June 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1537

and authority in anywise enabling me in that behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that, from and after the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto are hereby taken for the purpose of a public road.

SCHEDULE.

All in the Wellington 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.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this thirteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four.

JAS. McGOWAN,
Acting Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Proclaiming Road as closed through Lands in Block XV., Mangaone Survey District, Masterton County.

(I.S.) RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred by section thirteen of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do by this notice hereby proclaim as closed the road in Mangaone Survey District hereinafter described.

SCHEDULE.

All in the Wellington Land District; as the same 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.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this thirteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four.

JAS. McGOWAN,
For Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

The Assets Realisation Board.—Amended Regulations under “The Bank of New Zealand and Banking Act, 1895.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this thirtieth day of May, 1904.

Present:

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

WHEREAS by section thirty-two of “The Bank of New Zealand and Banking Act, 1895,” it is enacted that, for the purposes mentioned or comprised in that section, the Governor in Council may from time to time make regulations with regard to the Assets Realisation Board constituted under the said Act and the assets under its control: And whereas on the thirteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, His Excellency the Governor in Council duly made certain regulations with reference to the matters aforesaid: And whereas by clause nineteen of the said regulations it was provided that the common seal of the said Board should be affixed to deeds, instruments, or documents requiring to be executed by the said Board, by and in the presence of two members of the said Board, who should subscribe their names to all such deeds, instruments, or documents in attestation of the affixing of the seal thereto, but in no case should the seal be affixed unless the affixure were authorised by a previous resolution of the Board: And whereas it is often necessary to affix the common seal of the said Board to deeds, instruments, and documents at times when there are not two members of the said Board in the City of Wellington, and inconvenience has been caused by the aforesaid clause nineteen which it is desirable to remove:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him under the said Act and all other powers and authorities him enabling in this behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby make the regulations hereinafter set out, and direct that they shall be read together with the first-mentioned regulations:—

1. In any case where it is necessary to affix the common seal of the said Board to any deed, instrument, or document, and there are not at that time present in the City of Wellington two members of the said Board, or two members of the said Board cannot be procured to attest the affixing of the common seal of the said Board to such deed, instrument, or document, such common seal may be affixed in the presence of the Chairman and the General Manager of the said Board, who shall subscribe their names to such deed, instrument, or document in attestation of the affixing of the said common seal thereto. Every such execution shall be as valid and effectual as if a previous resolution of the Board duly authorising such execution had been duly made and passed.

2. At the first meeting of the Board after any such execution the fact thereof shall be reported to the Board.

3. No person taking under any deed, instrument, or other document purporting to be executed in manner provided by clause nineteen aforesaid, or by clause one of these regulations, shall be concerned to see or inquire whether such execution was authorised by a previous resolution of the Board, or whether, in the case of an execution under clause one of these regulations, that clause applied to the case; but every such execution shall, so far as concerns the validity of the document executed and the security of the person taking thereunder, be deemed to have been validly executed.

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

Consenting to closing Roads in the Mandeville and Rangiora Road District.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighth day of June, 1904.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR 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 Mandeville and Rangiora Road Board has applied for such consent in respect to the roads described in the Schedule hereto :