Oct. 28.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2743

Declaring a Road in Blocks II, III, and XI, Alton Survey District, to be a Government Road.

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of October, 1909.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him by “The Public Works Act, 1908,” 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 order and declare that the road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, be a Government road.

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SCHEDULE.

All in the Southland 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.

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Warden appointed.

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of October, 1909.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section nine of “The Mining Act, 1908,” it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, by Order in Council, appoint fit persons to be Wardens, who shall hold office during the Governor’s pleasure:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by the said section nine of “The Mining Act, 1908,” and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby appoint

EDMUND WILLIAM PORRITT, Esq.,

to be a Warden, to hold and exercise the duties of such office under and subject to the provisions of the said Act during pleasure, on and from the first day of November, one thousand nine hundred and nine.

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

Native Lands taken for the More Effective Carrying-out of Drainage-works in Blocks I, VI, and X, Waihou Survey District, Block X, Thames Survey District, and Block IV, Piako Survey District, Thames and Ohinemuri Counties.

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of September, 1909.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is provided by subsection one of section nine of “The Hauraki Plains Act, 1908,” that “the Governor may from time to time take under ‘The Public Works Act, 1908,’ as for a public work, or purchase, whether under the provisions of section twenty of ‘The Maori Land Settlement Act, 1905,’ or otherwise, any area or areas of land adjacent to the land set apart under this Act as aforesaid, the acquisition of which is in the opinion of the Governor necessary for the more effective carrying-out of the drainage or other works authorised by this Act or for the better disposal of the land so set apart”:

And whereas the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto are adjacent to the land set apart under “The Hauraki Plains Act, 1908,” and the Governor has, in terms of subsection one of section nine of the said Act, expressed the opinion that the acquisition of the lands described in the Schedule hereto is necessary for the more effective carrying-out of the drainage authorised by such Act:

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

And whereas maps in duplicate have been prepared of the said lands, as required by the ninetieth section of “The Public Works Act, 1908”:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him by the ninth section of “The Hauraki Plains Act, 1908,” and the ninetieth section of “The Public Works Act, 1908,” 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 maps, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be deemed to be taken for the more effective carrying-out of the drainage-works authorised by “The Hauraki Plains Act, 1908,” and shall vest in His Majesty the King as from the fifth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and nine.

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

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