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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 36

that the ratepayers have not been misled by such irregularity,
and it is expedient to validate the said notification :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Do-
minion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
powers conferred 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 declare that such public notification
of the said special order shall be deemed and be taken to be
as valid as though the said notification had been properly
published, and that the proceedings relative to the said
loan shall not be called in question by reason only of the
irregularity aforesaid.

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

Validating the Proceedings in connection with a Loan of
£400 to be raised by the Hokianga County Council.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-
ninth day of April, 1911.

Present :

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the Hokianga County Council lately took
steps under section fifteen of the Local Bodies'
Loans Act, 1908, to raise a loan of four hundred pounds
for the purpose of forming, metalling, and bridging
within an area known as the Rawene Special Rating Area,
comprising Rawene Township and Suburbs : And whereas
the special roll required by section twenty-two of the
Local Bodies' Loans Amendment Act, 1908, was prepared,
completed, and deposited at the office of the Hokianga
County Council for inspection, but no notification that
the said special roll was open for inspection was given :
And whereas more than the required three-fourths major-
ity of the ratepayers in the rating area specially affected
signed the consent thereto, as required by paragraph (d)
of section fifteen of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1908 :
And whereas the special meeting held on the twenty-
third day of November, one thousand nine hundred and
ten, for the purpose of striking and levying a special rate
of twopence in the pound, to cover interest and sinking
fund on the said loan, was duly advertised in the
Hokianga Times of the fourteenth and twenty-first days
of November aforesaid, and such special resolution was
duly confirmed at a subsequent special meeting held on
the twelfth day of January, one thousand nine hundred
and eleven, after the intention of such meeting was also
advertised in the Hokianga Times of the nineteenth and
twenty-sixth days of December, one thousand nine hun-
dred and ten, and the second and ninth days of Janu-
ary, one thousand nine hundred and eleven : And
whereas it appears that the ratepayers of the Rawene
Special Rating District have not been misled by the irreg-
ularity aforesaid, and it is expedient to validate the
said proceedings and special order :

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 section seven of the Local Bodies' Loans Amend-
ment Act, 1910, and acting by and with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion,
doth hereby validate the aforesaid proceedings, and doth
declare that the proceedings relative to the raising of
such loan shall not be called in question by reason only
of the irregularity aforesaid.

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

Validating Proceedings in connection with a Loan of
£1,000 to be raised by the Cook County Council.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-
ninth day of April, 1911.

Present :

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the Cook County Council lately proceeded
to raise a loan of one thousand pounds for the
erectiop of Mangaheia Bridge, in terms of the Local
Bodies' Loans Act, 1908 : And whereas the public notice
required by section ninety-seven of the Counties Act,
1908, of the resolution to make a special order autho-
rizing the raising of the said loan, and of the time and
place fixed for the second meeting, was published in the
Poverty Bay Herald, a newspaper circulating in the said
County of Cook, on the twenty-ninth day of July, and the
fourth, eleventh, and eighteenth days of August, one thou-
sand nine hundred and ten, but the date fixed for the
second meeting was the nineteenth day of August, one
thousand nine hundred and ten, and so the notice was not
published once in each of the four weeks immediately pre-
ceding that meeting as required by law :

And whereas the further resolution to make a special
rate to provide interest and other charges on the said loan
of one thousand pounds for building the Mangaheia
Bridge was notified in the Poverty Bay Herald on the
thirtieth day of August, and the sixth, thirteenth, and
twentieth days of September, one thousand nine hundred
and ten, and the time and place of meeting was named
in the said notices as the twenty-third day of September,
one thousand nine hundred and ten, but on the day so
appointed for the confirmation of the special order there
was not a quorum of Councillors present, and the meeting
was adjourned until the twenty-sixth day of September,
one thousand nine hundred and ten, when the special
order was confirmed : And whereas the ratepayers were
not misled by such irregularities, and it is expedient to
validate the aforesaid notifications :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of
the powers conferred by section one hundred and twenty-
one of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1908, and section seven
of the Local Bodies' Loans Amendment Act, 1910, and
acting by and with the advice and consent of the Execu-
tive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby declare
that such published notifications of the said resolutions,
and of the time and place fixed for the said meetings, as
aforesaid, shall be deemed and taken to be as valid as
though the said notifications had been properly published
and the meeting held on the date notified, and that the
proceedings relative to the said loan and the security for
the same shall not be questioned on the ground of such
irregularities.

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

Vesting a Recreation Reserve in the Waihi Borough
Council.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-
fourth day of April, 1911.

Present :

The Honourable James Carroll presiding in Council.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto
has been duly set apart for a public recreation-
ground :

And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is
expedient to vest the said land in the Waihi 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 vested in him
by the twenty-sixth section of the Public Reserves and
Domains Act, 1908, doth hereby declare that, from and
after the day of the date hereof, the land described in the
Schedule hereto shall become vested in the Mayor, Coun-
cillors, and Burgesses of the Waihi Borough, in trust, for
a public recreation-ground.

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing
by admeasurement 12 acres and 20 perches, more or less,
being Section No. 2, Block XVI, Ohinemuri Survey Dis-
trict. Bounded towards the north-west by Kenny Street,
1025 and 6985 links; towards the north-east by Sec-
tion 269, Town of Waihi, by a block of land reserved for
the Union-Waihi Company's workings, and by Waihi Gold-
mining Company Special Site No. 2, 15364 links; towards
the south-east by a public road, 800 links; and towards
the south-west by Clarke Street, 1500 links : be all the
aforesaid linkages more or less : as the same is delineated
on the plan marked L. 1319/34, deposited in the Head
Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon
edged red.

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