Dec. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3307

the Dominion of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, doth hereby appoint, as from the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ten, the undermentioned persons to be members of the Surveyors’ Board constituted by the said Act, namely,—

THOMAS HUMPHRIES,
ERIC CHARLES GOLD SMITH,
CHARLES HASTINGS BRIDGE, and
HUBERT SLADDEN,

the two first-named persons having been nominated by the Minister of Lands, and the two last-named persons having been nominated by the Council of the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors, as required by the said Act.

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

Boundaries of Borough of Hastings altered.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-first day of December, 1909.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS petitions have been presented to the Governor, under section one hundred and eighteen of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1908,” praying the Governor to alter the boundaries of the Borough of Hastings by excluding therefrom the areas described in the Schedule hereto, and to include the said areas in the Heretaunga Riding of the County of Hawke’s Bay: And whereas it is deemed expedient to make the alterations prayed for in the said petitions:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1908,” 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, as from the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and nine, the areas described in the Schedule hereto shall be excluded from the Borough of Hastings, and shall be included in the Heretaunga Riding of the County of Hawke’s Bay.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, being part of the Borough of Hastings, bounded towards the north-west by the north-western side of Maraekakaho Road, from the western boundary of the Borough of Hastings to a point in line with the south-western side of Wall Road; thence towards the north-east by a right line across Maraekakaho Road to the south-western side of Wall Road, thence by that road to its junction with Southland Road, thence by Southland Road to a point in line with the south-western side of Murdock Road, thence across Southland Road and by Murdock Road to its junction with Riverslea Road, and thence across the last-mentioned road to its south-eastern side; thence again towards the north-west by Riverslea Road to its junction with Copeland Road; thence again towards the north-east by Copeland Road to its junction with North Road, and across the last-mentioned road to the south-eastern boundary of the Borough of Hastings; thence towards the south-east by the south-eastern boundary of the Borough of Hastings to its south-western corner; and thence towards the south-west generally by the south-western boundary of the said borough to the north-western side of Maraekakaho Road, the place of commencement.

All that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, being part of the Borough of Hastings, bounded towards the north-west by the north-western boundary of the Borough of Hastings, from the westernmost corner to the northernmost corner of the said borough; thence towards the north-east by the north-eastern boundary of that borough to Pakowhai Road; thence towards the south-east by Pakowhai Road to its junction with Omahu Road, thence by a right line across the last-mentioned road to its junction with Maraekakaho Road, thence by Maraekakaho Road to the south-western boundary of the Borough of Hastings; and thence towards the south-west by the south-western boundary of the said borough to its westernmost corner, the place of commencement.

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

Consenting to closing Road in Block XVI, Kowai Survey District, Malvern Road District.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-first day of December, 1909.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and thirty-three, subsection (a), of “The Public Works Act, 1908,” it is enacted that a local authority shall not declare any county or district road to be stopped, and such road shall not be deemed to be stopped, until the consent thereto of the Governor by Order in Council gazetted is obtained:

And whereas the Malvern Road Board has applied for such consent in respect to the road described in the Schedule hereto:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and in exercise of the above-in-part-recited 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 consent to the Malvern Road Board closing the road mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

All in the Canterbury 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 Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District.

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

Consenting to closing Road in Block IV, Opuawhanga Survey District, Otonga Road District.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-first day of December, 1909.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and thirty-three, subsection (a), of “The Public Works Act, 1908,” it is enacted that a local authority shall not declare any county or district road to be stopped, and such road shall not be deemed to be stopped, until the consent thereto of the Governor by Order in Council gazetted is obtained:

And whereas the Otonga Road Board has applied for such consent in respect to the road described in the Schedule hereto:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and in exercise of the above in-part-recited 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 consent to the Otonga Road Board closing the road mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

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