APRIL 30. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1257

(b.) If the cork is put in breadthways, not more than
three pieces may be used in each pocket, and
each piece must be of the full breadth of the pocket
and not less than one-fourth the length.
(c.) If two or more pieces of cork are pegged or glued
together, each piece used in making up the block
is to count as a separate piece.

Marking.—Each belt is to be marked “Warranted to pass
Marine Department Survey.”

2. Nothing in the foregoing is to prevent a higher standard
   being followed in any of the particulars mentioned; and the
   specification does not apply in the case of belts of special
   construction for which a certificate of approval (Surveys 115)
   has been granted by the Board of Trade.

3. Belts originally passed before the 1st January, 1909,
   need not be rejected because they do not comply in all
   respects with the above specification, provided that the
   buoyancy is satisfactory and the belts are strong and fit for
   the purpose for which they are intended.

4. Any belt which has not the required buoyancy, or
   which in the Surveyor’s opinion is not fit for the purpose
   for which it is intended, should be rejected.

5. Belts not previously passed by a Surveyor, but which
   were obtained or ordered prior to the gazetting of these
   regulations, need not be rejected because they do not comply
   in all respects with the above regulations, provided the
   buoyancy is satisfactory and the belts are strong and fit for
   the purpose for which they are intended, and provided,
   further, they are approved and stamped by a Surveyor of
   Ships.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Consenting to Land in the City of Christchurch being taken
for a Branch Post-office.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-
fifth day of April, 1908.

Present:

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

WHEREAS by “The Public Works Act, 1905,” it is,
in section fifteen thereof, inter alia, enacted that,
except for the purpose of a railway or for defence purposes,
or for the purposes of any other public work to be made
under the authority of a special Act, there shall not be taken
any land occupied by any building, yard, garden, orchard,
or vineyard, or in bona fide occupation as an ornamental
park or pleasure-ground, without the previous consent of
the Governor in Council:

And whereas the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto
is required to be taken under the said Act for a branch post-
office: And whereas the said land is occupied by buildings
and yards, and it is expedient to give such consent as afore-
said:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the
Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of
the powers conferred by “The Public Works Act, 1905,”
and acting by and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby consent
to the land described in the Schedule hereto being taken for
the purposes of a branch post-office as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

The parcel of land mentioned hereunder :—

In the Land District of Canterbury; as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan drawn on certificate of
title, Volume 85, folio 209, Christchurch Land Registration
District, a copy of which plan is deposited in the office
of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the
Provincial District of Wellington, and marked P.W.D.
23426, the said land being coloured green thereon.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Consenting to Land in the City of Auckland being taken
for a Branch Post-office.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this
twenty-fifth day of April, 1908.

Present:

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

WHEREAS by “The Public Works Act, 1905,” it is,
in section fifteen thereof, inter alia, enacted that,
except for the purpose of a railway or for defence purposes,
or for the purposes of any other public work to be made
under the authority of a special Act, there shall not be taken
any land occupied by any building, yard, garden, orchard,
or vineyard, or in bona fide occupation as an ornamental
park or pleasure-ground, without the previous consent of
the Governor in Council:

And whereas the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto
is required to be taken under the said Act for a branch post-
office: And whereas a portion of the said land is occupied
by a building and yard, and it is expedient to give such
consent as aforesaid:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the
Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of
the powers conferred by “The Public Works Act, 1905,”
and acting by and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby consent
to the land described in the Schedule hereto being taken
for branch post-office purposes as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

The parcel of land mentioned hereunder :—

In the Land District of Auckland; as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 23325,
deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at
Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and
thereon coloured red.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

“Conscience Money” received.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 29th April, 1908.

THE Minister of Finance directs me to acknowledge the
receipt of postal orders for £1 10s., issued at Kensington, London, forwarded to the Minister of Customs “for
duty.”

ROBERT J. COLLINS,
Receiver-General.

Government Insurance Department.—Life Branch Agency
opened at Miller’s Flat.

Government Insurance Department,
Wellington, 24th April, 1908.

AN agency of the Life Branch of the above Department
will be opened at

THE POST-OFFICE, MILLER’S FLAT,

as from the 4th May, 1908.

J. H. RICHARDSON,
Commissioner.