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purpose of gum-digging, shall be no longer subject to the principal Act, and shall thereafter be dealt with by the Land Board as ordinary Crown land; provided that such Order in Council shall only be issued in pursuance of a resolution of the Land Board, supported by such independent evidence as the Governor in Council deems necessary:

And whereas the Land Board of the Auckland Land District has duly passed a resolution recommending that the portion of the Awanui Kauri-gum Reserve described in the Schedule hereto be excepted from the operation of the principal Act, and it is expedient to give effect to such recommendation:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon me by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby order and declare that the portion of the Awanui Kauri-gum Reserve described in the Schedule hereto shall be no longer subject to the provisions of the principal Act, and shall hereafter be dealt with by the Land Board as ordinary Crown land.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 286 acres, more or less, situated in Blocks I and II, Takahue Survey District, Mangonui County, and being part of the Awanui Kauri-gum Reserve, set apart by Order in Council dated the 13th day of November, 1900, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 98, of the 29th day of November, 1900, page 2149. Bounded towards the north-east by the south-east portion of Section No. 11, and by Sections Nos. 10 and 6, all of the Parish of Awanui; towards the south-east by a public road to a point in line with the south-western boundary-line of land granted to J. Matthews (O.L.C. 193); towards the south-west by a right line from the said point to the southernmost angle of the land last mentioned; and towards the west by the eastern boundary of said O.L.C. 193 to the point of commencement: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 37704/299, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged red.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Exempting France Lane, Borough of Oamaru, from the Provisions of Section 117 of “The Public Works Act, 1905.”

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twelfth day of March, 1906.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. HALL-JONES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by subsection one of section one hundred and seventeen of “The Public Works Act, 1905,” it is, inter alia, provided that the said section shall not apply to any case where the local authority having control of a road or street by resolution declares that the provisions thereof shall not apply to any specified road or street, or any specified part thereof, and such resolution is approved by the Governor in Council:

And whereas on the fifth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and five, the Council of the Borough of Oamaru, the local authority having control of the street known as France Lane, described in the Schedule hereto, did by resolution declare that the provisions of the said section one hundred and seventeen should not apply to the said street: And whereas such resolution was in the following terms:

“That the resolution which was passed at a special meeting of the Oamaru Borough Council held on the twenty-eighth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and five, at the Council Chambers, Thames Street, Oamaru, be now confirmed, which resolution was in the following words—that is to say, ‘That it be resolved by way of special resolution to operate as a special order, pursuant to section two hundred and thirty-three, subsection two, of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900,” that France Street is now a private street within the meaning of the Act in force at the time of its being laid out, and which was laid out within the Borough of Oamaru prior to the second day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, and which is twenty feet or more in width, be a public street, and further that the provisions of section three of “The Public Works Act, 1903,” shall not apply to the said street.’ Confirmed on 8th September, and signed”:

And whereas it is deemed expedient that such resolution should be approved:

And whereas “The Public Works Act, 1903,” has been repealed, and section one hundred and seventeen of “The Public Works Act, 1905,” has been enacted in lieu thereof:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred by section one hundred and seventeen of “The Public Works Act, 1905,” and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby approve of the said resolution.

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SCHEDULE.

THAT street in the Borough of Oamaru known as France Lane, between Ribble and Usk Streets in the said borough; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked R. 5658, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and coloured thereon with a pink border.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Exempting Brandon, Earp, Earp Streets No. 1 and No. 2, and Wallace Streets, Doctor’s Lane, and Burgess and Horokiwi Roads, in the Town District of Johnsonville, from the Provisions of Section 117 of “The Public Works Act, 1905.”

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of March, 1906.

Present:

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

WHEREAS by subsection one of section one hundred and seventeen of “The Public Works Act, 1905,” it is, inter alia, provided that the said section shall not apply in any case where the local authority having control of a road or street by resolution declares that the provisions thereof shall not apply to any specified road or street, or any specified part thereof, and such resolution is approved by the Governor in Council:

And whereas on the twentieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and five, the Johnsonville Town Board, the local authority having control of the streets and roads known as Brandon, Earp, Earp No. 1 and No. 2, and Wallace Streets, Doctor’s Lane, and Burgess and Horokiwi Roads (being the streets, lane, and roads described in the Schedule hereto), did by resolution declare that the provisions of the said section one hundred and seventeen should not apply to the said streets, lane, and roads: And whereas such resolution was in the following terms:

“That section three of ‘The Public Works Act, 1903,’ shall not apply to Woodland Road, Hill Street, Prospect Terrace, Railway Terrace, Brook Street, Doctor Taylor Terrace, Brandon Street, Earp Street, Wallace Street, Doctor’s Lane, Earp Street No. 1, Earp Street No. 2, Burgess Road, and Horokiwi Road, in the Town District of Johnsonville, such streets, terraces, and roads being under the control of the Johnsonville Town Board”:

And whereas it is deemed expedient that such resolution should be approved in so far as it concerns Brandon Street, Earp Street, Earp Streets No. 1 and No. 2, and Wallace Street, also to Doctor’s Lane and Burgess and Horokiwi Roads:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred by the above-in-part-recited Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby approve of the said resolution in so far as it relates to Brandon Street, Earp Street, Earp Streets No. 1 and No. 2, and Wallace Street, also to Doctor’s Lane and Burgess and Horokiwi Roads.

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SCHEDULE.

THOSE streets in the Town District of Johnsonville, in the Wellington Land District, known as Brandon Street, Earp Street, Earp Street No. 1, Earp Street No. 2, Wallace Street, Doctor’s Lane, Burgess Road, and Horokiwi Road; as the same are shown on plan marked R. 6625, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and coloured brown thereon.

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