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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 48

from the operation of section one hundred and seventeen of
"The Native Land Court Act, 1894," the block or parcel of
land known as the Mohakatino-Parininihi No. 1B, situate in
the Tainui and Mimi Survey Districts, in the Land District
of Taranaki, containing three thousand one hundred and
seventy-eight acres three roods and twelve perches, more or
less, and being the land comprised in an order of the Native
Land Court dated the twentieth day of March, one thousand
eight hundred and ninety-four.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Vesting a Reserve in the Upper Ashburton Road Board.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-
second day of May, 1897.

Present:
His Excellency the Administrator of the Government
IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto
was permanently reserved as a site for Road Board
offices and buildings on the twenty-second day of January,
one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven:
And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is ex-
pedient that the said land should be vested in the Upper
Ashburton Road Board:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Administrator of the
Government of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said
colony, and in exercise of the powers and authorities vested
in him by the fourth section of "The Public Reserves Act,
1881," doth hereby declare that, from and after the day of
the date hereof, the reserve mentioned in the Schedule
hereto shall become vested in "The Inhabitants of the
Upper Ashburton Road District," in trust, as a site for Road
Board offices and buildings.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District,
containing by admeasurement 14 acres 3 roods, more or
less, being Reserve No. 2064, Block XVI., Westerfield
Survey District. Bounded towards the northward by a
road-line, 946·9 links; towards the eastward by Rural Section
No. 6023, 2744·5 links; towards the south-east by a road-
line; and towards the westward by Reserve No. 2275, a
railway-line, and Reserves Nos. 2275 and 2378, 2836·2
links; save and except the Mount Somers Railway-
line, 100 links wide, which intersects the area hereby de-
scribed: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less; as the
same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the
Chief Surveyor, Christchurch.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Trustee for the Weedon Cemetery appointed.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
vested in me by the sixth section of "The Cemeteries
Act, 1882," I, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the
Government of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

WILLIAM PHILLIPS

to be a Trustee, in the place of Robert Curragh, deceased, to
provide for the maintenance and care of the Weedon
Cemetery, in conjunction with the other persons appointed
by warrants of His Excellency the Governor.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Adminis-
trator of the Government, this eighteenth day of
May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-
seven.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 18th May, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government
has been pleased to appoint

THOMAS GREATBATCH

to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of
Births and Deaths for the District of Featherston.

J. CARROLL,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Public Vaccinators, Whangarei and Hastings Districts, appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 18th May, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government
has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned
gentlemen to be Public Vaccinators, under "The Public
Health Act, 1876," for the districts set opposite their
names:—

Name. District.
Geoffrey Bruton Sweet, Esq., M.B. and
Mast. Surg., Univ. Sydney .. Whangarei.
Robert Nairn, Esq., L.R.C.P. Lond.,
F.R.C.S. Eng. .. Hastings.
J. CARROLL,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Public Vaccinator, Kuaotunu District, appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 22nd May, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government
has been pleased to appoint

Joseph Marshall Barnes, Esq., M.D., Univ. Aberdeen,
to be a Public Vaccinator, under "The Public Health Act,
1876," for the District of Kuaotunu.

J. CARROLL,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Appointment of Valuers under "The Government Advances to Settlers Act, 1894," and its Amendments.

Government Advances to Settlers Office,
Wellington, 22nd May, 1897.

IT is hereby notified for general information that His
Excellency the Administrator of the Government in
Council has been pleased to appoint

Andrew McKerrow, Esq., of Hampden, and
Albert Barns, Esq., of Wanganui,

to be Valuers for the business of the Government Advances
to Settlers Office. Such appointments to date from the
15th May, 1897.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Wainono Drainage Board, County of Waimate.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 26th May, 1897.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of
the Wainono Drainage Board, is published in accord-
ance with the provisions of "The Counties Act, 1886," and
"The Land Drainage Act, 1893."

J. CARROLL,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Wainono Land Drainage Board, Waimate.
20th May, 1897.

SIR,—I have the honour to notify you that a resolution
authorising the raising of a special loan of £3,000 for drain-
age-works in the Wainono Land Drainage District, in ac-
cordance with the proposal of which I enclose a copy, was
submitted to a poll of the ratepayers of the said district on
the 18th instant, and was duly carried.

I also enclose herewith declaration as to all proceedings
having been taken.

I have, &c.,
E. H. CAMERON,
Chairman, Wainono Land Drainage Board.
The Hon. the Colonial Secretary, Wellington.

In the matter of "The Land Drainage Act, 1893," and
"The Counties Act, 1886"; and in the matter of a pro-
posal to raise a special loan under the said Acts.

I, Edward Hume Cameron, of Waimate, in the Provincial
District of Canterbury, in the Colony of New Zealand,
Chairman of the Wainono Land Drainage Board, do
solemnly and sincerely declare,—

1st. That a proposal to raise a special loan, under the
provisions of the above-mentioned Acts, a copy of which
proposal is herewith annexed and marked "A," in accord-
ance with a resolution of the said Board passed at a meeting
of the said Board held on the 2nd day of April, 1897, was
duly submitted to a poll of the ratepayers held in accord-
ance with the provisions of section 196 of "The Counties
Act, 1886," on the 18th day of May, 1897.

2nd. That all proceedings required by "The Counties
Act, 1886," to be taken in or towards obtaining the sanction
of the ratepayers to the proposal have been duly taken, and
that the resolution in favour of the proposal has been duly
carried.