Mar. 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 731

Declaring the Approach Roads to the Railway-crossing in Section 32, Block IV., Oamaru Survey District, to be a County Road.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this thirteenth day of March, 1902.
Present:
THE HONOURABLE J. CARROLL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.
IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him by “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, 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 order that the roads known as the approach roads to the railway-crossing, in Section 32, Block IV., Oamaru Survey District, on the Waitaki-Bluff Railway, situated in the County of Waitaki, and described in the Schedule hereto, and which said roads have hitherto been Government roads within the meaning of the said Act, shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, become county roads.

SCHEDULE.
ALL those two areas in the Otago Land District, in the Oamaru Survey District and County of Waitaki, containing in the aggregate 1 acre 1 rood 25 perches, more or less, and being part of Section 32, Block IV., in the said survey district; as the same is more particularly delineated upon the plan marked 10903, deposited in the office of the Minister for Railways, at Wellington, and thereon coloured blue.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Declaring Road in the Waimea Survey District to be a County Road.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this thirteenth day of March, 1902.
Present:
THE HONOURABLE J. CARROLL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the one-hundred-and-second section of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, 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 order and declare that the road known as Stafford-Awatuna Road, described in the Schedule below, and which has hitherto been a district road, shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, become a county road.

SCHEDULE.
STAFFORD-AWATUNA ROAD.
ALL that road in the Westland Land District, known as the Stafford-Awatuna Road, commencing at its junction with the Greymouth-Hokitika Railway, and following generally a southerly direction to the northern boundary of main road to Kumara, a distance of about one mile and three-quarters: as the said road is delineated upon the plan marked R. 1924, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured pink.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Second Schedule of “The Noxious Weeds Act, 1900,” extended.—Notice No. 685.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this tenth day of March, 1902.
Present:
THE HONOURABLE J. CARROLL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.
IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Noxious Weeds Act, 1900” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby extend the operation of the Second Schedule of the said Act by including therein the plant known as hemlock (Conium maculatum); and it is hereby declared that this Order shall come into force from and after the day of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Consenting to closing Roads through L Portion of Moana Vale Estate, Parish of Pukekura, Pukekura Road District.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this thirteenth day of March, 1902.
Present:
THE HONOURABLE J. CARROLL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by section twelve, subsection one, of “The Public Works Acts Amendment Act, 1900,” it is enacted that a local authority shall not declare any county or district road to be stopped, and such road shall not be deemed to be stopped, until the consent thereto of the Governor by Order in Council gazetted is obtained: And whereas the Pukekura Road Board has applied for such consent in respect of the roads described in the Schedule hereto:
Now, therefore, in pursuance and in exercise of the above-in-part-recited Act, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, 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 consent to the Pukekura Road Board closing the roads mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.
ROADS TO BE CLOSED UNDER “THE PUBLIC WORKS ACT, 1894.”
ALL those parcels of land in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 acre 2 roods 28 perches, 4 acres 1 rood 11 perches, 7 acres 2 roods 16 perches, 5 acres 3 roods 20 perches, and 1 rood 7 perches respectively, more or less, situate in the Parish of Pukekura, and being portions of road-lines lying between Sections Nos. 104 and 109, between Sections Nos. 105, 106, 107, and 108 and Sections Nos. 109, 110, 111, and 112, between Sections Nos. 108 and 112 and Sections Nos. 113 and 116, between Sections Nos. 113, 114, 115, and 165 and Sections Nos. 116, 117, 118, 119, and 225, and between Sections Nos. 165 and 188A, respectively, viz.:—

Portion containing 1 acre 2 roods 28 perches.
Commencing at the eastern angle of roads on the western side of Section No. 109. Bounded towards the east by a line, 1892·4 links; towards the south by a line, 123·3 links; towards the west by a line, 1457·8 links; and towards the north-west by a line, 175 links, to the commencing-point.

Portion containing 4 acres 1 rood 11 perches.
Commencing at the angle of the crossing of roads nearest to the south-eastern angle of Section No. 105. Bounded towards the north by a line, 4302 links; towards the east by a line, 100 links; towards the south by a line, 4333·5 links; and towards the west by a line, 107 links, to the commencing-point.

Portion containing 7 acres 2 roods 16 perches.
Commencing at the angle of roads in the north-western angle of Section No. 113. Bounded towards the east by a line, 7560 links; towards the south by a line, 132 links; towards the west by a line, 7438·3 links; and towards the north-west by a line, 163·6 links, to the commencing-point.

Portion containing 5 acres 3 roods 20 perches.
Commencing at the south-western angle of Section No. 113. Bounded towards the north by a line, 5292 links; towards the north-east by a line, 676·8 links; towards the south-west by lines, 133·8 links and 540·3 links respectively; towards the south by a line, 5249·4 links; and towards the west by a line, 100 links, to the commencing-point.

Portion containing 1 rood 7 perches.
Commencing at the angle of the road on the south-western boundary of Section No. 165. Bounded towards the north by a line, 338 links; towards the east by a line, 100 links; towards the south by a line, 249·1 links; and towards the south-west by a line, 133·8 links, to the commencing-point.

Be all the aforesaid areas and linkages more or less: as the same are delineated on plan R. 3093, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured green.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.