3286
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 106

Validating the Voting-paper used in connection with a Loan of £3,000 to the Eketahuna Borough Council.

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of December, 1908.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G.,
PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Eketahuna Borough Council in or about the month of November, one thousand nine hundred and seven, proposed to raise a loan of three thousand pounds for the purpose of installing an electric-light plant in the borough to light the public streets and places and to supply electricity to the inhabitants: And whereas the voting-paper used in taking the poll of ratepayers on the said proposal was not in the form prescribed by “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” and the amendments thereof, the material parts of the said voting-paper being in the following form:—

“Directions.

“If the voter desires to vote for the proposal he must mark a cross in the square at the end of the line for the proposal.

“If he desires to vote against the proposal he must mark a cross in the square at the end of the line against the proposal”:

And whereas, notwithstanding such irregularity, it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled thereby, and it is expedient to validate the same:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section one hundred and twenty-one of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908,” and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby declare that the said voting-paper shall be deemed and taken to be as valid as though at the date of such poll it had been in the form prescribed by “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” and its amendments; and that the proceedings relative to the said loan shall not be called in question by reason only of the said irregularity.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Validating the Chairman’s Declaration as to Signatures to the Form of Consent in respect of the Waiau Loan of £500 applied for by the Waipu County Council.

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of December, 1908.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G.,
PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Waipu County Council lately proposed to raise a loan of five hundred pounds under “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” for the purpose of constructing one hundred and twenty chains of the Waiau Road, including two bridges over the Mangaroa Stream: And whereas the statutory declaration by the chairman as to signatures to the consent by the required proportion of ratepayers is not in the form prescribed by the regulations made under “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” in that behalf: And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled by such irregularity or defect, and it is expedient to validate the said declaration:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section one hundred and twenty-one of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908,” and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby validate the said declaration

and doth hereby declare that such declaration shall be as valid as if the same had been made in the prescribed form, and that the said loan shall not be called in question by reason only of the defect or irregularity aforesaid.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Directing Sale of Land under “The Public Works Act, 1908.”

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of December, 1908.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G.,
PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the thirtieth section of “The Public Works Act, 1908 ” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that if it is found that any land held, taken, purchased, or acquired at any time under this or any other Act or Provincial Ordinance, or otherwise howsoever for any public work, is not required for such public work the Governor may, by Order in Council publicly notified and gazetted, cause the same to be sold under the conditions set forth in the said Act:

And whereas a memorial has been laid before the Governor by the Raglan County Council (hereinafter called “the said Council”), accompanied by a map, setting forth that certain land was purchased for the purposes of the erection of offices thereon: And whereas the said land as described in the Schedule hereto is not now required by the said Council for the purposes aforesaid, and the said Council desires to sell the same:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of Zealand, in pursuance of the powers and authority conferred upon him by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby direct the sale of the land described in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

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

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Declaring Road in Waimarino County to be a Government Road.

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of December, 1908.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G.,
PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him by “The Public Works Act, 1908,” and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, 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 order and declare that the road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, be a Government Road.