JAN. 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 9

Directing Sale of Land under “The Public Works Act, 1905.”

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of December, 1905.

Present:

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

WHEREAS by the thirtieth section of “The Public Works Act, 1905” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that if it is found that any land held, taken, purchased, or acquired at any time under this or any other Act or Provincial Ordinance, or otherwise howsoever, for any public work is not required for such public work, the Governor may, by Order in Council publicly notified and gazetted, cause the same to be sold under the conditions set forth in the said Act:

And whereas a memorial has been laid before the Governor by the Auckland City Council, accompanied by a map, setting forth that certain lands were acquired by the Auckland City Council for a public work, to wit, the improvement of the Auckland City water-supply: And whereas the said lands, as described in the Schedule hereto, are not now required by the said Council for the said public work or otherwise, and the said Council desires to sell the same:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers and authority conferred upon him by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby direct the sale of the lands described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

THAT portion of Lot 58 of the Parish of Waikomiti lying to the northward of the public road traversing such lot and containing 18 acres and 33·4 perches, and also the north-eastern portion of Lot 59 of the said Parish of Waikomiti, containing 6 acres 1 rood 9·5 perches. The said Lot 58 bounded towards the north by Lots 61 and 62 of the Parish of Waikomiti, 3768·4 links; towards the south-west and south by a road, 100 links, 197·2 links, 358 links, 930 links, 291·5 links, 156·9 links, 216 links, 1249·9 links, 230·5 links, and 410·2 links; and towards the east by Lot 60 of the said parish to the commencing-point, 954 links. The said north-eastern portion of Lot 59 bounded towards the north by Lot 77 of the said parish, 910·2 links; towards the south-east by other part of the said Lot 59, 1859·1 links; and towards the west by Lot 60 of the said parish, and by a road 1621·5 links, and is traversed by a road.

All in the Land District of Auckland; as the same pieces of land are more particularly delineated on the plan marked R. 6969, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured with a red border.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Consenting to closing Roads in Tauhoa Parish, Blocks VII. and VIII., Tauhoa Survey District, Tauhoa Road District.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of December, 1905.

Present:

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

WHEREAS by section one hundred and thirty-three, (a), of “The Public Works Act, 1905,” 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 Tauhoa 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, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby consent to the Tauhoa Road Board closing the roads mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

In the Auckland 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.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Declaring Part of the Nukuhau Road, in the Wairoa Road District, to be a Government Road.

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

Present:

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

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him by section one hundred and three, subsection two, of “The Public Works Act, 1905,” 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 part of the road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, be a Government road.

SCHEDULE.

PART OF NUKUHAU ROAD.

In the Taranaki 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.

Authorising Native to mortgage Land under Section 6 of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1897.”

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of December, 1905.

Present:

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

WHEREAS by section six of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1897,” it is enacted that the Governor may, by Order in Council, authorise any Native owing land in severalty to mortgage such land to any lending department of the Government, and that in such case