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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 22

Validating Resolution passed by the Borough Council of
Greymouth re "Rating Act, 1882."

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth
day of February, 1883.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE COLONIAL TREASURER IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS on or about the fourteenth day of December,
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, the Council
of the Borough of Greymouth passed a resolution to the effect
that it desired to adopt "The Rating Act, 1882;" but such
resolution was not passed, nor was a copy thereof forwarded to
the Property-Tax Commissioner within the time limited by
section fifty-eight of the said Act: And whereas the said
Council have made request that the said resolution should be
validated, and that the time for forwarding a copy thereof in
manner aforesaid should be extended until the tenth day of
March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, on the
ground that the omission to pass such resolution and forward
such copy was due to accident:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the said colony, and in pursuance and
exercise of the power and authority vested in him by section
fifty-three of the said Act, doth hereby order and declare that
the time for forwarding a copy of the said resolution of the
fourteenth day of December last shall be and the same is hereby
extended until the tenth day of March, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-three; and, with the like advice and con-
sent, doth further order and declare that, notwithstanding any
irregularity in the passing of the said resolution, or in the
transmission of a copy thereof to the Property-Tax Commis-
sioner, the said resolution shall be deemed sufficient and effectual
for the purposes of the said Act, and the like proceedings shall
be had and the like things be done as if the said resolution and
proceedings thereon were regular and strictly in terms of the
said Act respectively.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Changing the Purpose of a Portion of a Reserve.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Public Reserves Act, 1881," it is,
amongst other things, enacted that the Governor may
declare his intention to make, change, exchange, or alter
the dedication of any public reserve now or hereafter vested
in Her Majesty or the Governor for any of the purposes
named in class II. of the Schedule to the said Act, whether
the same be granted or not; and, in the case of any reserves
made under the authority of section one hundred and forty-four
of "The Land Act, 1877," if it shall, in the opinion of the
Governor, be expedient to change the purpose of such reserves
or any part thereof from the purpose or presumed purpose for
which it was set apart to any other purpose, or if it shall, in
the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to exchange any of
the land comprised in such reserve for other land of equal
or more value to be dedicated to one or more purposes in the
said Act, then it shall be lawful for the Governor to
declare his intention to make such change, exchange, or dedica-
tion, as the case may be, and in such notice declare the manner
and terms in which the same is intended to be so made:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, in exercise
and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by
"The Public Reserves Act, 1881," aforesaid, declare my
intention to change the specific purpose of the portion of the
reserve named in the first column and described in the second
column of the said Schedule hereto to the specific purpose set
opposite such description in the third column of the said
Schedule, and such land shall henceforth be deemed to be
reserved and set apart for such last-mentioned specific purpose,
and no other.

Description and
Purpose of
Reserve.

SCHEDULE.

Area of which the Purpose is intended Intended Pur-
to be Changed.
pose.

Section No.
250, Town of
Foxton, con-
taining 2 acres
1 rood 37
perches, re-
served by the
Superinten-
dent of Wel-
lington for
public pur-
poses.

All that parcel of land in the
Provincial District of Wellington,
containing by admeasurement
1 acre 2 roods 7 perches, more or
less, being the western portion of
Section No. 250 on the plan of the
Township of Foxton. Bounded
towards the North by Section No.
161, 375 links; towards the East
by a road, 419 links; towards
the South by a public road, 375
links; and towards the West by
a public road and by Sections
Nos. 243 and 244, 405 links: be
the aforesaid measurements a
little more or less.

For a site for
a pound.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor
this sixteenth day of February, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-three.

THOMAS DICK,
(for the Minister of Lands.)

Public Vaccinators, Hokianga and Popotuna Districts,
appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 2nd March, 1883.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint
ROBINSON SPENCER, Esq.,
to be a Public Vaccinator under "The Public Health Act,
1876," for the Hokianga District; and also to appoint
CHARLES LOW, Esq., M.B., C.M.,
to be a Public Vaccinator under the said Act for the Popotuna
District.

EDWD. T. CONOLLY,
(for the Colonial Secretary.)

Registrar of Electors, Buller District, appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 2nd March, 1883.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint
ERNEST CHARLES KELLING, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Electors, under "The Registration of Electors
Act, 1879," for the Electoral District of Buller. Appointment
to date from the 1st March, 1883.

EDWD. T. CONOLLY,
(for the Colonial Secretary.)

Deputy-Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 2nd March, 1883.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint
THOMAS LUTHER SHEPHERD
to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births
and Deaths for the District of Ahaura.

THOMAS DICK.

Judge of Assessment Court, Borough of Kumara, appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 28th February, 1883.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint
JOSEPH GILES, Esq., R.M.,
to be Judge of the Assessment Court, under "The Rating Act,
1876," for the Borough of Kumara, vice H. A. Stratford, Esq.,
resigned.

EDWD. T. CONOLLY,
(for the Colonial Secretary.)

Judge of Assessment Court, Borough of Naseby, appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 2nd March, 1883.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint
JOHN SMITH HICKSON, Esq., R.M.,
to be Judge of the Assessment Court, under "The Rating Act,
1876," for the Borough of Naseby.

EDWD. T. CONOLLY,
(for the Colonial Secretary.)