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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 12

Declaring Roads to be County Roads, Stratford County.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this sixth day of February, 1903.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him by section one hundred and two of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, 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 described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date above mentioned, be county roads.

SCHEDULE.

That portion of the road known as Prospect Road which commences from its junction with the Ohura Road, in the Whangamomona Town Reserve, Block I., Pouatu Survey District, to the south-west corner of Section 57, Block XIII., Pouatu Survey District, a distance of 2 miles and 15 chains or thereabouts; as the same is delineated on the plan marked R. 755A, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

Also that portion of the road known as Marco Road which commences from its junction with the Ohura Road, at a point about 4 chains north-east of north-eastern corner of Section 33, Block XIII., Pouatu Survey District, to a point 10 chains, or thereabouts, north-west of the north-east corner of Section 1, Block XIII., Pouatu Survey District, for a distance of one mile or thereabouts; as the same is delineated on the plan marked R. 755, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

Also that portion of the road known as Kohuratahi Road commencing from its junction with the Ohura Road, at the north-west corner of Section 66, Block XIV., Pouatu Survey District, to the south-western corner of Education Reserve, Section 7 of Block XV., Pouatu Survey District, a distance of 4 miles and 30 chains or thereabouts; as the same is delineated on plan marked R. 755, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

Also that portion of the road known as Whitianga Road commencing from its junction with Ohura Road, at the north-western corner of Section 85, Block X., Pouatu Survey District, to a point about 22 chains south-east of the north-east corner of Section 87, Block X., Pouatu Survey District; thence to a point 31 chains west of junction of Whitianga and Pukeho Roads, at the south-east corner of Section 3, Block XI., Pouatu Survey District, a distance of 1 mile 22 chains or thereabouts; as the same is delineated on the plan marked R. 755, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

Also that portion of the road known as the Mangare Road commencing from its junction with the Ohura Road, at the north-east corner of Section 5, Block I., Mahoe Survey District, to the north-western corner of Section 173, Block IV., Ngatimaru Survey District, a distance of two miles or thereabouts; as the same is delineated on the plan marked R. 755AB, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

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

Consenting to closing Roads in the Oamaru Survey District.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this sixth day of February, 1903.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON 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 Waitaki County Council has applied for such consent in respect to 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 Waitaki County Council closing the parts of the roads mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

All in the Otago Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above noted, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

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

Declaring Portion of Ataraoa Road through Block XV., Waitara Survey District, Clifton County, to be a Government Road.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this sixth day of February, 1903.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him by section one hundred and two of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, 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 road in Clifton County described in the Schedule below shall, on and after the date above mentioned, be a Government road.

SCHEDULE.

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

Excepting Land from the Operation of Section 117 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this sixth day of February, 1903.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section four of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” it is enacted that the Governor may, by Order in Council, except from the operation of section one hundred and seventeen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), for a limited period or otherwise, and either generally or for such purposes and subject to such restrictions as shall be in such Order specified, any land, wheresoever situate, which is for the time being subject to the operation of the said section, or any interest therein or right over the same, or may in like manner make such exception in favour exclusively of any lessee or other person who has been bonâ fide in occupation of and has made improvements on such land, or has paid money to Native owners for lease or pur-