JULY 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1781

make and levy a special rate of one penny and one farthing in the pound on the rateable value of all rateable property of the Syversen's Road Special-rating District: And whereas the public notification of the resolution although advertised for four successive weeks was not advertised once in each week immediately preceding the date of confirmation of the special order embodying the resolution making the rate, as required by section eleven of “The Counties Act Amendment Act, 1903”: And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled, and it is expedient to validate such irregularity:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers conferred by section ten of “The Local Bodies' Loans Amendment Act, 1902,” and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby validate the public notifications of the special order, and doth hereby order and declare that the said special rate shall not be questioned on the ground of irregularity or defect aforesaid.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Civil Service Junior Examination.—Regulation.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of June, 1908.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Civil Service Reform Act, 1886,” and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Dominion, doth hereby make the regulation hereto annexed respecting the competitive examination referred to in the said Act, and with the like advice and consent doth prescribe that this Order shall take effect on the first publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

REGULATION.

The regulations made by Order in Council on the 27th day of February, 1906, respecting the Civil Service Junior Examination are hereby amended by revoking clause 11, and by substituting in lieu thereof the words “11. In order to pass the examination with credit a candidate must gain, subject to clause 10, at least 60 per cent. of the total possible maximum of marks assignable—that is, he must gain at least 1,200 marks in the aggregate.”

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Modifying Otago Harbour Foreshore License to Walter Towler.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirtieth day of June, 1908.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eight, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the ninth day of the same month, a license was granted under “The Harbours Act Amendment Act, 1883,” to Walter Fowler, of Vauxhall, to use and occupy a part of the foreshore of Otago Harbour, as shown on plan marked M.D. 3166, as a site for a shelter-shed:

And whereas an error was made in the name of the licensee, which should have been stated to be Walter Towler: And whereas it is desirable to revoke clause three of the conditions of the said Order in Council of the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eight:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by “The Harbours Act, 1878,” and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, doth hereby substitute the name “Walter Towler” for “Walter Fowler” in the hereinbefore-recited Order in Council; and doth hereby revoke, as from the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eight, clause three of the conditions of that Order in Council.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Notice declaring Portion of Public Reserve at Napier set apart for a Railway to be retained as Part of such Railway.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by the one hundred and eighty-ninth section of “The Public Works Act, 1905,” it is enacted, inter alia, that where, out of any public reserve upon which any railway has been constructed, no definite area or part of such reserve has been set apart or taken by Proclamation for railway purposes, it shall in any such case be deemed that a width of one chain on each side of the centre-line of the railway has been set apart or taken for the purposes of such railway, and shall be included within the limits thereof:

And whereas the said one hundred and eighty-ninth section further enacts that if at any time it is desired that any portion of a reserve so deemed to be part of any railway shall cease to be part of such railway, the Governor may from time to time, by a notice published in the Gazette defining accurately the portion desired to be retained as part of the railway, declare that the residue thereof shall again become a part of the public reserve from which it was originally taken:

And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto was (with other land) set apart for the purposes of the Wellington–Napier Railway in pursuance of the provisions of section one hundred and eighty-nine of the said Act:

And whereas it is found desirable that the residue of the land so set apart, but not described in the Schedule hereto, should cease to be a part of the said railway:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by section one hundred and eighty-nine of “The Public Works Act, 1905,” do hereby notify and declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be retained as part of the aforesaid railway from Wellington to Napier, and that the residue of the land (other than that described in the said Schedule) so set apart as aforesaid, and to the extent shown coloured blue on the plan described in the Schedule hereto, shall again become a part of the public reserve from which it was originally taken.

SCHEDULE.

THE parcels of land mentioned hereunder:—

All in the Land District of Hawke's Bay; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked W.R. 15830, deposited in the office of the Minister for Railways, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twentieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Railways

Appointment of Trustees, Sumner (Red Cliffs) Rifle Range Reserve.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN exercise and pursuance of the power and authority conferred by “The Volunteer Drill-sheds and Lands Act, 1888,” “The Volunteer Drill-sheds and Lands Trustees Validation Act, 1890,” and the Defence Act Amendment Act, 1907 (hereinafter termed “the said Acts”), His Excellency the Right Honourable William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, doth hereby constitute and appoint

Major EDWARD RICHARDSON, 1st North Canterbury Battalion of Infantry Volunteers;