APRIL 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1395

SCHEDULE.

All in the Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, 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 twenty-second day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

W. D. S. MACDONALD,
Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Abolishing Hutt Valley Tramway Board.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of April, 1912.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE T. MACKENZIE, F.R.G.S., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is provided by the Hutt Valley Tramway District Act, 1908, that if within three years after the election of the first Board under section six thereof the Board has not constructed, equipped, and commenced to run a complete tram service in the Hutt Valley Tramway District, then the Governor shall by Order in Council dissolve the said Board as from a date to be fixed by the Order:

And whereas the first Board was elected on second February, one thousand nine hundred and nine, and it has been made to appear that the said Board has not constructed, equipped, and commenced to run a complete tram service in the said district, and also that the said Board has no assets or liabilities:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him as aforesaid, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby dissolve the said Hutt Valley Tramway Board as from the twenty-second day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

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

Arrangements for taking Poll respecting Proposed Addition to County of Waikouaiti.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of April, 1912.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE T. MACKENZIE, F.R.G.S., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1910, 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 direct that a poll shall be taken on the proposal that the areas described in the Schedule hereto, being part of the Borough of Waikouaiti, shall be annexed to the County of Waikouaiti; and, further, doth hereby make the following appointments and arrangements for the purpose of taking the said poll:—

1. Benjamin Witt Fell, of Waikouaiti, to be the Returning Officer for the purpose of taking the said poll, and also to be the person authorized to prepare a voters roll of the persons entitled to vote at the said poll, containing the names of persons qualified to vote at any election of members of the Borough Council and having voting qualifications in respect of the areas affected by the proposed poll.

2. The voters roll prepared and signed by the said Benjamin Witt Fell shall be the voters roll to be used at the said poll.

3. The said poll shall be taken on Wednesday, the fifteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

4. The said poll shall be taken as nearly as may be in the manner provided by the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1908, and the Returning Officer hereby appointed shall be deemed to be a Returning Officer appointed for the purposes of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

AREAS PROPOSED TO BE ANNEXED TO THE COUNTY OF WAIKOUAITI.

ALL that area in the Otago Land District bounded towards the north-east by a right line from the southernmost corner of Section No. 80, Block V, Hawksbury Survey District, to the north-western corner of Section No. 2, Block IV; thence towards the east by the last-mentioned section to its south-western corner; thence towards the south-east by a right line to a point on the boundary-line between Allotments Nos. 4 and 5, resubdivision of Hawksbury Estate, 20 chains distant from the main road measured along the said boundary-line; thence by a right line to a point on the north-eastern side of Quarry Road distant 18 chains from the junction of that road with Mill Road; thence towards the south-west by the north-eastern side of Quarry Road to the south-eastern boundary of the northern part of Section No. 57, Block V aforesaid; and thence towards the north-west by the said northern part of Section No. 57, by Section No. 71, by the south-eastern side of the road forming the south-eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 84, and 83, Block V aforesaid, and by Section No. 82 to the southernmost corner of Section No. 80, the place of commencement.

Also all that area in the Otago Land District bounded towards the north-east by the present north-eastern boundary of the Borough of Waikouaiti, being the north-eastern boundary of the Matanaka Estate from the south-eastern boundary of Section No. 4, Block VI, Hawksbury Survey District, to the sea; thence towards the south-east and south-west by the sea to the south-eastern corner of Section No. 74, Block VI aforesaid, Recreation Reserve; thence towards the north-west and west by the said Section No. 74 to the south-eastern corner of Section No. 79, Block LXVII, Town of Hawksbury; thence towards the north by a right line running due east to a point due south of the south-eastern corner of Section No. 4, Block VI aforesaid; thence towards the west by a right line running due north to the south-eastern corner of the said Section No. 4; and thence by that section to the place of commencement.

As the same are delineated on the plan marked 1911/698, deposited in the office of the Department of Internal Affairs, at Wellington.

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

Authorizing the Exchange of a Portion of a Reserve in Marlborough Land District for other Land.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of April, 1912.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE T. MACKENZIE, F.R.G.S., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the First Schedule hereto forms part of a reserve heretofore duly set apart as a resting-place for travellers and stock: And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient