1524
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 72

Approving of Plans of Wharves at Miramar, Karaka Bay, and Seatoun.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirteenth day of August, 1900.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and fifty-six of “The Harbours Act, 1878” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), it is enacted that, before any Harbour Board or any other body or person shall commence the construction or erection of any harbour-work, such Board, body, or person shall deposit at the office of the Marine Department a plan, in duplicate, of the whole work, showing details, and the mode in which the same shall be carried out; and that if it appears to the Governor in Council that the proposed work will not be or tend to the injury of navigation the Governor in Council may approve of the deposited plan, with or without modification or addition, and subject or not to any restriction or condition necessary for the preservation of any public right:

And whereas the Seatoun Road Board (hereinafter called “the Board”) has deposited in the office of the Marine Department plans, in duplicate, marked M.D. 2340 and 2364, of wharves which it desires to erect at Miramar, Karaka Bay, and Seatoun, in Wellington Harbour: And whereas it appears to the Governor in Council that such works will not be or tend to the injury of navigation:

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 by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby approve of the said plans so deposited as aforesaid, subject to the following conditions necessary for the preservation of the public right:—

CONDITIONS.

1. The dues for the use of the wharves shall be submitted to and authorised by the Governor in Council before any charge is made.

2. No alteration shall be made in any dues which may be authorised without the consent of the Governor in Council.

3. The Board shall not sublet, assign, charge, or part with the wharves, or either of them, without the previous consent of the Governor in Council.

4. In case the Board shall commit or suffer a breach of the conditions hereinbefore set forth, or any of them, then this Order in Council, and every right, power, or privilege thereby conferred, and any Order in Council authorising dues, may be revoked and determined by the Governor in Council without any notice to the Board 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 Board and to all persons concerned or interested that this Order in Council has been revoked and determined.

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

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

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirteenth 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 Whakatane (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 Whakatane 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 Whakatane County Council shall be the licensing officer for the said Whakatane District.

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

Rural Lands in the Taranaki Land District open for Sale or Selection.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-thirty-sixth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on and after the eleventh day of October, one thousand nine hundred; and also that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase or on lease in perpetuity, or, in respect of any land containing or supposed to contain any metal, mineral, or valuable stone, be selected on lease in perpetuity only; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.
TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.
Second-class Surveyed Land.

All forest; pastoral land, of broken quality—some of the sections, however, have very fair slopes; the soil is good, resting upon a papa formation, and is well watered; the timber comprises rata, rimu, tawa, &c., and the usual undergrowth. Access by the Taihore Road, distant from Strathmore about fifteen miles, portion of the distance being formed as a dray-road, crossing the Mangaehu Stream at the wire bridge, thence by Puniwhakau Road, partly formed as a bridle-track.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this nineteenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.