1442
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 47

Consenting to closing Road in Blocks VI. and VII., Opaheke Survey District, Opaheke Road District.

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

Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD 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 Opaheke Road Board 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 Opaheke Road Board closing the road mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

In the Auckland Land District; as the said road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Consenting to closing Portion of Road-line in Block VII., Moeraki District, Waihemo County.

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

Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD 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 Waihemo 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 Waihemo County Council closing the road mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

In the Otago Land District; as the said road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Maungatua Drainage District extended.

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

Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS, in accordance with the provisions of the fifth section of “The Land Drainage Act, 1893,” a majority of the ratepayers in the area described in the First Schedule hereto, situated in the County of Taieri, have presented a petition to His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand praying that the land comprised in the said area be added to the Maungatua Drainage District as constituted under the provisions of the said Act: Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority contained in the fifth section of “The Land Drainage Act, 1893,” 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 declare that the area of land described in the said petition, and in the First Schedule hereto, shall be added to the said Maungatua Drainage District, and that the boundaries of the said drainage district, with such addition as herein provided for, shall be those described in the Second Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
AREA TO BE ADDED TO THE MAUNGATUA DRAINAGE DISTRICT.

ALL those parcels of land in the Otago Land District, containing an aggregate area of 150 acres 2 roods 10 perches, more or less, being original Sections Nos. 45, 46, and 39, and parts original Sections Nos. 44 and 47, Block VI., Maungatua Survey District, and known as Allotments A and B of the Henley Estate, Block VI., Maungatua Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west by the north-western side of a drain forming the north-western boundary of the said Allotment A; towards the north-east by the north-eastern side of a road forming the north-eastern boundaries of the said Allotments A and B, to a point in line with the south-eastern boundary-line of the said Allotment B; thence towards the south-east by a right line to, and thence by the said south-eastern boundary-line of, the said Allotment B, to the southernmost corner of the last-mentioned allotment; thence towards the south-west by part original Section No. 44 to the road along the eastern side of Lake Waipori; thence towards the west generally by the said road, along the eastern side of Lake Waipori, the abutment of a road, a landing reserve, and again towards the south-west by the last-mentioned road continued along the north-eastern side of Lake Waipori to the north-western side of a drain intersecting original Section No. 47, the place of commencement.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
MAUNGATUA DRAINAGE DISTRICT (EXTENDED BOUNDARIES).

ALL that area in the Otago Land District, Maungatua Survey District, bounded towards the north-west by the road from Outram to Berwick, forming the north-western boundaries of Sections Nos. 10, 8, 6, 4, and 2, Block II., from the westernmost corner of Section No. 10 aforesaid to the westernmost corner of Section No. 20, Block I.; thence towards the north-east generally by said Section No. 20 and Section No. 42, Block V., to the road forming the south-western boundary of said Section No. 42; thence by that road across Lee’s Creek and by the road forming the south-western boundaries of Sections Nos. 32 and 29, Block V., to the northernmost corner of Section No. 39; thence towards the south-east by Sections Nos. 39 and 38, said Block V., to the north-eastern boundary-line of Allotment No. 2 of original Section No. 38, Block V. aforesaid; thence again towards the north-east by the north-eastern boundary-lines of Allotments Nos. 2 and 4 to the road forming the south-eastern boundary of said Allotment No. 4; thence again towards the south-east by that road to the road forming the south-western boundary of Section No. 26, Block V. aforesaid; thence again towards north-east by that road to the south-eastern boundary-line of Allotment No. 39 of original Section No. 79, Block VI.; thence again towards the south-east generally by the south-eastern boundary-lines of Allotments Nos. 39, 38, and 37, and the north-eastern boundary-line of Allotment No. 36 to the road along the north-western side of the Main Trunk Railway-line; thence by that road to Allotment No. 47, Township of Henley, by the north-eastern, north-western, and south-western boundary-lines of the said Allotment No. 47, and again by the road along the railway-line, to the road forming the south-