Dec. 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3697

Vesting a Reserve in the Foxton Borough Council.

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ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this eleventh day of December, 1911.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, BART.,
PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto has been duly set apart as a reserve for municipal purposes: And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient to vest the said reserve in the Foxton Borough Council:

Now, therefore, 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, and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the fourth section of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, doth hereby declare that, from and after the day of the date hereof, the reserve described in the Schedule hereto shall become vested in the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Foxton Borough, in trust, for municipal purposes.

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SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 3 roods 6 perches, more or less, being Section No. 44, Town of Foxton. Bounded towards the north by Section No. 57, Town of Foxton; towards the east by Russell Street; towards the south by Avenue Road; and towards the west by Section No. 45 of the said town: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. 56319/5, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

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Waipa County Council declared a Leasing Authority under the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.

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ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this eleventh day of December, 1911.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, BART.,
PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Waipa County Council is a body of persons having power to lease land held in trust, reserved, or set apart for public purposes, and has requested the Governor in Council to declare it to be a leasing authority within the meaning of the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in compliance with such request, and in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred by the above-mentioned Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and declare that the Waipa County Council is a leasing authority within the meaning of the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.

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

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Appointing Representatives of Contributory Districts to Hospital and Charitable Aid Boards.

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ISLINGTON, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the fifteenth section of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint representatives of contributory districts to Hospital and Charitable Aid Boards as follows:—

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this seventh day of December, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Hospitals and Charitable Aid.

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Regulations for the Occupation of Pastoral Lands within the Karamea and Westland Mining Districts.

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ISLINGTON, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section three of the Land Act, 1908, and by section thirty-eight of the Mining Act, 1908, and of all other powers enabling me in that behalf, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby revoke the regulations specified in the First Schedule hereto, and in lieu thereof do hereby make the following regulations for the issue of pastoral licenses within the Karamea and Westland Mining Districts.

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REGULATIONS.

INTERPRETATION: In these regulations, unless inconsistent with the context, the term “licensee” includes the successors and assigns of a licensee; and the term “Warden” means a Warden under the Mining Act, 1908, exercising jurisdiction within the Karamea Mining District and the Westland Mining District.

1. Application may be made for a pastoral license for any of the Crown lands within the Mining Districts of Karamea and Westland, with the exception of timber and other public or mining reserves.

2. Every such application shall be in the form in the Second Schedule hereto or to the effect thereof, and every applicant shall make the declaration appended thereto, or a declaration to that effect.

3. Every applicant shall, at the time of his application, pay to the Receiver of Land Revenue at Nelson the first half-year’s rent, together with the license and registration fee, or shall make such payment immediately the application has been approved or the applicant has been declared successful at the ballot. Deposits made by unsuccessful applicants shall be returned by the Receiver of Land Revenue after the ballot.

4. All rents shall be paid half-yearly, in advance, to the Receiver of Land Revenue at Nelson on the 1st day of January and July in each year.

5. The area which may be applied for under these regulations shall be not less than 25 acres nor more than 1,000 acres.

6. The Commissioner of Crown Lands for the land District of Nelson may, with the approval of the Warden and the Land Board of the district (hereinafter referred to as “the Land Board”), grant not more than one pastoral license under these regulations to any person of the age of seventeen years and upwards who may apply for the same; but the Land Board may refuse any application, and its decision shall be final.

7. The annual rent payable under the license shall be a sum to be fixed by the Land Board, but shall be not less than 2'4d. per acre.

8. The term of the license shall be twenty-one years, and upon the expiration of the term the Land Board may grant a renewal for twenty-one years over the whole or part of the area comprised in the license, upon such terms as it thinks fit, subject to the Warden’s approval and to section 244 of the Land Act, 1908. Such license shall be