Numb. 71.

1505

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1900.

Allocating Land reserved and taken for a Railway to the Purposes of a Road in Ellesmere Road District.

(L.S.)
RANFURLY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto forms part of land taken for railway purposes, and it is considered desirable to allocate such land to the purposes of a road:

And whereas it has been certified by the Minister for Railways that such land is not required for railway purposes: And whereas such land is situated in Ellesmere Road District, the local authority of which has consented to the issue of this Proclamation:

And whereas His Excellency the Governor is of opinion that the said local authority can conveniently construct and maintain the said road:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities in me vested by section one hundred and seventy-seven of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in that behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto shall, upon the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, become a road, and that the said road shall be under the control of the Ellesmere Road Board, and shall be maintained by the said Board in like manner as other public highways are controlled and maintained by the said Board.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, in the Leeston Survey District, containing 2 roods 21 perches, more or less, being a strip of land 1 chain wide, and being a portion of Reserves 314 and 297, Block XIV., in said Survey District. Bounded on the north-east by the north-eastern boundary of said Reserve 314, a distance of 115 links; on the south-east by the Main Road, a distance of 205 links, and by other part of said Reserves 314 and 297, a distance of 515 links; and on the north-west by other part of said Reserves 314 and 297, a distance of 751 links: the easternmost and southernmost corners thereof being distant 251·2 links and 655 links respectively from the easternmost corner of said Reserve 314: as the said parcel of land is more particularly delineated on the plan marked 8817, deposited in the office of the Minister for Railways, at Wellington, and thereon coloured green.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this second day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred.

J. G. WARD,
Minister for Railways.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

County of Opotiki constituted a Special District under “The Auctioneers Act, 1891.”

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this sixth day of August, 1900.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority contained in the eighth section of “The Auctioneers Act, 1891,” 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, doth hereby declare that the County of Opotiki (being a part of the colony which is sparsely populated) shall be a special district for the purposes of the said Act, and shall be known by the name of the Opotiki District: and it is hereby declared that the amount of the auctioneer’s license-fee for the said district shall be ten pounds, and that the Clerk of the Opotiki County Council shall be the licensing officer for the said Opotiki District.

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