June 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1861

notification of intention to raise the said loan, and doth hereby declare that the proceedings relative to such loan shall not be called into question by reason of the irregularity aforesaid.

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

Validating Irregularities in connection with a Loan of £300, for forming and kerbing Footpaths, proposed to be raised by the Ohakune Town Board.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of June, 1910.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Ohakune Town Board lately took steps, under section fifteen of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, to borrow the sum of three hundred pounds for the purpose of forming and graveling footpaths within a special area of the Ohakune Town District: And whereas the special order authorising the raising of the said loan was not advertised as required by paragraph (one) of section thirty-one of the Town Boards Act, 1908: And whereas it appears that the ratepayers of the said town district have not been misled by the irregularity aforesaid, and it is expedient to validate the same:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by section one hundred and twenty-one of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby validate the said special order, and doth hereby declare that the proceedings relative to the said loan shall not be called into question by reason only by the irregularity aforesaid.

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

Validating the Public Notifications of the Intention to raise the Loan with respect to a Loan of £4,000 proposed to be raised by the Birkenhead Borough Council.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of June, 1910.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by sections seven and eight of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, and section nineteen of the Local Bodies’ Loans Amendment Act, 1908, it is enacted that before raising a special loan the consent thereto of the ratepayers of the district shall be obtained by the local authority, and for that purpose the local authority shall publish in some newspaper circulating in the district once in each week for four successive weeks a notice setting forth certain particulars: And whereas it has been discovered—after the making of an application by the Birkenhead Borough Council for a special loan of £4,000 to complete the necessary cuttings, fillings, general construction, metalling, curbing, channelling, formation of and tarring and sanding footpaths, and to pay compensation (if any) and incidental expenses in connection with works rendered necessary in the carrying-out of the scheme for providing a suitable grade from the new wharf along the main road to a point at the upper side of Bath Road and from that point to a junction of Harbour View Road and the main road, and prior to the granting of such loan—that the Birkenhead Borough Council caused to be published once in each week for four successive weeks in newspapers circulating in the district a notice containing the particulars required by section eight of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, and section nineteen of the Local Bodies’ Loans Amendment Act, 1908, aforesaid, but that such publication was irregular in that there was not publication of such notice in the same newspaper once in each week for four successive weeks: And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled by such irregularity, and it is expedient to validate the same:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by section one hundred and twenty-one of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and declare that the said notice so published as aforesaid shall be and be deemed to be as good, valid, and effectual as if the said notice had been regularly published, and that the proceedings relative to the said loan shall not be called into question by reason only of the irregularity aforesaid.

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

Notice of Intention to change the Purpose of a Reserve in the Marlborough Land District.

ROBERT STOUT,
Administrator of the Government.

WHEREAS by the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, it is, amongst other things, enacted that the Governor may declare his intention to change, exchange, or alter the dedication of any public reserve now or hereafter vested in His Majesty or the Governor for any of the purposes named in Class II of the Second Schedule to the said Act, whether the same be granted or not; and in the case of any reserve made under the authority of section three hundred and twenty-one of the Land Act, 1908, if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to change the purpose of such reserve or any part thereof from the purpose or presumed purpose for which it was set apart to any other purpose, or if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to exchange any of the land comprised in such reserve for other land of equal value, to be dedicated to one or more purposes named in the said Class II, the Governor may, by notice gazetted, make such change, exchange, or dedication, as the case may be, and in such notice declare the manner and terms in which the same is intended to be so made:

Now, therefore, I, Robert Stout, the Administrator of the Government of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, aforesaid, declare my intention to change the specific purpose of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto from a site for a post and telegraph office to plantation purposes.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Marlborough Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 rood 24 perches, more or less, being Section 5, Block XIII, Town of Seddon. Bounded towards the north-east by Richmond Street, 100 links; towards the south-east by Sections 1, 3, and 4, Block XIII, Town of Seddon, 400 links; towards the south-west by Mills Street, 88·9 links and 11·4 links; and towards the north-west by Section 7 of said Block XIII, 397·3 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. 5919/11c, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, this fourteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and ten.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Lands.

Regulations for coursing Hares, Southland Acclimatisation District.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection Act, 1908, I, John Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby make and prescribe the following regulations prescribing the conditions under which and the season at which hares may be coursed in the Southland Acclimatisation District.

REGULATIONS.

1. No person shall course hares within the Southland Acclimatisation District unless he holds a license so to course in the form set forth in the Schedule hereto.
2. For every such license a fee of 10s. shall be paid, and, subject to the provisions of these regulations, such licenses may be issued by the Chief Postmaster at Invercargill, and the Postmasters at Riverton, Wairoa, and Otautau.
3. The season within which such coursing may take place shall begin on the 1st day of July, 1910, and terminate on the 31st day of July, 1910.
4. No person shall course hares in the said district with more than two dogs at any one time, and such dogs shall be under proper control of the owner or person in charge.
5. Any person committing a breach of any of these regulations shall be liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding £5.