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sum of one pound in advance, such annual payments to date from the date hereof.

4. The rights, powers, and privileges conferred by this Order in Council shall continue in force for fourteen years, computed from the date of this Order in Council, unless in the meantime such rights, powers, and privileges shall be altered, modified, or revoked by competent authority; and the licensee shall not assign, charge, or part with any such right, power, or privilege without the previous written consent of the Minister first obtained.

5. The said rights, powers, and privileges may be at any time resumed by the Governor, and the licensee may be required to remove the boat-slip at his own cost, without payment of any compensation whatever, on giving to the licensee three months’ previous notice in writing. Any such notice shall be sufficient if given by the Minister and delivered at or posted to the last known address of the licensee in New Zealand.

6. The licensee shall maintain the above-mentioned boat-slip in good order and repair.

7. Any person authorised by the Minister may, at all reasonable times, enter upon the said boat-slip and view the state of repair thereof; and upon such Minister leaving at or posting to the last known address of the licensee a notice in writing of any defect or want of repair in such boat-slip, requiring him, within a reasonable time, to be therein prescribed, to repair the same, he shall with all convenient speed cause such defect to be removed or such repairs to be made.

8. The licensee shall be liable for any injury which may be sustained by any vessel or boat in passing the boat-slip, or by contact therewith, and which may be occasioned by any default or neglect on his part.

9. In case the licensee shall—
   (1.) Commit or suffer a breach of the conditions hereinafter set forth, or any of them;
   (2.) Cease to use or occupy the said boat-slip for a period of thirty days;
   (3.) Fail to pay the sums specified in clause three of these conditions; or
   (4.) Become bankrupt, or be in any manner brought under the operation of any law in force for the time being relating to bankruptcy,
   then and in any of the said cases this Order in Council, and every right, power, or privilege, may be revoked and determined by the Governor in Council without any notice to the licensee or other proceeding whatsoever; and publication in the New Zealand Gazette of an Order in Council containing such revocation shall be sufficient notice to the licensee, and to all persons concerned or interested, that this Order in Council, and the rights and privileges thereby conferred, have been revoked and determined; and upon such revocation the Minister may cause the said boat-slip to be removed, and may recover the cost incurred by any such removal from the licensee.

10. The construction of the boat-slip shall be deemed to be an acceptance by the licensee of the conditions of this Order in Council.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Excepting Land from the Operation of Section 117 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this second day of October, 1906.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section four of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” it is enacted that the Governor may, by Order in Council, except from the operation of section one hundred and seventeen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), for a limited period or otherwise, and either generally or for such purposes and subject to such restrictions as shall be in such Order specified, any land, wheresoever situate, which is for the time being subject to the operation of the said section, or any interest therein or right over the same, or may in like manner make such exception in favour exclusively of any lessee or other person who has been bona fide in occupation of and has made improvements on such land, or has paid money to Native owners for lease or purchase thereof, prior to the passing of the said Act: Provided that no Order in Council under the provisions of this section shall take effect until after the expiration of two months from the date of the publication thereof in the Gazette: Provided also that every alienation under the provisions of this section shall be confirmed by the Court in terms of section fifty-three of the said Act:

And whereas the Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa District Maori Land Board, by a recommendation made on the sixteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and four, and received on the fifteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and six, has recommended the Governor to except from the operation of section one hundred and seventeen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” for the purpose of alienation by way of lease, the block or parcel of land, containing twenty acres, being the land known as Ohura South G No. 4m:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by section four of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby except from the operation of section one hundred and seventeen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” for the purpose of alienation by way of lease, the block or parcel of land, situate in the Tuhua Survey District, containing twenty acres, being the land known as Ohura South G No. 4m, and comprised in partition order of the Native Land Court dated the fifth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and four, in favour of Tiraha Poihipi and others.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Declaring Part of the Road known as the Okotuku Road, Wairoa Road District, to be a District Road.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this second day of October, 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 part of the road known as Okotuku Road, described in the Schedule hereto, shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, be a district road.

SCHEDULE.

OKOTUKU ROAD.

That part of the Okotuku Road in the County of Patea and in the Taranaki Land District, commencing from the point where it crosses the dividing-line between the Taranaki and Wellington Provincial Districts at south-west corner of Section 10, Block XVI, Opaku Survey District, and proceeding thence in a general north-westerly direction for 147½ chains, or thereabouts, along frontage of said Section 10 to the north-west corner of said Section 10; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked R. 786, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon shown in red colour.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Reducing Rates on Inland Telegrams.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this second day of October, 1906.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the eighteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and six, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the nineteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and six, regulations were made under the authority of “The Electric Lines Act,