Dec. 21. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2953

Consenting to closing Roads through Lands in Sections 24
and 25, Block X., Invercargill Hundred, Southland
County.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this eleventh
day of December, 1905.

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 Southland County Council has applied
for such consent in respect to the portions of 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 any-
wise 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 closing of the roads
mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

In the Southland Land District; as the same are more
particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as
above mentioned, deposited in the office of the Chief En-
gineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land
District.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Terms and Conditions of Sale and Lease of Rangaroa Village-
settlement Lands, Auckland Land District.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this eleventh
day of December, 1905.

Present:

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

WHEREAS by the one-hundred-and-sixty-ninth section
of “The Land Act, 1892,” it is enacted that the
Governor in Council may fix the terms and conditions upon
which the lands in any village settlement shall be disposed
of, subject as in the said section is provided : And whereas
by a Proclamation made under the said Act on the seventh
day of October, one thousand nine hundred and five, and
published in the New Zealand Gazette on the twelfth day of
October, one thousand nine hundred and five, the lands de-
scribed in the First and Second Schedules hereto have been
set apart under the said Act as a village settlement, and
it is expedient to fix the terms and conditions upon which
the said lands shall be disposed of :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
and authorities conferred by the said Act, and by and with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said
colony, doth hereby fix the terms and conditions on which
the lands mentioned in the First Schedule hereto shall be
disposed of by public auction for cash, and the lands men-
tioned in the Second Schedule by way of lease in perpe-
tuity, and which said terms and conditions are set forth
in the Third Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WEST TAUPŌ COUNTY.—RANGA-
ROA VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

(Village Allotments for Sale for Cash by Public Auction.)

Level sections, situated on the north side of the Main
Trunk Railway at Taumarunui, on a flat-topped terrace
about 80 ft. above the railway-line; 175 miles from Auck-
land.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WEST TAUPŌ COUNTY.—RANGA-
ROA VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

(Village-homestead Allotments for Lease in Perpetuity.)