FEB. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Validating the Date when the Poll was taken on a Proposal to raise a Loan of £5,500 for Formation, Construction, and Part-metalling of Roads in Okahu Riding of the Hobson County.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this second day of February, 1906.
Present:
The Right Honourable R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS the Hobson County Council lately proposed to raise a loan of five thousand five hundred pounds for the formation, construction, and part-metalling of roads in the Okahu Riding of the Hobson County; And whereas a meeting of the ratepayers was held to consider the proposal on the twenty-first day of November, one thousand nine hundred and three: And whereas a poll of the ratepayers was taken on the nineteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and three, thereby causing a lapse of twenty-eight days to intervene between the date of the ratepayers' meeting and the date when the said poll was taken, contrary to the provisions of section eleven of "The Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1901": And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled, and it is expedient to validate such irregularity:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power conferred by section ten of "The Local Bodies' Loans Amendment Act, 1902," and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order and declare that the said poll of ratepayers shall not be called in question by reason only of the irregularity as aforesaid.
J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Native Land in Mangakahia Survey District to be taken for Scenic Purposes.

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.
WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is Native land and is required to be taken, under "The Public Works Act, 1905," and "The Scenery Preservation Act, 1903," for scenic purposes:

And whereas the said land is held or occupied by Native owners, and the title thereto is not derived from the Crown;
And whereas a map of the said land has been prepared in duplicate, as required by the eighty-ninth section of "The Public Works Act, 1905";
Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by "The Public Works Act, 1905," and "The Scenery Preservation Act, 1903," 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 declare that the land shown upon such map, and described in the Schedule hereto, is hereby taken for scenic purposes as aforesaid; and the said land shall vest in His Majesty the King as from the eleventh day of February, one thousand nine hundred and six.

SCHEDULE.

THE parcels of land mentioned hereunder:
Approximate Area of each of the Parcels of Land taken.
| A. | R. | P. |
|-----|-----|-----|
| 35 | 0 | 0 | Omiru East No. 2
| 39 | 0 | 0 | Omiru West No. 2
| 84 | 2 | 0 | Portion of Mangahia No. 2B2
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Motutere Island

Coloured on Plan
Purple
Yellow
Red
Green

Situated in Block No.
XVI.
XVI.
XVI.
XVI.

Situated in the Survey District of
Mangakahia.
Mangakahia.
Mangakahia.
Mangakahia.

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All in the Land District of Auckland; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 21634, deposited in the office of Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured as above.
ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Komakorau Drainage District, County of Waikato, constituted.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this second day of February, 1906.
Present:
The Right Honourable R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS, in accordance with the provisions of the third section of "The Land Drainage Act, 1904," a majority of the ratepayers in the area of land described in the Schedule hereto, situated in the County of Waikato, have presented a petition to His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand praying that the said area be constituted a drainage district under the provisions of the said Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority contained in the third section of "The Land Drainage Act, 1904," and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby constitute and declare the area of land described in the Schedule hereto to be a district for the purposes of Part I of the said Act, and to be called by the name of the "Komakorau Drainage District"; and also, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority contained in the fourth section of the said Act, doth hereby declare that the Board of Trustees for the said district shall consist of five persons, to be elected as members of the said Board under and in accordance with the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

KOMAKORAU DRAINAGE DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, situated in Blocks III, IV, VII, and VIII, Newcastle Survey District, bounded towards the east generally by a right line from a point on the right bank of the Waikato River due north of the intersection of the railway-line by the road which intersects Section No. 104, Parish of Komakorau, to the said intersection; thence by the continuation of the said road intersecting the said Section No. 104 and forming the eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 108, 109, 110, and 111, Parish of Komakorau, to the northernmost corner of Section No. 113; thence by Sections Nos. 113, 123, and 122 to the Waikato River; and thence towards the south-west and west generally by the Waikato River to the place of commencement.
J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Hungahunga Drainage District, County of Piako, constituted.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this second day of February, 1906.
Present:
The Right Honourable R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS, in accordance with the provisions of the third section of "The Land Drainage Act, 1904," a majority of the ratepayers in the area of land described in the Schedule hereto, situated in the County of Piako, have presented a petition to His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand praying that the said area be constituted a drainage district under the provisions of the said Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority contained in the third section of "The Land Drainage Act, 1904," and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby constitute and declare the area of land described in the Schedule hereto to be a district for the