Nov. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2909

Consenting to closing Road through, or abutting on, Section 102, Taringatura District, Wallace County.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Christchurch, this sixth day of November, 1906.

Present :

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and thirty-three, subsection (a), of “The Public Works Act, 1905,” it is enacted that a local authority shall not declare any county or district road to be stopped, and such road shall not be deemed to be stopped, until the consent thereto of the Governor by Order in Council gazetted is obtained :

And whereas the Wallace County Council has applied for such consent in respect to the road described in the Schedule hereto :

Now, therefore, in pursuance and in exercise of the above-in-part-recited 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 consent to the Wallace County Council closing the road mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

In the Southland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Exempting Victoria and Albert Avenues from the Provisions of Section 117 of “The Public Works Act, 1905.”

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Christchurch, this sixth day of November, 1906.

Present :

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by subsection one of section one hundred and seventeen of “The Public Works Act, 1905,” it is, inter alia, provided that the said section shall not apply in any case where the local authority having control of a road or street by resolution declares that the provisions thereof shall not apply to any specified road or street, or any specified part thereof, and such resolution is approved by the Governor in Council :

And whereas the Mount Albert Road Board, the local authority having control of the streets described in the Schedule hereto, did by resolution declare that the provisions of section one hundred and seventeen of “The Public Works Act, 1905,” should not apply to the said streets : And whereas such resolution was in the following terms : “That section one hundred and seventeen of subsection one of ‘The Public Works Act, 1905,’ shall not apply to either Victoria Avenue or Albert Avenue, two streets in the Mount Albert Road District, each being about fifty feet in width, being part of Lots 7, 8, and 9 of subdivision of Allotments 38 and 39, Parish of Titirangi, dedicated to public purposes as public highways by deed dated the third day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, registered at the Land Registry Office at Auckland, No. 77952, on the fifth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two” :

And whereas it is deemed expedient that such resolution should be approved :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred by the above-in-part-recited Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby approve the said resolution.

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SCHEDULE.

Those streets in the Mount Albert District, in the Auckland Land District, County of Eden, known as Victoria Avenue and Albert Avenue, abutting on Mrs. Wood’s property ; as the same are shown on plan marked R. 7900, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and coloured green thereon.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Authorising the Exchange of a Reserve in Canterbury Land District for other Land.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Christchurch, this sixth day of November, 1906.

Present :

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the first column of the Schedule hereto was heretofore duly set apart for a public-school site : And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient to exchange the said land for that described in the second column of the Schedule hereto :

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 exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the fourth section of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” and the third section of “The Public Reserves Act Amendment Act, 1889,” doth hereby declare that the said land described in the first column of the Schedule hereto may be exchanged for the land described in the second column of the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Christchurch, this sixth day of November, 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