Mar. 11] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 273

Setting apart Maori Land as a Maori Reservation

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 3rd day of March, 1948
Present:
THE RIGHT HON. P. FRASER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL

PURSUANT to section five of the Maori Purposes Act, 1937, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby set apart and reserve the Maori freehold land described in the Schedule hereto as a Maori reservation for the common use of the Ngati-pamoana Sub-tribe of the Ngatihau Tribe as a village-site, meeting-place, and church-site.

SCHEDULE

Block. Area. Survey District.
A. R. P.
Tauakira 2M 4 .. 9 3 29 .. .. XV, Tauakira.

T. J. SHERRARD,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

(N.D. 21/3/160.)

Revoking an Order in Council prohibiting Alienation of Maori Land

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 3rd day of March, 1948
Present:
THE RIGHT HON. P. FRASER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL

PURSUANT to section four hundred and forty-two of the Maori Land Act, 1931, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby revoke an Order in Council made on the tenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three, and published in the Gazette on the thirteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three, at page 736, prohibiting all alienation of the Mangahouhou Block other than alienation in favour of the Crown.

T. J. SHERRARD,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

(N.L.P. 1920/34.)

Varying an Order in Council prohibiting Alienation of Maori Land

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 3rd day of March, 1948
Present:
THE RIGHT HON. P. FRASER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL

PURSUANT to section four hundred and forty-two of the Maori Land Act, 1931, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby vary an Order in Council made on the eleventh day of April, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two, and published in the Gazette on the fourteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two, at page 761, by excluding therefrom the land described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE

Block. Area.
A. R. P.
Oraukura 4 .. .. .. .. 1,592 0 0
Waione .. .. .. .. 2,434 0 0

T. J. SHERRARD,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

(N.L.P. 1918/44.)

Varying an Order in Council prohibiting Alienation of Maori Land

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 3rd day of March, 1948
Present:
THE RIGHT HON. P. FRASER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL

PURSUANT to section four hundred and forty-two of the Maori Land Act, 1931, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby vary an Order in Council made on the fourteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two, and published in the Gazette on the seventeenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two, at page 546, and affecting Hauhungaroa 1A 1 and other blocks, by excluding therefrom the land described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE

Block. Area. Survey District.
A. R. P.
Waiunu .. 768 2 32 .. .. Waimanu.

T. J. SHERRARD,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

(N.L.P. 1918/65.)

Revoking the Declaration of a Main Highway and declaring a Public Highway to be a Main Highway

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 3rd day of March, 1948
Present:
THE RIGHT HON. P. FRASER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by section three of the Main Highways Act, 1922, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby declare that, on and after the date of publication of this Order in Council in the Gazette, the portion of main highway described in the First Schedule hereto shall cease to be a main highway; and doth further declare that the road described in the Second Schedule hereto shall be a main highway within the meaning and for the purposes of the Main Highways Act, 1922.

FIRST SCHEDULE

HIGHWAY DISTRICT NO. 11

Picton–Christchurch.—All that main highway in the counties of Marlborough and Awatere and the Borough of Picton, declared as the Picton–Christchurch Main Highway, described in Orders in Council dated 23rd July, 1941, and 12th November, 1947, and published in the Gazette on 31st July, 1941, and 20th November, 1947.

HIGHWAY DISTRICT NO. 13

Picton–Christchurch.—All that main highway in the counties of Kaikoura, Cheviot, and Waipara, declared as the Picton–Christchurch Main Highway, described in Order in Council dated 2nd October, 1940, and published in the Gazette on 10th October, 1940.

SECOND SCHEDULE

HIGHWAY DISTRICT NO. 11

Picton–Christchurch.—All that road or portion of road in the counties of Marlborough and Awatere, commencing at the south-western boundary of the Picton Borough and proceeding thence in a southerly direction, but excluding that portion in Blenheim Borough, and terminating at the southern boundary of Awatere County adjacent to the southernmost corner of Section 216, Block XVIII, Cape Campbell Survey District, being a distance of 55 miles 17 chains, more or less; as the same is more particularly delineated on plan P.W.D. 126747, deposited in the office of the Main Highways Board at Wellington, and thereon coloured green.

Also all those streets or portions of streets in the Borough of Picton, commencing in London Quay at the railway gates and proceeding thence generally in an easterly and south-westerly direction via London Quay, High Street, Broadway, Wairau Street, Nelson Square, and Wairau Street again, and terminating at the south-western boundary of the said borough, being a distance of 1 mile 42 chains, more or less; as the same is more particularly delineated on plan P.W.D. 107278, deposited in the office of the Main Highways Board at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

HIGHWAY DISTRICT NO. 13

Picton–Christchurch.—All that road or portion of road in the counties of Kaikoura, Cheviot, and Waipara, commencing at the northern boundary of the Kaikoura County at Section 64, Block X, Whernside Survey District, and proceeding thence generally in a south-westerly direction via Clarence, Kaikoura, Hundalee, Cheviot, Domett, and Omihi, and terminating at the Waipara County southern boundary, being a distance of 128 miles, more or less; as the same is more particularly delineated on plan P.W.D. 126741, deposited in the office of the Main Highways Board at Wellington, and thereon coloured green.

T. J. SHERRARD,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

(M.H. 62/19.)

Officers authorized to take and receive Statutory Declarations

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that the persons whose names are set out in the Schedule hereto, being officers in the service of the Crown holding the offices stated opposite their names respectively in the said Schedule, are authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927.