to time set apart temporarily as reserves, notwith-
standing that the same may be then held under pastoral licence, any
Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes
in the said section mentioned:

And whereas by the three-hundred-and-sixtieth section of the
said Act it is provided that land temporarily reserved under the said
three-hundred-and-fifty-ninth section may, at the expiration of one
month but not later than six months, after the publication in the
Gazette of notice of such temporary reservation, be permanently
reserved, and that notice of such permanent reservation shall be
published in the Gazette:

And whereas by the seventy-first section of the Land for
Settlements Act, 1925, it is further provided that the Governor-
General may from time to time, as he thinks fit, set aside reserves
for any specified public purpose out of lands acquired under the
last-mentioned Act, provided that no land so acquired shall be set
aside for endowments:

And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto was, by
the Warrant dated the twenty-first day of May, one thousand nine
hundred and forty-seven, and published in the Gazette of the twenty-
ninth day of that month, temporarily reserved under the authority
of the said Act as an addition to a public-school site (Matau):

Now, therefore, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Frey-
berg, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in
pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred
upon me by the said Acts, do hereby permanently reserve the land
described in the Schedule hereto as an addition to a public-school
site for which purpose the said land was so temporarily reserved as
aforesaid.

SCHEDULE

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT

ALL that area containing by admeasurement 1 rood 9-5 perches, more
or less, being part Section 22, Block II, Ngatimaru Survey District.
As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked
L. and S. 6/6/872, deposited in the Head Office, Department of
Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red. (S.O.
plan 8258.)

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
this 12th day of August, 1947.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 6/6/872.)

Extending Period within which the Commission appointed to Inquire
into and Report upon Gaming and Racing Matters in New
Zealand shall report

GEORGE THE SIXTH by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland,
and the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender
of the Faith:

To our Trusty and Well-beloved the HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE
GEORGE PANTON FINLAY, of Auckland, a Judge of the
Supreme Court; WILLIAM HENRY FREEMAN, Esquire, of
Hamilton, Stipendiary Magistrate; and JOSEPH WILLIAM
ALLAN HEENAN, Esquire, C.B.E., of Wellington, Under-
Secretary for Internal Affairs: GREETING.

WHEREAS by Our Warrant dated the twenty-second day of
March, one thousand nine hundred and forty-six, you, the
said
George Panton Finlay,
William Henry Freeman, and
Joseph William Allan Heenan
were appointed under the authority of the Letters Patent of His
late Majesty dated the eleventh day of May, one thousand nine
hundred and seventeen, and under the authority of the Commissions
of Inquiry Act, 1908, and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council, to be a Commission of Inquiry for the purposes
in the said Warrant duly set out:

And whereas by Our said Warrant you were required to report
not later than the thirty-first day of August, one thousand nine
hundred and forty-six, your findings and opinions on the matters
referred to you:

And whereas by Our further Warrant dated the twenty-first
day of August, one thousand nine hundred and forty-six, the time
within which you were so required to report was extended until
the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and
forty-seven:

And whereas by Our further Warrant dated the twelfth day
of March, one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven, the time
within which you were so required to report was further extended
until the thirty-first day of August, one thousand nine hundred
and forty-seven:

And whereas it is expedient that the time for so reporting
should be further extended as hereinafter provided:

Now, therefore, We do hereby extend until the thirtieth day
of November, one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven, the time
within which you are so required to report:

And We do hereby confirm the said Commission and the three
respective Warrants hereinbefore referred to except as altered by
these presents.

In witness whereof we have caused these presents to be issued
and the Seal of Our Dominion of New Zealand to be affixed hereto
at Wellington, this thirteenth day of August, in the year of Our
Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven, and in the eleventh
year of our Reign.

Witness our Trusty and Well-beloved Sir Bernard Cyril
Freyberg, on whom has been conferred the Victoria
Cross, Knight Grand Cross of Our Most Distinguished
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight
Commander of Our Most Honourable Order of the
Bath, Knight Commander of Our Most Excellent
Order of the British Empire, Companion of Our
Distinguished Service Order, Lieutenant-General in
Our Army, Governor-General and Commander-in-
Chief in and over Our Dominion of New Zealand and
its Dependencies, acting by and with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion.

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command--

W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.

Approved in Council--

W. O. HARVEY, Clerk of the Executive Council.