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of Hawera; thence by a right line across a public road to the westernmost corner of Section No. 185, Block X, Hawera Survey District; thence by Sections Nos. 185, 184, 186, and 187, Block X aforesaid, to the north-western corner of Section No. 544; thence towards the east by the last-mentioned section to the Great South Road; thence towards the south by the Great South Road to Waihi or Normanby Road; and thence towards the west by the said Waihi or Normanby Road to the place of commencement.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Declaring Taumarunui Native Township to be subject to the Provisions of “The Native Townships Local Government Act, 1905.”

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of March, 1907.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section two of “The Native Townships Local Government Act, 1905” (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, by Order in Council gazetted, declare any Native township constituted under “The Native Townships Act, 1895,” or under “The Native and Maori Land Laws Amendment Act, 1902,” to be subject to the provisions of the said Act:

And whereas, in pursuance of section eight of “The Native and Maori Land Laws Amendment Act, 1902,” the Governor declared, by Proclamation dated the twenty-seventh day of November, one thousand nine hundred and three, published in the Gazette and Kahiti, that the parcel of land described in the Schedule thereto should be vested in the Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa District Maori Land Council as a site for a Native township, and assigned the name of “Taumarunui” to such township:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of all powers and authorities in that behalf vested in him by the said Act, and of every other power and authority enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby declare that the said Taumarunui Native Township shall be subject to the provisions of the said Act, and that the inhabitants of such township shall be a body corporate under the style of “The Inhabitants of the Taumarunui Native Township,” and shall as such body corporate be empowered to exercise all the powers and be subject to the several legal incidents in the said Act expressed.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Boundaries of the Borough of Onslow and the City of Wellington altered.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of March, 1907.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS a petition has been presented to the Governor, under section one hundred and seventy-six of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900,” praying the Governor to alter the boundaries of the City of Wellington and of the Borough of Onslow by excluding from the said Borough of Onslow the area described in the Schedule hereto and including it in the said City of Wellington: And whereas a notice showing the proposed alteration in boundaries of the said city and the said borough has been gazetted and publicly notified, and no objections in writing to or petitions against such alteration have been lodged:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900,” 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, as from the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and seven, the area described in the Schedule hereto shall be excluded from the Borough of Onslow and shall be included in the City of Wellington.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District bounded towards the north-east generally by the north-eastern boundary-line of Original Section No. 8, in Block III, Port Nicholson Survey District, from the northernmost corner of that section to the branch of the Kaiwara Stream forming the eastern boundary of the said Section No. 8; thence by the said branch and the Kaiwara Stream to the south-western boundary-line of Original Section No. 3, in Block XI, Belmont Survey District; thence by that section and its south-western boundary-line produced to Port Nicholson; thence towards the south-east by Port Nicholson to the boundary of the City of Wellington; thence towards the south generally by the City of Wellington to the Borough of Karori; thence by the Borough of Karori to the Kaiwara Stream; and thence towards the north-west generally by the said Kaiwara Stream and the Otari Native Reserve to the southernmost corner of Section No. 7, Block III, Port Nicholson Survey District; and thence by the last-mentioned section to the northernmost corner of Section No. 8 aforesaid, the place of commencement.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Validating Special Order made by Palmerston North Borough Council.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of March, 1907.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Palmerston North Borough Council did publicly notify the resolution to make a special order taking over a private street known as Ruahine Street and declaring the same to be a public street, and such resolution was subsequently confirmed by the Council on the eighth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and seven: And whereas an irregularity occurred in making such notification, inasmuch as the public notice of the time and place fixed for the meeting of the said Council for the purpose of confirming the said resolution was not given once in each of the four weeks immediately preceding the day fixed for such meeting, being omitted from publication on the seventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred and seven, though such notice was published in the Manawatu Daily Times on the seventeenth, twenty-fourth, and thirty-first days of December, one thousand nine hundred and six: And whereas it is expedient to validate the said notification:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900,” and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby validate the said public notice, and doth hereby declare that the special order made by the Palmerston North Borough Council taking over a private street known as Ruahine Street and declaring the same to be a public street in the Borough of Palmerston North shall not be called in question by reason only of the irregularity aforesaid.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Validating Special Meeting of Palmerston North Borough Council and Special Order made by that Council.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of March, 1907.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Palmerston North Borough Council lately proposed to raise a loan of twenty thousand pounds, under “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” for the purpose of completing and extending the drainage system in the Borough of Palmerston North: And whereas certain irregularities have occurred in the procedure to obtain such loan, inasmuch as it appears that neither the requisition required by subsection one of section seventy-two of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900,” nor the notice required by subsection two of that section, nor the notice required by subsection five of section seventy-three of the