Aug. 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2131

deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works,
at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington,
and thereon coloured green and blue.

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 fifth day of August, in the year
of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and
eight.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Native Lands taken for the Purposes of a Road in Paerata Blocks 1 and 2, Blocks III and IV, Maungaru Survey District, Hobson County.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this fourteenth
day of July, 1908.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto
are required to be taken for a public work, to wit,
for the purposes of a road in Paerata Blocks 1 and 2,
Blocks III and IV, Maungaru Survey District:

And whereas the said lands are held or occupied by Native
owners under a title which is not derived from the Crown:

And whereas a map in duplicate has been prepared of the
said lands, as required by the eighty-ninth section of “The
Public Works Act, 1905”:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers
vested in him by the eighty-ninth section of the said Act, 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 declare that the
lands shown upon such map, and described in the Schedule
hereto, shall be deemed to be taken for the purposes of the
said road as from the twentieth day of August, one thou-
sand nine hundred and eight.

SCHEDULE.

All in the Auckland 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.

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

Land taken for a Native School at Matihetihe.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this fourth
day of August, 1908.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto
is required for a certain public work, to wit, a
Native school:

And whereas the Native owners have agreed to make a
free gift of the said land to His Majesty the King, and it
has been made to appear that such agreement is sufficient
for the purposes intended to be effected thereby:

And whereas by a partition order made by the Native
Land Court, bearing date the ninth day of October, one
thousand nine hundred and six, certain aboriginal Natives
are declared to be the owners of the Moetangi B2 No. 2
Block, within which the said land is situated:

And whereas, as required by “The Public Works Acts
Compilation Act, 1905,” a map has been prepared showing
accurately the position and extent of the said land, and
such map is hereto attached:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Do-
minion of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the
powers and authorities conferred by “The Public Works
Acts Compilation Act, 1905,” and acting by and with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said
Dominion, doth hereby order and declare that the land
shown upon the said map, and described in the Schedule
hereto, is hereby taken for the purposes of the said Native
school, and shall vest in His Majesty the King, as from the
twenty-first day of September, one thousand nine hundred
and eight.

SCHEDULE.

MATIHETIHE NATIVE-SCHOOL SITE.

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more par-
ticularly delineated on the plan as described above, deposited
in the Education Department, at Wellington, and thereon
coloured pink.

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

Ngakaroro Drainage District, County of Horowhenua, constituted.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-
second day of July, 1908.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS, in accordance with the provisions of the
third section of “The Land Drainage Act, 1904,”
a majority of the ratepayers in the area of land described
in the Schedule hereto, situated in the County of Horo-
whenua, have presented a petition to His Excellency the
Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, praying that
the said area be constituted a drainage district under the
provisions of the said Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Do-
minion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
power and authority contained in the third section of “The
Land Drainage Act, 1904,” and acting by and with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said
Dominion, doth hereby constitute and declare the area of
land described in the Schedule hereto to be a district for the
purposes of Part I of the said Act, and to be called by the
name of the “Ngakaroro Drainage District”; and also, in
pursuance and exercise of the power and authority con-
tained in the fourth section of the said Act, doth hereby
declare that the Board of Trustees for the said district shall
consist of five persons, to be elected as members of the
said Board under and in accordance with the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

NGAKARORO DRAINAGE DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District bounded
by a line commencing at a point on the western side of
Te Waka Road known as Smith’s Road, being the south-
eastern corner of Allotment No. 13 of Ngakaroro No. 3B
Block, as shown on plan No. 1940, deposited in the office of
the District Land Registrar, at Wellington: thence north-