Mar. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 763

Declaring Part of Kai Iwi Road, Waitotara County, a County Road.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of March, 1905.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G., 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.
KAI IWI VALLEY ROAD.

ALL that portion of the road in the Wellington Land District, Waitotara County, and known as the Kai Iwi Valley Road, commencing at the southern boundary between Section 5, Block XV., Nukumaru Survey District, Mowhanau Village Settlement, and Section 243, Block I., Westmere Survey District, and proceeding generally in a westerly, northerly, and north-easterly direction, along frontages of Sections 5 and 4, intersecting Section 3, Block XV., Nukumaru Survey District, Mowhanau Village Settlement, and terminating at the north-eastern boundary of the Mowhanau Village Settlement; being a distance of 1 mile 26 chains or thereabouts: as the said road is delineated on the plan marked R. 5161⁴², deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and coloured blue thereon.

AMELIUS M. SMITH,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Kirikiri oa Drainage District, County of Waikato, constituted.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of March, 1905.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS, in accordance with the provisions of the third section of “The Land Drainage Act, 1904,” a majority of the ratepayers in the area of land described in the Schedule hereto, situated in the County of Waikato, have presented a petition to His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand praying that the said area be constituted a drainage district under the provisions of the said Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority contained in the third section of “The Land Drainage Act, 1904,” and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby constitute and declare the area of land described in the Schedule hereto to be a district for the purposes of Part I. of the said Act, and to be called by the name of the “Kirikiri oa Drainage District”; and also, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority contained in the fourth section of the said Act, doth hereby declare that the Board of Trustees for the said district shall consist of five members, to be elected under and in accordance with the said Act.

SCHEDULE.
KIRIKIRIOA DRAINAGE DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District bounded towards the north generally by a right line drawn from the easternmost corner of Section No. 26, Kirikiri oa Parish, to the south-western corner of Section No. 78, Kirikiri oa Parish aforesaid; thence by the south-western boundaries of Sections Nos. 78, 79, and 80, Kirikiri oa Parish aforesaid; thence by a right line to the westernmost corner of Section No. 83, Kirikiri oa Parish aforesaid: thence towards the east generally by the western boundaries of Sections Nos. 83, 84, 85, 86, the crossing of a road, 137, 138, 139, the crossing of a road, and 140, all of the Kirikiri oa Parish aforesaid: thence towards the south generally by the north-western boundaries of Sections Nos. 150, 156, 157, 158, 159, the crossing of a road, the western side of the road intersecting Section No. 159, the southern side of the road forming the northern boundary of Section No. 57A, and that side of the road continued through Sections Nos. 56 and 55, Kirikiri oa Parish aforesaid, to the southernmost corner of Section No. 43: thence towards the west generally by the eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 43, 44, 45, 46, 49, the crossing of a road, Sections Nos. 33, 34, the crossing of a road, Sections Nos. 27 and 26, to the place of commencement.

AMELIUS M. SMITH,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Amended and Additional Regulations under “The Mining Act, 1898.”

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of March, 1905.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN exercise of the powers conferred upon him by “The Mining Act, 1898,” and its amendments, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby amend the regulations made by Order in Council dated the eighteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred, and published in the Gazette of the same date (herein called “the principal regulations”), and doth hereby make the additional regulations hereinafter set forth, namely:—

REGISTRATION.

The following clause is hereby added to Regulation No. 65:—
(7.) Priority shall in all cases date from the time of registration.

SAWMILL LICENSES.

Regulation 96, subsection (7), of the principal regulations is hereby amended by omitting the words “for the same period” in the second proviso to the said subsection.

Clause 97 of the principal regulations is hereby amended by striking out the words “adjoining the land comprised in the license” in the seventh and eighth lines, and inserting the words “which shall be so situated with respect to each other and to the area in the license as that the four shall form one area within continuous boundary-lines, and such boundary-lines shall be deemed to be continuous, notwithstanding that it may be intersected by road or railway lines.”

Class II. of the Fourth Schedule of the principal regulations is hereby amended by substituting “6d.” for “1s.” per 100 superficial feet as the royalty payable for black and brown birches.

RENEWALS.

Clause 47 of the principal regulations is hereby amended by repealing subclause (2) and substituting in lieu thereof the following:—
(2.) The renewal shall be effected by indorsement on the original license.

GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING MINING PRIVILEGES.

Subclause (12) of Regulation 79 of the principal regulations is hereby repealed.

BOARDS OF EXAMINERS AND CERTIFICATED MINE-MANAGERS AND BATTERY SUPERINTENDENTS.

Clause 123 of the principal regulations is hereby amended as follows: By repealing paragraph (g), Part I. of subsection (7), and substituting in lieu thereof the following: (g) A knowledge of Parts V. and VI. of “The Mining Act, 1898” (oral); by substituting VI. for V. in paragraph (g) of subsection (11).

AMENDMENT OF FORM 29.

Form No. 29 of the principal regulations is hereby amended by repealing paragraph (1) of the Second Schedule and substituting in lieu thereof the following:—
(1.) A rental in respect of each acre or portion thereof at the rate of 2s. 6d. a year for the period elapsing between the date hereof and the last day of June (or December) ensuing after the expiration of one year from the date hereof, 5s. for the next succeeding year, and 7s. 6d. for each subsequent year during the term of the license. The amount of the rental being: For the first year, £ ; for the next succeeding year, £ ; and for each subsequent year, £ . In case of Native land a rental in respect of each acre or portion thereof at the rate of 1s. per annum, the amount of the rental for each year being £ ,

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