Mar. 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 663

SECOND SCHEDULE.
ROAD CLOSED.

All in the Wellington Land District; as the same are 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.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable William Lee, Baron Plunket, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, 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 fourth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Provisions of Section 106 of “The Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1889,” to apply to the Commonwealth of Australia.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of February, 1905.

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

WHEREAS by the one-hundred-and-seventh section of “The Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1889” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), it is, among other things, enacted that, where it is made to appear to the Governor in Council that the Legislature of any British possession other than New Zealand has made satisfactory provision for the protection of inventions, designs, and trade-marks, or any of them, patented or registered in New Zealand, the Governor may from time to time by Order in Council apply all or any of the provisions of the last preceding section of the said Act relating to the protection of inventions, designs, and trade-marks protected or registered in England, with such variations or additions, if any, as to the Governor in Council may seem fit, to inventions, designs, and trade-marks, or any of them, patented or registered in such British possession; and by the said first-mentioned section it is also provided that an Order in Council made under the said section shall, from a date to be mentioned for the purpose in the Order, take effect as if its provisions had been contained in the said Act, but the Governor in Council may revoke any such Order in Council: And whereas it has been made to appear to the Governor in Council that the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Australia has, under and by virtue of the provisions of “The Patents Act, 1903,” made satisfactory provision for the protection of inventions for which protection has been applied in New Zealand: And whereas it is expedient that provision should be made under the provisions of the herein-before-recited section of the said Act for the application of the provisions of the one-hundred-and-sixth section of such Act to inventions patented in the Commonwealth of Australia, subject, however, as hereinafter mentioned:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him by the one-hundred-and-seventh section of the said Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order and declare that all the provisions of the one-hundred-and-sixth section of “The Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1889,” relating to the protection of inventions patented in England shall apply to inventions patented in the Commonwealth of Australia, subject, however, to this condition: that the application for letters patent in New Zealand, in accordance with such provision, must be accompanied by a complete specification, which, if it be not accepted within the period of twelve months, shall, with the drawings (if any), be open to public inspection at the expiration of that period. And, in further pursuance and exercise of the power and authority aforesaid, and with the like advice and consent as aforesaid, it is ordered that this present Order in Council shall take effect on and after the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and five.

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

Time for Preparation of Roll under Gold Duty Abolition and Mining Property Rating Act extended, Westland County.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of February, 1905.

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

WHEREAS, the County Council of the Westland County having failed, through misadventure, to prepare the valuation roll of mining property in the Westland County in the month of January, one thousand nine hundred and five, as required by section seven of “The Gold Duty Abolition and Mining Property Rating Act, 1890,” it is expedient to extend the time for preparing the said roll and for doing the other things set forth in the said section, as hereinafter mentioned:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in order that the purpose and intent of “The Gold Duty Abolition and Mining Property Rating Act, 1890,” may have effect, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by “The Rating Act, 1894,” which said Act is incorporated with the first above-mentioned Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby extend the time for the preparation of the valuation roll for the Westland County, under “The Gold Duty Abolition and Mining Property Rating Act, 1890,” until the eleventh day of March, one thousand nine hundred and five, and doth also hereby extend the time within which the valuers shall give notice of the rateable value determined by them to each occupier, so that such notices may be given on or before the twentieth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and five, and that objections to such valuations may be made on or before the seventeenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and five.

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

Declaring Waitahora Road, Mangatoro Estate, in the County of Waipawa, to be a County Road.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of February, 1905.

Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING 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 road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, be a county road.

SCHEDULE.
WAITAHORA ROAD.

ALL that road in the Hawke's Bay Land District, situated in the Waipawa County, and known as Waitahora Road, commencing at its junction with Mangatoro Valley Road, on the north-west corner of Section 18, Block XVI., Tahaorai te Survey District, and running generally in an easterly direction to a point where it junctions with Dannevirke-Weber Main Road at the south-east corner of Section 5, Block IX., Mangatoro Survey District; the length of the said road being five miles or thereabouts: as the same is delineated on the plan marked R. 5161z6, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, thereon coloured carmine, and marked A.B.

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