SEPT. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2117

existing drain along the public road, through the land described in the Schedule hereto, a portion of which is occupied by a building and a garden :

Now, therefore, 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 land described in the Schedule hereto being taken by the said Drainage Board for the purpose of widening, deepening, and reconstructing the existing drain.

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SCHEDULE.

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.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Consenting to closing Roads in Halswell Survey District, Little River Road District.

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of August, 1904.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section twelve, subsection one, of “The Public Works Act 1894 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 Little River Road Board 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, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby consent to the Little River Road Board closing the roads mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

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

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Declaring Road through Section 3, Block XV., Hautapu Survey District, Kiwitea County, a Government Road.

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of August, 1904.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor 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, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order and declare that the portion of road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, be a Government road.

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SCHEDULE.

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

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Changing the Purpose of a Portion of a Reserve in the Canterbury Land District.

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of August, 1904.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto forms part of a reserve heretofore duly set apart for municipal purposes, being a reserve within Class I. of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881” :

And whereas it is expedient that such land shall be appropriated for a site for a mechanics’ institute and athenæum, being a reserve within the said Class I. :

Now, therefore, 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, and in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the fourth section of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” doth hereby declare that the said land shall, from and after the date hereof, be appropriated for a site for a mechanics’ institute and athenæum under Class I. of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881.”

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 rood 2 perches, more or less, being Section No. 17, Block VI., Town of Morven.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Declaring the Approach Road to Kanohi Railway-station, in the Kaipara Survey District, to be a District Road.

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of August, 1904.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor 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 road known as the Approach Road to the Kanohi Station, on the railway from Kaukapakapa northwards (portion of Kaukapakapa Section), situated in the Kaukapakapa Road District, and described in the Schedule hereto, and which said road has hitherto been a Government road within the meaning of the said Act, shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, become a district road.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Provincial District of Auckland, containing 1 acre 3 roods 16·3 perches, more or less, situated at Kanohi Station, on the railway from Kaukapakapa north-