3380
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 99

Land in Block II, Mawheranui Survey District, taken for
the Purposes of a Mining Work.

(L.S.)
PLUNKET, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto
is required to be taken, under “The Public Works
Act, 1905,” and “The Coal-mines Act, 1905,” for the pur-
pose of working the Paparoa Coal-mine:
And whereas all conditions precedent required by law to
be observed and performed prior to the taking of such land
for the purposes hereinbefore specified have been observed
and performed:
Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the
Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise and
pursuance of the powers of “The Public Works Act, 1905,”
“The Coal-mines Act, 1905,” and of every other power and
authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby
proclaim and declare that the land mentioned in the
Schedule hereto is hereby taken for the purpose of working
the said mine as aforesaid, and shall, as from the date
hereinafter specified, vest in the Paparoa Coal-mining Com-
pany (Limited); and it is hereby declared that this Pro-
clamation shall take effect on and after the twenty-first day
of November, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

SCHEDULE.
The parcels of land taken:—

All in the Land District of Westland; as the same are more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 22648,
deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at
Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and
thereon coloured as above.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right
Honourable William Lee, Baron Plunket, Knight
Commander of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Go-
vernor and Commander-in-Chief in and over
His Majesty’s Dominion of New Zealand and its
Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the
said Dominion, at the Government House, at
Wellington, this sixteenth day of November, in
the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred
and seven.

JAMES McGOWAN,
Acting Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Deputy Superintendent, Government Advances to Settlers
Office, appointed.

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

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon him by section four of “The Govern-
ment Advances to Settlers Act, 1906,” and section seven of
“The Government Advances to Settlers Act, 1907,” His
Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand,
acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby appoint

WILLIAM WADDEL, Esq.,

to be the Deputy of the Government Advances to Settlers
Office Superintendent.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Consenting to closing Roads in Blocks II, Westmere, and
XIII, Waipakura Survey Districts, Waitotara County.

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

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 Waitotara County Council has applied
for such consent in respect to the roads 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 any-
wise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Go-
vernor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and
with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
said Dominion, doth hereby consent to the Waitotara
County Council closing the roads mentioned in the Sche-
dule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

All that portion of the road known as the Mission Line,
situate in Block XIII, Waipakura Survey District, extending
from the junction of such road with the road known as the
Brunswick Line to the termination of such road at the
eastern boundary of Section 139, Block II, Westmere
Survey District, which road proposed to be stopped contains
an area of 3 acres 3 roods 9 perches.

Also all that portion of the road known as the Middle
Line, situated in Block XIII, Waipakura Survey District,
and Block II, Westmere Survey District, extending from the
junction of such road with the Brunswick Line aforesaid to
points in the boundaries of Sections 115 and 136, Block II,
Westmere Survey District, where the new road diverges
from or joins the said Middle Line, which road proposed to
be stopped contains an area of 15 acres 2 roods.

Also all that portion of the road known as the Great
Western Line, situated in Block II, Westmere Survey
District, extending from the south-western corner of
Section 116, in the said block, in a northerly direction to
the junction thereof with the deviation therefrom, which
road proposed to be stopped contains an area of 1 acre
2 roods 24 perches.

In the Wellington Land District; as the same are more
particularly delineated on the plan marked R. 9346,
deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at
Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon
coloured green.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Exempting Bruce Avenue, Fitchett Town, in the City of
Wellington, from the Provisions of Section 117 of “The
Public Works Act, 1905,” subject to certain Conditions as
to the Building-line.

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

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 by section three of “The Public Works Act
Amendment Act, 1906,” it is provided that such approval
may be either absolute or subject to such conditions as the
Governor by Order in Council thinks fit to impose:
And whereas on the sixth day of June, one thousand
nine hundred and seven, the Council of the City of Wel-
ington, the local authority having control of the street
known as Bruce Avenue, Fitchett Town, being the street