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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 61

and exercise of the power and authority vested in
him by the said Act, and by and with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council of the said colony,
doth hereby authorize the said Mercury Bay Timber
Company (Limited) to build in Whitianga Harbour,
Mercury Bay, for the use, benefit, and convenience
of the public, a wharf, in accordance with, and in the
position shown on, the said plans marked M.D. 646
and 647, and to use and occupy such portion of the
foreshore or of any tidal land or tidal water as may
be necessary for the construction and use of such
wharf, subject to the following conditions, that is to
say,—

1. That all persons shall, at all reasonable times,
   either in the daytime or at night, have free and full
   liberty to use the above-mentioned wharf, after the
   same shall have been completed in accordance with
   the said plans, and to have ingress to and upon the
   said wharf, and egress therefrom, and regress thereto,
   as occasion may require.

2. That every person, authority, or thing exempt
   from harbour dues under the one hundred and thirty-
   second section of the said Act shall also be exempt
   from all dues or payments in respect of the said
   wharf or the use thereof.

3. That the Company shall maintain and keep the
   above-mentioned wharf and all erections thereon in
   good order and repair, and shall at all times permit
   to be erected and exhibited therefrom any lights for
   the guidance of vessels, and shall maintain at its own
   cost any such lights: Provided that no light shall
   be exhibited until after it has been approved of by
   the Minister.

4. That any person authorized by the Minister may
   at all reasonable times enter upon the said wharf and
   any buildings erected thereon, and view the state of
   repairs thereof; and that, upon such Minister leaving
   at or posting to the last known address of the
   Company a notice in writing of any defect or want
   of repair in such wharf or buildings, requiring the
   Company, within a reasonable time to be therein
   prescribed, to repair the same, the Company shall,
   with all convenient speed, cause such defect to be
   removed or such repairs to be made.

5. That the Company will not erect or suffer to be
   erected on the said wharf any building or structure
   whatever, except with the consent of the Minister.

6. That nothing herein contained shall authorize
   the Company to do or cause to be done anything
   repugnant to or inconsistent with any law relating
   to the Customs, or any regulation of the Commis-
   sioner of Customs, or with any provisions of "The
   Harbours Act, 1878," or its amendments, or any
   regulations made thereunder, and that are now or
   may hereafter be in force.

7. That the ballast of all vessels loading at the
   said wharf shall be taken away by the Company and
   deposited above high-water mark, or at such place as
   may be approved of by the Minister or by the Har-
   bourmaster at Mercury Bay.

8. That the rights, powers, and privileges con-
   ferred by this Order in Council shall continue in
   force for fourteen years, computed from the date of
   this Order in Council, unless in the meantime such
   rights, powers, and privileges shall be altered, modi-
   fied, or revoked by competent authority.

9. That the rights, powers, and privileges con-
   ferred under or by virtue of this Order in Council
   may be at any time resumed by the Governor with-
   out payment of any compensation whatever, on giving
   to the Company six calendar months' previous notice
   in writing. Any such notice shall be sufficient if
   given by the Minister, and delivered at the last
   known address of the Company.

10. The Company shall not sell, mortgage, lease, or
    otherwise part with, charge, or encumber the said
    wharf or any right or privilege hereby conferred upon
    it without the consent in writing of the Minister.

11. Nothing contained in this Order in Council
    shall be deemed to prevent its revocation at any time
    and without any notice in case the Company shall—
    (1.) Commit or suffer a breach of the conditions
    hereinbefore set forth, or any of them;
    (2.) Be in any manner wound up or dissolved; or
    (3.) Cease to use or occupy the said wharf.
    And publication in the New Zealand Gazette of an
    Order in Council containing such revocation shall be
    sufficient notice to the Company, and to all persons
    concerned or interested in the said wharf, that this
    Order in Council and the rights and privileges there-
    by conferred have been revoked and determined.

12. In these conditions the term "Minister" means
    the Minister having charge of the Marine Depart-
    ment, as defined by "The Shipping and Seamen's
    Act, 1877," and includes any officer, person, or
    authority acting by or under the direction of such
    Minister.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Native Licensing Districts abolished.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
third day of July, 1882.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE
GOVERNMENT IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the seventeenth section of "The
Licensing Act, 1881," it is enacted that the
Governor, by Order in Council, may from time to
time alter the limits of any Native licensing district
or abolish the same: And whereas it is expedient
to abolish the Native Licensing District of Wairoa,
as described in a Proclamation dated the twenty-first
day of December, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Administrator
of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand,
in pursuance and exercise of all powers enabling him
in this behalf, and with the advice and consent of
the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby
abolish the said Native Licensing District of Wairoa,
from the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-two.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Kerosene, &c., brought within the Dangerous Goods Acts.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
third day of July, 1882.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE
GOVERNMENT IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the fourth section of "The
Dangerous Goods Act Amendment Act,
1878" (hereinafter called "the said Act"), it is,
among other things, enacted that the Governor may
from time to time, by Order in Council, declare that
petroleum or any distillate or other product thereof,
or any of the articles or products included in that
expression by the third section of the said Act, shall
come within the provisions of the said Act and of