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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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mencing at its junction with the Masterton to Eketahuna
Main Road, at the southern point of Section 179 (school re-
serve), Block XIII, Mangaone Survey District, and pro-
ceeding thence generally westerly to the boundary-line of
Section 2, Block XIII, Tararua Survey District, a distance of
5 miles 70 chains, more or less ; as the said road is more
particularly delineated on the plans marked R. 7662A and
R. 7662, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of
Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and
marked AB, and tinted green thereon.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Declaring Kopikopiko Road, in Eketahuna County, to be
a County Road.

PLUNKET, Governor
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirtieth
day of April, 1906.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him
by “The Public Works Act, 1905,” and of all other
powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excel-
lency 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.
Kopikopiko Road.

ALL that road in the Wellington Land District, Eketa-
huna County, known as the Kopikopiko Road, commencing
where the road is already gazetted a county road, near the
boundary-line between Sections 13 and 8, Block XIII, Ma-
gahao Survey District, and proceeding thence generally
south-westerly and southerly until it junctions on to the
Pukohai Road, at the south-western corner of Section 137,
Block XIII, Mangahao Survey District, a distance of 3 miles
2 chains, more or less ; as the said road is more particularly
delineated on the plan marked R. 7661, deposited in the
office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the
Wellington Land District, and marked AB, and coloured
yellow thereon.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Validating certain Proceedings in connection with a Loan of
£2,000, applied for by the Featherston County Council for
Expenditure in the Martinborough Town District.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirtieth
day of April, 1906.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the Featherston County Council lately
proposed to raise a loan of two thousand pounds,
under “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” for the purpose
of forming and metalling roads and footpaths within the
Martinborough Town District: And whereas the public
notifications of the poll in connection with the said proposal
specified that the said poll was to be conducted under the
provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” and
“The Local Bodies’ Loans Amendment Act, 1903,” and the
voting-papers used in connection with the said proposal did
not contain such information: And whereas the public
notifications of the special order indicate that the date of
the confirmatory meeting was to be the thirteenth day of
January, one thousand nine hundred and six, whereas the
confirmatory meeting was held on the twelfth day of
January, one thousand nine hundred and six: And whereas
section eleven of “The Counties Act Amendment Act, 1903,”
provides that the four weeks’ notification of a confirmatory
meeting of a special order shall immediately precede the
day on which the said meeting is to be held, and there was
a lapse of nine days between the last public notification of
the special order levying the special rate as security for the
loan and the confirmatory meeting: And whereas it appears
that the ratepayers have not been misled by such irregu-
larities, and it is expedient to validate the said proceedings:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
powers conferred by section ten of “The Local Bodies’

Loans Amendment Act, 1902,” and acting by and with the
consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth
hereby declare that the said voting-papers and notifications
shall be deemed and taken to be as valid and effectual as
though the same had been regularly made and published
respectively, and that the proceedings relative to the said
voting-papers, confirmatory meeting, and special order shall
not be called in question by reason only of the irregularities
aforesaid.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Validating the Voting-papers used at the Poll in connection
with the Loan of £8,000 to complete the Formation and
Metalling of the Ngaruawahia and Waimai Road, applied
for by the Raglan County Council.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirtieth
day of April, 1906.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the Raglan County Council has applied to
the Colonial Treasurer, under the provisions of
“The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901” (hereinafter called
“the said Act”), and its amendments, for a loan of eight
thousand pounds for the purpose of completing the forma-
tion and metalling of the Ngaruawahia and Waimai Road:
And whereas by section eleven of the said Act it is provided
that the form of voting-paper set forth in the Schedule to
“The Local Bodies’ Loans Amendment Act, 1903,” shall be
used at any poll of ratepayers taken upon a proposal for a
loan under the said Act: And whereas the said Act pre-
scribes a form of voting, and requires that there should be
inserted therein the date of taking such poll: And whereas
the voting-papers used at the poll of ratepayers taken in
relation to the said loan did not contain the date of the said
poll: And whereas the Governor is satisfied that the rate-
payers have not been misled by such irregularities or defects,
and it appears expedient to validate the proceedings herein-
after mentioned:
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 powers and authorities con-
tained in the tenth section of “The Local Bodies’ Loans
Amendment Act, 1902,” doth hereby validate the said
recited poll of ratepayers, and doth hereby declare that all
proceedings thereunder shall be and be deemed to have been
as good, valid, and effectual as if the said recited poll of
ratepayers had been duly and regularly taken.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Validating an Irregularity in Procedure under Section 11 of
“The Counties Act Amendment Act, 1903,” whereby Pub-
lic Notice of Proposed Special Order in connection with
Loan of £1,000 was not given by the Hawera County
Council once in each of the Four Weeks immediately pre-
ceeding the Day on which the Confirmatory Meeting was
held.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirtieth
day of April, 1906.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the Hawera County Council did publicly
notify the resolution for making and levying a
special rate for the purpose of providing the interest and other
charges on a loan of one thousand pounds, authorised to be
raised by the said Council, under “The Local Bodies’ Loans
Act, 1901,” and the amendments thereof, for the construc-
tion of the legalised deviation of the Mataimaroake Road
from the Rawhitiroa Road to a point, say, twenty-four
chains to the southward of the Mangatoromiro Stream, and
for the erection of a bridge over the Mangatoromiro Stream,
the whole being one continuous public work: And whereas
an irregularity occurred in the public notice of the resolu-
tion making the special rate in relation to such loan in that
such notice did not appear once in each of the four weeks
immediately preceding the day on which the prescribed sub-
sequent meeting was to be held, but the fourth publication