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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 50

mately 23000 links from the said Tuapeka Mouth—Beaumont Road; thence by a right line north-east, 1000 links; thence in a generally south-easterly direction by a line parallel to the said burn, 16750 links approximately, to a point on a line produced from a continuation of the westerly boundary of the said Section 16; thence by the said line produced by a continuation of the westerly boundary of the said Section 16 to the south-westerly corner of the said Section 16 for a distance of 9350 links approximately: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.

Also all that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 66 acres, more or less, being Sections 14, 15, and 16, Block VIII, Rankleburn Survey District. Bounded on the north by Section 13 of the said block, 1940·7 links; towards the south-east by a public road, 3584·1 links; towards the south by the said Section 21; and towards the north-west by Pastoral Run 179, 3598·8 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.

As the above areas are delineated on the plan marked L. 441/8, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, Wellington, and thereon edged red.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable William Lee, Baron Plunket, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor 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 nineteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ten.

THOS. MACKENZIE,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Declaring Portion of the Motu Valley Road, in the Waikohu County, to be a County Road.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of May, 1910.

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 portion of road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, become a county road.

SCHEDULE.

MOTU VALLEY ROAD.

ALL that portion of the Motu Valley Road in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, Waikohu County, commencing at a point 37 chains from its junction with Neill Road, and running in a south-westerly direction generally to a point about 15 chains north-east of the north-east boundary of Section 9, Block X, Motu Survey District, being a distance of 3 miles 14 chains, more or less; as the said portion of road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 26612, and deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured red.

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

Exempting Portion of the Kaikorai Valley Road, in the Borough of Roslyn, from the Provisions of Section 117 of the Public Works Act, 1908.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of May, 1910.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR 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 with respect to the building-line as the Governor by Order in Council thinks fit to impose:

And whereas on the fifteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and nine, the Roslyn Borough Council, the local authority having control of the portion of the street 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 portion of street:

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 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 in so far as it affects the said portion of street described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that portion of street known as the Kaikorai Valley Road in the Roslyn Borough, Otago Land District, passing through Original Sections 8 and 9, Block IV, Upper Kaikorai Survey District; as the said portion of street is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 25215, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured red.

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

Determing Powers and Functions of Commissioners of the Native Land Court.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-third day of May, 1910.

Present:

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

WHEREAS His Excellency the Governor has, by virtue of the powers and authorities vested in him by subsection one of section seven of the Native Land Act, 1909 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), by Warrants under his hand dated the fifth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and ten, appointed Walter Harry Bowler, of Auckland, John Bain Jack, of Wanganui, Harold Carr, of Gisborne, and Helyar Wedderburn Bishop, of Christchurch, to be Commissioners of the Native Land Court: And whereas by subsection two of section seven of the said Act it is provided that a Commissioner so appointed shall possess and may exercise such of the powers and functions of a Judge (other than those vested exclusively in the Chief Judge or vested in a Judge as a member of the Native Appellate Court) as the Governor, by Order in Council, from time to time determines either generally or with respect to any particular Commissioner or Commissioners: And whereas it is desirable that the powers and functions of the aforementioned Commissioners should be determined:

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities vested in him in that 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, for the purposes aforesaid, determine that the Commissioners heretofore appointed shall possess and may exercise the powers and functions of a Judge of the Native Land Court following, that is to say:—

(1.) All the powers of a Judge under Part VI of the said Act (relating to partition);

(2.) All the powers of a Judge under Part VII of the said Act (relating to exchange);

(3.) All the powers of a Judge under Part VIII of the said Act (relating to succession), except the power to grant probate or letters of administration;