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fourteen years from the date hereof, unless in the meantime such rights, powers, and privileges shall be altered, modified, or revoked by competent authority; and the licensee shall not assign, charge, or part with any such right, power, or privilege without the written consent of the Minister first obtained.

9. The said rights, powers, and privileges may be at any time resumed by the Governor, and the licensee may be required to remove the booms from the said river and the bed thereof at his own cost, without payment of any compensation whatever, on giving to the licensee six calendar months' previous notice in writing. Any such notice shall be sufficient if given by the Minister, and delivered at or posted to the last known address of the licensee.

10. The licensee shall be liable for any injury which the said booms may cause any vessel or boat to sustain through any default or neglect on his part.

11. In case the licensee shall—
    (1.) Commit or suffer a breach of the conditions hereinbefore set forth, or any of them;
    (2.) Cease to use or occupy the said booms for a period of thirty days;
    (3.) Become bankrupt, or be in any manner brought under the operation of any Act for the time being in force relating to bankruptcy; or
    (4.) Fail to pay the sums specified in clause three of these conditions,
    then and in either of the said cases this Order in Council, and every license, right, power, or privilege thereby conferred, may be revoked and determined by the Governor in Council without any notice to the licensee or other proceeding whatsoever; and publication in the New Zealand Gazette of an Order in Council containing such revocation shall be sufficient notice to the licensee, and to all persons concerned or interested, that this Order in Council, and the license, rights, and privileges thereby granted and conferred, have been revoked and determined.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.

Licensing P. Brown to use and occupy a Part of the Foreshore of Wairoa River, Kaipara Harbour.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of January, 1898.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. C. WALKER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS, there being no Harbour Board empowered to grant the license hereinafter mentioned, Peter Brown, of Waimata, near Dargaville, storekeeper (hereinafter called “the licensee”), has applied to the Governor in Council for a license under “The Harbours Act Amendment Act, 1883” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), to occupy a part of the land below low-water mark in order to erect and maintain thereon a shed alongside the Dargaville Wharf, on the Wairoa River, Kaipara Harbour; and, in accordance with the one hundred and fifty-sixth section of “The Harbours Act, 1878,” has deposited a plan in the office of the Marine Department at Wellington (marked M.D. 2154), showing the place on the said river where it is intended to erect such shed, and the area of land below low-water mark intended to be occupied for such purpose: And whereas it has been made to appear to the Governor in Council that the proposed work will not be or tend to the injury of navigation; and the said plan has, prior to the making of this Order in Council, been approved by the Governor in Council: And whereas it is expedient that a license under the said Act, for the purpose aforesaid, should be granted and issued to the licensee on the terms and conditions hereinafter expressed:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him by the said Act, and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby approve of the purpose or object for which the said license is required by the licensee as aforesaid; and, in further pursuance and exercise of the said power and authority, and with the like advice and consent as aforesaid, doth hereby license and permit the licensee to use and occupy that part of the land below low-water mark which is particularly shown and delineated on the plan so deposited as aforesaid, for the purpose of constructing or erecting thereon a shed; such license to be held and enjoyed by the licensee upon and subject to the following terms and conditions, that is to say:—

1. In these conditions the term “Minister” means the Minister having charge of the Marine Department, 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.

2. The concessions and privileges conferred by this Order in Council shall extend and apply only to the part of the land below low-water mark shown on the said plan marked M.D. 2154.

3. In consideration of the concessions and privileges granted by this Order in Council, the licensee shall, on being supplied with a copy of this Order in Council, pay to the Minister the sum of two pounds ten shillings, and thereafter the annual sum of one pound, such annual payments to date from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, the first of such annual payments to be made on the licensee being supplied with a copy of this Order in Council.

4. That the rights, powers, and privileges conferred 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, modified, or revoked by competent authority; and the licensee shall not assign, charge, or part with any such right, power, or privilege without the previous written consent of the Minister first obtained.

5. That the said rights, powers, and privileges may be at any time resumed by the Governor, and the licensee may be required to remove the shed, at his own cost, without payment of any compensation whatever, on giving to the licensee three calendar months' previous notice in writing. Any such notice shall be sufficient if given by the Minister, and delivered at or posted to the last known address of the licensee in New Zealand.

6. The licensee shall be liable for any injury which may be sustained by any vessel or boat in passing the shed or by contact with it, and which may be occasioned by any default or neglect on his part.

7. In case the licensee shall—
   (1.) Commit or suffer a breach of the conditions hereinbefore set forth, or any of them;
   (2.) Cease to use or occupy the said shed for a period of thirty days;
   (3.) Fail to pay the sums specified in clause three of these conditions; or
   (4.) Become bankrupt, or be in any manner brought under the operation of any law in force for the time being relating to bankruptcy,
   then and in any of the said cases this Order in Council and every right, power, or privilege, may be revoked and determined by the Governor in Council without any notice to the licensee or other proceeding whatsoever; and publication in the New Zealand Gazette of an Order in Council containing such revocation shall be sufficient notice to the licensee, and to all persons concerned or interested, that this Order in Council, and the rights and privileges thereby conferred, have been revoked and determined; and upon such revocation the Minister may cause the said shed, and all other erections or buildings thereto belonging, to be removed, and may recover the cost incurred by any such removal from the licensee.

8. The construction of the shed shall be deemed to be an acceptance by the licensee of the conditions of this Order in Council.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.

Licensing the Mokau Coal-mines Syndicate (Limited) to use and occupy a Part of the Foreshore of Mokau River.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of January, 1898.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. C. WALKER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS, there being no Harbour Board empowered under “The Harbours Act Amendment Act, 1883” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), the Mokau Coal-mines Syndicate (Limited) (hereinafter called “the licensee”) has applied to the Governor in Council for a license under the said Act to occupy a part of the foreshore and of the land below low-water mark of the Mokau River, in order to erect a wharf thereon, and, in accordance with the one hundred and fifty-sixth section of “The Harbours Act, 1878,” has deposited plans in the office of the Marine Department at Wellington (marked M.D. 2168) showing the position in which it is intended to erect such wharf, the area of foreshore and land below low-water mark intended to be occupied, and the manner in which it is proposed to erect the wharf: And whereas the Governor in Council has approved of the purpose for which the said license is required: And whereas it is expedient that a license should be granted and issued to the licensee under the said Act, for the purpose aforesaid, on the terms and conditions hereinafter expressed: