Validating the Special Meetings of the Palmerston North Borough Councillors in connection with a Loan of £6,000 applied for by the Council of the said Borough.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of September, 1906.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the Palmerston North Borough Council lately proposed to raise a loan of six thousand pounds, under "The Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1901," for protecting the banks of the Manawatu River and improving the Kawau drain: And whereas certain irregularities have occurred in the procedure to obtain such loan, inasmuch as it does not appear that there were requisitions, in accordance with subsection one of section seventy-two of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900," calling the special meetings required in order to make a special order making a special rate for the payment of interest and sinking fund respecting the said loan of six thousand pounds, and inasmuch as it does not appear that all the Councillors of the said borough received the notices required to be given to each of them, under subsection two of section seventy-two and subsection five of section seventy-three of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900," aforesaid, of such meetings: And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled, and it is expedient to validate such irregularities:

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 advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order and declare that the said meetings and the said special order shall be taken to be as valid as though the said requisitions calling the said meetings, and the said notices notifying the said Councillors had been regularly made and given as required by subsections one and two of section seventy-two and subsection five of section seventy-three of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900," and that the proceedings relative to the said loan shall not be called in question by reason only of the irregularities aforesaid.

ALEX. WILLIS,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Declaring Part of Raetihi-Parapara Road, Mangawhero Survey District, Mangawhero Road District, to be a District Road.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of September, 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 anyway 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 road described in the Schedule hereto, known as the Raetihi-Parapara Road, shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, be a district road.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that portion of the road in the Wellington Land District, Mangawhero Road District, commencing at the boundary between Tauangatutu Block and Section 3, Block VI, Mangawhero Survey District, and proceeding generally in a northerly direction, intersecting Sections 3 and 1 in the said Block VI, and terminating at the boundary between Section 4A, Block E, Mangawhero Survey District, and Section 1, Block VI, Mangawhero Survey District, being a distance of two miles and a half, or thereabouts; as the said portion of the road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked R. 2513, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

ALEX. WILLIS,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Licensing the New Zealand Portland Cement Company (Limited) to use and occupy a Part of the Land below Low-water Mark at Limestone Island, in Whangarei Harbour, as a Site for an Extension to existing Wharf.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of September, 1906.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the New Zealand Portland Cement Company (Limited), (hereinafter called "the company"), was by Order in Council dated the twenty-eighth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and one, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the thirty-first day of the same month, licensed under "The Harbours Act Amendment Act, 1883" (hereinafter called "the said act"), to occupy a part of the foreshore, and land below low-water mark, of Limestone Island, in Whangarei Harbour, in order to construct a wharf thereon: And whereas the company has applied to the Governor in Council for a license to occupy land below low-water mark in order to extend the said wharf; and, in accordance with the one-hundred-and-fifty-sixth section of "The Harbours Act, 1878, has deposited a plan in the office of the Marine Department at Wellington (marked M.D. 3001), such plan being supplementary to the deposited plan No. 2470, showing the area of land below low-water mark intended to be occupied by such extension, and the manner in which it is proposed to construct such extension:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby approve of the object for which the said license is required by the company as aforesaid; and, in further pursuance and exercise of the said power and authority, and with the like advice and consent as aforesaid, doth hereby license and permit the company to use and occupy that part of the land below low-water mark on which the said extension of the wharf is to be constructed, as shown on the plan so deposited as aforesaid, for the purpose of constructing and maintaining the said extension of the wharf thereon, such license to be held and enjoyed by the company upon and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

1. In these conditions the term "Minister" means the Minister of Marine, as defined by "The Shipping and Seamen Act, 1903," and includes any officer, person, or authority acting by or under the direction of such Minister.

2. The concessions and privileges conferred by this Order in Council shall extend and apply only to the part of the land below low-water mark necessary for the construction of the extension of the wharf, as shown on plans marked M.D. 3001.

3. In consideration of the concessions and privileges granted by this Order in Council, the company shall, on being supplied with a copy thereof, pay to the Minister the sum of £2 10s., and thereafter an annual sum of £1 in respect of the area occupied by the extension, payable on the 1st day of October, dating from the 1st day of October, 1906, the first of such annual payments to be made on the company being supplied with a copy of this Order in Council, such payments being in addition to the sums payable in respect of the first-mentioned Order in Council of the 28th day of October, 1901.

4. All persons shall at all reasonable times, upon payment of the proper dues, have free and full liberty to use the said wharf, and all rights of ingress and egress thereon and therefrom.

5. His Majesty, or the Governor, and all officers in the Government service acting in the execution of their duty, shall at all times have free ingress, passage, and egress into, through, and out of the said wharf without payment.

6. The company shall maintain the above-mentioned extension of the wharf in good order and repair, and shall at all times exhibit therefrom, and maintain at its own cost, suitable and necessary lights for the guidance of vessels: Provided that no light shall be exhibited until after it has been approved of by the Minister.

7. Any person authorised by the Minister may at all reasonable times enter upon the said extension of the wharf and view the state of repair thereof; and upon such Minister leaving at or posting to the last known address of the company in New Zealand a notice in writing of any defect or want of repair in such extension of the wharf, requiring it,