Nov. 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3995

aforesaid, and it is expedient to validate the said notifications of the said special orders :

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 public notifications of the said special orders authorizing the raising of the loan and making the special rate therefor respectively, and doth hereby declare that the said notifications and special orders shall not be called into question by reason only of the irregularity above referred to.

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

Variation of an Order in Council prohibiting all Private Alienation of certain Native Lands.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this seventh day of November, 1910.

Present :

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

ON the recommendation of the Native Land Purchase Board, referred to in section three hundred and sixty-three of the Native Land Act, 1909, and in exercise of the power in this behalf conferred upon him by that section, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, doth hereby vary an Order in Council, dated the twenty-fourth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and ten, and published in the New Zealand Gazette, dated the twenty-fifth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and ten, in so far as and to permit the owners of the lands set out in the Schedule hereto to mortgage their interests to a State Loan Department :

And it is hereby declared that this Order in Council is made under the provisions in that behalf of the Native Land Act, 1909, and shall operate accordingly, as a consent of the Governor in Council to the variation hereby authorized.

SCHEDULE.

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

St. Aubyn Town District not to be Part of County of Taranaki.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this seventh day of November, 1910.

Present :

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

WHEREAS the Governor is satisfied that the population of the St. Aubyn Town District, in the County of Taranaki, exceeds five hundred, and the Town Board of the said St. Aubyn Town District has made application that the said town district shall not form part of the County of Taranaki, being the county within the boundaries of which it is situated :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the Town Boards Amendment Act, 1908 (No. 2), and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and declare that, on and after the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, the St. Aubyn Town District shall not form part of the County of Taranaki.

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

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

ISLINGTON, Governor.

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, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor 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 portion of the reserve described in the second column of the Schedule hereto from that named in the first column of the said Schedule to that named in the third column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

Acquired by His Majesty as a public reserve for the purposes of a rifle range.

At witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirty-first day of October, one thousand nine hundred and ten.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Lands.