FEB. 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 735

And I hereby declare that this Proclamation shall come into operation on the ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight.

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, Governor 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 twentieth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight.

JOHN G. FINDLAY.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Districts constituted under “The Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1875.”

(L.S.) PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in the Governor by “The Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1875,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby abolish the existing registration district known as the Te Aroha District, and do proclaim and declare that the territory heretofore comprised within the said district is hereby divided anew into two registration districts, the names whereof shall be the Morrinsville and Te Aroha Districts, and the boundaries whereof shall be coterminus with the boundaries of the marriage districts bearing the same names, as are set forth in a Proclamation of even date herewith, made under the provisions of “The Marriage Act, 1904.”

And I hereby declare that this Proclamation shall come into operation on the ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight.

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, Governor 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 twentieth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight.

JOHN G. FINDLAY.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Lands taken for a Road in Sections 8, 9, and 15, Block V, Lauder Survey District, Maniototo County.

(L.S.) PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred by section thirteen of “The Land Act, 1892,” and its amendments, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, with the consent of the owner and lessee of the lands hereinafter mentioned, and with the consent of the Maniototo County Council, being the local authority in whose district the said lands are situated, do by this notice hereby proclaim as taken for a road the lands in Lauder Survey District described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

All in the Otago Land District; as the same are 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.

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, Governor 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 twenty-first day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight.

JAMES McGOWAN,
Minister in Charge of Roads Department.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Lands proclaimed as a Road, and Road closed, in Te Ngaere Block, Subdivisions B and C, Block I, Kawau Survey District, Matakana East Road District, Rodney County.

(L.S.) PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred by section thirteen of “The Land Act, 1892,” and its amendments, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby, with the consent of the owner and of the mortgagee of the lands mentioned in the First Schedule hereto, and of the Matakana East Road Board, being the local authority in whose district the said lands are situated, proclaim as a road the lands in Kawau Survey District described in the First Schedule hereto; and also do hereby, with the like consents as aforesaid, proclaim as closed the road described in the Second Schedule hereto, which is not required by reason of the road first hereinbefore proclaimed.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

LANDS PROCLAIMED AS A ROAD.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

ROAD CLOSED.

All in the Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked and