Aug. 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 2091

Native Lands proposed to be taken for the Establishment of
a Hospital or Sanatorium near Otaki, in Titokitoki and
Waitohu Blocks, Block IX, Waitohu Survey District.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-
third day of July, 1906.

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 purpose of establishing a hospital or sanatorium for
the cure of consumptive patients in Titokitoki and Waitohu
Blocks, Block IX, Waitohu 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-ninth section of “ The
Public Works Act, 1905 ” :

Now, therefore, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers
vested in him by the eighty-ninth 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 pur-
pose of the establishment of the said hospital or sanatorium
for the cure of consumptive patients ; and the said lands
shall vest in the District of Wellington Hospital Board as
from the fifth day of September, one thousand nine hun-
dred and six.

SCHEDULE.

All in the Wellington 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.

“ The Taranaki Scholarships Act, 1905.”

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-
third day of July, 1906.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS certain lands in the Provincial District of
Taranaki described in the Schedule to “ The Taranaki Scholarships Act, 1905,” are vested in the Public
Trustee for the purposes set forth in the said Act : And
whereas part of the said lands still remain unleased, and it
is desirable they should be leased : And whereas the Public
Trustee is, for the purposes of the said Act, a “ leasing
authority ” within the meaning of section three of “ The
Public Bodies’ Powers Act, 1887,” and the Acts amending
the same : And whereas by section four of the last-named
Act it is enacted, inter alia, that the Governor, by Order in
Council, may from time to time declare that any leasing
authority shall be subject to the provisions of that Act in
any section or sections of the same : Provided always that
no such Order shall have any effect unless it be issued at
the request or upon the recommendation of the leasing
authority on whose behalf such Order is issued : And
whereas the Public Trustee has requested the issue of such
Order and to be declared a “ leasing authority ” under the
provisions of the said last-named Act, and its amendments,
for the purposes hereinafter 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-
ferred by section four of “ The Public Bodies’ Powers Act,
1887,” doth hereby declare that the Public Trustee, as such
“ leasing authority ” as aforesaid, shall be, for the further-
ance of the purposes of “ The Taranaki Scholarships Act,
1905,” subject to the provisions of “ The Public Bodies’
Powers Act, 1887,” and the Acts amending the same, except
in so far as the same or any of them may conflict with
“ The Taranaki Scholarships Act, 1905.”

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Recreation Reserve in Wellington Land District brought under
“ The Public Domains Act, 1881.”

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirtieth
day of July, 1906.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in me
by the twenty-fourth section of “ The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said
colony, do hereby order and declare that the reserve for
recreation in the Wellington Land District described in the
Schedule hereto shall be and the same is hereby brought
under the operation of and declared to be subject to the
provisions of “ The Public Domains Act, 1881 ” ; and such
reserve shall hereafter be known as Pahiatua Domain, and
be managed, administered, and dealt with in manner
directed by the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

PAHIATUA DOMAIN.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing
by admeasurement 14 acres 3 roods, more or less, being an
island formed by an overflow channel of the Mangatainoka
River, and including a portion of the bed of the said
channel, situated in Block VIII, Mangahao Survey District.
Bounded towards the north-east and east by Part 1 of
Section 16 and by the Pahiatua Town District ; towards the
south-east by a road ; and towards the south-west and west
by the Mangatainoka River : as the same is delineated on
the plan marked L. and S. 50442, deposited in the Head
Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington,
and thereon bordered red.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Declaring Awaputahi Road, in the County of Weber, to be a
County Road.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirtieth
day of July, 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
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 Awaputahi Road, described in the Schedule hereto,
shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, be a
county road.

SCHEDULE.

AWAPUTAHI ROAD.

ALL that road in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, in the
County of Weber, known as the Awaputahi Road, com-
encing at its junction with the Tahukaretu Road, and
proceeding in a south-easterly direction for a distance of
two miles, or thereabouts, to the northern point of sec-