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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 26

Revoking Delegation of Powers under “The Public Domains Act, 1881,” to the Matamau Domain Board.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of March, 1904.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE J. McGOWAN PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Public Domains Act, 1881,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, doth hereby revoke a certain Order in Council, made and issued on the twenty-eighth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and three, under the said Act, and delegating all the powers conferred by the said Act (except the powers conferred by sections five and twelve thereof) in respect of the parcel of land described in the Schedule hereto to the following persons, who are known as the Matamau Domain Board, namely:—

GEORGE WALTER FRANCE,
CHARLES SWIGGS,
WILLIAM SARGENT,
ARTHUR BECKETT, and
ALFRED THOMAS BOX.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, containing by admeasurement 7 acres 2 roods, more or less, being Section No. 33, Village of Matamau, Block X., Norsewood Survey District : as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier.

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

Consenting to closing Road, Parish of Ngaroto, Waipa County.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of March, 1904.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE J. McGOWAN 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 Waipa County Council has applied for such consent in respect to the road 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, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby consent to the Waipa County Council closing the road mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is 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.

Division of Gratuities for the Conveyance of Mails.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of March, 1904.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE J. McGOWAN PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section thirty-eight of “The Post Office Act, 1900” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is provided that the Governor in Council may from time to time determine the amount of gratuities to be paid to masters of vessels for the conveyance of mails, and that such gratuities may be either a fixed sum or at such rate as the Governor in Council from time to time determines: And whereas by Order in Council dated the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and one, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the ninth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and one, the gratuities to be paid to masters of vessels for the conveyance of mails were fixed at the rates in such Order in Council mentioned:

And whereas it is desirable to alter and amend the regulations providing for the payment of such gratuities in the manner hereinafter set forth:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the said Act, and acting by and with the consent and advice of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order and declare that the gratuities for the conveyance of mails shall hereafter be paid in the manner set forth in the Schedule hereto; and doth declare that this Order in Council shall have effect on and from its publication in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

Gratuities shall no longer be paid only to the master of one vessel for any despatch of mails at the office whence such despatch is made, unless such master completes delivery of the mails at the office of destination, or unless two or more vessels belonging to the same company or proprietary alone are engaged in the despatch and delivery of the mails. In such latter case payment of one gratuity at the office of despatch shall suffice to pay for the whole service undertaken in the carriage of the mails.

Where any service in the carriage of sea mails is not completed by the master of the vessel to which such mails are delivered at the post-office of despatch, and such mails are required to be further conveyed by a vessel or by vessels belonging to another company or proprietary, or other companies or proprietaries, than that to which such first-named vessel belongs, the gratuity for the conveyance of the mails shall be equally divided, subject to the condition set out in the preceding clause of this Schedule, between the masters of the vessels on which such mails are conveyed from the port at which they are received from the post-office to the port at which they are again delivered to the post-office.

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

Incorporating a Portion of the Heathcote Road District with the Christchurch Tramways District.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of March, 1904.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE J. McGOWAN PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN exercise of the powers conferred upon him by “The Christchurch Tramways District Act, 1902,” and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the consent and advice of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby direct that the portion of the Heathcote Road District described in the Schedule hereto shall, from and after the date of the gazetting hereof, be incorporated with and form part of the Christchurch Tramways District as constituted by the aforesaid Act.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area of land, part of the Heathcote Road District, comprised within the following boundaries: Commencing at the junction of Opawa Road and Martin’s Road; thence by the north-west side of Martin’s Road to Hill’s Road; thence by the south-west side of Hill’s Road to the road running west to Trig. Station Q; thence generally easterly by the southerly side of Hill’s Road to its junction with