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And whereas it is deemed expedient that such resolution should be approved:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred by the above-in-part-recited Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby approve of the said resolution.

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SCHEDULE.

THAT street known as Napier Terrace, in the Borough of Napier, in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, fronting Section 31 in the said borough; as the said street is more particularly delineated on the plan marked R. 10564, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured green.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Exempting Rangitatau West Road, Waitotara County, from the Provisions of Section 117 of “The Public Works Act, 1908.”

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of February, 1909.

Present:

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

WHEREAS by subsection one of section one hundred and seventeen of “The Public Works Act, 1908,” it is, inter alia, provided that the said section shall not apply in any case where the local authority having control of a road or street by resolution declares that the provisions thereof shall not apply to any specified road or street, or any specified part thereof, and such resolution is approved by the Governor in Council:

And whereas by subsection two of section one hundred and seventeen of “The Public Works Act, 1908,” it is provided that such approval may be either absolute or subject to such conditions as the Governor by Order in Council thinks fit to impose:

And whereas on the seventh day of September, one thousand nine hundred and eight, the Waitotara County Council, the local authority having control of the road known as Rangitatau West Road, described in the Schedule hereto, did by resolution declare that the provisions of the said section one hundred and seventeen should not apply to the said road:

And whereas it is deemed expedient that such resolution should be approved:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred by the above-in-part-recited Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby approve of the said resolution.

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SCHEDULE.

THAT road in the Waitotara County, in the Wellington Land District, known as the Rangitatau West Road, adjoining and passing through Sections 40 and 15, Block X, Nukumaru Survey District; as the said road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked R. 10267, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured pink, and lettered A.B.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Validating Special Order made by the Masterton County Council.

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of February, 1909.

Present:

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

WHEREAS the Masterton County Council, in or about the month of November, one thousand nine hundred and eight, being duly authorised in that behalf, proceeded to raise a loan of four thousand five hundred pounds for the purpose of providing the residents of Lansdowne, near Masterton, with a high-pressure water-supply: And whereas irregularities or defects occurred in the proceedings to obtain such loan, inasmuch as it appears, first, that the requisition of the Chairman directing the County Clerk to convene a special meeting, to be held on the tenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and eight, for the purpose of passing a resolution, by way of special order, making a special rate to meet interest and other charges on the said loan, was not signed by the County Chairman until after the said meeting had taken place; and, secondly, that the public notice of the subsequent meeting to confirm such resolution, by way of special order, did not state the place and the hour fixed for such subsequent meeting, and some doubts may exist as to whether the said meeting was a special meeting duly convened as required by “The Counties Act, 1908,” and whether such notice was a sufficient notice in terms of the said Act: And whereas, saving the aforesaid irregularities or defects, the proceedings in connection with the holding of the aforesaid meetings and the striking of the said special rate appear to have been regular and in order: And whereas it appears that the special ratepayers interested in the said loan have not been misled, and it is expedient to validate the said irregularities or defects:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section two hundred and seventeen of “The Counties Act, 1908,” and section one hundred and twenty-one of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908,” and of every other power him thereunto enabling, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby validate the requisition of the County Chairman and the public notice hereinbefore mentioned, and doth hereby declare that the proceedings relative to such loan, or the security for the said loan, shall not be called in question by reason only of the irregularities or defects aforesaid.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Validating Special Order made by the Masterton County Council.

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of February, 1909.

Present:

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

WHEREAS the Masterton County Council, in or about the month of November, one thousand nine hundred and eight, being duly authorised in that behalf, proceeded to raise a loan of two thousand five hundred pounds for the purpose of supplying the properties on the Opaki Plain, near Masterton, with water: And whereas irregularities or defects occurred in the proceedings to obtain such loan, inasmuch as it appears, first, that the requisition of the Chairman directing the County Clerk to convene a special meeting, to be held on the tenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and eight, for the purpose of passing a resolution, by way of special order, making a special rate to meet interest and other charges on the said loan, was not signed by the County Chairman until after the said meeting had taken place; and, secondly, that the public notice of the subsequent meeting to confirm such resolution, by way of special order, did not state the place and the hour fixed for such subsequent meeting, and some doubts may exist as to whether the said meeting was a special meeting duly convened as required by “The Counties Act, 1908,” and whether such notice was a sufficient notice in terms of the said Act: And whereas, saving the aforesaid irregularities or defects, the proceedings in connection with the holding of the aforesaid meetings and the striking of the said special rate appear to have been regular and in order: And whereas it appears that the special ratepayers interested in the said loan have not been misled, and it is expedient to validate the said irregularities or defects:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section two hundred and seventeen of “The Counties Act, 1908,” and section one hundred and twenty-one of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908,” and of every other power him thereunto enabling, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby validate the requisition of the County Chairman and the public notice hereinbefore mentioned, and doth hereby declare that the proceedings relative to such loan, or the security for the said loan, shall not be called in question by reason only of the irregularities or defects aforesaid.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.