Oct. 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2399

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable William Lee, Baron Plunket, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, 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 seventh day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Native Lands taken for the Purposes of a Road in Block IV., Whitianga Survey District, Coromandel County.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this ninth day of October, 1905.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken for a public work, to wit, for the purposes of a road in Taoraukura and Te Kauanga Blocks, Block IV., Whitianga Survey District:

And whereas the said lands are held or occupied by Native owners under a title which is not derived from the Crown:

And whereas a map in duplicate has been prepared of the said lands, as required by the eighty-eighth section of “The Public Works Act, 1894”:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him by the eighty-eighth section of the said 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 declare that the lands shown upon such map, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be deemed to be taken for the purposes of the said road, and the said lands shall vest in His Majesty the King, as from the ninth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and five.

SCHEDULE.

All in the Auckland 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 Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Fixing Dues for Use of White-pine Company’s Wharf, Wairoa River, Kaipara.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this ninth day of October, 1905.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council dated the twenty-third day of July, one thousand nine hundred and one, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 86, of the twenty-sixth day of the same month, Messrs. Butler Bros. and Co. were licensed to use and occupy for a term of fourteen years from that date a part of the foreshore and of the land below low-water mark adjacent thereto on the Wairoa River, in Kaipara Harbour, for the purpose of erecting and maintaining thereon a wharf in accordance with plans marked M.D. 2460, and deposited in the office of the Marine Department at Wellington:

And whereas such wharf has been erected, and has, with the consent of the Minister of Marine, been transferred to the White-pine Company of New Zealand (Limited), and it is desirable that dues and rates should be prescribed for the use of the said wharf:

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 pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by “The Harbours Act, 1878,” and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, doth hereby prescribe that the dues and rates set forth in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of the publication of this Order in Council in the New Zealand Gazette, be charged and taken by the said White-pine Company of New Zealand (Limited) for the use of the said wharf.

SCHEDULE.

SHIPPING WHARFAGE.

For every vessel, a sum of 1d. per ton on the gross tonnage of such vessel, per day, for each day or part of a day the vessel shall occupy a berth alongside the wharf or alongside of any other vessel using the wharf, or shall lie off the wharf with a line attached thereto.

GOODS WHARFAGE.

Half dues to be charged on all goods transhipped into lighters.

All returned empties free.

Such passengers’ luggage or ships’ stores as are carried in hand, not exceeding 2 cwt., shall be exempt from wharfage charges.

STORAGE.

Per ton, for first twenty-four hours, free (any quantity over half a ton and under a ton will be charged as 1 ton), per day or part of a day, 1s.; quarter-ton or under, per day, 6d. If services of wharfinger required before 8 a.m. or after 5 p.m., per hour or part of an hour, 1s.

If any ship shall use the wharf for the discharge of any goods or cargo after the usual working-hours or on wharf holidays, the master, owner, or agent of such ship shall pay to the Council for the use of the wharf, in addition to the charge hereinbefore provided, a further charge at the rate of 1s. per ton on all goods or cargo so discharged from such ship. This charge shall only be made when, in the opinion of the wharfinger, it is necessary to employ labour to stack or remove cargo in consequence of the discharge of such goods or cargo aforesaid.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Amending the Regulations under “The Stock Act, 1893,” for the Prevention of Blackleg among Cattle.—Notice No. 994.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this ninth day of October, 1905.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the fifteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and four, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the same date, certain regulations for the prevention of blackleg