SEPT. 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2753

Native Land in Paeroa Survey District taken for Scenery-preservation Purposes.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this second day of September, 1907.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is Native land and is required to be taken for scenery-preservation purposes:
And whereas the said land is held or occupied by Native owners under a title which 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 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 proclaim and declare that the land shown upon such map, and described in the Schedule hereto, is hereby taken for scenery-preservation purposes as aforesaid; and the said land shall vest in His Majesty the King as from the tenth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

SCHEDULE.

The parcels of land mentioned hereunder:—

All in the Land District of Auckland; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 22949, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured as above.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Nomination of Payee by Post-Office Savings-Bank Depositor.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this second day of September, 1907.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the twenty-eighth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and three, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the seventh day of May, one thousand nine hundred and three, regulations were made under “The Post Office Act, 1900,” inter alia, prescribing the mode of depositing moneys in and withdrawing moneys from the accounts of depositors in the Post-Office Savings-Bank: And whereas by “The Post Office Act Amendment Act, 1906,” the Governor in Council is empowered to make further regulations (a) for the nomination by a Savings-Bank depositor, not being under twenty-one years of age, of any person or persons to whom any sum or sums payable to such depositor at his decease (including any accrued interest payable to the representatives of such depositor) is or are to be paid at such decease; and (b) for the revocation of such nomination, and for the payment of the specified amount to any nominee so nominated:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on him by the above-recited Acts, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby make the additional regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto, and doth order that they shall form part of the regulations first hereinbefore mentioned, but so that those regulations shall be read subject hereto; and doth declare that the regulations hereby made shall have effect on and after the date of the publication of this Order in Council in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

A Depositor may Nominate.

43A. Subject to the provisions of these regulations, a depositor of the age of twenty-one years or upwards may nominate any person to receive any sum due to such depositor at his decease.

Requirements of a Nomination.

43B. Every such nomination shall be in writing, and shall be signed by the depositor in the presence of a witness, and shall be sent by post or otherwise to the Controller of the Post-Office Savings-Bank during the lifetime of the depositor.

43C. Every such nomination shall be in the authorised form, which may be obtained from the Controller, Post-Office Savings-Bank, or in some other form to be approved by the Postmaster-General.

Registration.

43D. Every such nomination shall be registered by the Postmaster-General and returned to the depositor.

Revocation.

43E. (1.) Any such nomination may be revoked by the depositor by writing under his hand, signed in the presence of a witness.
(2.) Any such revocation shall be sent by post or otherwise to the Controller of the Post-Office Savings-Bank during the lifetime of the depositor, and shall be registered by the Postmaster-General in like manner as in the case of a nomination.

Scope of Nomination.

43F. A nomination may relate to the whole of the deposits standing in the name of a depositor, or to part only of such deposits.

Division of Sum nominated.

43G. A nomination may be in favour of one person or of several persons, and in the latter case may direct that specific sums shall be paid to one or more of the persons named in the nomination, or that the persons named in such nomination may take the deposits in specified shares, or may give directions to both effects.

Witness to Nomination disqualified from taking Benefit under it.

43H. No person who witnesses the signature of a depositor to a nomination shall take any benefit under such nomination.

Operation of Nomination.

43J. Where the Postmaster-General, after the expiration of one month from the date of decease of a depositor, has no notice of the claim of any creditor of the depositor, the Postmaster-General shall pay the persons named in any nomination made by such depositor, and in force at the time of his death, according to the directions of such nomination, and the receipt of any person so named shall be a good discharge to the Postmaster-General for the sum so paid.

Payment of Debt out of Nominated Deposit.

43K. Where, on the death of a depositor who has made a nomination, the Postmaster-General has notice of a claim of any creditor against the estate of such depositor, and such estate, apart from the amount nominated, is not sufficient to satisfy such claim, the Postmaster-General may, in his discretion, apply the amount nominated in or towards the